Will my liver shrink????

I would be curious to see that too.... I wonder how much my own liver shrunk before my surgery.... I had a VSG Dec. 14th of last year. And to this day I still use the pre-surgery diet after a "binge" weekend. I feel better when my system is cleaned out. And it does work!!! I gain about 8 lbs on a big holiday weekend from all the sugars I know I am not supposed to eat, but with 2 weeks on liquid protein I can off set that and usually get back on track. I just make sure now that My "binge" weekend will be worth the 2 weeks. It does get easier though. My 1 year surgery anniversary was earlier this week and at my weigh in I lost 150lbs!!! So I saw your post and just wanted you to know it is possible and it will work.... Good luck and let me know how it goes...

I would ask your surgeon in plenty of time before surgery. It would be awful to go in and be told you couldn't have the surgery. Yours is the only case I have heard of a diet like yours. Nothing even close to it.

Well you have to follow your doctors advise........ but 3 Premier Protein shakes will meet the criteria too, they are under the daily maximum carbs under Adkins diet and will serve you very well to slow down your metabolism, its always shocking to go from 2,000 calories a day to ZERO, overnight, for those first 3-4 days post op.... (160 calories X 3 and about 3 net carbs each, less carbs then a salad)

IMO this is a much better pre sleeve surgery, "Adkins style" low carb diet then all that stuff you mentioned... a good warm up for whats to come...   Either way your going to get sleeved, YEA.....good luck with your surgery....

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Good afternoon everyone, I am scheduled for my gastric sleeve 5 JUNE 13. I am so excited but scared too. I am dreading the low carb high protein liquid diet. I am right at 200lbs and 5'2 and the reason I was approved for the surgery is because of my high blood pressure, GERD, hypothyroidism. I have been doing a lot of research and found some articles that don't support to liquid diet before surgery. I am considering only doing a version of the Atkins diet. Does anyone have any advice on this? Thank you

you want to do low carb/no sugar, and little to NO FAT.  like as little as humanly possible, and no saturated.  of course there will be some in the meat you are eating, but only eat lean and do not cook with oil or butter (bake, broil).  processing fat is what inflames the liver.  the low carb /calorie is to help get rid of the fat around your liver.

For your meats, try to stick the fish and eggs which are higher in omega3 fatty acids vs omega6. omega 6 fatty acids in oils, wheat, nuts ... these increase liver inflammation and shoudl be avoided 100%.

atkins diet IS NOT good for your liver in terms of surgery prep or liver health.  a low carb, low fat diet is.  lots of water and a good portion of low carb vegetables will help prepare you liver also.

atikins diet IS NOT good for your liver.  very low carb/no saturated fat/low fat is good for your liver.  atikins diet is way to much fat, and is high in bad fat.  it's not good, at all, certainly not pre-surgery 

 
Atkins diet is perfect for liver issues.  As someone else explained we don't get fat from fat, we get fat from carbs.

Doctors always refer to a couple of weeks of low carb as a liver shrinking diet and I think it is because they don't want to take the time to explain.

A couple of weeks of a LSD isn't going to shrink your liver one little bit.  To shrink your liver it takes weeks, if not months.  BUT... what the diet does do is remove the slime from your liver.

When you cut out carbs your body begins to absorb something called Glycogen.  Glycogen is a carbohydrate that is stored in your liver and muscles.  It produces a slime that looks and feels a bit like snot on the surface of your liver.  They have to hold your liver out of the way during stomach surgery and if it's covered in snotty glycogen it merely makes it harder for the surgeon. If it is harder for him it's less safe for you.

There is NONONO value in a low carb liquid diet over a low carb solid food diet.  There is value over a low carb solid food diet over a low carb liquid diet because people are more likely to follow it.

Fat is not your enemy, carbs are.  Are you aware that you need a little fat in your diet to burn fat?