Is the liquid diet a must or is it only recommend by the insurance?

It's your surgeon who decides whether you have a pre-op diet and if so, what kind. Your insurance may require something like three months of medically supervised weight loss before you are approved, while your surgeon's requirement would be more along the lines of two weeks of low carb (or liquid) diet immediately prior to surgery in order to shrink your liver. Each surgeon and insurance company are different in terms of precise requirements.

I would think it is pretty important cause it is suppose to help with detoxing your liver and make it more pliable so when the surgery is done the Dr can move it out of the way. Also it helps in decreasing the fat around your organs, especially the liver. This is the part I am dreading the most the liquid diet!

I would think it is pretty important cause it is suppose to help with detoxing your liver and make it more pliable so when the surgery is done the Dr can move it out of the way. Also it helps in decreasing the fat around your organs, especially the liver. This is the part I am dreading the most the liquid diet!

Me too