How long before and after meals. Thanks

30 minutes before and 30 minutes after

That depends on who you ask, but my surgeon team directs patients to not drink for 15 minutes before or 30 minutes after eating.

Mine says 5 minutes before and 45 minutes after.

Check with your nutritionist or your doctor for their preference......mine is the 30 minute rule both before and after....good luck!

My surgeon says it's fine to drink before meals (in fact he encourages it) but no drinking during meals -- including NO SOUP and NO CEREAL -- and no drinking 30 minutes after.

Thanks!

My surgeon says it's fine to drink before meals (in fact he encourages it) but no drinking during meals -- including NO SOUP and NO CEREAL -- and no drinking 30 minutes after.

No ceral...ever?

The hard-and-fast rules are for the first six months after surgery, but they "discourage" their patients from eating soup or cereal on more than extremely rare occasions for the rest of their lives.

My doctor has said nothing about soups or cereals. So funny how every doctor is different.

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I can see why about the soup deal. I tried it one day, and it went down just like Water..but caused cravings. I've just decided to not allow it until I can have the chunky type Soups with all the stuff in it.

My surgeon has never mentioned anything about soups nor cereal... In fact I have the protein cereal with fat free milk often.... Why can't you guys have soups nor cereal???

My surgeon says no to soups and cereals because it is the same thing as eating with your meal. If you poured out the cereal dry in a bowl and ate it while intermittently sipping milk from a glass -- most people would say no, you can't do that, it's drinking with your meal. But just because you pour the milk on the cereal and consume it that way, it doesn't make it any different - you are still putting liquid and solid food in your stomach at the same time, just using a bowl and a spoon to do it instead of a bowl and a glass.

So that is why my surgeon says no to cereal (at least cold cereal with milk) and no to soup . . . but I know he's an outlier here. He's very strict about building good habits, avoiding slider foods, and maintaining restriction.

My surgeon says no to soups and cereals because it is the same thing as eating with your meal. If you poured out the cereal dry in a bowl and ate it while intermittently sipping milk from a glass -- most people would say no' date=' you can't do that, it's drinking with your meal. But just because you pour the milk on the cereal and consume it that way, it doesn't make it any different - you are still putting liquid and solid food in your stomach at the same time, just using a bowl and a spoon to do it instead of a bowl and a glass.

So that is why my surgeon says no to cereal (at least cold cereal with milk) and no to soup . . . but I know he's an outlier here. He's very strict about building good habits, avoiding slider foods, and maintaining restriction.[/quote']

My NUT agrees with your surgeon. She told me a thick stew would be ok, but never soup or cereal. I was never a huge cereal Water, but I do enjoy eating dry Special K Protein as a snack!