Hi All,

Getting banded on Jan 21, need to be on Clear Liquids for the first week with 60 grams of Protein a day. Of course, the nutritionist is recommending Isopure. I have been told that grape is the best flavor. Anybody have any tricks to make Isopure more palatable? Any other ideas for the first week? I can't eat or drink anything with aspartame (Nutrisweet) in it because it gives me stomach problems. Any advise to make the first week easier would be most appreciated!

Thanks!

Chicken/vegetable broth is good, home made is the best. I also kept some pedialite on hand for dehydration issues I had. Decaf tea was really good too. There are also a lot of sugar free liquids/drinks now made with Splenda so you may want to check out the grocery aisle. I lived on icee pops, but don't know what sweetener they had.

My doctor told me not to worry too much about getting enough protein the first few weeks. The big thing was not to get dehydrated. I got addicted to caprisun drink pouches. My doctor also let me have jello during the clear stages (just no red jello before surgery), because they do a bum check and if they see anything red they freak out.:embarassed:

Diet Jell-o

Sugar free pudding

Chicken broth -----Try Unjury it has 20 gm protein

protein drinks are the trick I buy the type at COSTCO inexpensive and good.

clear soups

lowfat-low cal (campbells) cream soups Dietician said that we could have cream of chicken, cream of cheese/ brocoli, cream of mushroom. MAKE SURE that they are the Healthystart types with low fat and low salt.

Try to get in all the water and try to stay away from caffeine.

Also... How could I FORGET!!!! All the Sugar-free POPSICLES that you can stand :-)