Pre-Diabetics experiences with liquid diet

[CurlyV 28]

I start my liquid diet next month, and I am curious to know how this went with those who are pre-diabetic? I did a test run for myself this week and I was weak, off-balanced, and my vision was a little blurred. I'm not sure if this is because I'm pre-diabetic or if my body just went into shock! LOL! These are all things I will share with my surgeon before starting the liquid diet.

[Creekimp13 5,840]

I felt rough on my liquid diet. I was pre-diabetic at the start of my journey. But by the time I did my pre-surg diet...my sugar was normal.

I felt like my brain didn't work well. Difficult to concentrate. Tired. Grouchy as all hell. Felt like my head was full of cotton.

It was the worst part of the entire experience for me.

[FluffyChix 17,415]

liquid diet sucks no matter how you slice it. I didn't have to carb detox since I already live a pretty low carb life, but still sucked huge ones. My sugars went into the 80s for the first time in many years!

[Mattymatt 491]

2 hours ago, CurlyV said:

I start my liquid diet next month, and I am curious to know how this went with those who are pre-diabetic? I did a test run for myself this week and I was weak, off-balanced, and my vision was a little blurred. I'm not sure if this is because I'm pre-diabetic or if my body just went into shock! LOL! These are all things I will share with my surgeon before starting the liquid diet.

I don't think your body went into shock but you were experiencing a blood sugar low. Lows are very unpleasant.

When I started my liquid diet I was fully diabetic. The first days of the whole affair were definitely not easy. I had a few lows; less than 70. It got a little bit better when the endocrinologist had me stop insulin and Victoza. I hated every minute of the pre-op diet. The post-op 2 week full liquid diet has been so much easier because I am not only not hungry, but I've been taken off of Metformin so I feel *much better*. I have 8 days left on the 2 week post-op liquids and then can start pureed. Now, post-surgery, I am effectively in surgical remission. I still need to check my blood sugar a few times a day but the highest the numbers ever got was 133 last Monday. Mostly I am normal.