Full liquid diet

I am just starting the full liquid diet.  (Stage 2)  I was wondering do drinkable yogurt, drinkable soup very thin and thin protein drinks count as a meal or do they count as a fluid.  I'm trying to figure out if I need to wait 15 minutes after drinking other fluids than drink than than wait an hour to resume fluid.  Or does that only apply in the puree stage?   I am also trying to figure out how I'm going to get my liquids in if I start adding full liquids.

Surprisingly (or not), it seems that different docs count it differently.  So the advice here is usually to ask your NUT or doc how they want it counted. 

Personally, I tried to treat meals as meals.  So even with my greek yogurt, or soups, I didn't drink with the meals and waited.  That approach help me keep a more regular schedule around getting in my fluids, since I will need to get that level of fluid forever! 

According to the book we received from the doctor's office, you start the 15 min before and the 1 hour after during the next stage which is purees.

At this point, you should try to just get in anything liquid. I avoided yogurt and soup because the protein drinks made me feel full.

Thanks Izabelle.  I did miss that in the book.  When a meal was considered a meal.  So just drink protein and fluids.  And worry about meals in the puree stage.   Will do.  or Will try.  lol   Yesterday it was as hard as can be to get in that 64 oz but I did it!  lol 

At this point it's probably more important that you get your fluids in as best you can.  There are lots of stories here of people getting dehydrated.  In lieu of asking your doc, I wouldn't wait a full hour to start up again.

I treated it the same because if I drank water before I did not have the room for the "meal" or too soon after I would be overfull.

Hey hunny, how are things?!? Call me if you want/need to, I'll he;p you as much as I can. Dr. B was a sweetheart wasn't he

Hi Niqaabi!

Yes he was!  Congratulations on making your goal already!  Way to go.  I'd love to talk to you.  Can you private message me your phone number again.  I'm sure it's somewhere in the old messages but I don't know where.   Talk to you soon!

Take care,

Tammy

P.S.  Thanks for giving Dr B a good reference between you Marie and Rachel I made the decision to go with him.  All three of you did excellent with your weight loss. :-)