[jmcNY]

Hello,

I am seriously thinking of ordering for the first time from Medifast. Can anyone give me a typical day in doing the diet. I was thinking of creating my own menu but was wondering how everyone spaces out the food.

TIA

J

Dang. We must have been typing at the same time.

OKay. I make medifast muffins on my days off(I don't care for the taste of oatmeal straight) along with some chicken breasts and fish portions. I also cut up salad greens(I mix different ones) and different veggies and put them in separate containers. Night before work out I pick out my 4 packages for the next day(1 MF meal is the muffins), set up tea pot and water on stove for soup and hot drinks. The cupboards above my tea maker, magic bullet and food scale is my MF center(No kids allowed).

In morning and turn on tea maker and stove top tea pot. While those warm I grab the salad I prepped on weekend and put .5 portion of meat on and other half of meat in zip-loc. Ice bottle, water bottle, salad, meat and spritzer bottle go into bag(Ice bottle keeps everything cold and becomes water by the time I drink the other one, no space wasted on "Ice Packs"). Tea and drinks go into thermoses. My lunch bag has two pockets, big side cold, small side hot. I've eaten both my muffins by now and have enough tea left for a cup to drink before work. I have left one MF meal in the cupboard for after work. I also either put a jello or pickles in my bag for snack(pre-prepped on weekend, ofcourse) and usually some olives to cover my fat portion.

I mix the cream soups and shakes before they go into the thermoses or they will set up like paste. I often put a veggie portion in certain soups. That's all a matter of taste. Eat the soups as your next meal and be sure not to forget them in your lunch bag. I had one explode two days later. Scared the **** out of my dog.

I try to have my meals about 3 hours apart and just have my snacks and olives whenever the urge strikes. Hope this wasn't TMI and that it helps.

Good luck.

[Zeitgeist]

I teach, so my weekday pattern may not sound appealing to you, but it is the only way I have been able to get the meals in. I also prefer to eat every 2 hours.

Get to school at 6:15am. Eat a bar with lots of water around 6:45a.

7am-11:30am: constant classes, no breaks longer than 5 minutes (change of classes). In order to get the meal I am missing in, I drink a shake. The night before, I make a shake and freeze it. In the morning I make another shake, using ice to make it thick, and put it in with the frozen drink I made the night before. By the time I can get to drink a little bit (9a), the shake is still cold and mostly frozen. I drink the portion I made earlier that morning.

11:30am: short lunch (20 minutes). Drink the remaining frozen drink, which by this time, is no longer frozen, while socializing with colleagues.

1p-2:15p: Prep period for the day. I usually bring the soup mixture, sans water, in a container. I mix it with the water at school and nuke.

4p: Home. Make my lean and green. (typically chicken, shrimp, or veggie burger stir-fried with spinach, mushroom, and tomato.

6:30-7pm: Last meal of the day, which is usually pudding or oatmeal.

On the weekends, I try and follow the same pattern, except substituting some of the hot drinks for the shakes. Not having access to a microwave or much time for most of the weekday limits what I can do with the program. However, this pattern seems to work best for me.

Good luck!

[jmcNY]

Thanks girls for your replys! I am going to order the two week plan and see how I do if I care for it or not!

I am crossin my fingers this works. From all I read, it seems to be pretty successful!

J