Do You Class Your Shakes As 'meals'?

[able2cope 193]

Hi,

Do you class your Protein Shakes as meals, or supplementary? Do you leave the half hour between drinking a shake and drinking Water also?

Thanks in advance.

[joyful noise 101]

I do. I also count them as fluids. I am one month out and can only handle 1.5 oz of Protein per meal. The surgeon told me, yesterday, there is no schedule - you will know when you can handle more; and to keep up the shakes.< /p>

[Katnroyal 225]

I eat six meals a day... it's really three meals and three Snacks but they are all around the same number of calories and ounces. I usually have my shake as my first or last meal of the day and it also counts towards my liquids intake for the day!

[able2cope 193]

Thank you for the replies. Much appreciated. x

[CowgirlJane 14,260]

I don't have alot of shakes anymore, but although I counted them toward my fluid goals in the early weeks (NUT said I could!) I tended to treat them like food. I would wait the 30 minutes before drinking Water but partly is that it helped me feel a little fuller from it longer.

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

I drink one for Breakfast because I am not a breakfast eater. I do wait 30 min to drink because I am too full. If I have one for lunch or dinner, I usually have something else with it, like a piece of cheese or meat.< /p>