I much prefer protein water (such as premier protein clear) to protein shakes, when I had a phone call a few months ago with a nutritionist as a pre surgery requirement I was told I could drink the protein water and count it towards my clear liquids but I could not count it towards my protein requirements for the day, I can’t remember why she said that I was just wondering if anyone else was told this or anyone has an idea as to why it wouldn’t count towards protein goals, the premier clear has 20g protein

I really don't have any insight as to why your nutritionist would say that. It seems very counter-intuitive to me.

The only possible thing I can think of is that because it's not a thick liquid like protein shakes are, that it would go through the system faster and thus you wouldn't have as much absorption. But that doesn't sound right to me.

My recommendation would be to contact your nutritionist and have her clarify this for you so that you understand the reasoning.

It may be the nutritionist was pushing you to...

I don't know how far post-op you are? Were you post-op during the call?

It may not be that you don't absorb protein at all. Perhaps they are pushing you to eating your protein. If you can't count liquid protein then you're sorta forced to eat the protein that you count.

My Docs program was our food plan pureed for 6 weeks, then our food plan as food. Another doc had protein drink once a day and pureed food plan for the first 6 week, then food plan and no drink after that. They all seem anxious to get you eating food.

When next you talk to your nutritionist you can ask about it.

Good luck.

Tek

My nut allows me to count Premier Protein Clear for protein and fluid goals. They do encourage “real protein food” but when I have it for convenience it does in fact count for me.

Thank you, I haven’t yet had my surgery, just trying to make sure I have a variety of protein drinks for after and bummed I was told the clear wouldn’t count towards my protein goal because I much prefer it!

1 minute ago, ORid said:

Thank you, I haven’t yet had my surgery, just trying to make sure I have a variety of Protein Drinks for after and bummed I was told the clear wouldn’t count towards my Protein goal because I much prefer it!

Definitely make sure that you talk with your surgeon about it prior to surgery. Now knowing that you are still pre-op, I suspect the issue is that the Protein Water is only 20g of protein in 16.9 ounces of fluids, where as protein shakes are generally 30g of protein in 8 ounces of fluid. It's much more densely packed and is much more key for the immediate weeks post-op when you'll be limited in how quickly you can drink liquids. In the first week or so post-op, it would take me 3-4 hours to drink 16 ounces of water. That's a long time to get 20g of protein when I was able to get 30g in around 2 hours.

Protein water is still a great resource though, once you move into other diet phases and liquid consumption is easier.

Do any of the protein waters come without flavoring and taste just like water? I can’t do any artificial sweeteners.

I haven’t seen any unflavored premade protein waters

I emailed my nutritionist and she said that the shake will provide more nutrition than a water would but that I can incorporate the waters when I reach the food stage to get more protein and fluids! Thank you everyone

it may be because of the type of protein in the protein water. Some types of protein are a lot more absorbable than others. We were told to stick with whey protein isolate the first few weeks or months after surgery until we could get most of our protein from food, since that type of protein is easily absorbed. I drink different kinds of protein now (blends, concentrates, etc) and have for awhile, but I did stick to that the first few weeks. (I actually don't know what kind of protein is in protein water since I don't think i've every had it...)

I know that the Premiere Protein Clear is 100% whey isolate. So far that is the only protein water I've tried.

8 hours ago, Teres36 said:

Do any of the Protein waters come without flavoring and taste just like Water? I can’t do any artificial sweeteners.

You could get bottled water plain and add an unflavored protein like genepro to it

I have been looking for the same thing.
Regrettably, I have not seen any as yet.

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