Hello! My surgery is January 18th. My surgeon only requires a 1 week preop diet to shrink the liver. I wanted to be sure I did my part in helping to decrease complications and allow my self room for error and started a week early (Now I regret it! LOL). I am now on day 7. This diet is hard! However, not impossible. My real issue is that I've only lost like 3 pounds on this diet. In fact, one day my weight went up 1/2 a pound. I'm concerned that my liver may not be shrinking because I'm not losing a lot of weight. I have not cheated and actually thought I was doing great.

Has anyone else not lost a significant amount of weight on the preop diet? I would have expected to be down at least 5 pounds by now. I'm also concerned with how it will be post op. If I'm not really losing weight on the preop liquid diet, will I even lose weight with my sleeve? I'm well aware that the sleeve is just a tool and I need to work my tool but I'm doing my part now and not seeing results. So many mixed emotions and concern.

I had a two week pre op diet, I could still eat food on it, just smaller meals from a list my doctor gave me, I only lost 5 lbs on it and I was 407lbs day of surgery, now I'm 315lbs, four months out. Even if you don't loose a lot of weight from the pre op diet your liver should still shrink enough for surgery to be successful. Good luck!!!

Side note; I had already lost about 30 lbs while I was waiting the 6 months for surgery.

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Although losing weight on the 2 week pre-op diet was nice for me, that is not what the goal of the pre-op diet is.

The goal is to shrink the liver.

So don't get discouraged that you aren't losing much weight. It really doesn't matter, and it certainly doesn't mean that you're not going to lose weight and do well after the sleeve surgery.

Thanks mylighthouse. I guess my concern is if I'm not losing the weight, is my liver shrinking?

Thanks for the encouragement for after the sleeve! I really needed to hear that!

Although losing weight on the 2 week pre-op diet was nice for me, that is not what the goal of the pre-op diet is.

The goal is to shrink the liver.

So don't get discouraged that you aren't losing much weight. It really doesn't matter, and it certainly doesn't mean that you're not going to lose weight and do well after the sleeve surgery.

Make sure you aren't drinking carbonated drinks (regular soda NOR diet soda). That will stall weight loss for sure.

@@trekker954 I haven't drank soda in years. I've actually been following the diet to exactly. Only drinking water, water with protein and chicken broth

Can I get broth off of light healthy choice Soup

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