vitalady

I was wondering if any of you purchase products from vitalady? I have heard a lot about her on some of the other forums on here but have never actually purchased anything from them and was curious about all of your thoughts?!?! I also noticed for any who are interested that they are doing a "tour" right now and they are going to be in Augusta on July 7th.

Kristie

I haven't purchased from her. I bought my protein from Unjury. My other liquid phase favorites were SF Instant breakfast, healthy choice soups and yogurt. I enjoyed the protein pudding recipes.

1 package of SF instant pudding, 2 scoops of protein powder and 2 cups skim milk. Makes 2 servings.  Have fun with the pudding and protein flavors.

Cheese cake pudding and vanilla protein powder
Chocolate pudding and van or choc protein powder.
Mock Pumpkin Pie Pudding-    Vanilla or ButterscotchSF pudding, 1/2 cup pumpkin puree, 2 van proteins, pumpkin pie spice and 2 cups skim milk.

Your 2 week liquids is coming right up. You'll do great!

Yes....my liquid diet starts on Monday! In a strange way I am really excited for it! Its the last step before the biggest step! Thank you for the recipes...I will definitely have to try them out!

I myself used EAS Whey Powder Protein (available at Wal-Mart, etc, and in larger bags (much cheaper per serving) at Sam's Club.  It was chocolate, and tasted much more paletable, to me, than the Unjury, which I thought was disgusting.

Soooo...today's your last day on solid food for awhile, huh?  Enjoy it, but don't go nuts.  BTW, if you live near a Ruby Tuesday, they have really really good cheddar cheese soup...you might want to wait until the second week to try it ****il you're sick of the other stuff), but when you are about to go a little crazy eating the same stuff every day (on the liquid diet), try that...it got me through to have something that good, and it still be "real food", so to speak...

I wouldn't recommend it normally, it's full fat cheese, etc, but, it might help you if you start to go a bit nuts on Campbell's cream soups...(I won't lie, it was tough, but it was worth it...hang in there!  We'll keep our fingers crossed for you!)

Thank you David! I am ready to dive in and do this!

I had my "last supper" last night so to speak...today I am just going to treat like any other day. I am surprised that I am not freaking out and running to the nearest hot dog stand, mcdonalds drive thru, or thai restaurant. lol.

I currently have been using Body Fortress protein at Walmart. I have not liked any vanilla powder I have tried yet, but I like the Body Fortress Chocolate...expecially in the blender with some ice. I did order some BSN Bananna cream pie powder but it hasn't come in yet. I really wanted to order some samples from vitalady but the shipping was more than the samples and I couldn't justify that.

So I do have a question about this soup at Ruby Tuesday's David. I was trying to come up with some ideas for my preop diet and I found this brocolli and leek puree soup. It is pureed to a complete liquid...and even if it wasn't obviously you could fine strain out anything. I know I wouldn't want to eat it post op due to the broccoli and gas issues but other than that I thought it was very healthy. The whole recipe serves 6 and it had 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of olive oil in the whole soup.. Other than that it is low sodium chicken broth, garlic, 1/4 cup light cream (which is optional and can be substituted for water), brocolli and leeks, salt and pepper. I asked Lacey about it and she said I couldn't have it because of the butter and cream. I'm going to email her back tomorrow, but I would think even the healthy choice "cream" soups would have at least a smidgen of cream or oil. The ruby tuesday soup sounds awesome, but if she nixed the brocolli leek soup I would think the cheddar soup would be out of the question? Let me know your thoughts if you would!

Thanks again, Kristie

Hi Kristie,

Well, I know Lacy, I have Lacy too.  She's great.  She's strict, and she expects real effort.  Those are great things.  I would never contradict her.  I take her advice to heart.

That being said, I think if it comes down to losing your mind doing the 2-week liquid diet, and a minor deviation like that (perhaps there would be substitutions you could use instead of cream?) keeps you from going completely off the rails and having a steak dinner with ice cream, I think it's a reasonable compromise.  I never asked Lacy about the cheddar cheese soup at Ruby Tuesday...I felt pretty comfortable with it.  (It does have large chunks of brocolli in it, but it's VERY easy to pull out).  Make an honest effort, do the very best you can, and just take one day at a time.  

I'm 101 days post-op now, and even now, I'm not the least bit tempted to eat the things I ate on the liquid diet.  I've had my fill, for a long long time.

Try to do the diet without trying those things.  If you can't do it, if you get to day ten and you just feel like you're mentally going to split (been there, done that), well, it's better to afford yourself a minor allowance like that, I think, then to go totally off the rails.

Hang in there, though.  Make EVERY EFFORT to stay completely on track.  And come back and talk to us here EVERY DAY, if you're having a hard time.  We'll help you through it.  Remember, if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right.  Take some extra exercise time.  Go buy a new CD (ADELE is AWESOME!), stay busy.  The two weeks will pass, and next thing you know, you'll be seeing Dr. Toder in the OR Room...  :-)

We're all here, rootin' for ya'.  We've been there.  We know it sucks.  And we know it's worth doing anyway...

We are almost as excited for you as you are!!!

Thank you so much David! Really what I needed to hear. I know I can do this and I want to do this so that helps! I love Adele too! My husband and I went and bought new sneakers for our birthdays this weekend! I know I will be busy because I am finishing up a 4 week microbiology course that is very intense and time consuming. The time is going to go by quick. I certainly trust and value Lacey's opinion. I am going to stick to the coral colored book they gave me in the nutrition class and the items in that book and do the best I can. I will absolutely stay completely on track. I am very much the kind of person who lives by if something is going to be done it better be done right and if ever this were true it is now. I am not saying it is not going to be torturous...I'm just saying I will succeed :)

"I'm just saying I will succeed"

With an attitude like that, you've already made the biggest hurdle!!!  Congratulations!

Two weeks to go!!!