My surgery got post poned til December 30. I start my liquid diet on the 20th. I'm nervous about the liquid diet because the protein shakes taste horrible. Any ideas on how to make them taste better? Also how much weight have u lost just on the 10 day diet?

You can put canned fruit, packed in juice, or crushed ice, there's a lot

of good ideas in the food section and a lot more on line. This is a bit

of a rough period, and takes some will power, but you can make it a lot

easier with a little imagination. You might try the Muscle Milk protein powder from Costco, it isn't too bad. If you work at it, you can lose 10-12

pounds in ten days. Good luck.

I use Jillian Michaels from Wal-mart and add Peanut Butter to the chocolate one. Its really good and I actually look forward to it. I also use ice to make them thicker. Easier for me to eat them with a spoon than drink. You can also add the sugar free syrups (like chocolate or strawberry) to make them more like milkshakes.

Take a vanilla shake(Atkins Advantage or EAS AdvantEDGE) and add a Crystal Light fruit punch stick or any other flavor you might like.

http://www.kraftbrands.com/crystallight/Pages/default.aspx#/refreshing-flavors/fruitPunch

Before adding anything to your pre-op diet, be sure it is Ok with YOUR surgeon. Different docs have different rules. Yours might even allow you something different if you don't like what you have.

Mine sold HMR in his office but I had a bunch of Medi-fast stuff, so he said I could use that. I had to do it for two weeks. Medi-fast includes a "lean and green" meal, so I got to eat something every day. I lost 8 lbs, I think, during the two weeks.

I use Body by Vi shakes. I add suger free ppudding to them to flavor... ( www. visalus.com) but they taste like cake mix alone. u by the powder mix and can mix in with any thing... why did you get postpponed?

I use Prosource Banana creme, it is pretty tasty.

My blood work was sketchy. But it's fine now all good to go!

If your surgeon lets you choose the protein drink you need to get some samples and find out which one YOU like. Everyone's taste is different and you will be in them post op too so you need to be able to drink them.

I did try some the vanilla was bare able but it was still grOSS lol I hit the chike very vanilla. The snacks they gave were great it's just the protein shake.

For me, all the shakes are nasty. It was mostly a matter of chugging them down to get through it. My surgeon does not like me using shakes anyway, so I did not spend much time searching for the perfect product. I just slammed down the Medi-fast ones for the pre-op.

Now on the odd times I do use shakes, I have found Isagenix to be pretty tasty to me. It's only available online.