Opti - how you rocked it?

So, I have been reading how opti was great for some and yuck for others.

Was wondering if you guys would share with me how you made Opti work for you.

What you added, what flavors, hot, cold??

Trying to buy in some of the stuff for that time.. Cause I don't wanna be going into grocery stores when I don't have to..
AVOID TEMPTATIONS!!!

I much preferred chocolate to vanilla, so asked for 3 boxes of chocolate and 1 box vanilla (I was on Opti for 2 weeks).

I always blended it in a blender with Torani SF syrup and a lot of ice, to make it super cold and a milkshake consistency.  I found them to be much easier to drink that way and more filling, too!

Here were some of my favourite combos:

Chocolate:  coconut syrup, raspberry syrup, peppermint syrup, caramel syrup, brown sugar cinnamon syrup.  I also now really like their chocolate chip cookie dough syrup with my chocolate Premier protein shakes, so bet that would taste good with Opti, too.  

Vanilla - raspberry syrup, pumpkin pie syrup (I was on Opti over Thanksgiving so pumpkin pie was a good syrup to have at that time!).  I tried some Crystal light packets with vanilla, but found it made it taste way too sweet overall.

I order my Torani syrups from www.buycoffeecanada.com

Good luck to you!
 

Julia... I could hug you right now! You are awesome!!!

looks like I will be on Opti during Thanksgiving also.

Thanks so much!

No problem!  Glad to help!

I'm on opti now.....  Let me just say that the first day was terrible....  I was wondering how in the world i was going to manage 3 weeks of this.  The first shake made me gag and i dumped it....  

Then i discovered adding crystal light to it made them SO much better!!!! 

I had also purchased the SF syrups but much prefer the crystal light to both the chocolate and vanilla.  I went to the store on the second day and bought every kind of crystal light they had.

I've been blending them with ice in my blender and don't mind them

Let me also add, on the 3rd day i was down 7 pounds!!!!

Good luck

Thank you! I really appreciate you sharing your experience.

looks like I have 4 weeks of OPti ... Gulp.

Hiya,

 

I did 3 weeks of all chocolate Optifast.  I had read how some folks hated the vanilla and decided to avoid it!

 

I started with a large Timmies decaf coffee (left in the refrigerator to make it cold), add 6 ice cubes and a packet of chocolate optifast.  Blended it with the shaker ball.  Then drank it.  I did that for about the first 5 days.  One time I tried it with crystal light and hated it.  After the five days I started drinking it straight (600 ml of cold water) with ice cubes.

 

Good luck with your journey.

 

Judy

I think I spent the first few days trying to make it "yummy" with all the syrups, etc. Then I just decided, screw it, it is what it is. I by far preferred the chocolate, but the vanilla wasn't disgusting. THe carnation shakes they make you drink in the hospital are way worse.

I saved my enjoyment for the broth that I had for "dinner". As far as I was concerned - trying to make opti taste good was too much like work. Just get through it.

This is exactly what I was expecting from myself when I hit the Opti
it sounds like too much work to try and make it taste good.. I'm planning chocolate, Ice cubes and my magic bullet DONE just get 'em down

Thats what i did Kerry. I bought a magic bullet and SMALL ice cube trays from the dollar store. In the vanilla i would sometimes put Strawberry Orange banana Crystal Light in it YUMMY, it tastes like strawberry milk shake. And the choc tasted fine to me ..Always had them with ice and they were fine...Krista