So I survived my first day of my post op semi liquid diet today! Everything went great until I had Cream of Mushroom Campbell soup for lunch. I used Fairlife nonfat milk to mix it with and put a scoop of Isopure flavorless protein powder and bam sudden diahrea and I had it for hours (haven't even had the surgery yet ??) I'm trying to figure out if it was the soup or if protein powder does this?? Any insight??

Did you mean Pre op diet? If so, yes. I had diarrhea for nearly a week. First day was the worst and it steadily improved from there.

Oh yes that's what I mean pre op loll

I'm going to try to do half a scoop of Protein tomorrow and see if maybe that was the problem because I was fine until a couple bites of that soup!

Make sure you're hydrating to make up for that loss of water. If you're drinking protein shakes, do they have milk or whey protein? Could it have been the milk you added to the soup? Protein usually has the opposite effect on me. The soups I used to prepare for my sleeve in 2009 were the Campbell's 98% fat-free cream soups. For my pre-op diet in 2009, I remember that I would do a protein bar for breakfast, a cream soup for lunch, and then nothing but sugar free jellos and popsicles, and of course, A LOT of water all day. In 21 days I dropped 20 lbs. This time around, I started on May 11th, protein shakes for breakfast and for lunch, and then a meal of no-carb solid food for dinner. In 24 days, I lost 23 lbs. I don't recall having diarrhea. I tend to get constipated. Are you consuming sugar-free foods? That usually does cause it. Or it could just be an initial shock to your body. It'll probably clear up soon. Give yourself time and don't forget to breathe.

Edited July 18, 20233 yr by CarmenG

So I'm going to be eating the same thing everyday which is:

Breakfast: premiere protein shake

Snack: Sugar free jello

Lunch: Campbell Soup with fat free milk, added protein

Snack: Sugar free pudding

Dinner: Ground beef or Chicken Salad

Snack: 100% grape juice Popsicle

For dinner I've been putting tomatoes, shredded lettuce, Salsa, cheese, and sour cream on my meat. Right now I'm allowed to eat way more than this according to my doctor but I made this meal plan up for myself because I want to lose weight and shrink my liver before surgery. Any thoughts on this diet haha. When I hit the two week till my surgery stage I'm cutting out the meat salad ??

I had diarrhea throughout my entire liquid diet.

Good to know it's not just me!

As my doc said to me when I had diarrhea on the liquid diet ..... "Liquid in - liquid out". Well...DUH !! LOL

So I definetely know what the culprit is, whenever I eat that damn Campbell soup I run to the bathroom lolll. BTW I never had campbell soup before this diet and I must say I find it kind of repulsive, do not like them at all lol. Tomorrow I'm going to try a different brand and see if this happens again like that, wish me luck ?