Optifast..... what to choose?
i think only choc or vanilla is avail and only in the mix -- you have to add so much water to them
TWH: Referral May 2015 --> Orientation November 2015 --> Surgeon at TWH Nov 2016 --> Transferred to Guelph --> Surgeon Appt Dec 1 2016 --> Opti Start Dec 8 2016 --> Surgery Dec 22 2016 HW: 331 SW:302 GW: 170
I was only given the option of chocolate and vanilla.. and just the mixes... I took half choc... half vanilla.. :)
Referral - March 23rd 2016 TWH Orientation - June 15 2016 Social - Sept 6 2016 Nurse - Oct 3 2016 Nut Class - Nov 14 2016 Psych - Dec 14 2016 Nut Jan 4 2017 Surgeon - Feb 24 2017 Pre-op May 23 2017 Opti start date May 29 2017 Surgery Date - June 12 2017 HW-285 CW - 154.2 Opti start weight - 261.5 SW - 256
Preop-23.5 Opti-5.5 M1-13.8 M2-14.2 M3-11 M4-9.5 M5-9.9 M6-6.8 M7-9.4 M8-5.9 M9-4.2 M10-4.6 M11-2.4
on 5/1/17 8:01 am - Bumfuknowhere, Canada
RTD and strawberry are not available in Canada. I preferred the vanilla powder as it was easier to flavour up. I had a 50/50 mix and many prefer the chocolate but for me the vanilla was delicious with coffee or chai tea for flavouring. I just used cold coffee or cold chai instead of the water. Many centres insist you take 50/50 so you may not have a choice.
I'm in week two of Optifast now and couldn't handle the vanilla; it tastes like cake batter flavoured play doh. Going forward, I'm only getting the chocolate, which is fine. I've got 16 more weeks of it to go.
HW: 299 CW: 165 GW: 150
Started Optifast on April 21, 2017 at 248lbs through the Ontario Bariatric Network medical program.
I got half chocolate, half vanilla, and liked both but preferred the vanilla. I'm glad I got both as I wouldn't have wanted to have been stuck with only one flavor for 3 weeks.
I didn't like adding anything to them; just plain with almost 500 ml of very cold water and ice, in a shaker bottle. My first one was with tap water, no ice and it was AWFUL, lol. Don't try that.
Pre-Op Visit: Jan. 10, 2017, weight 304, surgeon: Dr. David Lindsay, St. Joe's, Toronto
1st Day of (3 weeks worth of) Optifast: Jan. 11, 2017
Surgery Date: Feb. 1st, 2017
Kathy 
I took all vanilla, as u can mix it with so many different tastes! I don't like chocolate so that was the easy part! I played around with the vanilla with all kinds of different mixes and the best one I loved was when I put a pack of opti, a teaspoon of decafe coffee, couple dashes of cinnamon and some coconut extract! I still crave on till today and I am 12 weeks out lol!
Orientation Feb, 1,2016
Meet Dr.Bohjani Jan.18,2017- 286lbs
Started optifast Jan.26,2017
Surgery date Feb,13,2017- 268lbs
I did 50/50 chocolate and vanilla. I liked the vanilla with Red Raspberry SF Torani, and the chocolate I could drink plain. Looking back I wish I had made them into an icy/smoothy type thing. I just made them with water and added ice, but didn't blend them. I think it would have felt more filling, more food like. By the end of the full fluids stage I was ready to actually chew some food.
I did a 50/50 as well . I used the sf syrups and mixed them in the magic bullet with lots of ice.....I didn't mind them at all. They do stink however and give you awful breath and furry teeth.....I know..,..just when you thought you couldn't get more excited!!!! 
SW- 260 GW- 150 CW -138 Height - 5'5 RNY- St Josephs Hamilton July 17/2015 
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