I have noticed that every doctor has their own type of pre diet. I have read some posts where the person was on a liquid diet. My doctor has me on a form of the Akins Diet. I can eat meats and vegetables but to stay away from deep fried meats. I can only have 30 mg of Carbs a day. Has anyone else been on this type of pre-surgery diet and if so how much did you lose.

I started my diet today and my surgery date is May 28th. I am really excited to get started.

Have you done the Akins diet before?

Atkins induction is what my NUT encouraged us to do also. It is not only good to shrink the liver, but prepares you for the low / no sugar aspects of the post op diet. My post op diet was Atkins style probably up to about month 6 post op. After 6 months, I have increased good carbs to support high intensity fitness.

I'm on the same boat with the Atkins diet.... My surgery is on May 22nd and I started the Atkins diet on Friday and I'm down 10lbs

An Atkins style diet is one of the saner approaches to the pre-op diet for those docs who require them - much better than the all liquid type that some docs impose upon their patients (which has no particular rationale that I have been able to find.)

My dr just had us do basically a low/no fat, low cal, low card diet. It was actually a really easy to stick to!!!