nyangela426

Ditto! I am craving anything with flavor! I can only take so much of the sweet Protein shakes. I'm not allowing myself to cheat because I'm scared its going to be a slippery slope and if I take one bite of real food I wont be able to stop. My surgery is 7/16 and I am very anxious for it!

Thanks for the advice

My boyfriend and I got into a huge fight last night because he doesn't understand why I don't want to tell all our friends that I am having lap band surgery. He doesn't understand that I feel like it is no ones business but mine and I will tell who I want to tell and it is not his place to tell our friends what I am choosing for them not to know. He is worried that people are going to ask him questions on how I am losing weight and he is going to be forced to lie and he doesn't want to have to keep this secret. Honestly I think he is being utterly selfish but I kinda understand. I just don't want everyone judging me and watching what I am eating. Does anyone have any wisdom that they can share? P.S. I had Campbell's French Onion Soup broth (drained out the onions) yesterday for dinner and it was delicious. It really helped to satisfy my craving some something savory.

On my way home from work yesterday I stopped at the grocery store and wound up buying a bunch of cans of Campbells low sodium condensed soups as well as like 6 boxes of sugar free Jello and sugar free Popsicles. Previously I tried just drinking the low sodium chicken broth that comes in the box but it was gross so I knew I had to figure something out cause I needed something savory. So when I got home yesterday I took a can of the condensed chicken soup and used a colander to strain out only the liquid then mixed it with one can of water and microwaved it. It was really good in comparison to the box of broth! I've been on edge the past couple days understandably but I've been taking it out in my boyfriend which isn't good but he's just going to have to deal with it for the next couple weeks because I am already stressed out and can't deal with him ontop of it. Today is the 4th of July which is proving to be tuff because my friends are having a big BBQ and I am refusing to go. It is way too much temptation so I plan on staying home all day on the couch and maybe going to the Christmas Tree Shop to get my mind off of everything. Im also starting a new book, Easy, I'll let you all know how it is.

Thanks!

Thanks for the recommendations! Beautiful Disaster was also very good. Its not as explicit as Fifty Shades but the story is just as intense.

My surgery is July 16th.

Last night was not fun. By the time I got home after work I was seriously craving something, anything, to eat. The weird thing was that I didn't feel hungry but I just wanted to eat something because I felt weird not eating all day. I think what I was craving the most was simply flavor. So far most of the protein shakes I've tried where good but they all tasted like a milkshake which is fine expect for the fact I am getting really tired of it really quickly. I am the type of person that needs variety. I rarely eat leftovers because I don't like eating the same thing twice so drinking these shakes 3-4 times a day feels like an endless cycle of leftovers. What got me through the evening yesterday was distraction. I like to read and I do not get a lot of time to do it but once I get into a book I am like a fiend and cannot stop till I know how the story finishes, so I pulled out my iPad and started reading Bared To You by Sylvia Day (for those of one who liked Fifty Shades of Grey then you will like Bared To You). I read from 6:30 till Midnight and I totally forgot about wanting to eat food that needed to be chewed. Day 1 Lunch - GNC Lean Shake Swiss Chocolate - Not as good as the vanilla one. It had a little bit of an aftertaste/bite too it which made it just so so for me Day 1 Dinner - Myoplex French Vanilla - Good taste and texture. SImilar to the GNC Lean Shake Vanilla Day 1 "Snack" - Isopure Zero Carb Pineapple, Orange, Banana - I only drank about 8oz of it and I had to dilute it with about 16oz of water because the flavor was too intense for me. Even so it still was a little hard to swallow because it had almost a banana-y metallic-y after taste too it. It wasn't bad but it wasn't good either. I am still going to try the other flavors to see if it was just the flavor that was turning me off. I like the fact that even though it is a protein drink, it is not a shake. It is more like a vitamin water which is a good break from all the creamy drinks. Day 2 Breakfast - Pure Protein Vanilla Cream Eh it tasted the same as all the other vanilla ones.

I just started my 2 week liquid diet today. Does anyone have recommendations for protein shakes? I went to GNC and bought a bunch of different ones to try, so far I am tried the GNC Total Lean Vanilla Bean and its not as bad as I was expecting.

Just started the 2 week liquid diet and I am both nervous and excited for it. I'm nervous because I know that I get really cranky and moody when I don't eat not to mention the headaches and dizziness. I am obviously excited for two reasons: 1 I am only 2 weeks away from the surgery and my life will begin to completely change and 2 because I know through this liquid diet I will loose a bunch of weight in just 2 weeks. For my first "meal" I decided to go with the GNC Total Lean ready to drink Vanilla Bean. Its actually not bad at all. It is thinner than I thought it would be. I was expecting a thick and gritty shake but it is actually more like 1% of skim milk. GNC Total Lean Shake - 4 pack for $9.99