How much space does 3 weeks of Opti take?

Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a nice holiday season!

Next week I'm heading to Toronto for my pre-surgery meet the team meeting at St. Joe's, and also to pick up 3 weeks worth of optifast.  Any idea what that will look like (cannister, packages, pre-mixed?).  I'm just wondering what I will need to bring to carry it home in.

Thanks,

Kathy

A large duffle bag would be helpful. You will have 4 shakes per day. The shakes come in pouches of single serving dry mix. I think there are 14 to a box. So 4 boxes per week. Maybe someone can add the dimensions of each box.

Thank you!  I wasn't sure if it was premixed or not.  Thank goodness it's not cans like slimfast or I'd never manage to lift it all, lol.

Kathy

Hi Kathy, 

I picked mine up this morning, I am 2 weeks so it was a total of 4 boxes, my hospital put them in two plastic bags so they weren't bad to carry at all! 

Thank you!  Did you start yet?  I hope it will taste OK.

Kathy

I start on Monday, I got half chocolate and half vanilla so I can play with some sugar free syrups to change the flavour and my clinic gave us a few recipes too so im planning on trying those as well. 

That's what I plan to do too; half chocolate and half vanilla.  I hope I'll be able to find some sugar free syrups in town.

Good luck!

Kathy

Winners, Homesense, and Marshalls all carry the sugar free syrups.  I mostly used cinnamon and coffee

to flavour the Opti when I was on it.  Some people also like to use Crystal Light in the vanilla.

Thank you!  We have a Winners in town so I can buy the sugar free syrups there and not worry about packing them in my suitcase.  I will definitely try the coffee and cinnamon too!  Crystal Light; I would never have thought of that!  Cool idea.

Kathy

I'm on day 5 of 3 weeks.  Lol its 6 boxes of small pouches of powder. I ended up taking out 3 boxes worth of pouches into a bag and carried the other 3 boxes out.