The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[24KaratGold]

Ha! I survived pizza in the house!

Three teenage boys -- and their father -- wanted pizza for dinner tonight. I made a spinach and tunafish salad and retreated to the back of the house -- away from the aroma -- to eat while they ate theirs, and I made them pack up the leftovers and take them out to the refrigerator in the garage right away.

They were a bit apologetic, but I told them that "I'm still very motivated!" and so it wasn't more than just a momentary temptation.

I'm jazzed!

[mindovermatter]

Good for you.

That garage fridge is handy isn't it. I do the same thing, anything that my cause a temptation goes out there.

Beth

[Nancy]

24 Karat ~

Well, you ARE a wonder of a woman - I'dda probably wanted to lick the cardboard in the recycle bin...

Great job!

[24KaratGold]

Got my LARGE Medigrub order today, and can't wait to try it all out! I told my husband that this guaranteed that I'd stay on the program for at least another month or so (longer, with what I have here), because I'm too cheap to let it all go to waste... lol. I can't wait to try the Banana shake, and the strawberry one, and the maple oatmeal. I have one more supplement left to have today before I go to bed, and I can't decide which one it should be!

I also got the fast tomato soup and the crackers. Haven't I seen it around somewhere that one could have a "snack" of soup and crackers? Is that correct? Because it looks like that would add 85 calories, and that's almost the same amount as in a shake. Or would the snack be either the soup or the crackers?

I'm finding the fifth supplement of the day to be the hardest one to get in usually. Saturday night was not a problem because I was up until 1:30, so I had it just before I went to bed. But today, for example: I had a shake at 7:15, a shake at 9:45 (because I was going into a deposition and knew I wouldn't be able to stop at 10:15 for something); a bar between 12:30 and 1; a shake at 4, salmon and a salad at 7:45, and now it's 11 and I'm just not hungry. That's usually the case in the evening. I've had a gazillion ounces of water and one soda. I'm full! But I'm looking forward to trying a new shake flavor, so will dutifully go and have it after making this post.

Goodnight, all.

[Nancy]

24 Karat ~

Hold it! Unbrush your fangs! Take off that nightap.

Don't go to bed without your 5th Medifast meal - it is OK to eat and then slide under the sheets.
I do it all the time.
In fact, I just had Chicken With Wild Rice Soup with 2 Tablespoons of Salsa and a hefty dash of Tobasco and it is 11:22 PM!

I'll have oatmeal at 2:15 AM and then slip into my featherbed.

When a person is on a very low calorie diet, they are not to skip one of the packets.

Your bod needs every single one and when you skip, you are cheating your bod. It will not release the porkiness but hold onto it.

Drink all your water, eat ALL 5 of the Medimeals and your Lean n' Green every day. When you skip, you are setting yourself up for hunger and puniness.

Try having your meals a tad bit closer together so you have time to slurp before you snore.

Unlike other diet plans, Medifast is a totally nutritiously balanced program each packet added together forms the program. Our body needs to be fueled regularly in order to function properly and in order for the pork to be burned, not stored.

NO MEAL SKIPPING, or I'll harm you!

Yep, the Fast Soup and Multi-Grain or Garden Vegetable crackers are SNACKS - they are NOT meals...enjoy 2 Fast Soups and 1 packet of MF crackers per day - it's a bonus!!

[24KaratGold]

NO MEAL SKIPPING, or I'll harm you!

Yikes!! Yes ma'am, yes ma'am!



I had a banana shake before I went to bed last night, honest I did! It was yummy, too. I'm going to take one of the Strawberry Creme ones to work today and see how I like that. And I just finished the maple and brown sugar oatmeal, and it was really good.

Yep, the Fast Soup and Multi-Grain or Garden Vegetable crackers are SNACKS - they are NOT meals...enjoy 2 Fast Soups and 1 packet of MF crackers per day - it's a bonus!!

Way cool! Thanks!

