Keeping track

[ivonneh 25]

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.

[nichole33 1]

My fitness pal is great!

[ivonneh 25]

My fitness pal is great!

Thanks I will check it out!

[softwsolu1 8]

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.

[ivonneh 25]

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?

[toxtomany 3]

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

[ivonneh 25]

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.

[softwsolu1 8]

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.

[ivonneh 25]

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.