The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[hollyhouse]

so far this dieting has been extremely difficult for me.Im still fighting to get back on it. yesterday was a nightmare! i started out really good and had my oatmeal for breakfast then a shake 2 hours later but then i had an appointment which held me up for 4 hours and i was sooo dying of hunger that my stomach blew up like a balloon from not eating and i was in so much pain. guess i swallowed too much air or something.
by the time i got home I woofed down some oatmeal then had a salad for dinner then went to bed.
today my mood was off the charts- so i had my favorite snowball-didn't make me feel better-so that was a waste!! but i went to the gym and worked out for 60 minutes. 30 on the stairmaster and 30 on the treadmill. and my mood is sooo much better. now i feel great! and im going back to the gym tomorrow and plan on starting my day fresh! with eating all my medifast meals.
I think as soon as i get the exercise and the food worked out i should be able to win this battle.
anyway thanx for letting me vent here!!
hope everyone has a great week!

[blondeangel7782]

Be careful hun if you weren't excercising before MF it's not ideal to do so in the begininng of the program, I know exactly how you feel as every stupid fad diet I have tried has failed, I have faith in me and I'm putting my faith into MF I will be ordering my first supply 4/1/06 (payday) hopefully to get awesome results by June at least 30+lbs

Hang in there and as the wonderful ladies here always say drink that water and you will literaly be flushing away the fat! KEEP SHAKIN GIRLFRIEND

[Patti]

Holly,

Sorry you are having such a rough time. I went back and read all of your posts and it appears that you have been struggling from the get-go. But, inspite of all of your setbacks, you have lost 13 lbs. and are half way to your goal.....that's something positive to focus on.

Speaking for myself, I find that this program can be easy or hard....a success or a failure.....it's all depends on one's desire and mindset. I feel that it all depends on how bad you want something and what you are willing to do to go after it, staying focused on the end results (the big picture) and not the ups and downs along the way.

Wishing you all the success in the world.

Patti

[hollyhouse]

Before i started medifast (feb2)
I did atkins for a year-never strayed in 12 months(cause you can eat all the proten you want) but got stuck at 150 couldn't get below that. so then i got frustrated after a year and just did whatever for 2 months then of course the weight went to 160.
then in november i tried to do the bodyforlife (which by the way is a great program)eating 6 small meals a day. and i was going to the gym 6 days a week and had a girlfriend who is a personal trainer train me 3 times a week. i am sure i overdid it at the gym 1 hour a day of cardio and 1 hour of weight training. again went to 150 and got stuck there. got frustrated and screwed up around the holidays. stopped working out except for 1 time a week then went up to 166(number keeps going up)
then now back down to 153 with medifast. I guess i won't be a true believer until im 149!!
But i have no choice- im out of ideas and medifast makes sense to me if i just can stick with it. But i do believe in the bodyforlife program once i am down to my goal weight. just seems the healthiest way to go in the long run since the concept is basically the same. 6 small meals a day. but i believe its good once you have most of the weight off.

[smartipantz]

You can do it Holly!! You only have 4 pounds to get to 149 and make yourself a believer...... stick with the program completely. Stick a bar in your purse for those days that you find yourself away from MF foods longer than you thought. Or I always carry a couple of RTD's in my car - omg a lifesaver at times and I love them.

We have faith in you and the fact that you are keeping yourself accountable by posting to this forum shows that you want to be there. You are just going to have to try to get past the hungries and not allow yourself to go off program. If you go off program.... could take you up to 3 days to get back into the fat-burning stage. What a waste for those days you have been good

Be strong... come here often.... We KNOW you can do it!! You only have 13 pounds to go - we want to congratulate you when you get there!!!

Smarti

[Lizabette]

HOLLY SWEETHEART,

You are a girl with determination and comittment when you set your mind to something that you believe in...as in staying on Atkins for a whole year without wavering!

Now with that same determination and comittment, and trust in the MF program you will lose the weight and successfully reach your final goal of 118! WOW, how fantastic you're going to look and feel, then!

You'll wonder how you ever doubted! Then at that point you can decide which program you will use to maintain...(As in MF, body-for-life, etc.) ...as we all must do!

We have been cautioned about excessively exercising and training while on MF, because of the low amount of calories we are consuming---we want to lose fat and NOT muscle. (Ask your MF advisor about that!)

Never doubt that you will do it. Please keep posting and tell us how you are doing! Promise. It won't take you a year to do it!

Lizabette

[Nancy]

Hi, Holly ~

I can understand your frustration with your weight loss journey. I have been all over the map in terms of diets, temporary successes and many diet failures. The more we diet, the more our metabolism is messed with. Yo-Yo Dieting is hard on a person physcially as well as mentally.

There really is no magic pill or secret ingredient to help us lose weight other than to bring our calories within a reasonable limit that provides both adequate nutrition and energy for healthy bodily functioning and include regular moderate exercise. With Medifast products and the Take Shape For Life Program, we can assure that we will get the necessary nutrition our body needs when we eat all five of the meal replacement packets AND the correct protrein proportions of meat/fish/poultry and eat our green vegetables.

Just like an airplane must take in adequate fuel supplies in order to stay in the air, we must take in all five of the Medifast packets at the correct two to three hour intervals, or we start to feel puny, lose energy, struggle with hunger and we don't fly right.

It is not always easy for some of us to be super organized and mindful of the clock but it is necessary for our health and our weight management.

I am currently on a business trip and some of our appointments have been very long and we have not gotten all of our meals in on time and I sure feel it. Yesterday I was speaking and helping people for about 6 hours. I needed to eat, I felt weak and weary. When we go too long between meals, we can easily overeat or choose unwise foods. When we finally got to a restaurant there were so many great-sounding meals. I chose wisely as my health is more important than satisfying my tastebuds. I had a garden salad with no dressing and baked salmon.

A chocolate chip cookie with ice cream, caramel and hot fudge sauce visited our table but it did not enter my mouth because I know that it did not taste as good as my thin feels.

Exercise is good for people on the TSFL Program once they are into the 4th week. The maximum amount we suggest is 40-45 minutes. You may need an extra shake during days you exercise.

Take it easy, eat on time and don't skip any meals. Get in touch with your Health Advisor right away for personal coaching and assistance.

[Bonnie]

Holly, you have fallen into the mind set that you can not do it because you got over hungry and did not plan ahead and take a Medifast meal in your purse. OK, YOU MESSED UP!!!


Plan ahead - take your medifast meals to work with you. You can even set your timer on your watch to buzz you every 2-3 hours. Take a ready to drink shake or a bar in your purse in case you are stuck somewhere that you can not shake up a shake.

You are going to feel sooooo GOOD WHEN THAT LAST 22LBS MELTS AWAY!!!!

Call or email your Health Advisor every day if you want to have accountability....Your Health Advisor wants to coach you...

We all want you to SUCCEED

Let us know how GOOD YOU DID TODAY!!!!!