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I was able to lose 112 pounds on Medifast and I did all the right things to make that weight loss a reality.  Now that I am done with Medifast I now realize that I can’t live on Medifast forever and now I am dealing with life after Medifast.  I have no complaints with the Medifast program because the weight loss was something I have never been able to accomplish before in my life.  For about 5 months I buckled down and lost 112 pounds and now that I have achieved the weight loss of my dreams, I have to come to grips with the newer and thinner me.  For what it is worth…I simply need to understand what my life is going to be like now that the Medifast phase is over.  Life after Medifast is my next challenge and for that challenge I have returned to my roots and dusted off my BodyBugg, which is where my weight loss journey started.

Now that I am trying to maintain my weight loss I have to admit that I find more value in using BodyBugg than I did when I used it to lose the first 50 pounds.  What I have learned with my BodyBugg, and Medifast, is that weight loss and weight gain is all about calories in and calories out.  I was able to lose my weight on Medifast because the program provided my body with minimal calories, that were healthy.  What I have been able to learn is that the weight I lost was hard fought.  I spent too many years struggling with my weight before I discovered Medifast and I have no intention of ever going back.  I will never allow myself to get over weight again.  I am determined that life after Medifast is going to be one filled with thinness, no matter what!

Since I quit using Medifast I gained a few pounds, but nothing serious.  I feel as if the bulk of the weight is essentially water weight because of the salt that has been re-introduced into my diet.  I do not salt any food, but the “normal” foods contain much more salt that anything I ever ate during my time using the Medifast 5 & 1 Program.  Even though the few pounds I gained are not serious, those few pounds really scare the heck out of me.  Life after Medifast is more complicated than I had hoped because I now have to think for myself and make food choices, without getting obese again.  Last night I signed onto my BodyBugg account and re-activated my BodyBugg because I feel as if that is the best thing I can do to make life after using Medifast as successful as my time using Medifast.

BodyBugg will do all I need it to do for me.  BodyBugg is the tool of choice because it tells me the vital information I was able to take for granted while on The Medifast Program.  With the BodyBugg app (iPhone) I can keep tab on not only how many calories I am eating, but I can also keep track of the calories that I am burning every moment of every day.  Once again I find myself using BodyBugg as the tool it is designed to be used.  I have no doubt that because of BodyBugg I will be able to maintain my healthy weight and my life after Medifast will not be an issue.

I added some links to earlier articles posted on this site with some of the ideas I intend to implement for life after Medifast.

• Minimal fast food visits
• I will still exercise through movement (Accidental Exercise is my preference)
• Keep some Medifast on hand because I will enjoy many of the meals, as snacks
• Portion control, portion control and more portion control (My understanding of portion control)
• Eat 6 times a day

What I know is that it took me years to understand weight loss and now that I have achieved that weight loss I never plan on going back to being over weight again.  I now realize that although it took me years to lose the weight, I really lost all of the weight in less than one year, because it all happened only after I understood the weight loss / weight gain reasons.  Now that I understand what it took to lose the weight I also understand that I will never be fat again… and part of that understanding will involve using my BodyBugg.  I may even upgrade to a brand new BodyBugg, by using the money I was spending on Medifast every month.

Life after Medifast?  I think it will be just fine!

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I sit here having been a Medifast dieter long enough to know that the program works.  Looking back on my weight loss using Medifast I have to say that it is the most stress free diet plan I have ever used, and I have used many weight loss plans.  I have had decent degrees of success using various weight loss plans, but I have never had the amount of weight loss success that I have had with Medifast.  I do not consider myself a Medifast success story because I still struggle with my weight on a daily basis, with the food choices that come my way.  Despite having lost over 100 pounds using Medifast (and keeping that weight off) I still do not feel like I am an accomplished Medifast dieter even though I am done with weight loss.  I really feel like more of a dieting failure than I do someone that lost 100 pounds.  Despite having lost a great deal of weight I feel like anything but a Medifast success story.  I feel like I now live in the shadow of food.

