How Do I Start?

Alicia40 · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject: How Do I Start?

Today when I go home, I am hoping to find my Medifast 55 Variety Kit. I am not sure how to start, but I know I need to start immediately. I feel so awful lately from the foods that I put in my body and my weight of 250 does not help me any. I really want this to work. I have been on so many diets to just have them fail me agian and again. I am for the first time reaching out for the first time. I just turned 40 and I am tired of feeling so awful and now embarrased about my weight. I just want to make sure I do things right when I start off.

Thank you.

susan · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

alicia40,
just start . If you do full fast do a shake ever3 hours 6 a day If you do modified do 5 and one lean and green .I do the modified .and welcome to the family and lots of luck this really does work.
susan

Alicia40 · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject:

Susan:

Thanks for the support. I am planning on doing 5 and a lean and green as they call it. I am excited to getting this going and feeling better all over. Can you give me a sample menu, maybe on day on how you do it.

thanks

explorthis · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject:

Hey Alicia.. Here are a few links that will help you with schedule...

http://www.makemethinner.com/forum/diet-1293.html&highlight=schedule

and

http://www.makemethinner.com/forum/diet-1044.html&highlight=schedule

and

http://www.makemethinner.com/forum/diet-1154.html&highlight=schedule

There is also the FAQ section, that will answer most all new questions you might have...

http://www.makemethinner.com/forum/diet-566.html

And, yes this is the right place for 100% unconditional support!!

Welcome....

-Mike

Nancy · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject:

Hello and Howdy Doody, Alicia ~

We are very happy to have you join us and for you to not just read about Medifast but to EXPERIENCE it - shake it up and shake it off!

When you get your first shipment of products, you will get a little shaker jar for your very own and a Quick Start booklet - it is your guide. Be sure to read it thoroughly and then re-read it a number of times.

Mike gave you several excellent links and then read past MakeMeThinner Forum postings and all of my MMT Newsletters. I think you'll find that we have wonderful resources all geared for your success.

Cheers, Alicia!

hawaiiwhatnot · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject:

Howdy Alicia40!

Me too, I was nervous not knowing exactly what to do when I first got my box - AND I didn't find this forum until 5 days into doing my MF program. The Quickstart guide gave me all the info I needed. You'll do fine - lots of us here can practically mix our shakes blindfolded by now so just jump right in!

Here's to your success!
Camille

Nancy · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

Alicia ~

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Alicia40 · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:25 pm Post subject:

Hello Again

Thanks you Nancy, Mike and Camille for all your support and thoughtful words. I haven't received my products yet but patiently waiting for them to come

. I hope it will be today. I am currently reading as much as I can hear to be better prepared.

You have helped me so much and have make me feel so welcome and at home here. So a big thank you to all of you that responeded. I will keep you posted on how things are going

.

Nancy · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:41 pm Post subject:

You are welcome Alicia. That's why we're here!

Lil'Bit · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:53 am Post subject: Welcome

Welcome to the "family"! You are going to be so happy with this product. It is very simple to use. Like you I was on the forum before I even got my product and needing alot of information. This is my daily menu.
5:30 - get up
6:00 - shake or hot cocoa (now that it is getting cold but not everyday)
9:00 - shake or bar
12:00 - shake or bar (only 1 bar a day)
3:00 - shake
6:00 - 2 cups of lettuce, lean meat ( I learned from L.A. Weightloss that you don't want to eat red meat two days in a row because it takes longer for your body to digest it, so I eat red meat one day and chicken the next 2 days and then red meat, etc...) On my lettuce I put around 1/4 c. of cucumbers and sometimes add red bell peppers and yellow bell peppers.
A light or fat free salad dressing. I like cucumber ranch.
9:00 - I love having a shake or pudding. The pudding is excellent. For my shake I printed out from the recipe forum the different ways to have shakes and I am going to try them all. I really like the chocolate with 1t. of Vienna instant coffee and 6 ice cubes in a blender. It tastes like a mocha freeze to me.

That is my day. Remember not to exercise yet. Your body needs to burn the fat it has stored before the exercise does. I have another week to go and then I am going to slowly start the 20 min. Pilate workout. I might be going on a cruise also and if that happens I am going to try their yoga classes.

In the first 2 weeks of my "New Life", I lost 10 lbs. I checked my scale this morning and I have lost another 2 and I am going in my 3rd week. I have said I wouldn't weigh myself but 1 time a month but I couldn't resist. I just felt I had lost another pound or two. After the initial 10 lbs, I stopped. BUT the inches have been falling off. I know that scales don't matter as much as the way your clothes fit you. So, try not to be obsessed with the scale reading as some of us are.

Last thing is to be sure and drink ALOT of water. I rarely drink soda and when I do I love the Diet Rite Raspberry. I cannot drink a full can of diet coke. Anyway, water is the best thing for you anyway to help wash all those toxins out.

