Life Is Just Swill...



don't care for this one, the vanilla is bearable









On Monday I started the liquid protein diet prescribed by the doctor. I was feeling good that morning, upbeat and ready to start the day. By afternoon I felt like crap and my guts were noisy as hell.  I have to say before I ever tasted this I had no idea how awful it was. By Tuesday I was irratable and I felt like I was going to hurl all day.  Now, the dietitian had all kinds of recipes and ideas for incorporating this "swill" to the diet of liquid food. I say to anyone else considering weight loss surgery I strongly suggest do NOT add it to your soup, or snacks. Because if you do there will be no pleasure in eating anything, the soup becomes your only pleasure of the day and you will go into a deep depression if it tases anything like protein! LOL!. I prefer hold my nose and knock back 25 g. in the morning, and another at noon. The remaining 10 g. comes easily with the soup and yogurt I eat. There is no sense in ruining good food. The most tolerable sources of protein among the choices I made was the Ensure high protein shake, vanilla tastes the best for me. It comes in a four pack of 14 oz. bottles and is a little pricey but it has a better taste than the Pure Protein in powder form in chocolate, which was super yuk.




Not super yummy, but it is tolerable

I tolerate the Pure Protein powder in the morning before a cup of yogurt and lots of water! Suck it down fast so I can clean my palette with the water, then try to enjoy my yogurt with some caffeine free coffee. It's getting easier day by day. I have to remind myself that it's just a temporary phase to the process leading up to and after the surgery...it's only temporary. The upside to my visit to the hospital today for the final blood work and EKG was that I lost another 3lbs. I can dig it!