Hi Sunshine, welcome to the group. We are sponsored by a bariatric food business, but I have never bought a single thing that had bariatric in the title from anyone in 12 years.
It seems weird that you have to be on a liquid diet for 4 weeks before surgery? Back when I had my surgery, in my last pre-op appointment, the surgeon just mentioned that I should try to lose some weight before the surgery, which was scheduled for about 3 weeks from that date. He also told me that I should practice chewing my food a minimum of 35 times per bite, which I actually took more seriously than the suggestion I should lose weight.
Even after surgery, I seem to remember my liquid diet phase as being two weeks or less, and then there was a shift from clear liquids to thicker liquids that contain some solid food like vegetable soup.
Did anyone else have to be on a liquid diet for 4 weeks pre-op? I don't think I could have ever done that, nor could I do it now.
