OptiFast

[tmx000 0]

Hi,

I am going in for LapBand Surgery on the 27th and my Surgeon put me on the 2 week liquid diet, the problem is that the Optifast that he wants me to use is way too expensive, it will cost $251.00 plus tax for the 2 weeks, any suggestions? I am only in day 2 of this diet and am starving.

[FLORIDAYS 3,040]

Hi,

I am going in for LapBand Surgery on the 27th and my Surgeon put me on the 2 week liquid diet, the problem is that the Optifast that he wants me to use is way too expensive, it will cost $251.00 plus tax for the 2 weeks, any suggestions? I am only in day 2 of this diet and am starving.

I was on the Optifast for my 2 week pre op back in November... its was $200 for 3 cases which was a little more than I needed. (5 shakes per day). Tell him he is overpriced!

[BeverlyM 0]

On Optifast now. $140 for the 2weeks. Don't think their gonna give you anything elese. Maybe get one week at a time. I suppose to do 5 a day but only been able to get down 3 a day so far. Started Wed. Surgery on 26.

[Linnielady 4]

I was put on Optifast for my 2 week preop. It gets better after about day 3. I did the shakes, bars, and Soup that Optifast makes. I found that I was hardly ever hungry. What triggered hunger was when my husband made his dinner. The smell drove me a little crazy. I had to stay out of the kitchen when he cooked. I didn't do any of his cooking for those two weeks and also didn't cook anything after surgery for the first week and a half after. I'm in the mushie stage now and have done some cooking since I can eat too. Hang in there it will get better. And yes, it was very expensive.

[BeverlyM 0]

Sound good to hear ITS GONNA GET BETTER.

[mattie7632 24]

Why do you have to have Optifast? Can't you pick out a nutritionally sound Protein Shake from anywhere? You should ask him, I bet Optifast is just his personal preference, the pre-op diet is to shrink the liver and the most obnoxiously expensive Protein shake isn't the only way to do it!