HELP for Optifast Day 7 sufferer...ugh

I am now down to 2 of those shakes per day because I am not stomaching them...so tea and raspberry crystal lite have been my diet for 3 days pretty much...6 days to go...tell me I can do this...help me!!!  Good news is I've lost 14 lbs since my dr. appt.

I know how you feel.  I've been on them for 6 days.  I've been adding cold black coffee (100 ml of coffee to 200 ml of water).  It tastes almost like a cafe mocha...almost.  That's what helps me.

Hello Tina,

I too am on the optifast - day 8...... YUMMY!  (not so much)
This has been tough, and I have been told that the hunger is gone after surgery...Thank God.

I can still stomach the 4 drinks a day.... My morning I add 1/2 a tsp of instant coffee, it's not bad, and I'm not a coffee drinker.  For lunch I do- Choc, Dinner- Vani, Snack- whatever I fancy. 

I have not used the Crystal Light, Sugar/fat free Jello or broth with the diet. I love tea, and can't drink it black, so I have to have a little milk in it....I wonder if they will know??? hope not.

Good luck with your surgery..... only a few more of those shakes to go ...you can do it.

Take care
Siobhan (Shivon)

the coffee helps with both the vanilla and chocolate. so does lots of ice - thin**** cap from timmies. I use nearly all coffee instead of water. The more the coffee taste goes away the better.

Crystal light added is good but gives it a weird textures. Added raspberry nestle splash instead of water to both the vanilla and chocolate today - esp nice with the chocolate.

A straw helps me, as does lots and lots of ice in the blender so it ends up like an ice -- cap or frozen slushy drink.

I'm windering if a "tich" of cool aide might help or what the vanilla might taste like with the strawberry or orange nestle splash - some diet orange powder and it might sorta taste creamscile like

I"m on day 6 of this stuff . So much for Christmas dinner

 I promise your hunger is gone after surgery, I am 9 months post-op and I still dont have an appetite.  I eat because I need to to stay healthy.....but I dont have the desire to eat all the time or at all like I did before.  I have lost 165 lbs in 9 months and no longer have diabetes or any of the other horrid health issues I was suffering from.....stay strong it is all worth it in the end, and when you look back on it this time will have seemed to fly by even though you feel like your at a stand still now....take a deep breath and hang in there.

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