Medifast Weight Loss Journey

I watched the finale of The Biggest Loser last night and found it very inspiring in so many ways.  While I don’t agree with the methods they use to get the weight off.  I do admire the results they achieved. The contestants have all worked so hard and looked great.

 

I don’t agree the average person is able to go away from home and work only on themselves 24-7 to lose weight and get healthy with professional trainers.  It’s more realistic to see what they do once they get back home and have to do it on their own with families, jobs and life problems.

 

I have lost 68 pounds in the past 26 weeks on what I consider to be the easiest program I have ever followed.  I did NOT exercise 8 hours a day with a trainer. In fact I never stepped foot in the gym or even started an exercise program.  I’m not saying that is right but the program even works without exercise and I proved it.  I like to do one thing for myself at a time and now that the weight is almost off I’ll add exercise. Exercising may have sped up my weight loss some but it wasn’t even a factor in my losing the fat.  The program I followed is called Take Shape For Life  it uses the Medifast meal replacements. 5 Medifast meals and one lean and green meal each day.  You eat every 2-3 hours so you are never hungry.  It puts your body into a fat burn state and the pounds just melt off.  It’s low glycemic so it’s perfect for type 2 diabetics.

 

Back to the Biggest Loser show last night.  They talked about The Pound For Pound Challenge.  It goes something like this you pledge how many pounds you will lose and they will match it in pounds of donated food to a local food bank. 

Well, that got me thinking about how I could help people in my own town and I’m going to suggest to my clients to do the same thing them self by the first of the year. For my local clients we can do it together.  I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.