[Riddy]

I've only made Sandy's Thai crockpot chicken. I didn't feel like making the cauliflower rice, so I just dumped frozen cauliflower in the crock with everything else and made it into 1 big stew. Very yummy!

[Bones1928]

Originally Posted by dcapulet

I'm not on Medfast, but Sandy's Kitchen site looks AWESOME! Thanks for sharing

Hey, no problem! Sandy's a friggin' genius.

[Bones1928]

Originally Posted by Riddy

I've only made Sandy's Thai crockpot chicken. I didn't feel like making the cauliflower rice, so I just dumped frozen cauliflower in the crock with everything else and made it into 1 big stew. Very yummy!

I wanna try her pizza recipes but have a feeling I'd botch that cauliflower crust. I just looked up the thai recipe and the pic of the finished product... yuuummm!! Looks delicious!

[Riddy]

Her cauliflower pizza looks great, but making cauliflower rice is a pain. I make a heluva mess, and almost grate my knuckles along with the cauliflower. But if I really want Asian food, it does the trick.

[LaRee mother of 3]

You are very inspiring to me! I love reading your posts! I have about 80 pounds to loose and I am praying that Medifast is my answer. Keep me updated with your progress and we can work on this together if you like!

Originally Posted by DeFluffinMyStuffin

Hello everyone,
I'm brand spanky new here and to Medifast. First post even. I haven't introduced myself on 3FCs all legal like but I've been lurking around for awhile so I feel comfy already. I am in serious need of some perspective and inspiration.


I'm on day 4 of Medifast, started 4/4/12. I researched it somewhat before I decided, but, obviously not enough. I knew the food wasn't supposed to be stellar but, I was not prepared for the textures, nor was my gag reflex I'm really struggling with the food. The eggs, oh my. They were very "shiny" and I just couldn't get them down. Lord, knows I begged those little funky chunks, I tried positive thinking. Nadda. No. I didn't even have the heart to give 'em to the dog. Then I tried the Floam, er, um the soft serve. More Oh my. It just kept growing and growing in the bowl. I ate 3/4 and called it a win. The soft baked cookies....a moment of silence.
So, I exchanged some food at the center(more on that stupidity later) and I'm armed with 3 boxes of bars and 2 boxes of shakes and honestly, they are fine, 2 of them may even be distant cousins of yummy, although I suspect inbreeding. So, I'm feeling ever so slightly less panicky about the next 6 months of snarfing 5 packages of powdered science experiments a day. Really!
I have alot to lose. Weight and money, good lord I wish I'd known about the online aspect before I went into that center. I did research some and even saw oodles of "coupon codes" available for meals and thought with my thrifty self that I could trim the cost a wee bit here and there. It wasn't until after I signed on the dotted line that I found out that the online aspect is not the same entity as the franchises albeit the same diet plan.
It be what it be. I've done it and despite my whiny, ninny baby bit above I signed up because I am ready. I want to be healthier and feel better and I'm at my personal rock bottom. Down here it's dark and yucky and I'm busting out of my "fat, fat clothes". While it was a semi sortofish quickie decision, it's what I pray gets me half there and I'll try to do the rest on my own. I'm on the 5 and 1 plan and read that it gets better.
I have lost 5 pounds in 4 days, while worrisome, I did eat crawfish, THE Sultan of sodium laden meals for supper the night before I started so I suspect it's mostly water. Besides, as plan dictates I'm guzzling water to the point that I'm not sure I'm losing weight as much as drowning them nasty fat cells and sendin' em down the sewer. If peein' were an Olympic sport....I'm sportin' the gold, baby!
Enough rambling, I guess. I'm here to hopefully get/give honest inspiration, motivation and friends along this journey. With over 100 pounds to go, It's going to be a long trek. And of course, I'm hoping to find little nuggets of info on how to get in the MF mindset and stay on plan. ( I have yet to get in the 5 meals in 1 day)
On the plus side, I really haven't been hungry much. I'm grieving the foods I tend to abuse when I make dinner for my family and it's been weird not just mindlessly popping stuff in my mouth like cookie monster. I caught myself elbow midway to mouth several times before I came to my senses.

I'm an emotional eater. Always have been. I want to write. Always have. I don't write too much. I eat too much. Not anymore.

Me - over + =

Happies, prayers and karma to all of us on this journey to health!
Thanks for the ear,
~Defluffin

[justducky2]

Hi! I used a product similar to MF...

On the eggs....why not, for that, just eat the real thing? Take out the yolks if needed, to make it lower fat, the rest is just protein.

On the chili, it's TVP (texturized vegetable protein). I'm a vegetarian, and make that on my own, anyway. It's $1.86 for a pound of dry TVP crumbles. You can also buy the crumbles in the vegetarian refrigerated section, or in the freezer by BOCA or Morningstar. I like my chili over a bed of green lettuce. Yum!

The tomato soup...I prefer that as a "muffin" or "cookie". Add water just enough to moisten it, put it into a microwave safe bowl sprayed with PAM, and cook for a minute or two till hard. YUM!

Best wishes. You can do it!!

[NynaeveCeleste]

How are things going for you? Well, hopefully!

I'm at the end of day 6 (with one more MF meal left), and have lost about 7lbs! I have about 50 more that I'd like to drop....

Regarding the Soft Serve - I could never get it to work out as a frozen icy thing, so I made the SS Cookies recipe that's floating around the interwebz. Super easy, and SO much better! Basically, SS mix (I like the peanut butter best), 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 powdered peanut butter, 2 tbsp egg beaters / whites, and 3 tbsp water. Whisk, put on cookie sheet (lined with parchment or silpat) and bake at 350* until brown and crinkley (10-12, depending on what size you make them. Be careful, too, they spread!). Whole recipe is one meal, and is something like 1 condiment. They are my new crack

Also, I like the pancakes cooked in a pam-sprayed glad container, then toasted up. Sometimes spread with Walden Farms apple butter, or a little bit of peanut butter.... I miss bread so much.....


Someone mentioned Sandy's Kitchen as a resource for doctorin' up the MF products, and I have a couple more links for you (I apologize if they've been linked already....I did a quick scan and didn't see them...):

Ack! I can't post the links (still too "new" to post linkage")

If you like, I can PM them to you

[eightiesbabe84]

I totally love your little piggy picture! I a have been impatiently awaiting my Medifast shipment (a whole week today). Your post made it a little easier to wait LOL.