How soon did it take you to lose your required weight loss of 5% for surgery.

2 weeks if you're all liquid then it's alot faster than that.

Depends on what you have to lose.

I wasn't required to lose 5%. I had to go on a pre-op diet, but was not required to lose a specific amount.

How soon did it take you to lose your required weight loss of 5% for surgery.

Well i look at it like this... if I was 200lbs then 10% of that would be 20lbs so 1/2 of that would only be 10lbs so that dosent seem like it would be that hard....Hell if your drinking nothing but shakesu will looser more than that... even if u drink 2 shakes and eat 1 meal.. u will still loose a lot.... hope this helps... it takes 3200 calories = 1 pound of fat.. so if u are cutting your calories by 2000 almost and + your body burns a certain amount of calories just by doing nothing at all this is called your 'RMR' Resting metabolic rate. so just say it is 2500 and you only eat 1200 calories for the day u have burned more calories than u have consumed so that = weight loss... and just imagine if u add 30-60 minutes of walking with that...

How soon did it take you to lose your required weight loss of 5% for surgery.

Because of my pre-op BMI (38) I was not required to lose any weight before surgery. But if I had gained, I would have been canceled until I lost it. My surgeon does require some to lose weight, but it is patient specific, not a flat 5% for everyone.

I did have to do a 2-week pre-op fasting program, I did Medifast. I lost 8 pounds during this 2-week phase.

Denise