| TMegs, not everyone is prescribed a liquid diet prior to surgery. It depends on whether your surgeon feels that your liver might be too big prior to surgery. A preop liquid diet is prescribed so that the liver will use up its glycogen stores and shrink, so it's not quite so in-the-way when they are banding you. I wasn't prescribed a liquid diet preop, but some people are--just depends on you and your surgeon. Of course everyone is on liquids post op, and slowly progresses back to a regular diet--this is to give your stomach time to heal securely around the band before you start making it churn and work with real solid food. It's important to follow whatever diet (pre and post op) that you are prescribed. Liquids are tough but it's not for long, and it's for your long term health. If you follow your diet and your rules you shouldn't have to do it more than once (for that long--after that you have liquids for usually a day or two after every fill--that seems to be what most surgeons recommend but not all).
Yes, losing 50 lbs is reasonable in a year, depending of course on how much you have to lose to start with. If you lost only 1 lb per week on average (the average weight loss is 1-2lb/week) you will lose 52 lbs in 1 year.
__________________ Gwen in WA Student Nurse Anesthetist Gonzaga University MAE Class of 2010 Banded March 13, 2007 234/172/160 from size 16/18 to size 6/8 so far...  | 
Nope - but still trying!!
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