I see a lot of people that have lost a lot of weight since surgery. But is that weight you had to lose before surgery or was it from when you had surgery? How much have some of you had to lose before surgery?

I lost 16 lbs. before surgery because my doc had me on optifast for two weeks prior. What I understand is that the liver is more slippier if you don't have a pre-op diet. Then after surgery I gained 6 pounds of water weight (IV fluids). Then that came back off relatively quickly and now I am down 5 more pounds. Hope this helps.

I didn't have to lose weight due to a low bmi. I started out at 35.6 at the initial consultation but when I went back for the pre-op visit I had dropped to 34.8. I was banded on 12-26 and at my one week follow up visit I had lost 14 lbs. I was afraid he wouldn't do the surgery because my bmi had dropped. I guess it was because I have always had a history of going up and down in terms of my weight. Best wishes to you and yours!

I am in the very begining of my journey with lap-band. My doctor was explaining to me the differenct in gastro and lap band. But last night after reading the negatives on"obesity info.com" I completely made up my mind to choose the Lap Band method.I am 62 years old with 2 total knee replacements and lower back issues, that I know my weight is a big "X"in this time of my life. But I need all the support and true info from all of you.

MIMI J

Livingston, La

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My doctor told me to go on Opti Fast for two weeks prior to the op. It was really low calorie - I was on about 700cals per day. I ended up only doing it for 8 days as my op was brought forward. He said it was to reduce the size of my liver and thus make the op easier for him to do and less painful for me. AFter I had it I had no vomiting or nausea while the other two patients that had it done on the same day were really sick after their op and they hadn't done the special diet. I lost approx 10lbs in that 8 days.....it was hard to do but the thought of less pain was a motivating factor and I'm so o glad I did it.

Lesley

Wow, many of you are really lucky! My doctor made me lose 10% of my entire weight before I'd even be considered for surgery. There was no particular method for making that happen either....

I was on full liquids for two weeks prior to surgery. My fill liquids restricted milk products. I could drink propel, protein shakes (40g per day), gatorade, chicken broth and restricted amounts of jello (1/2c per day) and no sugar added fruit juice (1c/day). the goal was to make my liver smaller, not to loose weight.

I had to lose 5% body weight, which was 14 lbs, I had lost some additional waiting for insurance approval, about 5 lbs then on the optifast for 2 weeks prior to surgery ( l lost about 10 lbs). I gained 11 pounds from fluid when I got home from surgery, but at my first check up 3 weeks after surgery I lost another 13 lbs. For a total of 42 pounds since September. Band date was 12/13. It is going much slower now, I am on mushies for about 2 1/2 more weeks.

Hope this helps.

Jodie

I had to do a 1 week liquid diet (but on my own decided to do almost 2 weeks) and lost 14lbs. I include that in my ticker.

The first 3-4 days really sucked but once I got all the sugar and carbs out of my system, it wasn't so bad. It really jump started my weight loss and prepared me for the post-op diet.

I am in the very begining of my journey with lap-band. My doctor was explaining to me the differenct in gastro and lap band. But last night after reading the negatives on"obesity info.com" I completely made up my mind to choose the Lap Band method.I am 62 years old with 2 total knee replacements and lower back issues, that I know my weight is a big "X"in this time of my life. But I need all the support and true info from all of you.

MIMI J

Livingston, La

I am glad you told me about it . I will definately try it, thanks

i lost 10 lbs with the pre-surgery diet. i only needed to loose 5. i then gained 11 pounds in the hospital due to the fluids they pumped in me during the hospital stay. i have lost about 22 pounds so far. yeah!

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My doc requied a ten percent weight loss before surgery, that equaled 34 lbs for moi. I started the day after thanksgiving and did a sandwich type diet one week meat and veggies only and one week three Protein drinks made with one hundred cal protein, four oz of lite soy which was 25 cals and a banana and i dont know how much that was in cals cus i picked the biggest one, added a few ice cubes and it was good and after a few days i lost my hunger and went into ketosis which is what we do when we do high protein no carbs. Turned out i lost twenty seven lbs before the ten days of clear liq with three plain Protein Drinks and lost a total of thirty six lbs. He wouldnt have done surgery if I had not lost the majority of the ten percent. It wasnt fun for the few first days but it got the job done and I did it thru Christmas, ketosis is the key I think to loose the hunger, in my experience, sugar equals to hunger, so hopefully I can stay away from all the processed sugars. The bananna didnt seem to make a difference in my hunger. I have been banded since Jan 2, 2008 and its been kinda hard, gas, emotions, being tired, hurting. I had three ten lb babies naturally and I would have sixty more instead of feeling this pain. BUT in saying that I hope that the future will be healthier and that my butt will be smaller and that my knees wont hurt and that I wont be staired at because I am the biggest woman in the room. I pray that this thing we all did or will do is the best decision we could have made. Ask me next week when I feel better, for today I'm not so sure.

Keeping hope alive

Jo Ann