How Longs Is Your Pre-Op Diet?

[New1 201]

Just wondering how long everyone's pre-op diet was/is?

[katyb 36]

2 weeks.

[Jswilbur 42]

2 weeks.

[bratvp63 118]

1 day

[rescuehoney 9]

2 weeks starting today!

[New1 201]

Good luck with the diets and surgeries everyone! This liquid diet for pre-op is kicking my butt! Medifast products taste like dog food to me :-/

[cookies 56]

I just went through my surgeon's "webinar" about the surgery and they indicated patients do a high Protein diet (I'm assuming Optifast, but I don't know yet) for four weeks before surgery.

Gah.

I am having two surgeries, actually. I need to have a broken lap band removed, and then afterwards I want to have the sleeve. So, that's two four-week periods of the pre-op diet. Well, that should bring my weight down before the surgery so I guess it's not a bad thing, but I'm not looking forward to it.

[Stephanie Kelley 11]

3 days. Full liquids. Surgery was yesterday.

[Malyss 31]

I was on a high Protein Shake diet for 2 weeks prior to my surgery and the day before my surgery I was on clear fluids.

[New1 201]

Yay Stephanie!! Best wishes for a speedy recovery and a new you!

[cissiesue 119]

My Dr likes a two week pre op diet, but days almost no one follows it, so he requires 3 full days of a full liquids diet. I'm going to try very hard to do the 2 wk diet, with the last 3 days being completely liquid

[Mews 37]

Wow. My doctor must be the weird one. No pre-surgery diet (besides the don't eat 12 hours before the surgery thing). He said it wasn't necessary. Interesting.

[cissiesue 119]

Hmm! Maybe your bmi is lower? The object is to shrink your liver. Not to worry you, but that sounds strange

[Jellybean 1]

I only have to have Clear Liquids for 24 hours before surgery. Maybe it's because I was required to lose five percent of my body weight before surgery could be scheduled.

[racheal218 14]

The hardest two weeks of my life but well worth it. I had lost 14 lbs by my surgery date!