I have tried L.A. Weightloss, Weight Watchers, Herbalife, Jenny Craig, Mayo Diet, TrimLife, Metabolife, Soup diet, South Beach, Atkins, just to name a few and the list can go on. With Herbalife I went from a size 22 to a size 5 in 4 months and there wasn't any skin hanging but there are alot of pills and the shakes cannot compare to Medifast. After 7 years of losing all that weight I went back up to a size 14. Now with Medifast and no pills, I am a size 10 working down to a size 6/7. One thing I forgot that being on this site reminded me was the exercise. When I did Herbalife I didn't exercise for the first 2 months (for some reason) and then I started exercising and it kept coming off and toning. Here they tell you not to exercise if you weren't doing it before and if you were cut it in half for the first 3 or 4 weeks of being on Medifast. With all the other diets I did, the first day I started a diet I would start an exercise routine. I think that was part of my downfall. It is nice to just take in product that is helping your body with vitamins and nutrients and not having to worry about starting an exercise routine NOW. Anyway, take it easy and remember we are all here and there is so much information on this site.

Hope this encouraged you a little. I tend to write books!

Lil'Bit

Alicia40 · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject:

Wow, thaks Lil Bit, I really got a lot of your share. I am on day 2 and feeling hungry. I just had another shake my last one for the day and as a treat I added tablespoon of coffe and a smidge of vanilla and 1 splenda packed blended with ice and it really tastes satisfying. The shakes really make me feel so much better when i have them.
Congrats on your weight loss so far. Like you I have been on every diet imagineable and some diet pills that were not safe for my body too. I wish I had found this plan earlier but am grateful that i have today. I dont have a scale only at work and I am going to weigh myself this friday to see how I am doing.

Nancy · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject:

Alicia ~

Your evening shake sounds very good - a perfect nightcap.

I'm having French Vanilla Oatmeal, under the covers! It's chilly tonight and I just crawled under the blankies to read and have a night time snack, too!

Nighty night, puting the

old 'puter into hibernation mode now.

indy1039 · Guest

Hello Everyone. I Just started - on my 2nd day. Is the menu I am doing ok on the 5 and 1?

Oatmeal for breakfast
Shake
Soup for lunch
Bar for afternoon snack
Shake

Lean and green dinner
Do you have to have 3 shakes a day? Why 3?
Thanks very much for the help.

Indy

MusicalMomma · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:49 am Post subject:

Hi Indy...your menu is okidoki! Any combination of the medifast meals is fine. Only ONE BAR per day though because it's a little higher in calories then the other suppliments. As I understand it, three shakes is no longer a "must" and any combination is acceptable.

WELCOME!!! You're going to LOVE this program!!! So easy and it WORKS! (I'm currently on day 4 and the cravings have subsided, feel good, have more energy...it's great!!!)

Nancy · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:07 am Post subject:

Hi, Indy ~

You didn't give an indication of the time frame for your meals here so it is difficult to make a final analysis. It is hoped that you had your Oatmeal within an hour of getting up and then all the other meals were spaced every two to three hours, never more than four hours.

There are lots of posts woven throughout the Forum regarding the protocol for the 5 Medifast Products and you can do a search using the clicky button ^ there.

To give you the boiled down version, you may use any combination of five meal replacement packets a day. The only 'rule' is one bar per day, due to its higher caloric and carbohydrate level compared to all the other Medifast meal replacements.

The footprint for the other meal replacement packets is just about the same, with a variance of about 20 calories.

You may use no shakes, if you prefer. For example you could have three servings of oatmeal and 2 servings of puddin' plus your Lean and Green meal and lose weight safely, rapidly and feel great.

I personally feel that using 2-3 shakes a day, especially during the first week or so when people say they are hungry is the best way to go. The shakes contain ore soy protein than any of our other products. Soy is a natural appetite suppressant so if you ingest more soy, hunger is satisfied naturally and it makes it easier to stick to the program. Once a person is 'safely on their way', their routine is established, they have the program down and are in the fat-burning state for a few weeks, then I suggest that you may replace some of those shakes with other items such as the Chai Latte, the Iced Tea, the Puddings, etc.

Some people use but 1 or 2 shakes right out of the gate on their weight loss program and they do very well. When I started my program, I used to eating a lot of food and it seemed to me as if I was getting just a little dab of food on my weight loss program. I had only shakes and I was hungry. I made them in the blender and added crushed ice to make a larger volume of food, in a short time, my hunger was satisfied and my stamina and energy quickly picked up.

It is totally up to you which Medifast packets you use. Initially our program was designed to have 3 shakes as it was thought that heating the soy and other meal packets degraded the nutritional composition but recent research has shown that to not be so.

So bring on the Puddin’ and let’s get thinny!

If I may, let me put your meal plan into a time perspective:

7 am Oatmeal for breakfast
10 am Shake
1 pm Soup for lunch
4 pm Bar for afternoon snack
9:30 PM Shake

6 PM Lean and green dinner

Happy thinnin' to you, Indy!