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4 hours ago, BigSue said:

Once you start shopping for Protein Powder online, you'll start seeing ads for other Protein powders. You should look at the ingredients and nutrition info to make sure they meet your requirements. Here are the ones I purchased (I think I found all of these through ads on Facebook):

IdealFit (IdealLean) (You can also buy individual sample size packets if you don't want this many)

1up Nutrition (I bought the "summer body starter kit," which allowed me to choose my own samples, but that no longer seems to be available; it might have been a special offer that you can only get to by clicking an ad)

Northbound Nutrition Waves of Whey

Strength (Unfortunately, the samples are 5 packs of the same flavor, so you'd have to buy 10 packs just to get both flavors)

KetoShop (There are two different sample packs; I got the zero carb just because the flavors were more appealing to me)

P.S. None of these are referral links and I do not benefit in any way from them.

This is very helpful information. Thank you so much. ❤️

5 hours ago, jforch said:

Where can you get these samples ?

Well, I have found some to purchase on Bariatric pal. Amazon has some too. I have been researching through company websites, and just googling everything about the products that I think I might like. I have to avoid things like caffeine, and I don’t want everything to be super sugary. I spend a lot of time reading reviews and adding prices up on different websites to try to get the best prices. Next step I am going to e-mail the companies that I can not find samples for to ask about purchasing samples from them if possible. Who knows maybe soon there will be sample packs of everything available. They don’t know there’s a market for them if people don’t ask. 😁

Yes. Gone to all appts. Some delays are due to COVID. Lots of appts have been rescheduled numerous times. It’s just the longer this is taking the less sure I am of it actually happening. Part of my issue is that I had an appointment today and I gained some weight. Not a ton, and I am aware of what I did. Now I have to fix that. My drs didn’t say anything about it, but I know what I need to do. Just worried that this might set me back, and this time it’s my fault.

I am thinking about ordering several small Protein Drinks to begin trying them, so I can be prepared by knowing what I like. Do you all think this is a good idea? How did you find your Protein drinks for post-op?

First appointment was 12/04/2019, thought I would have been having surgery by now. Does it normally take this long to get through the process?