Your funny for the day.... Opti Brain
Okay, I am on day 7 of Opti and so far so good. Lost about 7 lbs. No headaches. No dizziness. Still doing all the normal things I do at home, at work and even on my volleyball team. No noticeable change in energy. And other than a loud growling stomach early on, all is good. Having said that, I think I have got "opti brain". LOL
In the past 24 hours I have done 2 very ditzy things that has caused my husband to raise his eyebrows at me and wonder what planet I am from.
Last night I left the car window down on passenger side of car. It snowed last night. Yep.. you get the picture. Could have made a snowman passenger out of the snow on the seat beside me this morning . Duh! Never done that before. Husband was duly unimpressed.
but here's the one that takes the cake...... Okay someone on here and at the clinic recommended you put decaf coffee in with the Opti to make a mocha taste. Okay I thought I am game. I found an old can of Tim Horton's decaf coffee in our cupboard that someone must have used years ago. Now I do have say, up front in some defense of my bonehead move, that I never drank coffee so I never make coffee in the house. Anyway, I was trying to figure out how to get the coffee into my Opti. So I decided that I would use the Keurig , put a mug with a couple of spoon fulls of the coffee in it, run the Keurig and add ho****er. Mixed. Now while mixing I am looking and thinking .... gee, those coffee grains don't seem to dissolve very well.
But then I thought... well I will pour the coffee into the blender and they will dissolve with the Opti and mixing it all up. Nope not the case. So at this point, I am thinking to myself...as I drank the Opti complete with the new mocha taste and coffee grains, "boy, coffee drinkers must sure have a hard time keeping the grains out of their teeth". And how yucky coffee grains taste.
Decided having Mocha taste wasn't all that great as some veterans or my clinic has suggested.
But wait... it gets better!
So I carry on with my day.... and then at noon for some reason it struck me that I was a complete idiot. I realized why the old can had been up in our cupboard.. from back in the day when we had a regular coffee maker were you perked the coffee and you filtered the water through the grains to your cup.
If there was ever a Simpson "doh" moment , it was that. Got home last night and mentioned it to my husband and son and they roared their heads off with laugher .
Honestly I do have an MBA , consider myself reasonably intelligent and my peers at work do too as well as my family. But boy, I think my performance review would have to be re-examined if they heard about that move.
I know my husband asked me this morning "what did you do with my wife? " as he stared at me strangely like I was an alien presence.
So I won't be taking up coffee drinking anytime soon and I will stick to my sugar free syrups for my Opti. Way less effort and taste way better.
Just thought I would share in case anyone needs a laugh! I wonder if there is such a thing as Opti Brain? Well that's my excuse and I am sticking to it.
Dar
Haha! Awesome! You're doing so good! I too have tried the decaf and don't like. Love my vanilla one with some cinnamon though! See you on the other side;)
Ottawa ~Referral Mar 2011~Orientation Aug 2011~Meet w Nurse May 14, 2012~Dietician/Behav/Abdo Ultrasound July 5, 2012~Colonoscopy Aug 8, 2012~Dietician#2 Aug 30, 2012~Endoscopy Nov 9, 2012~Pre-op class Jan 2, 2013~ Meet w Surgeon Jan 8, 2013 ~Start Optifast Feb 15, 2013 ~Pre-Admit. Mar 6, 2013 ~SURGERY March 8, 2013 (RNY/ Dr. Raiche)~Post-op Class/Follow-up appt. April 25, 2013
That was so funny!
I don't know if I have Optibrain or not, but I feel a bit foggy, lol! I am on day 8 of Optifast.
For the coffee thing, I don't drink coffee, so I am sure I could have done something like that too, not being the person that makes coffee in our house, lol!
FYI-I have found using extracts taste a lot better than the syrups. In case you want to try any :) I use banana, orange and lemon, very tasty! I just found with the syrups that between them and the Optifast itself, it was too much aspartame taste-yuck!
Good luck!
Referral to Ottawa: Jan/11 Info Session: May/11 Nurse: Feb/12 Dietician/Behavourist/Abdominal Scan: Apr/12 Pre-op Education Class: Feb. 6/13 Meet Surgeon Feb.15/13 Surgery with Dr. Raiche March 12/13!!
The race isn't given to the swift nor the strong, but it's given to the ones who endure it to the end...
I used Nescafe CRYSTALS to get through the liquid pre-op diet.... love it! :)
Referral to Bariatric Program at TWH: 08/09/11 Orientation at TWH: 08/17/11 Nurse Practitioner: 10/12/11
Social Worker: 12/02/11 Nutrition Class: 12/21/11 Nutrition Assessment: 01/26/12
Psycho-Social Assessment: 05/31/12 Meet Dr. Penner (TWH) 11/30/12 Pre-Admission: 12/10/12
Surgery Date: January 10, 2013
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Lost 100 lbs in a year post op with a VSG. 
Referral to Bariatric Program at TWH: 08/09/11 Orientation at TWH: 08/17/11 Nurse Practitioner: 10/12/11
Social Worker: 12/02/11 Nutrition Class: 12/21/11 Nutrition Assessment: 01/26/12
Psycho-Social Assessment: 05/31/12 Meet Dr. Penner (TWH) 11/30/12 Pre-Admission: 12/10/12
Surgery Date: January 10, 2013
For more information on the Midtown Toronto Walking Club, please click here.
