Gingerisgreat

Day 3 and 4 were the hardest and after that the hunger died off and I was content with my shakes and fluids! It gets better, hang in there. Are you allowed to have decaf hot tea or coffee? Those both worked well as an appetite suppressant for me.

What does your surgeon allow? Mine allowed one cup of veggies a day, (non starchy veggies), and a half cup of low fat cottage cheese or one cup of yogurt. I was also allowed decaffeinated beverages such as decaf coffee and decaf tea. I found that International Delight makes a sugar free/decaf powder to add to hot water that makes a French vanilla latte and that really took hunger pangs away plus it wasn't too sweet. You get really sick of sweetness really fast on this diet because everything is fruit flavored. I preferred the broth from Mrs Grass soup when I needed something savory. During the first five days of the diet I would put my cup of veggies into my broth to make a "soup" and I would eat that when my family ate. It felt like a real meal. I lived for my cottage cheese between meals, I'm not a yogurt eater in any way so the cottage cheese was my BFF. I put salt and pepper or other spices on that to give it flavor and make it savory. Also, I used PB2, powdered peanut butter, if you have never heard of it, you can find it near the peanut butter in most stores or online. It adds a decent amount of protein to your shakes and makes them taste like peanut butter. I added it to a chocolate shake and it tasted like a liquid peanut butter cup!

My diet allowed broth which was a great non sweet option. I also found that international delight makes coffee powders to add to hot water that make a vanilla latte that is sugar free and decaf which was allowed. Those helped me immensely because they were not overly sweet but filled me up and were great for long car rides!