I was talking with a friend today. She has a hot date on Saturday. She works in a Cardiologists office. On Tuesday, she jokingly asked the on-staff nutritionist how she can lose 20 lbs by Saturday. The nutrionist handed her a few meal replacements, with instructions to call what I'm assuming is a health coach (sorry, don't know all the lingo) to get more, and told her...follow this and you'll probably lose 10lbs by Saturday. As of today, two days later, she's down 7 lbs!!! What in the world!!??!! Of course I'm interested!
In January I started the South Beach diet, I've had success with it in the past and don't mind cutting things out that I shouldn't be eating anyway! My starting weight was 214...according to BMI standards the heaviest I should be is like 140. My doc said he'd be happy if I was between 160-170. I told him I'd be happy if I was 145-150
) Anyway, I was down about 20 lbs following South Beach as of 4 weeks ago...since then it keeps creeping up...now I've gained back about 4 or 5 lbs. Sigh....
Here's why Medifast is appealing to me:
1. No thinking!! I can't stand preparing ahead of time, measuring things out, reading a bunch of labels, counting calories, counting points, etc. I work 7 days a week, am a mother and a wife, and own/maintain two rental properties. I simply DON'T HAVE TIME!!!
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2. Quick - sounds like the meals/snacks are pretty much grab and go...one word for that....AWESOME!!
3. Really this is the number one reason...but I didn't want to sound shallow....FAST, QUICK, FABULOUS results! Duh, who doesn't want to lose 20lbs in a month? If I lost that, I'd be 1/3 of the way to my goal!
Things I'm nervous about
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1. Not liking the meals - I'm a little nervous to buy a starter kit since you can't customize it...as far as I can tell anyway. If I were able to find a local coach...do you think they might have something "in stock" that I could try before buying a bunch of stuff??
2. Being tempted when I go to restaurants. But I've read somewhere the the L&G meal can also be a lunch thing....so that helps a lot! At first I thought it HAD to be for dinner.
3. Expensive...but maybe not if you figure that you aren't buying that many groceries?? Still need to do some math there.
Other questions:
What is Wonderslim?
What is the slim for life...or lifetime slim...or something like that?
I currently participate in a rather rigorous workout routin 7 days a week. If I do Medifast, do I need to stop it for 3 weeks? Or can I just continue as long as I feel okay with it?
Any other things I should know/ask as a newbie?
Thanks to all of you for any advice or information you can offer!