Hey guys! What does everyone count as a part of their daily water intake? Just straight up water or do you count you water based protein shakes, milk, milk based protein shakes and broths? I hit a stall 2 weeks out, so I am curious if I need to switch some stuff up!

Hi Ateam

I believe Water loss consists of all you said, water based shake, milk, broth.

i'm pretty sure when you don't have that much to lose, like you, its harder to lose those final lbs.

Good luck

kathy

I count all those things as fluid intake. I just weight myself and i actually gained 6 oz. I am at a stall right now and looking for ways to switch up my diet also. I am going to start increasing my exercise now. LOL this is what I should have been doing all along

hi fellow sleevers

Here's my H20 question

i'm still on my liquids post-op -DOS 12/15/11 - what i'm really afraid of is that i'm drinking too fast/ too much which might hurt my sleeve. We were always told to sip, sip etc., i thought this was because that was the "rule" and we wouldn't be able to drink faster without "hurting" our sleeve..

I saw my NUT on Friday and told her i had tried a couple of times to drink more than a sip without a problem - and she said as long as my stomach was "handling" it, no problem.

she said if i don't have to sip thats ok too .Many people can't do more than sip, but if i can do more thats ok too. I'm soooo not gulping or anything, i tell my DH to watch me drink, and he says it looks like a long sip, but not a gulp.

What i'm afraid of is this - by the end of my Protein shake i'm full, but maybe i can't tell if I'm full earlier and should have stopped. (the sleeve should tell me if i'm full, but what if i don't realize it?

I haven't even done solids yet and i'm worried i won't hear my sleeve when i'm supposed to.

Maybe I'm saying this wrong, but.....please advice, i'm alittle worried. BTW this goes for my broth too which i love. thanx As the saying goes i doing want to "stretch" my sleeve ." I know that really can't happen but..............

thanx for your help

kathy

too funny,

i was looking at a couple of earlier posts, i saw one about Water that really looked similar to what i wrote above - well it turns out that i wrote the same post 2 days ago about the water, just worded differently.

i guess i'm really concerned about my situation about drinking/gulping water, that i didn't realize i had already written something 2 days ago.

still overly concerned about my drinking, but i'll survive

kathy

Here's the thing.. in the beginning, for some extended length of time (I've heard 4 weeks, 6 weeks, or even as long as 3 months) your sleeve is swollen from the surgery. This means it's possible that liquids can fill it up. However, it's also probably numb since a lot of nerves were severed during surgery, so it's conceivable that it won't be transmitting "full" signals the way it will be once it's fully healed.

I am almost 1 month out and I'm just now starting to sense a stretching "full" signal from my stomach. Before then, all I was getting was sort of a "backing up" feeling in the back of my throat, which was uncomfortable.

Thanks guys!

At my surgeons office we are not allowed to count anything towards liquid except the following:

Water

non-caloric

non-carbonated

and non-caffeinated

So really that is pretty much water (or flavored water like crystal light), broths, sugar-free popsicles, sugar-free Jello, decaf coffe/tea etc.

They have specifically told me milk, Protein shakes (water or milk based) and anything else along those lines do NOT count towards fluids.

That's my office though, yours may be different

In the beginning months I logged everything I drank, excluding anything with caffeine as it is a diuretic. So, Jello, popsicles, Protein shakes, crystal lights or just plain Water would all go into the tally.

Now that I'm further out I no longer tally all the fluids I get in. I just make sure I'm getting a minimum of 84 Oz of plain water in per day and I'm fine. Whatever else I drink is just bonus. On really good days I'll drink a gallon or more of water per day.

HTH

Kathy how much have u lost so far? And ur dos was December 15?