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Optifast-induced agoraphobia? - According to Wikipedia, agoraphobia "is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives the environment as being difficult to escape or get...

Alcohol in flavour extracts? - I bought some bottles of flavour extracts (you know the kind - banana extract, orange extract, almond extract, etc.) to use in my optifast. I just noticed, though, that one of t...

First weekend on Optifast - Yesterday was my third day on Optifast, and I'm settling into a routine at work.  Optifast in the morning just before I leave for work, another optifast around 11:30 a.m., another ...

Planning ahead is going to be really important... - My first day of Optifast went really well yesterday, even though I had a completely unexpected evening meeting I had to attend right after work.  I thought, uh oh, I'm going to be ...

First day of Optifast... - ...and I love it already! Modified one of Tracey's recipes - added a few drops of rum extract, banana extract, and orange extract, ice and water to a packet of vanilla, and wow!...

First day of Optifast - Well, here goes nothing. I'm up an hour and a half earlier than usual (5 a.m.) because I just can't sleep anymore.  Last night I went out for dinner to my favourite restaurant w...

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Who knew it could be so hard to find Calcium Citra - I start Optifast on Wednesday, so I thought I'd go out today and get all my post-op surgery vitamins since I probably won't have much energy to do that during Optifast.  I found al...

Protein shake packaging - what a crock! - I am so annoyed. I bought my first jar of protein shake powder yesterday.  I got a brand called "Diesel".  Everything seemed fine, I read the label, the carbs and protein fit wi...

Living on "real food" only after surgery - I've been reading a lot here about sugar-free stuff, and about how Guelph prefers people get their protein from real food rather than protein supplements and shakes. As someone ...

Thinking about VSG - I've been having a bit of a freak out over the past few days, thinking about RNY, feeling really scared about what life will be like decades from now with all those major changes i...

Which appt. does TWH want you to attend alone? - At the orientation in February, TWH was saying we should bring a support person to every appointment except one of them, and I forget which one that was.  Can someone remind me?  I...

NSDs at sewing class - I decided to take a beginning sewing class, and the first class was this week.  I really like the instructor, but there were a few non-scale defeats that went along with the first ...

Nurse practitioner appointment - Hey, I finally have the first appointment after my orientation coming up tomorrow (or, I guess since it's past midnight, then today)!  I'm really looking forward to it. :) What ...

Very annoying - So I got a voicemail today from TWH telling me that my March 12th appointment with the Nurse Practitioner was rescheduled for March 28th - the day after my appointment with the soc...

Women cooking for family after WLS? Really? - I just checked out another forum on OH (I never venture from the Ontario forum because I like it here and haven't felt the need), and I ran into a thread with women wondering how t...

Taking stock of all previous weight loss attempts - I've been doing the paperwork that I got a couple of days ago at my orientation class, and one of them has us list previous weight loss attempts.  They give you a chart with 17 dif...

Today is my info session at TWH! Anyone else? - I'm pretty excited - today is my information session at TWH. :)  I can't wait to hear about the whole process, and get this thing really started! Is anyone else going to their i...

Why can't smokers get WLS? - I'm not a smoker, never have been.  But I live with one and so I know second-hand how difficult an addiction it is to quit. Why do you have to not be a smoker in order to get WL...

NSDs that will someday be NSVs - A little thread to cheer us pre-ops up whenever we experience those Non-Scale Defeats that we're hoping to turn into NSVs once we have surgery and lose lots of weight. :) The ot...

Question about doing Optifast alone - Has anyone ever done Optifast as its own weight loss tool, in and of itself?  There is a doctor here in Toronto (Dr. Goldfarb) that medically supervises Optifast-only diets.  Here ...

I got my orientation date! - My letter came in the mail tonight...I have my orientation session at TWH on February 22nd.  Very exciting! I guess I should figure out how to change my name from "ThinkingItOve...