Medifast Review: Day 19, I Am Never Hungry
It is hard to believe that I have been using Medifast for 19 days, as of today. In this update to the Medifast Blog I have been working on I have to tell you that Medifast has become an adventure that has taken me down a path I never thought I could follow. As you can see from my FitDay chart above the weight loss was huge for the first week and then leveled off to about 3/4 to 1 pound a day. I must admit that when the program first started I was afraid that I would be hungry all of the time. The result of the program, thus far, is that
The first few days on Medifast I looked at the tiny portion sizes and thought to myself that the reason people lose weight on Medifast is because the are starving to death. I used to watch the clock and think I was hungry, while I waited for the clock to allow me to eat. I would eagerly await each “meal” and then think the “meal” was so small that I would never be content on Medifast. I remember my wife and I sitting in the living room after work waiting for the clock to go tick-tock enough times so we could eat our Lean and Green Meal. That was then, but now in just 19 short days my entire relationship with food has changed. It has become so that if I did not set my timer on my iPhone, I would forget to eat at the prescribed time, which is almost as bad as not eating at all. It makes me wonder why such a fine organization like Medifast has not developed some sort of iPhone or Blackberry app.
What I have learned in just a short time is that I was not only eating the wrong food choices, I was eating way too much. In fact as I look back on my previous choices my mind always wanders back to eating at Subway sandwich shops. I used to think that I was doing really well in my choices and got frustrated why weight loss had to be so dang slow. I used to ALWAYS eat a 12″ chicken sandwich and baked chips with water all the while thinking I was doing great by only eating 900 calories for lunch. Looking back on it through the prism of eating Medifast it is realized that I just did not know what I was doing. The reason I say this is because with ALLof the Medifast meals, with the Lean and Green Meal, I always eat less than 1,000 calories each and every day, while never being hungry!
I know that I can’t exist on the low calories from Medifast for the rest of my life and I know there is always the risk of gaining all of my weight back, but that is not going to be what happens to me. The reason I say this is because my body and my mind are currently in the phase of existence where losing weight is the priority. Right now the goal is to have a calorie deficit each and every day so that one day in the near future I will have a body that is 190 pounds. Once I reach that goal I will still follow the overall path of Medifast because I really think the learning curve has been too big to just ignore. There is no way that I can go back to burgers and fries and pizza and other daily food choices, that were overall completely horrible.
I am not saying that I will never have a burger again because that would be foolish. I love pizza too much to forsake it forever but right here and right now I am in the mode to shed the sum total of all my past choices that have piled up in the form of my being morbidly obese. What I am saying is that when the day comes and it is time for me to resume a more normal way of eating I know that I just can’t go back. I know that being thin has been a dream of mine for years and to just go back to being fat is one choice that I will never choose. I have learned that being thin is a choice that is made one mouthful at a time.
What Medifast has done for me is that it has opened my eyes to understand that the combination of nutrients is so much more important than just the number of calories that are eaten, and that combination is what Medifast includes in their meal program. That combination is what keeps a person feel full and that combination is what has helped me finally face my demons that weight loss does not have to be impossible for me. I have achieved weight loss with Medifast and that weight loss is what will continue into the future, until the day I will only be concerned with weight maintenance.
On day # 19 of using Medifast I must tell you that it does exactly what it says it will do. Medifast helps a person lose weight, but more importantly it helps a person understand their relationship with food and all of the emotions that are related to having been obese in the first place. Does Medifast work? A simple “Yes” would answer the question, but the reality of losing weight with Medifast can only be experienced by those that have committed themselves to making it happen.
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