I am just curious if it is normal to lose over 16 lbs in 10 days on liquid diet...I just feel like my scale is broken...lol how is it possible?

I am just curious if it is normal to lose over 16 lbs in 10 days on liquid diet...I just feel like my scale is broken...lol how is it possible?

It is possible. Almost everyone loses a lot of Water weight when they start a new diet. In addition, you are burning all the energy stored in your liver (the reason for the pre-op diet).

There is a reason every commercial diet advertised on TV advertises that if you follow their diet you can lose up to twenty pounds in two weeks.

Everything that goes into this rapid weight loss will balance out when you hit a stall about three weeks after surgery.

The liquid diet causes massive water weight loss, because it causes your stores of glycogen to be depleted.