The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[Lissakay]

I have a hard time getting in all of my supplements but I do it! If I have to have two at once what does it hurt?

I teach a class for kids with behavior disorders and today for instance I didn't have a moments peace to even use the bathroom from 8 a.m. till 2p.m. If this isn't okay and it also isn't okay not to get in all of the water I may have to quit and wait till summer.

I get up at 7 and have a shake right away, but try to get to bed by 10. Any suggestions or is this just the wrong time in my life for this?

[24KaratGold]

Lissa, if you have to schedule your supplements so that you have two at once, well, that's better than not being on the program at all! You need an aide in your classroom so that you get a break (my hubby is a special ed teacher, so I know right where you are coming from, but at least he has an aide!), but if you don't, you don't. Just work your water and your supplements in around your schedule, making sure you don't skip either. You need ALL your supplements in order to get the necessary nutrition, so don't skip those. Oddly enough, if you do you'll slow your weight loss. You also needs lots and lots of water to flush your system, but you'll just have to get it after 2 or so. I've been known to put off starting to drink my day's water until I've finished a morning business meeting or some travel so that I don't have to make the pit stop.

Of course, on weekends and such you can space things out a little better.

Hang in there!

Oh, P.S.: You can have a supplement just before you go to bed! This isn't like other "diets" where you aren't supposed to do that.

[NikkiNix]

Hi Lissa,


I would try to get your suppliments in between classes or drink all your water after school so you don't have to pee as much during school. You can always install a foley catheter(just kidding) You asked if this is the wrong time to start and I think we try to tell ourselves it is always the wrong time to start because we miss our old habits and don't feel we have the will power. I always use to say I will start tomarrow and then tomarrow would come and then the next day and so on and I would never get on the wagon ,if you know what I mean. I don't think you should stop because it will only be harder to get back on in the future, trust me I know. If you have to mix 2 supps. together do it. I don't think your not supposed to because your body needs to think it's having 5 meals a day but I think it's better than getting off the program and not losing anymore weight and possibley gaining some before summer comes. You can do it you just need to figure out a better schedule. Maybe Nancy can chime in. Maybe have one before work and then one during lunch and then have your other 3 shakes 2 hours apart and slurp all your water inbetween times after work. You already started the process don't let anything get in the way not work, food, or anything else.

A friend
Nikki

[Nancy]

Hi, Lissakay ~

Oh, I can SO relate to your description of a day in the life of a teacher...for years I referred to myself as "The Bionic Bladder."

I used to restrict my liquid intake because like you, there was NO WAY I could run to the sandbox during the day.

I taught dyslexic children in a non-graded school and some of my students had overlays of other learning differences, it was impossible to leave them alone.
As our NikkiNix and 24 K have written, it is important to eat each of your meals, to provide your body with all the needed nutrition. Even if you must eat your last meal under the sheets just as you are about to turn off the bedside lamp, go ahead. Your body will use every morsel and every Medifast macronutrient.

Here's what I'd suggest...have that shake or oatmeal for breakfast just like you're doing now.

IF possible, cut a bar into a few small pieces and put it in a snack-size Zip Lock baggy and keep it in your desk or inside the cover of your plan book. As you are able, slip out a small hunk. Can you be sneaky and slip a small hunky into the corner of your mouth without the kids ever the wiser?

Try to have a sip of water here and there, as you are able. If you can't, ya can't.

At 2 PM (or sooner, if your day allows) have your next Medifast meal. If you have to have a double shake, then do so. It is just best to have your meals singly but if it must be a double, then so be it. Begin your water then, too.

The purpose for multiple smaller meals is to keep the glycemic levels balanced and regulated.

This might work out for you:
7 AM Medimeal #1
2 PM Medimeal #2
4 PM Medimeal #3
6 PM Lean 'n Greenie
8 PM Medimeal #4
10 PM Medimeal # 5

When I was teaching I never ate breakfast, if I was lucky I may have been able to have a quick bite at the 10:20 AM recess - usually it was a candy bar...then nothing until after 2:30 and it was a stack or two of Ritz crackers, sugary apple juice then a HUMONGOUS carbolicious supper after 7 PM and/or micro popcorn drenched in a gazillion calories of butter at 11 PM.

I drank nothing except that bottle of juice or a cup of coffee. I now know I was constantly dehydrated. (Pardon moi, but this is the truth: I rarely whizzed and it was highly concentrated when I did...)

If you HAVE to do the double, do it. If possible mix a double shake, put it in an opaque container with a straw (so the kids and nosey staff don't know what's going on) and sippa sippa when you are able to sneak it in and then begin the water as soon as you are able. Weekends try to incorporate more water throughout the day.

The potty trips become more manageable after a few days/weeks. If you're not accustomed to drinkage, the trips seem insurmountable at first - it makes ya think about investing your 401k in Kimberly Clark paper products and 1000 flushes toidy tablets!

You can do it, lissakay, yes you can!

[MamaD]

Hi everyone...I have resurface after 2 yucky weeks.

