Optifast Diet Day 1 April 11, 2015

The day has finally come!! I had my packet meeting on Friday and bought my Optifast foods. I started the diet today and it's been okay. I got the shakes and soups plan and got vanilla and chocolate shakes and tomato soup. They really aren't bad at all, it's just going to be hard to be around tempting food until my body gets used to the diet. I have to use the Optifast products for 5 meals and can have a meal of a protein, veggie, fruit and a fat. It's very strict on what I can and can't have. They also have to be eaten as a meal, not added to the Optifast food. That part I don't like. To get everything in, I've ended up eating every 3 hours which is a lot for me. I have to do this for 4 weeks! I keep telling myself that it'll pass fast. 

No Cardiac Clearance Yet

I got an email from Shae today telling me that they do have my insurance approval but nothing from my cardiac dr. yet.  So I'm thinking that I'll call him tomorrow and see if I can get the ball rolling and hopefully get scheduled for my packet appointment. That's a meeting with the dietician to get my starting weight, find out how much I have to lose for liver shrinkage which is 8% of my excess body weight and start the Optifast diet. I'm not sure if my surgeon will be there or not. 

I have also started a beginner workout challenge and a squat challenge so that I can get used to exercising again. I just did it this evening and it's pretty hard even though it's supposed to start out easy.  Just shows how out of shape I am. I got started and of course started having breathing problems so I used my inhaler and things got better. Here's the Beginner Challenge if you want to try it.