by Nancy » August 19th, 2004, 8:08 am
I used to make and use a little chart that had a section for me to make tally marks every time I had a shake and a bottle of water. It helped me to set and keep my routine.
When I first started on the weight loss phase, I had no idea IF it would work for ME, I had no idea how much weight I could realistically lose and therefore had no final goal weight in mind. Terry and I began with the idea that we would lose as much as we possibly could between July 16th and October 6th, his birthday and the day we were to leave for our vacation.
Once we got into the grove of having our shakes and having them on time and drinking all the water, we were amazed at how good we felt and that we were both being successful! We were hooked – we didn’t want to stop because Medifast works and it worked for US! He had but 10 pounds to go after our vacation – He lost 60 pounds in total. I lost 9 pounds on our vacation and continued on to my goal weight.
Some people indeed do better with their plan if they set a target date – then they do everything within their power to be program-compliant and then, if necessary, re-set another date. Others do better when they have a particular “number” in their head or a particular waist size!
Again, I always say, “you know YOU best” therefore, select your goal – either pounds to lose, goal weight/size to reach or the length of time you will do this and then DO IT! Do not stop short of your goal. Once you begin to mess with Medifast and take detours, it is really difficult to get back on the highway to health and happiness! Also…when you are on a very low calorie diet, your metabolism slows down. When you start eating and porking out like you used to with a low metabolism, you will easily gain. We want you to get al the way to your goal, then go thru transition where you S-L-O-W-L-Y add back foods in small amounts, in a particular order, then stabilize and increase exercise for a few months to reestablish your normal metabolism.
When on a weigh loss plan, you work way too hard to blow your wad on a serving of greasy un-heart-healthy pizza that most likely tasted more like the cardboard box it came in. Think about it folks, if cheese is hard to scrape off of a cardboard circle, if cheese is hard to wash off of a fork or a plate, what’s it doing to the inside of your arteries? It’s not like you can run a scrub brush soaked in detergent and a fire hose of hot water to spray out your arteries after you consume half a pizza!
Blech! Cheese is not good for those of us that have family members with heart probs. (BTW, there is good-tasting and melting soy cheese available for people that reach maintenance. We are able to buy some here in the Portland, OR Vancouver, WA area that is really good...for MAINTENANCE...)
Health = life!
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels...
The Formerly FLABulous and Now very Fabulous
Nancy Pettit
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and I'll see you here tomorrow!
but I'm only on MF and nature's champagne (water)! It's my 80th day today and everything is going swimmingly! Sorry... 
I'll just go- gotta do the backstroke to the bathroom. 
Camille
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