Miss L...if there is anyway you can continue on, and not quit till summer then do it. When I read your post, I was getting a tweek of you maybe looking for an out ....to put this off till summer. I don't know you...but I know me...and that is exactly what I do. If you have already railroaded past day 3...then girly girl...you need to chugga chugga on....

I am in the school biz too... I am a media specialist and we have a huge circulation...we check out between 300-400 books a day. that is a ton of comes and goings and children and things. On top of that I have 25 demanding teachers ....and a zillion parents wanting things. I am not whining much, just here to tell ya girl... I hear yah.... I can't leave the room, I only have part time help on 3 days a week..so I do understand.

This is what I do. My family teases me but I have this huge Medi-bucket that I load up in the morning with my grub. I put several bottles of water in there and my medigrub. I try to fix a bowl of the chicken and wild rice soup at home and let it cook while I am putting on my cute little face and stash that in the bag to. With some little medi crackers...never thought dried little chunky matzoletts would takes so good..but they are good in that soup. The thing that has SAVED me is the RTD. There is no shaking, and no show. That was my biggest thing, not wanting to explain to people what I was doing and just doing it... I shake up a storm and naturally it is quite a sight. With the RTD you just keep them close...stick a straw in ther set it in your desk and you are ready to rock and roll. At first I thought they were a lot more expensive, but I think that it works out to .36. I do two a day at school, so that is .74 luxury. And if you order them all at once and spend over 200 buck a rooneys...then you get free shipping and that is where you save.

I realize that your children are differnt and probably ask a lot of questions and are all over the place... but after a while they will get used to it and you can boogie right on...

Don't be like me...don't do a re-do...again...it is too hard to get in the groove!!!!!

[Nancy]

Right on, MamaD! The RTDs are a life saver.

Terry used to balk at the price of the RTDs but no more - they are so handy at times. We spoke at a conference this morning and it was neat to be able to pull out a little box from my purse and re-fuel right there while I was sitting in the front row.

It takes a little while to learn how to suck it out without making straw sounds - sometimes the straw sticks on your tongue and makes a sucky sound. After I am through with my shake, I gently squeeze out some of the air and bend the top part of the straw back over and poke it down into the hole on the top of the box.

[jene115]

Are the RTDs really good? I sometimes can't leave my desk and I'm thinking on a trip to the loo at one of these times, I could just grab an RTD and not take the time to shake. I canceled my autoship order today and am going to redo it once I have a taste of some of the food I have now and see what I really like. I've heard so much about the naner shakes and I''m bananas over banana anything, so I want to get more of them.

RTDs are just in vanilla and chocolate, right? Hmm, might have to give that some thought when I set up my next order.

[MamaD]

Yeah Nancy,....that straw ..backdraft sucking sound is a little much!! Now what exactly do you do to eliminate that again????? I wonder if you poked around a little and made the whole a little larger then the straw if you would still have that ???

Jenn the thing I like most about the RTD's is the consistancy. I positively do not like grit or lumps or anything like that...if just makes me gag. And if you shake a shake and let it sit....it does all kinds of things to the consistancy, so usually, I do a Mike...I shake and gulp right from the shaker... But the rtd are just smooth sailing all the way down. Most of the time I do the shake routine, however...those cute little boxes do have a place!!

[bk]

I love the RTDs for the convenience. Like raederle, I buy the Fit! kind (because they appear to be a kid's chocolate drink!). I like to put mine in the freezer for about a half hour before I drink them, or if I'll be carrying them around, I freeze them up and let them melt during the day. (or keep them in a sack with a blue ice thing). For convenience & being on program discreetly, they really can't be beat. I think they are worth every extra penny they cost, because in the end, they keep me on program.

MamaD - I have found that letting my shake set up for a good 10+ minutes (after shaking in one of those tupperware or rubbermaid containers with the blending insert) makes it very non-lumpy! The shakey container is the key, definitely. I can't stand shaking my shakes the normal way now.

[Nancy]

Jen ~

The consistency of the RTDs is thicker, the shakes are creamier, they are smaller in volume and yet just as satisfying as the shake-it-yourself-shakes. My buds do not prefer the French Vanillers in the packets but like the RTD Vanillers very much. I think the RTD Vanillers taste a little bit like Carnation "canned cow." They RTDs have a definitely different taste to them when compared to the packet shakes.

[Nancy]

Hah! The Backdraft - perfect description, Darlin' ~ well, to remedy it and to save face so the box doesn't make a little tooting sound, I do make the hole a teensy weensy bit bigger and hold the straw between my big front bucky beaver teeth and my tongue, when I sense a suction developing, I slowly release it so it doesn't squeal like a guinea pig or make the sucky sound!

Ahh...perhaps this thread could actually become a novella called Stealth Suckage, the secrets of how to perform shake slurpage in public without the public knowing whatcher slurpin' and how yer thinnin'

[MamaD]

Stealth Suckage

I like it...as I usually suck mine down in two or three swigs..... and I get this great vaccuum going on in there..I always have to make sure that the children are clear from the box and I or one of the little vermon might get sucked up into the medi-hole...