Today I graduate to the full-liquids phase, woohoo! My info packet says that for the full liquids phase (2 weeks for me): Is a milk based diet which includes foods that are liquid or semiliquid and high in Protein, like cream Soups made with non fat milk, yogurt, fruit shakes with non fat milk.

I'm starting to look at some yogurts and see that the Fage and Chobani plain have 7g sugar/carbs and anything with flavor has 14-15g of carbs and Dannon Light & Fit has 7-9g of sugar/carbs (but with flavors!). Although there are no guidelines listed in my packet, I'm assuming that I should be keeping low on the sugar here, right? Plain greek yogurt is pretty brutal for me, although I know I can get some of the flavored syrups and use that but the Dannon sounds okay.

What types of yogurt did you eat early on? How much sugar was okay and did you have any reactions?

I didn't worry about sugar or carbs other than to make sure to keep my daily carbs under 60. I ate a lot of Fage plain with peanut butter, almond butter, PB2, protein powder stirred in for flavor. I also ate a lot of Stonyfield Farm Greek nonfat, Chobani Simply 100 (all natural and it has lots of fiber), Siggis Icelandic yogurt, Trader Joe's nonfat Greek yogurt, and Voskos Greek yogurt. Also some Dannon Light & Fit and Yoplait Greek 100 but not as much just because of all the artificial stuff in them.

I am a fan of Fage 0% plain. I added a touch of honey in the beginning. Now, 14 mos out, I add walnuts and diced fresh fruit. Yum!

A good rule of thumb is to make sure the sugar content is lower than the Protein content. Also, try to stay under 8 grams of sugar per serving. Danon Light and Fit are great!

I also didn't worry about the sugars on the full liquid diet, since thats where most of my suagrs came from. At the time (I've since changed) I didn't care for Greek yogurt. So I ate Yoplait Lite (100 calories). Not even sure of the sugar content. I ate about 1 carton a day, broken into 3 meals.

Now a yr out, I can finish a 6 oz servings. I've since gotten hooked on Greek yogurt. My fav is Trader Joes NF Honey Greek yogurt.

activia lite

My nutritionist said to try and stay under 10 sugar carbs per serving and preferably non-fat. I actually like Wal Mart's Great Value brand non-fat/unflavored greek yogurt. It's 9 sugar carbs per cup and I never eat that much in a sitting. It's also a great sour cream substitute.

Thanks for the tips, everyone! I had a few thoughts that maybe some sugar would be okay since I'm certainly not getting any other sugar throughout the day but then I was worried that that was old me sabotaging new me with justifications. Good to know it's not. I picked up a variety of yogurts today to try.

You won't get lower than plain yogurt, because milk naturally contains sugar. I use Torani SF syrups, protein powder and puréed fruit to flavor Fage And Chobani plain yogurt and control the sweetness. Any presweetened/flavored yogurt tasted too sweet to me (and had way more sugar)