Medifast
May Newsletter

REAL Extreme Reality

Unlike today’s sleek flat panel plasmas, the televisions of the 1950’s were huge pieces of furniture. I recall when my family got our first television set. It was a deluxe Packard Bell console with fancy dials, knobs and a 24-inch screen with round corners. It took a few minutes for the tubes to warm up and the picture to develop to its rich black and white tones. The speaker system was covered with maroon fabric and a fancy wooden crisscross grille. It had such a deep voice that the teacups in the china cabinet vibrated when it was turned on.

The first television shows I recall seeing include Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Truth or Consequences, baseball games, Peter Pan with Mary Martin, Superman, The Millionaire and Bonanza. There was a great daytime show called, “Queen For a Day.”

Jack Bailey was the emcee and he began every show by saying, "Do YOU want to be...QUEEN...FOR...A...DAY?"

I must have been about 10 or 11 years old at the time and oh how I hoped that my very own Mom might be selected to be the Queen for a Day. Mom said that we were really blessed and that it was highly unlikely that she would ever be selected to appear on the television program because my Daddy worked hard to provide for our family and we were not needy like some of the ladies on the television show.

Jack Bailey made his show so exciting that I soon abandoned my plans to become Dale Evans and marry Roy Rogers when I grew up. I wanted to become Queen for a Day! I wanted to wear a sable trimmed velvet robe and be crowned Queen for a Day, to have all my dreams come true.

Well, the sob shows of the 50’s have given way to the sob shows of the twenty-first century. Reality Shows took the top four slots on the nation’s list of popular television shows and include Survivor, The Swan, The Bachelor, Fear Factor, American Idol, and The Loser. Etc.

There’s an Extreme Makeover for homes where one lucky family gets their home completely remodeled and upgraded for free and an Extreme Makeover for the entire bod. Each week we see how ordinary folks have an opportunity to have a perfectly tailored program designed to change them from frumpy to fabulous in the course of one hour.

Yep, that’s right – they undergo 8 - 12 hours of cosmetic and/or reconstructive surgery, corrective dentistry services, daily workouts for their body and mind, a shopping spree with clothing designed to enhance their coloring and body type and application of glamorous make-up. Most of these re-engineered people have a nose job, eyebrows hoisted, their hips and thighs deflated (liposuction), their lips and woadies inflated (breast augmentation), Lasik surgery to correct their vision, porcelain veneers to improve their smile, daily workouts with a personal fitness coach – three months of healing and time with the specialists, all condensed to under one hour and a wad of commercials.

I’ve had several people ask me if I’ve had any plastic surgery after my dramatic weight loss. Read my un-enhanced lips: NOPE. (You’ll have to read my previous newsletters and Forum replies!) Don’t need it. I AM Leopard Woman…

Many of the contestants on the television reality shows state that they have suffered from poor self-esteem all of their lives and they just want to look better and to feel better.

Medifast did just that for me and for thousands of others, too. Most people that I talk to want to lose twenty-five to thirty pounds and I delight in telling them they can safely and quickly lose their excess weight without strenuous exercise and NO knives! With Medifast, the stored fat is lost, the lean muscle is retained and the self-esteem takes a major U-turn. With Medifast, we do not have to move away from our home into a hotel for three months or avoid mirrors like the contestants on The Swan. We can carry on all of our normal routines, becoming healthier and happier, day by day, transforming our body and mind one shake at a time. Extreme weight loss, permanent weight maintenance, improved nutrition, and disease control can become your reality with Medifast.

A man who works at my campus told me an interesting thing this last week. He said he had been looking at the nameplate on my desk and it reminded him of a French proverb he learned as a child. My last name is Pettit. Albert wrote the proverb for me as well as he could recall it, “Petit a Petit, les oiseaux fait son nids” and then he translated it as “small by small, the birds make their nests.”

What a lovely thought – birds make their nests carrying little twigs, bits of string and leaves, beakful by beakful, forming a safe place for their hatchlings. With Medifast, we become small by small, shake by shake. Most people lose two to five pounds per week; some people lose at the low end (two pounds per week) and yet they become healthy if they do not give up.

You may enjoy the suspense and thrill of watching Fear Factor but you don’t have to have Fear of the Scales Factor – summer is on its way and you don’t have to avoid the beach or the hot tub because of winter weight gain. Life is to be enjoyed – this is not a rehearsal.

Hippocrates said, "Let your food be your medicine" and many people are able to say that after they started using Medifast, that they have never felt better. Medifast is considered to be a medical food and our body responds well when we give it the right nutrition at the right intervals.

We don’t need to be sequestered for three months waiting for our doorbell or telephone to ring announcing that we have been selected to be the next Person for a Day where we can be transformed from a silly goose to a gander or ganderette worthy of being gawked at…

Today is the day that we can choose to be a nest builder or a nest destroyer. Small by small we can continue to do and to eat the things that are not good for us, that ultimately destroy our health, our self-esteem and relationships or we can choose to exercise and to eat the right things that improve our health, strengthen our body systems and relationships and build up our self-esteem.

Queen/King for a Day

There will come a particular day when you will decide that you are ready to live up to your full potential. That will be a defining moment when you will no longer settle for less than you know you are capable of being or achieving. There will come a time when you are no longer satisfied with making rationalizations or excuses for your behaviors. There will come a time when your desire to move forward will outweigh your fear of the unknown. There will come a time when the search for empty pleasures will seem silly compared to the pursuit of real achievement.

One day you will realize that everything you do makes a difference, and you will put that incredible power to valuable use.

You were created for a purpose. You have great value and you are worthy. You were designed to do great things and to make a big difference in this world. You may have experienced frustration and have a deep longing inside to live up to your full potential but your weight or poor health is holding you back.

Your life can be as full as you are ready to make it. Now is the day to make an extreme transformation! You can change your self perception when you change your thinkin’ - What are you willing to do today to make your dreams come true for tomorrow? You don’t have to live your life with mediocrity.

The MakeMeThinner staff is here to help you begin an extreme nutritional makeover. You can lose excess weight, become healthier and learn how to eat healthier. We are much more than a weight loss company. We are here to educate you and to provide you with information to meet your health needs. You deserve so much more than being King or Queen for a Day – we want you to become King or Queen for Life!