need advice! Surgery on Oct 15

Goodmorning everyone,

I am starting Opti in a few days, is there any tips on what i need to be doing? how should I take it ? how much water did everyone drink? Hunger pains; are they real? just any advice on how to get thought these 14 days

Thanks guys

I have surgery on October 23 so I start Opti soon as well so I'm very curious to see what advice you receive. Good luck with your surgery!

Good luck to both of you on your Surgeries!

Congrat!! Good luck too.. i guess we will see each other success!!

I found Opti to be very sweet, so I added decaf coffee crystals to cut the sweetness. Also I would add lots of ice and blend it. You can also add less water and make it more of a pudding. The vanilla I really did not like. It's only 2 weeks and you will get through it. You've got this.

I'm on my last day of Optifast- Surgery tomorrow- I found when i was more hungry if i blended it with ice it felt more substantial. Usually i just shook it up in a blender cup with the wire ball and some ice and drink it relatively quickly. i didn't like decaf in it but i don't like coffee. I drank about 1 litre of water and 1 cup of broth also a day.

I added peppermint extract to mine and also pumpkin pie spice to the vanilla.

I was at Winner's today and they have Pumpkin Pie Skinny Syrup. I might give that a whirl if you like that kind of thing.

Unfortunately for me, I had some stomach upset while on Opti. I found the peppermint helped to settle my stomach.

I didn't really get hungry, in fact I didn't get 4 shakes in a day. I had Opti left over by the end of it.

Make sure it's really cold. I didn't mind the chocolate. I found the vanilla a bit of a chore.

TBH, the 2 days of clear liquids was much harder. I did get hungry on the clear liquids. I drank tons of water. I just kept drinking.

Good Luck!

I put it in with cold water and lots of ice and I drank it with a straw. I was surprisingly very thirsty so I drank water- a lot. It was very very hard. The hunger was unbearable at times. Not to scare you, but I know some people who did great and didn't cheat at all. I did succumb and cheated. I remember driving into my surgery on the morning of and just being STARVED. You can do this though. You got this.

Opti is not fun but you can do it. I added coco powder and ice. It helped the taste and made it bearable. Hunger goes away after a few days. Good luck!

I played with all kinds of additional flavourings, but to be honest, I didn't mind the optifast at all, I admit I am a weirdo who liked the drinks.

I'd mix it with less water if I wanted something thick, some people even made it pudding-consistancy.

Loved it with ice, blended, or just plain.

I'd use various extracts or those Sugar Free Torani Syrup that you'd get in a coffee store.

Some combos I liked:

Chocolate Mix, I'd add peppermint extract, black cherry sf Torani, caramel sf Torani

Vanilla Mix, I'dd add lemon extract (SO nice!), strawberry SF Torani, pumpkin sf Torani

Embrace it :)