Where can I buy Optifast?

Can u let me know if we can purchase it from them...Thunder Bay is tied up in a contract with the distributor from the US and as I said I would have to travel for 26 weeks and that would not be until the fall when our winter hits....it makes everything really handy for us in the outlying area....all of it!!! Totally ticked off

Ya, which walmart?!?!

Sherry,

I know Dr. Wharton in your area sells it but not sure if you can just buy it without joining his program or what.  You can also order it on ebay from suppliers in Australia.  It's not a doctor supervised only program there.  

If she wants to do Optifast, she can buy ISOflex from GNC and mix it with 1 percent milk and it will give her the same caloric intake with almost identical stats.  I did 1 week of ISOflex with the 1 percent milk before my last surgery and I hit ketosis in 24 hours just like I did on Optifast.  ISOflex comes in many more flavours and it really mixes up well with no lumps or grit.

Thanks Tracey,
My friend went to see Wharton, and joined his program, but he apparently now does not prescribe Optifast for weight loss for the "regular" person. She is really disappointed, as her son is getting married this fall, and she was looking for a quick assist. I'll tell her about the ISOflex. Did you drink it three or four times daily?

SherryB

Sherry,

I drank 4 per day with no other food but I can send you my clinic's full pre op diet if you would like it.  They do 3 shakes per day plus 225 calories of veggies off their approved list.  If you want the list of veggies, send me a PM with your email addy and I'll send it off to you.  I found it easier eating no food at all and since that's the way I had to do it back in 2005, I stuck to what worked for me this time around too.

do u know where in Ont the ISOflex can be pruchased or does it have to come from the us?

 

i get mine at GNC but am sure places like Popeye's would have it as well. I have recently seen it at Superstore in the pharmacy section.

Hi tracey

I am just new to this site and have so much to learn and so many questions. I have been over weight pretty much ally life and obese since late teens maybe. I do know alot of people who have had the  gastric surgery. Most with sucess and a few who have gained all back plus..I am just mot sure if I can go through with it. But do need to do something as I just found out I am now diabetic. And my liver count was up due to fatty liver. I have lost some weight the old fashioned proper way. Diet and exercise but it is a daily struggle. I am so interested in the optifast method to at least get me down in weight and then learn to maintain. Its not the diets that go wrong its us after wards.. been there many times. I am trying to purchase optifast but like everyone else I see you need to follow a clinic. I also read that you can use isoflex. I never heard of gnc? Store but we do have a popyes. I was wondering if you could also send me your clinic diet information with the list of vegetables you are allowed and how you follow the plan. I was also recently diagnosed with a ovarian cyst 13cm and am scheduled for surgery in less than 3 weeks. I am a bit worried about everything and was hoping to have some weight off prior to appointment but the days just flew by as I watched and did nothing.  I would appreciate any help or information you or anyone else has *****ads this may have. Not just for surgery but for after as well. My email is [email protected] thanking everyone in advance. I have been learning a lot since joining.

Sharon

 

I had Wharton while he was still at the General. I'll never see him again. I'm glad he left and he's also part of the reason Sharma left. I know now what Sharma meant when he said "I don't want it to be about the money". Wharton is all about the money and not about the patient in anyway. He made me wait for a surgical referral for years on purpose because he wanted me to keep paying and paying.. as if 3 grand wasn't enough. Despite me being deathly ill at times because of it. Near sepsis is real fun.

Sharma himself said I needed surgery.. not just a bypass but for a medical condition as well but Wharton wouldn't listen to Sharma. Why listen to someone more qualified?!?

The General hospital restructured and they appointed a new head of bariatrics and I was referred right away. The first time Dr. Starr saw me and saw my medical condition he asked "why wasn't this removed yet?". I replied "good question."

Dr. Starr's taking care of me now. One of the sweetest doctors I've ever met.. and he's never asked me for a dime. He actually knows what he's doing and I can tell truly cares about me.

I paid almost 3grand to be in Dr. Sharma's program that Wharton was running. We were lucky if Wharton showed up at all.. then he quit mid program and opened his own clinic in Burlington. He told me if I followed him there he'd give me the surgical referral I'd been waiting over a year for at that point so I followed. He then started asking for all sorts of money for the program there.. for various tests and nursing costs etc. I told him I was just there for the referral to the doctor in NY he promised. He said no. In between his stopping to answer MSN messages on his computer. So I got up and left. I emailed him a couple months later begging for help and he stated that his clinic in Burlington was under financial strain and he couldn't help me. That was the last time I ever spoke to him again. It's all about the money. I'm sure he left his Burlington practise high and dry because they weren't making him enough money. I had heard he opened in Hamilton on Victoria.

I urge everyone looking for help in Hamilton to get a referral to the Hamilton General Hospital Bariatric Clinic. Now that they've restructured they're AMAZING! They have amazing doctors. Dr. Chetty and Dr. Azam are so sweet and caring and will do everything they can to help you.. even if it means a surgical referral. They have an Optifast program and Lifestyles program. Lifestyles teaches you how to calorie count and learn how to eat healthy. Lifestyles and Optifast programs are now covered by OHIP however the Optifast itself isn't. They sell a box for $40 so the cost to you is $80 a week for Optifast and the program runs for a year but you do Optifast for 12 weeks. They have GREAT after care and support groups. A social worker, dietician and kiniesiologist. I'm currently seeing their kiniesiologist as well he's great and has never made me feel out of place because of my size.

I don't like knocking people but Sean Wharton is one of the very few people in my life that made me feel horrible. I was extremely sick under his care and all I needed was a little help and it just seemed like he didn't care about anyone but himself. While doing the Optifast program under his care he'd bring in these whipped cappacinos or something drizzled in chocolate and whipped cream and have it/drink it in front of us at his desk when he group came in one by one for our exams. He didn't care we hadn't eaten in months he was going to have his treat regardless.. after-all he didn't have a weight problem.. we did. You'd never see any other doctor do that... and to his date still never have.

When he moved to Burlington he couldn't even be bothered to look up from his MSN Messenger conversations while he talked to me during my scheduled appointments. I knew it was MSN because you could see his screen sometimes and the sound of the bling when the messages came was distinct.

Wharton's a very cute doctor and I hope he's changed for the better but I personally would never chance it. He was a big disappointment. He was a waste of my time and money. I was a patient that was very ill and he refused to help me. I don't think you should be a doctor if you're not in it to help people.

/rant

  Hey there!  So you use the shakes and have 1 healthy meal a day?