It's day 2 of my pre-op fast. I woke up with a headache this morning.

It not easy to stay at 20 grms of protein for a 24 hour day. Yesterday morning, I quickly realized that one no sugar instant breakfast with 1% milk used up 13grms of my 20 grms of protein. Didn't leave me much for the remainder of the day.

For the rest of this pre-op fast. I plan to carefully ration my protein. A full can of a Campbells cream soup with chicken broth instead of milk, will only use 3-5 grms of protein (for the entire can). That gives me the option of 3-4 cans of soup per day and still stay within my 20 grms of protein. I'd rather have soup several times throughout the day than one instant breakfast. I'll save the instant breakfasts and sugar free puddings for post-op when I'll have more grms of protein to spend.

I discovered Luigi's no sugar added Italian ices in the ice cream section of my local market. They are very yummy. Six per box.

That's my 2 cents for today. Happy Easter!!!

Are you absolutely sure you are limited to 20g of protein? I'm kind of new to this but is it possible that is a minimum and not a maximum? I have never heard of or seen that and I am all over these boards...If it is correct, good luck and I hope its only for a couple of days...my doc says get 60 to 80g from preop all the way thru all of your weight loss and then when you are at a happy plateau you can go down to 40 to 60...he says and I ve read this all over this site that lower than 40 and your hair falls out and you are nutritionally deficient! Cali