Day 9 of Optifast

Day 9 of 21 and I'm still alive so it can't be too bad! I still feel hungry and my tummy has been growling but I chug down some more water and that seems to make it shut up. I have stayed 100% on plan except for a cup of regular Jell-O that my hubby picked up at the grocery store (I didn't realize it wasn't the no-sugar-added until I went in the fridge the next day). I am now fully stocked up on the no-sugar-added stuff

The scale has been up and down which is getting frustrating. I was down 10.5 lbs last week, and have been up a pound, then down a pount, then up a pound, etc ever since. Right now, I'm technically only 4 lbs down over my PATTS weight. I don't want to come to end of this and not have lost some weight. I don't want it to look like I didn't follow the Opti because I have been doing my best and stuck to the plan! I'm very frustrated over this.

 Day 19 of my 21 optifast my daughter and I were in a movie, when the people in front of us turned around and shushed us.  It was my tummy growling (or roaring I should say)!  We couldn't help laugh, which made them move.  As my foreman used to say at Moosehead, "keep 'er goin'"!  

It is exciting to see another day go by and be successful!! It's empowering.

lol ChangingB4URI about the movie theatre. lol

I'm new to all of this and I only just got my referral. What is optifast?

lol @ ChangingB4URI, that's a pretty loud growl!

Optifast is the liquid diet you have to follow before surgery. Most folks do 2-4 weeks. It depends on your centre. You will read a lot about it on this forum!

Congrats!! Not much longer!!

I wouldn't worry too much about what you lose on optifast. It is mostly water loss and with me I gained it back in the hospital from the fluids they pumped into me. the real weigh lose will start after the surgery. Good luck with the optifast