I have to do two weeks of optifast got vanilla but my questions is can you have broth??? i can have 225 calorie of vegetables

I can't imagine why not. Just watch what the calories are and the sodium, too.

broth can have a lot of sodium- but not to bad of a choice is choose a low sodium version. The main goal of the pre-op diet is to shrink the fat around your liver. A high Protein, low carb, low fat, low cal diet will be very successful! Be sure to take 2 x a day a multi-Vitamin.

Good luck!

Unfortunately, if you are being banded at the Surgical Weight Loss Centre by Dr. Cobourn, they don't like you to have chicken broth during the pre-op diet. If you find the Optifast and veggies too hard to tolerate (some do, some don't), then you should just give the clinic a call and talk to the nurses about it. They sometimes suggest other things that people can have, depending on your personal medical condition, BMI, etc. I know that for some patients they will allow plain chicken breast, for example. But you really need to get advice based on your own individual case.

Good luck!

I can't imagine why not. Just watch what the calories are and the sodium, too.

No broth for Coburn patients.

Stick to what the pre-op package says and what they tell you at the clinic.

For me when I was on my pre-op diet dill pickles were a life saver. They are a little salty, crunchy and make you feel like you are eating real food. I used Bick's as they are low in carbs & calories. I ate a 2L jar in about 10 days.

Stick in there.

Andrew

hey

i'm being banded by dr. cobourn too, and the nurses at the clinic told me that a veggie broth (low fat, low sodium) was okay. mccormicks has a good one, just make sure you've got the lowfat/sodium one. i'm not sure why it's only the veggie...

whens your surgery?

<p>August 1 at 8am, I start optifast tomorrow <img src="http://www.LapBandTalk.com/images/smilies/happy.gif" border="0" alt="" title="" smilieid="60" class="inlineimg" /></p>

Well breakfast was not so bad this morning vanilla optifast with 3 frozen strawberries it was like eating cake mix lol. its going to be lunch time soon. only 13 more days to go

On day three of optifast its not going so bad i can go most of the day with only having a shake for breakfast and lunch but night time is when i get angry, when would i notice if I'm losing weight?

No broth for Coburn patients.

Stick to what the pre-op package says and what they tell you at the clinic.

For me when I was on my pre-op diet dill pickles were a life saver. They are a little salty, crunchy and make you feel like you are eating real food. I used Bick's as they are low in carbs & calories. I ate a 2L jar in about 10 days.

Stick in there.

Andrew

Fascinating! I wonder why not? Perhaps not broth, but boullion? If pickles are okay, I can't imagine that boullion/broth (fat free of course) would be worse in the salt department. Dill pickle juice saved my life in the post-op clear liquid phase!

I really like optifast its really good im surprice i think i could eat this stuff everyday.