Not Losing Weight on PreOp Diet??

[mousecat88 2,281]

Went to the START Clinic yesterday and the hospital's scale says I haven't lost ANY weight. So... 8 days in out of 16 and zero weight loss. I don't even understand how this is scientifically possible.

[J San 1,071]

Your body is healing. Give it time. Don't get discouraged and be patient. It'll happen but not overnight, or 8 for that matter right now. Enjoy the journey.

[Alpaca55 168]

On 10/20/2018 at 7:14 PM, mousecat88 said:

I have to believe I am just experiencing an extreme drop in my metabolism and next week things will improve. I've been on super low carb diets (less than 30g total a day) and have been very successful. This is not working at all for me so far. I'm sticking to it, for sure, but I don't want to see my surgeon the day before surgery and him not believe I did what they said to do. I guess that's my main concern.

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I'm on day 4 of a 7 day pre-op liquid diet - semi-skimmed milk and any tea, coffee etc - using milk from the allowed amount. I'm not losing much - and as mousecat said, I've had much better results on a very restricted low carb diet in the past. But, I'm just trying to keep it going. My op is on Wednesday! Sleeve - revision from Band!...

[mousecat88 2,281]

I started my pre-op diet on October 3. On October 9th I weighed myself and I was down five pounds. On October 13 I was down an extra 0.4 of a pound. On October 16 I had lost a total of 14 pounds.

Just trying to give an idea of how crazy it all is.

I am now just 4 days out from surgery and haven't lost a pound. 12 days on pre-op so far. Followed the pre-op diet exactly. Oh well.

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