Once I was home, I continued drinking out of the one ounce cups. Hydration is the most important task for the first week. Roz had educated me on allowing the water to just trickle down your throat. I had a brand new stomach and honestly felt like I was feeding a newborn. Forty eight to sixty four ounces sounds easy, however when you are drinking out of one ounce cups, it is quite tedious. I definitely noticed a sense of fullness after about an ounce to ounce in a half. Walking around allows the water to digest easier. Now the trick was incorporating the protein drinks into the 48-64 ounces. Before the procedure, I thought this will be the easiest stage.
The protein drinks I chose were 11 ounces and 30 grams of protein. So, if I drank two of them I would have 22 ounces of liquids and meet my protein requirement for the day, leaving only an additional 26-42 ounces of other liquids that I had to consume.
Not so easy, remember the protein drinks at this point had begun to taste like drinking a handful of melted down loose change with some added artificial sweeteners. I got creative and diluted them, made smoothies, added PB2 peanut butter protein powder and even blended with ice and ate out of a bowl, to make me feel like it was a meal.
As bad as it was, a week passes quicker than you realize and I was so excited to move on to the Blended/Pureed Stage.
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