My surgery was last tuesday and I have to keep track of every oz of liquid I intake every hour and the amount of Protein. So far I have been using a grid my doc gave me but I was wondering if anyone here had any creative suggestions to keep track of food intake or knows about an app that might be useful.

My fitness pal is great!

My fitness pal is great!

Thanks I will check it out!

Myfitnesspal, as suggested, is excellent. I also used 8 oz bottles of water to start. I'm not a huge fan of bottled water, but it helped me keep track when I was delirious for the first week or so, as I could just count the number of empty bottles when I was feeling lucid.

Myfitnesspal' date=' as suggested, is excellent. I also used 8 oz bottles of Water to start. I'm not a huge fan of bottled water, but it helped me keep track when I was delirious for the first week or so, as I could just count the number of empty bottles when I was feeling lucid.[/quote']

Did you struggle a lot during post-op liquid diet? Did u feel hungry at al during this time?

I'm 6 days post open and I'm having a horrible time getting all my liquids down

I'm 6 days post open and I'm having a horrible time getting all my liquids down

It's been only 4 days since mine and so far I have been doing ok. I'm sipping all day to get at least 64oz of liquids and so far I have been tolerating Water,deluded juice, fortified milk, Protein shake and chicken broth. I also can eat sugar free popsicles and sugar free Jello. For The First 3 days it was a little harder to keep up to intake the 64oz of liquids but today I felt appetite and was easier. I also really like having one or two popsicles a day I think that has help with the swelling because I feel great eating them.

I had a tough time with the fluids at first, really until I was on the full liquid diet. But I did get everything in - I had a timer go off every 15 minutes (boy was THAT fun) to remind me to sip, because I just couldn't remember. That helped a lot - an sip or two every 15 minutes got me up to my required count.

I had a tough time with the fluids at first, really until I was on the full liquid diet. But I did get everything in - I had a timer go off every 15 minutes (boy was THAT fun) to remind me to sip, because I just couldn't remember. That helped a lot - an sip or two every 15 minutes got me up to my required count.

I know!!! I would keep forgetting too but I did it! Now I am on a puree diet. It was amazing 2 days ago when I got egg for Breakfast, I wanted to taste some food so bad because I was tired of just liquids but it was great that only after 4oz of egg I was fully satisfied.