I had a really hard time digesting the vanilla Optifast. The chocolate was much more of my liking. As I am not a coffee or tea drinker I could not really make it part of my morning or afternoon drink. I would love to know if anyone has any Chocolate that I can exchange for Vanilla.

Thanks

Vikki

Did you ask your clinic? I think I read that at Dr. Cobourn's office they kept a couple boxes of each flavour to exchange incase someone didn't like a particular flavour. This goes back to January, but they still might - not sure who your surgeon is.

Surgical Weight Loss Centre

I feel your pain. I only got Vanilla, and it was horrrrible. I wish I'd got chocolate instead. I ended up with enough left over to sell one box, and I STILL have about 10 packets in my cupboard that I can't bear to throw away, even though I'll never drink them again!!

How much longer does your surgeon want you on Optifast? We were supposed to keep taking it for a week or so after surgery, but I couldn't take it, and had maybe 2 !

I could barely handle 3 a day and that was when i took it let alone 4 a day.. I must have 3 boxes or so left.. BAD ME!!!! But, all i have is vanilla and I had to plug my nose and chug the stuff before i tasted it so bad. I will call the clinic on Tuesday to see if I can exchange them. I have some breakfast anytime for after the surgery when I can start taking some. As, there was NO WAY in hell I was taking vanilla optifast if i wanted to not be sick.

I have never tried the vanilla, I would be willing to exchange a few, as I am getting really sick of the chocolate. I am not sure how far apart we live, and if it is worth the drive to exchange only a few. I am in Oakville.

Vikki, have you been trying anything to switch up the flavour? The only thing that got me through the Optifast during my pre-op was adding Crystal light singles to each shake (and making it like a smoothie with tons of ice, in my magic bullet).

If you haven't, I'd HIGHLY advise trying it, if you can't switch your vanilla for chocolate. People have also suggested adding cold Chai tea, various food flavorings (you know, the little bottles you can get near the baking foods)... I even tried sugar-free DaVinci syrups in Dulce de leche and Irish Cream, that I had leftover from my Atkins days. There are TONS of options, I'm sure some other people who've done Otifast will chime in with what they did to make it more palatable.

Are you just drinking them as a way to get Protein in, or what? Cause... there are better Protein drinks and/or ways to get your protein!

(and yeah, me too... towards the end of my pre-op diet, I was lucky if I had more than ONE Optifast a day, I dreaded it that much.)

Mandi

Melady, I too am on the optifast preop diet. I like the chocolate ones way better than the vanilla. But i found that if i added a little more water and threw in raspberries or strawberries and blended that all up then pour it over lots of ice. I could manage getting it down. I found that crushing up the ice in the blender to make it like a shake was worse for me and it took longer to drink. Anyways best of luck!

Hey...I have some chocolate here to exchange it you want...

Hey Chase's mom...I see that you were newly banded...congrats! How are you doing?

Heya Sweet:

I live in the ottawa area. I would love some chocolate to exchange as I hate with a passion the vanilla. Message me and we can discuss the details.

Thanks

Melady

I added instant coffee in the morning and it was good. Then I had vanilla with fruit in the magic bullet and ice of course....liked that to. Pm I had a chocolate microwaved and it was like hot chocolate...good. After a few days I did poorly on the optifast...I was on holidays with my family and bailed badly. Lost zip!!! My doc said it was ok because I didn't have as much weight to lose as some others........that made me feel better. Now I am selling off my optifast to someone in Toronto.

Good luck,

Neef

Well I'm one of those sick people who actually loved the Optifast. I had both vanilla and chocolate and liked each equally. I added SF syrups and sometimes berries (just a few) and it went down really well. In fact, after my surgery I contacted my clinic to see if I could buy more of it but they said they preferred people not use it post band. Since I usually have a Protein shake once a day anyway (great way to get protien in) I thought it would be okay. The thing I like most about it is the fact that it taste great in just Water (yes, i said "tastes great"). Very few other protein mixes taste good with just water (at least that's my opinion).

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I put some sugar free choc. pudding in mine and that made it taste better. There is also sugar free chocolate syrup to make choc milk that you could try.

Where would I find that sugar free pudding or the sugar free chocolate syrup?