Hey everyone, so I've been on the pre op diet for over a week and have 5 days left of it. I've lost 12lbs but since the weekend, I'm staying at the same weight. I know this diet isn't about losing weight, it's about shrinking the liver but I'm exercising as well and it feels like I've just stalled. Is this normal? It's just kind of getting me down. Has anyone else been the same?

Thanks

I lost ten pounds and then stalled the last five days or so. I was drinking so much water and trying to hydrate for surgery, I think it counteracted the weight loss. You will do fine! As long as you've followed your Preop diet, there should be nothing to worry about.

I wouldn't worry about the number of pounds you lose or stalls, just follow the program to shrink the liver. The pounds will really come way down on their own after surgery. Best wishes!

Don't worry about it at this stage - a lot of what you've lost so far is Water - as the glycogen is used up, the water it's held in disappears and so your liver shrinks.

This is not the same as burning fat. You may have lost a couple of pounds of fat so far as well as the water, but you would have had to have eaten 42,000 fewer calories than you need over the past week to lose 12lb of fat (3,500 cals = 1lb) - and that's highly unlikely.

There will be plenty of time to burn off fat once the op has been done.

Just concentrate on shrinking your liver to make the op easier for the surgeon and forget about the weight until afterwards. Good luck with it and let us know how it goes.

Thank you everyone, that's put my mind at ease. I was just panicking. Don't want anything to ruin this operation. Thank you again for your help and kind words.

I lost 8.6 pounds the first week of my pre-op diet and only 2.2 pounds the second week. I think it's pretty normal to lose really fast right in the beginning, because it's such a shock to the system, depending on how extreme your pre-op diet is. Full disclosure, though, I went from exercising every day the first week to every other day the second week, because my energy level just go SO LOW on so few calories. My pre-op diet was only 450 calories a day.

Hey everyone, so I've been on the pre op diet for over a week and have 5 days left of it. I've lost 12lbs but since the weekend, I'm staying at the same weight. I know this diet isn't about losing weight, it's about shrinking the liver but I'm exercising as well and it feels like I've just stalled. Is this normal? It's just kind of getting me down. Has anyone else been the same?

Thanks

I too am at a stand still but reading all this is reassuring. I lost 10 and scale has not moved in 4 days 3 days left to surgery