I have posted about muscle milk several times b4.
It DOES come in a ton of flavors.
It also comes pre-mixed in bottle and in little cardboard drink boxes (not as good though)
I have found that mixing it with super cold water is the best.

At Christmas time GNC had the huge tubs in a 3 pack and it was only $35.

Hi all......

After reading a lot of the posts about the liquid diets and the protein shakes being somewhat unpleasant I thought I would share this little tid bit of info. 

Prior to going in for my surgery, my husband (who is getting the band on 2-11-09) and I tried a lot of different protein shakes. We first tried a wide variety of the powdered protein shake mixes which he didn't mind but I found to be gritty no matter how well you mixed them. I could only tolerate the powdered vanilla mixes because I could add different things to it such as flavored extracts to give it a different twist.

A friend of mine gave me a few of the pre made protein shakes that she had purchased at Costco for her husband. Of course these are much more expensive than the powder mixes, but I found them to be fairly good. 

  Muscle Milk Light - 8.5 oz - 160 cal.   
                                20 g protein - 3 g Sugar  - 9 g carbs (zero lactose)

 Premier Nutrition Protein Shake -  11 oz.  -  160 cal. 
                                30g Protein  -  1 g sugar  - 5 g carbs

I took them both to our nutritional doc for her to look over and she really liked them. She even said she liked them better than the mixes they had been selling through her office. 

They are both chocolate flavored (I don't know if they come in other flavors) and they are thick and creamy. (not gritty) The Muscle Milk Light is very sweet compared to the Premier Nutrition shake but both are very good. Again, they are pricey but well worth the extra cost.  I was always one who loved chocolate milk and these come close to the real thing but are healthy and good for those of us on the losers bench.

Hope some of you find this helpful with your liquid diet/protein shake phase.

Take care and hope everyone is doing well

Kim

I was the exact same way. That's how i explained it to everyone to.."buyers remorse".
I was on the 19Th too so i really do know what your going through.  It gets better.

I came home from the hospital and was 20pounds heaver then when i went in. I have lost that and then like 8pounds more. Big whoop-t-do..NOT.

I am so scared that when i can eat i wont be able to stop. I am doubtful in myself that i wont screw this up like i have screwed up everything else in the past. I was weepy about not eating...i want a freaking hamburger so bad...or at least i did the other day. I was like.."maybe i DIDN'T try hard enough b4..maybe i DIDN'T do everything i could b4 i just jumped into this...id rather be fat and happy then skinny and miserable."

But each day...each hour brings different emotions and different thoughts. I really thought the weight was just going to "fall off" each day. Id wake up and id be 10 pounds lighter. So not the case. I have cabin fever, i am annoyed with this stupid drain tube, i want to sleep in my own bed and not on the dang couch, I'm sick of liquids but my protein drinks that i "raved" about b4 surgery taste like crap now and now....i have some sort of yeast infection on both upper inner thighs and on my who-ha and i have something weird going on with my tongue...maybe its too many Popsicles and i got frost bite or maybe i have yeast on it too....grrrrrr. I get tired going for walks...and right now its so damm cold and icy i don't go out in fear of falling. I miss my poor dogs..i wont let them in the living room in fear that they will jump on me or get caught up in my drain tube,    I have tried SOOO hard to stay off the board so that i didn't bring everyone down...i have already been told b4 to keep the board "positive"


My husband is driving me nuts and i will probably post a NEW topic to ***** about that.


OH MY GOD...its never ending.


So yeah...to sum it up...your not alone...I'm sure we all feel like this to some degree. I am so proud of you for stepping fwd to say something. Like i sad i didn't want to because i was told in the past by other member's that even though i am so "passionate" about how i feel that i need to keep the board "positive"  so i didnt say anything.


SUPER BIG SORE HUGS...AIR HIGH FIVES..TAKE A SHOT OF LIQUID PAIN MED WITH ME   and we WILL get through this together.

Feel free to call me.
( PM me and ill give you my #)

Good luck with your surgery today !!! 

We will all be waiting to hear from you when you get home.  Please let us know how you are doing. 

There will be a nice warm "reserved" spot on the losers bench for ya !!

Take care,
Kim 

I am very sorry that this happened.  I would MUCH rather my surgeon err on the side of safety and caution though.   Maybe they thought you FM was not that bad...and they had to do further tests to determine if they could operate.  If the Dr does not feel surgery is safe for you...then be glad they canceled it.

For the Record...St Vincents Hospital in Carmel, Indiana in a Bariatric Center of Excellence.   They meet and surpass all of the strict criteria for that ranking.  They do over 100 surgeries a month and have one of the busiest and best rated bariatric units in the nation. 



That's so wrong !!  I'm so sorry to hear that.

Unfortunately, with WLS becoming so popular, I think a lot of hospitals and clinics are merely jumping on the band wagon and coming up with less than adequate programs offering the various surgeries for the sake of making money. 

Over the past year, I noticed that there are more and more ads on TV and radio about different clinics offering WLS. And as time goes on, and more hospitals and clinics jump on the band with the WLS,  it seems that we are hearing more and more horror stories of botched surgeries and scams.