Day 25 - Optifast

Per T2's request - My first 4 weeks.

I had serious concerns starting out on this diet whether or not I could handle just drinking the Optifast shakes and not knowing what the shakes tasted like.   Furthermore, I was/am traumatized over what I am going to do after the 17 weeks and I have to fend for myself.    In many ways it was like adding a baby to the family, not knowing if I can handle it, but knowing I couldn't just give up.

TH emptied all cupboards and refrigerators of all food for that first week only to find out that the actual shakes didn't start until the following week.  Instead of loading up the house with food again I just bought the product on line and started  three days early.

The week before I started I had a farewell party for all my favorite foods, Indian a couple of times, pizza, steak and cake with lots and lots of icing (oh and donuts, hamburgers, french fries, ice cream, sushi and cookies).  I literally ate myself sick that by the time I started I was happy not to be eating, which made the first day very very  easy.   Sort of...

The shakes are nasty tasting, and I didn't know that they needed to be blended so the first shake I had was chocolate and I had these big wet brown clumps that made me gag when I tried to swallow them.  I tried in the beginning to make the shakes a meal, sit down and enjoy, but there is no enjoying these puppies, I drink them to sustain myself nothing else.  I tried putting ice and making frozen shakes, but it just took longer to drink it down, and the shakes leave a really bad after taste.  I went to kiss T and she keeled over in a dead faint.  I personally think that she was exaggerating a bit, but if it smelled as bad as it tasted maybe not so much huh.

When I went in the first day that we were to start the product I had lost two pounds, (I am thinking maybe more since I did kind of pig out for 4 of those 7 days), so I was off and running a bit ahead of the pack.  Yea ME!!

Throughout the first week I had no problem with the product except that they taste terrible, and I did discover the soups are delicious (no aftertaste)!!!  I make the soup the last item of the night and it is like my desert for the day.  I look forward to the soup.

So that first week I diligently drank my shakes taking a little sip and then some water  - oh yea 64 oz of water a day.  From someone who doesn't drink water that was a tall order and it was wrecking havoc with my system.  Drink flush drink flush drink flush - all day and all night.

So the second week I just couldn't stand it anymore - I poured the shake into the glass and drank it down in a single gulp.  Ten seconds at the most and it was done.  I do that with the water now too.  I get up in the morning pour two glasses (20 oz) of water and down it.  Then I get my tea!!!

There is much more to tell, but you will have to wait until tomorrow.  As my ex-boss T says Happy Friday!!!