I've been reading a lot about how much the pre-op liquid diet sucks, and I'm not much looking forward to it.

Trying to see a bright side, are you at least losing? I haven't really had any success losing before surgery so far. I'm hoping the liquid diet will take a few pounds off, pre op.

If you lost / are losing, how much?

Oh lord I have been on mine the last 3 weeks I have lost 22 pounds

I just did the preop diet for about 12 Days and only lost about 6 lbs, which was disappointing, considering I was starving during that phase. I was sleeved on Friday and even gained 1 lb while in the hospital, probably because of the liquids that are pumped into you. In the hospital, I only had one dish of jello and a cup of chicken broth and ice chips. I know it will come off now that I am at home and recovering. My metabolism was pretty screwed up so I hope the surgery "resets" it, as the surgeon says. Good luck to you

Yes, the preop diet is difficult! I though I was going to lose my mind but after losing 10 pounds, and having my surgery go very smoothly, it was worth it. Hang in there, you will be fine. One of the things that kept me going during pre op phase was I didn't want the surgeon to open me up and find something wrong as a result of my not being compliant with the pre op diet and not perform the sleeve.

My surgery was July 2 and I am down 40 pounds which includes the 10 pound preop. Never since I've been struggling with my weight have I been able to shed that kind of weight! Good luck to you!

My pre-op diet wasn't liquid and I still lost 18 lbs on it. It was essentially phase one atkins.

I'm on day 11 of my 14 day pre-op diet and so far I've lost 7 lbs which is less than I thought I wasn't going to but still worth it.