Holiday Optifast Recipes

I'm going to be doing my pre-surgery fast December 21 to January 3rd (Jan 4th surgery). So Christmas and New Years will be shakes. Any holiday themed shakes ideas? I have mostly vanilla and a few chocolate. How can I finesse my shakes to taste like something from Starbucks? Oh yeah, I'm allergic to aspartame.

If you are allergic to aspartame then I imagine you will be doing the Slim Time shakes? I did those and they were yummy!

Suggestions:

Add pumpkin spice (just the ground spice) to vanilla. This was my favourite.

For a candy cane hot chocolate type thing warm up your chocolate shake and add peppermint extract. You can also add instant coffee to make it like a peppermint mocha. Festive!

Also highly recommend making the chocolate with much less water to make a chocolate pudding consistency. Tasted like brownie batter and made me feel like I was actually EATING something!!

I'm aspartame sensitive and did slim time as well,

Totally second the pumpkin spice in vanilla and the peppermint in chocolate!!!

Hey, slightly off topic, but how much weight did you lose during your slim time fast? I know Slim time is more calories than opti, so wonder if it makes difference or not (since both are under 1000 cals a day).

I did three weeks, and lost 30lbs (also started at 363lbs), I think the first 15lbs were during the first week.

Wow. 8% is a solid amount to lose.

For sure.

I also made sure that even though some days I didn't feel like it, I drank all four shakes, and over 64oz of water each day.

Ooh, I will buy some extracts. Sounds yum!