HI,

I am only days away from my surgery. I have been reading this forum and trying to get my mind and surroundings set up for my life post-op. I have been keeping track of my Water so far by knowing the capacity of the glasses I drink out of. It has been stressed to make sure I take in my 60 oz water after surgery. So how do you keep track of your water intake? What method works best for you?

I know I will be depending on Protein shakes but I won't be able to drink 8 oz at a time. So I can count 2-3 oz of Protein shake at a time for my water but does doing that count as grazing? Or is it okay as long as it is just in the immediate post-op stage?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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I am only days away from my surgery. I have been reading this forum and trying to get my mind and surroundings set up for my life post-op. I have been keeping track of my Water so far by knowing the capacity of the glasses I drink out of. It has been stressed to make sure I take in my 60 oz water after surgery. So how do you keep track of your water intake? What method works best for you?

I know I will be depending on Protein shakes but I won't be able to drink 8 oz at a time. So I can count 2-3 oz of protein shake at a time for my water but does doing that count as grazing? Or is it okay as long as it is just in the immediate post-op stage?

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As long as your getting your protein in then its not grazing at any time. The only thing that's recommended is that when you get on to the eating stages, that you don't drink at least half an hour before or after food.

As of keeping track of fluids, I buy 500ml bottles and make sure that I drink at least 2 a day. I have the slim fast shakes as these are the only ones I can stomach, so by the time I have 3-4 325ml bottles of these at 15 protein each and my 2 500ml bottles of water I know that I have had plenty of liquid. Hope this helps. Xxx

Grazing is eating BETWEEN meals. If your meals take hours, like they can right after surgery, that's not a problem. Grazing is something that will likely not be a problem until you are all healed up and eating solid food later on down the line. When you can eat your meals, and still go back for more, then watch out for grazing.

Thanks!! YOur answers have cleared it up. I don't want to go through this and mess up my results.