How much did you lose prior to surgery and what is the length of your pre-op diet? I have a 3 month pre-op diet that I started on 8/2. I weighed 366.6 at my PCP 2 weeks prior to starting the diet. I weighed 350.4 today and I start liquid protein on Thursday for a week. ? I’m starting to think I can get some significant weight off before surgery!!!

I lost around 20 pounds in my pre-op diet that lasted 6 months. It added to the 100 pound weight loss after surgery for a total weight loss of 120 pounds. So any pre-op loss moves you further towards your goal.

I have surgery tomorrow and started working on losing weight with the keto diet in early June. I'm down about 35 lbs. My doctor's preop diet was 3 weeks and very lenient, basically low calorie, low fat. In the first week of sticking closely to that diet including portion sizes, I gained 4 lbs. They told me to go back to keto since it was working for me! Anyway, my liquid diet was just yesterday and today but I'm down 6 lbs this week total. (keto Fri, Sat, Sun; liquid Mon Tues) In my experience with liquid diets in the past, there is in initial big drop the first week then more slowly after that. I think you could reasonably expect some good progress this week. Good luck to you! Such an exciting time for all of us!

My doc requires that we lose 10% of our initial weight before surgery. I'm 60% of the way to that goal, with a probable surgery date in November. (I'm also doing keto, but also trying to keep it low-fat, which makes it pretty seriously low-calorie as well. It's awful, but at least it's fast! I'll meet my surgeon's goal before the liquid diet and, assuming that's also very-low-carb, I'll probably lose another little bit from that, too.)