I am successful !!!
As I'm sure everybody knows by now, my surgeon put me on a high protein liquid diet as of Monday (2 days ago****il my surgery date of 7/5. The first day was horrible, the slim fast tasted like raw sewage 
. I posted what is this in my mouth and got a lot of great suggestions for shakes.
Guess what, I discovered it was not necessarily the slim fast as it was the fact that it was chocalate. I can drink the vanila low carb slimfast, I also like the Atkins and the Myoplex kinds. So far that's all I've tried. Then I was faced with trying to drink 5 of them plus 64 ounces of water. I was trying to drink a shake every 2 hours, that didn't work for me. Monday I only drank 2 and Tuesday I drank 3. I called the surgeon's and they told me that it's important that I drink 5 shakes in order to make my body do what we want it to do.
I came to work with a new game plan today. I stopped at Walgreens to get some more Atkins shakes and brought myself a sports bottle with a straw. I've been keeping it full of ice and pouring the shakes over it.
It's just 9:30 my time and I'm already on #3 
. I have 4.5 hours left to get 2 more shakes in and when I get home I can eat broth and sf jello. Plus I discovered that If I mix the nasty chocalate with the tolerable vanilla, I can drink it.
It took me 3 tries but now I'm off and 
.
Sorry this is so long, I'm just so excited that I'm actually doing this.
Lurnia.
. I posted what is this in my mouth and got a lot of great suggestions for shakes.
Guess what, I discovered it was not necessarily the slim fast as it was the fact that it was chocalate. I can drink the vanila low carb slimfast, I also like the Atkins and the Myoplex kinds. So far that's all I've tried. Then I was faced with trying to drink 5 of them plus 64 ounces of water. I was trying to drink a shake every 2 hours, that didn't work for me. Monday I only drank 2 and Tuesday I drank 3. I called the surgeon's and they told me that it's important that I drink 5 shakes in order to make my body do what we want it to do.
I came to work with a new game plan today. I stopped at Walgreens to get some more Atkins shakes and brought myself a sports bottle with a straw. I've been keeping it full of ice and pouring the shakes over it.
It's just 9:30 my time and I'm already on #3 . I have 4.5 hours left to get 2 more shakes in and when I get home I can eat broth and sf jello. Plus I discovered that If I mix the nasty chocalate with the tolerable vanilla, I can drink it.
It took me 3 tries but now I'm off and .
Sorry this is so long, I'm just so excited that I'm actually doing this.
Lurnia. 
I'm on Optifast and I agree that sometimes the meal shakes are kind of hard to drink by themselves. What I do is put the shake and some ice cubes in a blender along with some sugar-free coffee flavoring syrup (DaVinci or Torani), and blend the sucker for about a minute. Tastes like a thick frothy shake and I slurp it right up.
It sounds like you are on about 1200 calories -- so am I. Since February, I've lost 84 lbs, 30 of which came off in the first week, so I'm pretty confident that if you stick to the liquid plan, you will lose what you need to before surgery.
Congratulations! Keep up the good work!
Kix
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