I had a follow up with my NUT last week. I am 3 months out from band to sleeve revision. While I have pretty good restriction, I can pretty much tolerate anything so I'm not super limited in what I can eat. That being said, I do get hungry between meals. NUT wants me to have Snacks in between meals but wants them to be liquid, ie, Protein shakes or milk. I like both of these but sometimes I really want some yogurt with berries or string cheese or whatever.... Anyone else have an opinion about this. Since trying to follow this, I have been pretty unhappy about it.

My Nut has the exact opposite advice. She does not want me to drink my calories. I would ask your Nut about swapping out milk for Greek yogurt or half an apple with peanut butter, etc. My Nut is pretty responsive to my requests. I hope your is as well.

I did try asking her that and she said No that she only wants liquids consumed between meals... I just haven't felt satisfied with that.

That's funny bc most Drs will tell you they prefer solid over liquid protein. I'd ask your surgeon to be sure this follows his/her plan.

My surgeon's team is also on the liquid-snacks-only bandwagon. I asked about it and the dietician told me it's because for most people who fail to lose all their extra weight, it starts with snacking. Snacking turns into grazing, which turns into mindless eating, and pretty soon mindless eating of slider foods that are high in calories and low in nutrition. So they have decided to be pretty hardcore on liquid Snacks because they believe (and their stats show) that for many of their patients, this approach leads to greater overall success.

Like Erp ..my nut wants me to have solid snacks and to not depend on protein shakes. I eat mozzarella sticks for snacks. Weight watchers brand .

I'm almost 3 months out. If I didn't have protein shakes as "snacks", there's no way id get all the protein in with eating alone. There's not enough time in the day (for me) for water, protein shakes and meals.