The hunt begins

Post surgery, protein supplements become a core part of recovery and sustained health. Also, it helps prevent your hair from falling out, which is a lovely side affect from anesthesia; so, because I'm a vapid narcissist (ha), the driving motive behind me finding a tolerable supplement is to prevent my impending baldness. The only thing is, I need 100% whey isolate protein. I honestly didn't even know that there were different types of protein out there because, let's face it, I'm no body builder and it just never occurred to me to give a damn. Unfortunately, 100% whey isolate protein taste's like the devil's tit. No - that's too much of a compliment. The horribleness that is this supplement is equivalent to liquid NyQuil mixed with gonorrhea dipped in dirty water that cleaned someone's ball sack.

I digress.

The first protein supplement that I bought was some Costco brand pre-made boxed beverage. My sister used to drink them when she first became a vegetarian and she told me that they weren't terrible, so I thought I'd give it a go. My brother also cosigned their apparent deliciousness, so when I got home from the hospital I thought this would be a walk in the park. I assure you though that it wasn't. These things were disgusting, and I can't exactly put my finger on why they were disgusting. It might be because I currently can not drink anything quickly (it fills up my tiny ass stomach too quickly and then it hurts). Everything I eat or drink I must savor and it's a little difficult to savor chocolate flavored chalk in thick liquid form. It might also have to do with the fact that i drank nothing but chocolate Opti-Fast shakes for two weeks prior to surgery and the idea of having to drink chocolate anything makes me want to kick a baby. I tried these drinks for another day or so before I gave up and moved on.

I moved on to one of two samples I purchased from The Vitamin Shoppe, both made by Syntrax's Nectar. I mixed the vanilla flavored one first with entirely too much water. It looked like... actually I don't even want to relive what it looked like, but it took over 3 hours to get it down. That evening I made the chocolate flavored one (even though I was dreading anything chocolate) and mixed it with milk this time. Beside the fact that this shit does not mix instantly and you have a million little clumpies floating all about, the taste was not terrible - more or less in the tasty family and since this was a semi good experience, I was forced to purchase the giant tub of it to hold me over until I find something with a bit more variety. I would also like to mention that this $40 tub was just barely half full. They're going to get a strongly worded letter from me. 

Starting weight: 273.4

Last weight in: 249.8

Height: 5'8"

Surgeon's goal: 180

Personal goal: 160