Super excited that since my first Pre-op appointment i have lost almost 30 pounds. I am so disappointed that all the protein supplements are too sweet, and they use aspartame or sucralose as the sweetening agent. I know, I sound like a broken record.

I just think that if I'm trying to lose weight and become healthier in general, I also don't want to be consuming those types of sweeteners. We know there are some very safe, very good natural sweeteners - stevia, agave juice. I just wonder why no one uses those. Or better yet, don't use a sweetener and let uses pick one of their choosing and sweeten to their taste. I understand it's harder to control the calorie level that way, but I'd like to at least have a choice.

Starting to eat a little bit more normal food...it's nice and I'm feeling fine with it.

My biggest issue continues to be pain in the area where the port is attached - the 3' backward fall I took certainly didn't help it any, but it's still VERY very sore.