Green Tea Frap anyone?

Good morning peeps.  Day 10 here on the Pre-op (mostly) liquid diet and 4 days away from surgery.  YAAAAAAAY!  I'm not really nervous.  Is that normal?  I guess havin' about 7 months to mentally prepare for this life changing procedure has been a life saver to my sanity.  I couldn't imagine goin' through this 1 month after my seminar.  I probably wouldn't have lasted 4 days on pre-op and maybe even decided that I could've done this on my own...again.  And we all know how that has turned out in the past...

(LOL!)

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm happy that I was required to do 6 months with a doc because I feel that I am 110% ready for this.

Anyway, about a year ago, I was introduced to Starbucks' Green Tea Frappuccino, and I.WAS.HOOKED.  For those of you that aren't familiar its a sweet, creamy Green Tea, drink of frozen goodnes.  And coming in at a whopping 440 calories for the Grande size...eeeekk!!  Really?!?!  I was having a few a week!!!  Just goes to show you how important it is to count calories, I would've never guessed that this thing was close to half of the calories I should have been eating/drinking per day.  Here are the Nutritional Facts for Starbucks Green Tea Frappuccino:

Nutrition Facts Per Serving (16 fl oz)

Calories 440	Calories from Fat 140
	% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16g	25%
Saturated Fat 10g	50%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 55mg	18%
Sodium 230mg	10%
Total Carbohydrate 70g	24%
Dietary Fiber <1g	4%
Sugars 67g
Protein 6g

 And...drum roll please....


Green Tea Frappuccino Protein drink 

6-8 Ice cubes

1 Scoop of Body Fortress Vanilla Protein powder

1 tsp Torani Sugar Free Vanilla Syrup

1/2 cup of Soymilk (original)

2 packets of Stevia

1-3 heaping tsp of Matcha Green Tea powder (depending on your preference; I first made it with 1 scoop, next I tried 2 and like it better)

Add all to my Ninja blender and Voila'!  :)

Nutritional facts:

Total Fat:  4g

Total Calories: 209

Total Carbs: 10g

Sugars:  4g

Protein: 32g

Nice huh?  And its just as good.  :)