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I was permitted to drink crystal light pure, Vitamin Water zero, and sobe lifewater zero, HOWEVER, the first two weeks I really did my absolute best to stick with Water because it's not super easy in the early days to get enough down...not because of taste, but because the sips you need to take are so small.

I used that time to try to break myself from the overly sweet things (including stevia)....even though there's no sugar in them and with stevia it's considered "natural", when I drank liquids with those sweeteners I had a couple of issues. (1) Anything sweet made me crave more sweet things...which is bad. (2) Simply put after surgery most of those drinks were just too sweet for me.

Obviously you are going to want to absolutely stay away from diet coke or ANYTHING carbonated for some time, but water and unsweetened tea have done it for me. I do have the occasional zero carb Isopure but I have to cut it with water because it's too sweet...but it has 44 grams of Protein per bottle so worth it....

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If you want diet soda you can have it a few weeks out. shake it to get some of the bubbles out. Crystal light and powerade/gatorade are good

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Gatorade G2 for the first 3 weeks then I changed Powerade zero and eventually crystal lite.

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Only been home a few days here. I stocked up on Powerade Zero, Water, nice assortment of Protien packs to try (did pick up a large one of non-flavored at GNC), lowfat Cream of "..." Soup (if your plan allows), and be sure to grab some Sugar- Free Popsicles and Jello. Also picked up some skim milk to add to the shakes and Soup for extra protien.

The nutritionist at the hospital sent me home with a good sized supply of Protein powder and gel packs (could have saved a few bucks there).

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