Optifast - Day 1 - Week 1

Well, i recently got engaged and I decided it was finally time to do something about my weight! my annoying, hanging on, spilling over my jeans weight. So i did my research, and decided that Optifast might be a good alternative for me.

A couple reasons i chose Optifast -

• I thought that having my meals predestined would get me to stop obsessing about what to eat.
• I liked the idea of being Doctor monitored on a weekly basis. nothing more motivating than having to own up to your scale 1ce a week and have someone monitoring you.
• The cost, albeit not cheap, was about how much i spent eating out every week.
• Results for people seem to be kinda amazing.
• I liked the idea of having to put myself through something challenging, makes it more fun for me =)

I won't lie, i basically get to have 4 shakes a day, the size of a Hi-C juice box, and not quite as tasty, and that's a little daunting. On top of the shakes i get to have 2 other types of food. i chose pudding & granola bars.

So i woke up this morning, and i raised my weary head... was VERY leary of trying it, but excited at the same time.

10:30 AM
So, popped open my first one, a chocolate shake, nice and cold. I had read all these reviews about the shakes tasting yucky.... but REALLY not true! it was totally fine, not bad *at all*.
so i sipped it like it was a meal, drank 16oz of water with it.
Wellbeing Scale: Nervous but felt fine.
Energy: i'm never energetic in the AM.

1:30PM
Time for my second shake, this time Strawberry. Not bad again, tastes like a melted mcdonalds shake =) so far so good.
Wellbeing Scale: Wondered if i'd notice any difference. No hunger pangs, which shocked me.
Energy: Felt fine!

4:30PM
Time for Shake #3, Vanilla. er, i think i'll stick with Chocolate and Strawberry please.
Wellbeing Scale: Feeling kinda tingly actually, don't know if it was the appetite suppressant, or the lack of food.
Energy: Waning.

7:30PM
Time for Shake #4, we're back to chocolate, i think it's my favorite....
Wellbeing Scale: Have a pretty bad headache, feel very tingly. Took a hot shower and laid down for awhile, thank god i had the day off of work to acclimate.
Energy: i'm definitely crashing a bit... my head feels like a lead weight on my shoulders =(

*************btw, my FURY is rising. Clinton won in PA. LAME. **************

9:PM
well, I tasted the pudding. um, it tastes kinda like well, i dunno, but not good. so i trashed that, ate a granola bar instead(the optifast granola bars) that was pretty good and felt substantial (relatively obviously). & had 1 cup, 10 calories worth, of clear chicken broth with pepper.
Wellbeing Scale: My headache at this point is unbearable. i'm going to take some Trazadone and go to BED.
Energy: NONE.


Well Day 1 started OK, and i'm NOT sure if the headache is due to the appetite suppressant. tomorrow i'll try and get through the day without the appetite suppressant & see if that helps. I don't think i can take many more headaches like that in my life! .