A glass full of strawberry goodness

Sooo, today is "Day 2" of my being on the optifast. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm definetely swinging (taste wise that is lol) towards the vanilla flavor, which is quite strange considering I usually hate anything vanilla... can't wear it (anything with vanilla in it gives me a migrane!!)... can't eat it (usually) and I can't burn it (Man, those candles give me a migrane.) And yet, out of chocolate and vanilla,  vanilla comes out a clear winner. It seems to have become my life's mission (well, ok, the last two days mission!!) to find a way to doctor these shakes. I just hate the taste of them.

 I had another look on my sheets today as to what fruit I'm allowed to eat. It lists several, one pear or five grapes or one apple etc etc and among this I found  5 strawberries... which prompted me to  zip down to the corner store and pick up a punnet. Only thing was, as good as those strawberries looked, and boy, did they look amazing,  fat and plump and shiny red, I suddenly took stock. I wasn't actually hungry right now, so what if I took my daily allowance of strawberries and popped them into my shake tonight... Turns out, it was a  damn fine idea!

It way nicer than the one I made last night of vanilla essence and lo cal rasperry jelly and WAY WAY nicer than the one I made this morning with the chocolate flavor and chocolate essence with a dash of lo cal choc topping. The choc one this morning.. well, CACK!!!! comes to mind (which I almost did several times). Tomorrow I will try again, but I will wait until I come home from dropping the kids off to school. That should be around 9ish. Maybe it's an first thing in the morning thing. 

All in all the last few days haven't been TOO bad. I must admit I get this slight out of control feeling of ARRRRGH!!!... Here I go again on ANOTHER diet... because the deprivation has felt like that. And yet, apart from around 3.30 yesterday afternoon, when the hungries got to me - I ended up splitting a carrot with my young son lol, which helped a lot - it hasn't actually been too bad. Honestly. I keep waiting for the headache to appear (hasn't yet) and I was a little tired around fourish, but that passed quickly and I was looking forward to my evening meal... my wunderbar strawberry milkshake!

Can anyone  answer a question also please. I cant find anything to say NOT to eat it, but I can't find it to say its ok (because sugar free mints and gums are ok) but is it ok to use a little sweetner like splenda while on Optifast? I would like some in my shakes every now and again. Thanks xx Cara

P.s. I just realised the splenda is in the background of the pic lol. Wasn't meant to be.