You may think I am weird for feeling sort of depressed even though I lost weight, but I can’t deny the feelings that I do have.  I feel this way because while I am much thinner I have realized that my eating problem is deeper than I first imagined it to be.  Losing weight with Medifast was so easy that the time during weight loss was actually enjoyable for me.  The reason I felt this way was because there were really no major food choices to make during a typical day.  For the first time in years I was able to go through my day not worrying about what I was going to eat because while on the plan there really were no food decisions make.  Sure I had to decide whether I was going to have the Medifast cheese puffs or the Medifast brownie or the eggs or the any of the 70+ Medfast meals, but it really did not matter what I chose to eat as all the meals were healthy to eat.

I could get into an entire description of Medifast and easily make this sound like a Medifast commercial, but that is not where this article is destined.  The point I want to make is that I was happy because I was losing weight week after week and there was no stress involved.  Over the course of the five months it took me to lose the 115 pounds I had little to decide because all I had to do was follow the plan.  There was no stress involved in my food choices and there were no bad days.  I simply followed plan and the weight came off.  Now that I have lost all the weight I have had stress return to my life because I am once again forced to face my old demons of obesity.  Sure I lost a lot of weight but while doing it I had nothing to get worked up about.  I never wanted to drive into McDonald’s or order a pizza because I was on a mission to lose my weight.  Once I achieved that weight loss I had nowhere else to go and then I started to “indulge” myself and eat the foods that I love so much.  At that moment in my life I was on top of the weight loss world because I was a smashing Medifast success story.  That was then and this is now.

The point of my sad mood these days is because I am once again forced to confront my demons of obesity.  Now that I am done using Medifast I have to recognize what a portion really should be.  Now that I can eat pizza I find it difficult to eat only two slices and not the entire pizza.  Now that I have lost all all my weight I have to once again confront the fact that I love to eat food and I love to eat much more than I need to sustain life.  Now that I have lost my weight using Medifast, and by all standards should feel like a Medifast success story, I feel anything but a success story.

Although I have gained a few pounds since my low weight, I am not worried, but I am saddened when I eat because I have come full circle with my eating problem. Today, when I sit down to eat I have this inner battle within me that tells me to eat and eat and eat.  Despite having lost all my obesity with Medifast, I have come to understand that my obesity goes deeper than just being thin because once I got thin, the battle of obesity was not over.  Once I got thin I soon realized that I had just entered a new phase in my battle with obesity.

My friends tell me that I should be very satisfied with myself and that I should consider myself a Medifast success story but because of the inner battle I deal with…I do not feel that way.  I am saddened and sort of depressed because I used to think that once I lost my obesity I would be done with having to watch my weight.  Looking back on it all now it was a naive thought, but the concept of once and done was there.  I never really thought about having to stay thin because I was never able to get thin.  I was always trying to get thin, so being thin was something that I never even really planned on happening to me.  Now that I am thin, I am forced to deal with life after Medifast.

I have no desire to spend the rest of my life on Medifast because I feel as if I have outgrown it in some sort of way.  I am thankful for what Medifast has done for me and if losing weight is all that weight loss is about… Medifast is awesome because it works great!  The only “problem” is that now I am forced to deal with my obesity without Medifast in my everyday life.  Dealing with this issue may seem silly to many people, but it is what I deal with on a daily basis.  Now that I have to make food choices on a daily basis, the stress has returned.  I constantly have to make good decisions and never eat as much as I want to eat.  I no longer have the defined boundaries of being on Medifast.

So…even though I lost all my weight on Medifast and even though I have been able to keep the weight off I do not feel like a Medifast success story because I still struggle each and every day.  No longer do I worry about losing weight, now I worry about gaining weight.  It seems as if the problem never really went away, it just changed corners and I am still in the ring.

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