[Nancy]

Whew! So glad that I won't need to go into harm-mode or send Guido over to zap ya!

This is a learning process!

[24KaratGold]

I've had all sorts of new taste sensations since my order came yesterday.

I had a banana shake before going to bed. I had maple and brown sugar oatmeal for breakfast, a lemon bar at 11, and a strawberry shake at 2. Yummy, all of them!

Sadly, the peanut butter bar (from the kids' FIT products) are a bust in this house. The kids don't like them, and I tasted a small bite of one tonight and wouldn't you know that I agree. My husband didn't like them either. And I bought the box of 24! It's the first of any of the bars that I haven't liked. Well, they'll get eaten so they won't go to waste. I should have ordered the chocolate.

I'll have the kids try some of the other flavors that I have of bars here (fruit n' granola, oatmeal raisin, lemon, and caramel nut) and see if there is one that they -- especially my 16 year old, who needs a little extra nutrition to counteract some junk food issues -- will like.

[Unca_Tim]

LEMON!!!!

[24KaratGold]

Oh yeah, that lemon is GOOD! It's a good thing I take only one bar to work with me each day. I eat it around 11 or so, and even if I'm tempted to have another one I can't because there's only one.

I gave my son one of each of the four other flavors of bars that I have on hand and told him to try them over the next four days and let me know which ones he likes, and I'll order some of those for him.

It's a nice feeling, at the end of the day, to know that you've stayed true to the plan (well, I had one tiny corner of the peanut butter bar to see what it tasted like, but other than that).

My "Success in a Shaker Jar" book came yesterday, too, so I've been reading that. It's a lot of great information, and ought to be required reading!

[Nancy]

re: PB bars...so sorry. Most people like 'em!

re: Success In A Shaker Jar I keep telling 'em to get it, read it and then read it again. It's the best! Linda Spangle is a jewel, a treasure.

[LongWay2go]

Guido, a Leopard's WHAT???

[24KaratGold]

I'm trying very hard not to be a "slave to the scale." It's easy to do. I'd like to be one of those people who can not even get on the scale for thirty days, but I need more reinforcement and feedback than that.

I'm trying to limit myself to Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, but only the Sunday morning one (which I record at Roll Call) is the one that "counts." I know about fluctuations.

Knowing about fluctuations is different than coming face to face with one, though. Case in point: I got on the scale this morning right after getting up, and the scale showed 246.5. I went downstairs, checked my email, had two glasses of Orange Crystal Lite (about 24 ounces) and a Dutch Chocolate Shake. Went back upstairs forty-five minutes later, visited the sandbox, and for a lark stepped on the scale again. 248.0!! I'm glad I'm not the panicky sort. Sunday morning I am sure it will show a loss.

In an amusing side-effect, my husband has gone from 186 to 181.5 in the month I've been doing this. It's the "lean and green" dinner -- no pasta, rice, potatos, etc. LOL.

[itsgonnaworkthistime]

I am a slave to the scale, and have been very frustrated that I have stayed the same for 4 days straight....I have been totally compliant, and know that it is just the way it goes.....but it still irks the heck out of me. You'd think I would be happy with the 17.5 pounds in the last 2 weeks, but no....not me!!!

Maura

[24KaratGold]

Maura, do you have kids? If you do, remember how sometimes it seemed that they had "grown overnight?" I've read somewhere in the last couple of years that they really do grow overnight. They'll have a growth spurt all of a sudden, and shoot up an inch or more overnight, literally. I noticed with all my kids that before that happened they'd start sleeping a lot more, and they'd get a little bit chubby. Then all of a sudden they'd wake up taller, have lost the pudginess, and have their energy back.

I'm beginning to think that losing weight is the same thing in reverse, and reading some people's posts around here about their bodies' weight-loss patterns strengthens my thoughts on that. I think maybe we lose weight overnight the same way the kids grow overnight. A lot of pre-event preparation activity, and then the results of it show up overnight.

Just a thuoght, anyway.