Question:
What can I eat and how much..

I am a full liquid diet.. I have eating jello, egg drop Surgar free carnation breakfast ,creame soup, so far I had some set backs in surgery so I just came home yesterday they told me to eat every hour on the house one once a time... I am never hungry.. i dont feel like eating. IM trying to get water in buts HARD .. I only drank 1 9 once bottle all day yesterday.. UGH HELP    — Catherine B (posted on March 22, 2003)

March 22, 2003
Catherine, see if you can find Isopure zero carb. Your local vitamin shop or GNC should have it. It comes in 20 0z glass bottles and looks like koolaid with flavors like blue rasberry and apple melon. Each bottle has 40 grams of protein in it. As an early post-op food can be difficult (that will get better) but for now you need to get some nutrition. I used to take a whole day to drink one of those bottle, cutting it with water to dilute it. Just try your best. Don't worry right now about how much you can eat, that will get better as time goes by.
   — Cindy R.

March 22, 2003
Are you trying to gain wt? Liquid grazing on sugar would certainly do it. But perhaps I walked into the middle of a conversation? If you are trying to lose, perhaps they meant to have consumed XX oz of water every hour? Surely not liquid grazing??
   — vitalady

March 22, 2003
Catherine, I know you are not hungry, but you will have to try and force yourself to eat or drink. I was never on a liquid diet, but from what you wrote you were told how to eat (one ounce every hour). I'm thinking the doctor means soup or other liquid foods (sugar free CIB (or other protein supplement if you are on this) and your water is separate. You should clarify with the doctor. I don't like drinking my water and now that I try to get in more than 64 ounces a day it is hard. Try things like sitting down with 12 to 16 ounces every hour determined to finish it and try to make it a goal. You've had complications and you don't want to have added complications from not drinking enough water like constipation or dehydration. Good luck!
   — Lisa N M.

March 25, 2003
The first thing I ate when I came home was 1/4 of a sugar free jello container. It took me all day to get that down. Every day I ate a "little" more. Try sugar free popsicles, after a few more days a little bit (couple sips) of chicken broth. Take it easy and a little bit at a time and eventually you'll be fine. Open RYN 2/13/03 down 41 pounds
   — Terry P.

March 25, 2003
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