who knew chicken broth could be so DIVINE!!

Day 2 of optifast today.. starting to go through carb withdrawl..feeling a bit fatigued and slightly cranky. Had to travel to Toronto yesterday for my preop tests this morning at 7AM.. (its a 4 hour drive so we set out yesterday and stayed at super 8 on Spadina Ave).. it was an adventure travelling with OPTIFAST.. have a small immersible blender that I can tuck away in my purse.. mix up the optifast shake when we make a pit stop.. desperate times call for desperate measures LOL..

when I got home this afternoon from TWH I broke down and had 2/3 cup of plain lowfat chicken broth.. OMG. who knew it would taste so good!!.. almost decadent! a real treat after all that sweet optifast.

Two days down.. 12 to go.. I have to return to TWH on the 22 of Feb to meet with endocrinologist
because I have type 2 diabetes. Even though I was monitored by endocrinologist at Windsor Bariatric clinic, they still insisted that I see the endocrinologist at TWH preoperatively.. so.. we head back to TWH again next week.. getting to be a weekly thing LOL, but I won't complain as I have waited for this for months on end and now its happening.

I sort of wish I had ordered 3 boxes of chocolate optifast and one of vanilla instead of two and two as I find the vanilla a bit hard to adjust to. It seems to me to have a chalky aftertaste compared to the chocolate. maybe its just my tastebuds on the fritz.

suzyq0052

 well done, and i will tell it  does get easier, i'm on day 8 now. when i was drinking the  vanilla i made my self belife it was  Mc D's melted ice cream lol don't  know why but it  worked  for me, so i als am alloud to have jello, broth tea or coffee decafe, gd luck you  are almost there, keep your  eyes on  what  you really  want, and it  wont be  long now.

Joy

Hi Suzyq,

I live in the windsor area and have one full box of chocolate left over from my surgery Feb 1st.  If you live in the area and would like to buy this from me, let me know.

Courtney

Suzyq, I don't know if your're allowed or not...but I made my own veggie broth when I was on clear fluids, and strained it...it was delicious!!  I just couldn't stomach the boxed broth...Patti K.

Hi Suyzyq

I loved the Swanson brand of broth, it had so much more flavour than the other brands of clear broth.

I could only find it in the states thou.

Good luck on your wls journey, time will go fast and before you know it your surgery date will be here

Take care

Eileen 

How exciting for you to be so close to surgery!

I think others have mixed the vanilla with various sugar free flavourings and crushed ice - made a milk shake-ish thing out of it.  Those who have been thru it may have more suggestions for you - you'll be so sick of Optifast that you'll need to come up with ingenius ways to mask the flavour.

Divine eh? LOL!

With a positive attitude, you'll do awesome!

Dawn

I found the Vanilla terrible. Try orange/tangerine crystal light with ice in a blender. ...or is it tangerine/grapefruit.? Tastes like a creamsicle. Also Starbucks cinnamon dolce sugar free syrup. Tastes yummy.