I'm one week down on my liquid diet and I'm down 11lbs so far....it's this typical?....u want to lose 20 during my liquid diet, at least 10lbs I knew would be Water weight...what was everyone else's experience?

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The pre op liquid diet is primarily for shrinking the liver so the surgeon has a safer and easier way to get to your stomach. I lost 13lbs, but was not given an amount to loose by the surgeon. I am not sure if there is a "typical" amount, but I think 10lbs is pretty amazing! Hang in there, you are doing great!

I didn't lose much, if I don't have some kind of fruits/vegetables my weight stalls (everyone is different) or my body refuses to let go any of my Water. I suffer from edema. I didn't start multi-Vitamins until post-op. I'm post-op day 28 and for the first 10 days (liquid phase), again my body didn't want to release water at first. I didn't lose anything, I gained from the IV fluids.

Now last time I checked I'm 26 lbs down.

And like @@Montana Gal said, it's main purpose is to shrink your liver for a safer surgery.

@@Color83 I think it also depends on what you were doing in terms of dieting prior to the pre-op (how much Water weight did you have to lose, etc.). I start mine 10/4/16 - I have no expectations but would be thrilled for 10 lbs (in 2 weeks).

I apologize I didn't mean to say "u would like to lose 20 lbs".... That was just my personal goal....but I was expecting to have lost around 15lbs by now and then another 5 by next surgery date.

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I lost 15 lbs. My surgeon told me he wanted me to lose 10-12 lbs. I was surprised on Tuesday before surgery when they told me 15. But I did not lose prior to the liquid diet, so that probably made a difference. My liquid diet included a few servings of sugar free Jello, pudding, etc. I stayed on the diet very strictly.

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I lost 14 lbs on my week pre-op diet

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