Of Vitamins and Protein Shakes

I have to try and understand what it is I have to eat Friday, the pre-op diet. The Dietition's slip says to have 2 protein shakes a day, two servings of fruit and one low fat meal plus 64 oz fluids/day. Then there's the vitamins. Some say 2 Flintstone's complete with extra calcium, and Calcium 1000mgs/day with vitamin D. Such as Viactive or Caltrate, 2-3/day.

I have already decided I will get my protein shake powder from GNC. They have some for $35. I forget how many meals, think it is 78. I love Crystal Lite esp. Iced Tea and don't like water that much, so this means I have to have CL in the house.

One sheet from the Dietition mentions B complex (which I just saw).Now over on Obesity Help the consensus is that Flintstones vitamins don't work as well as some they had mentioned.

If this sounds all confused that's exactly how it appears to me.

I do know what I want to drink. I also know what protein shakes I want. I know what a small cup of fruit looks like and I know what a diet meal is.

It's just the vitamins that have me confused. Of course at Dr. Pohl's office they are selling their own brand which has all the vitamins exactly the way they should be but their shakes and vitamins are expensive and I can't go trucking up to Johnston every week.

All this is important because I will be following much the same diet after the operation, moving from liquids to pureed and then adding regular foods as advised. But the shakes will always be there for a protein source as well as what else I eat.

My little stomach will only hold an ounce of food so I am limited as to what I can put down there at a time. This is why they say not to drink with my meals, you don't want to fill up on drink and not have room for the rest