Diets are NOT Lifestyle Changes

April 162008


I’ve tried every diet on the market.  I have tried just about all of the diets that are out there being advertised.  I buy the packaged foods or pay for the delivery, or go get the diet shakes or meal replacements, and then eat it when they tell me to, and sometimes I even manage to do at least some of the exercise they recommend.

The minutes I stop following their plan religiously, the weight comes back.  Drinking a diet shake or heating up a pre-portioned tray does not teach a person portion control, or how to cope with eating habits in the real world.

I had better luck with the diets that the celebrities follow, or that a book is written about.  I feel like I have more control, and I don’t have to pay a lot of money for a packaged meal that doesn’t taste that great.  However, these diets require a lot of preparation, weighing or recording all of the food you eat, or only eating certain things at certain times, or giving up food all together.

Is there really a diet that is better for me, and solely due to my astrology sign or because of my blood type?

Again, I would have some success, but it was even easier to cheat- I’d tell myself that I’d start the diet again tomorrow and cheat that day, or that one snack wouldn’t hurt, or that since I was good in the morning, I could eat what I wanted at bedtime.

It was a lot easier to just microwave the pre-portioned meals, but when I did make an effort to stick to a celebrity diet and actually do everything recommended, instead of adding in foods not on the diet or eating things I liked better instead, I was able to lose weight.  The problem was that I didn’t get the reinforcement I needed to continue to make those healthy choices, so if I wasn’t really watchful, I would fall back into my old calorie-laden ways.

The worst were the fad food diets.  Being restricted to seven foods was a good way to lose interest in those foods, but then I would start craving something different (and tastier, and more fattening) within days.  Those diets were boring and I was so unmotivated to stick with them very long.

Having some computer create a plan, or someone write a book that applies to enough people to buy it isn’t a customized weight-loss plan, it’s a get-skinny-quick scheme that no one can follow and that doesn’t work!

If you want a diet program that really works try Medifast.  The Medifast program doesn’t leave you feeling unmotivated, frustrated or like a failure.

My Journey Down Diet Lane

April 152008


I have been probably dieting about half of my life now, which is not that good because I am only 23. Most of my failed attempts weren’t as ‘failed’ as unhealthy.

I just usually needed to quit the diet before I could lose any substantial amounts of weight. As a young teen I tried ‘not eating’ which was awful because I was very active in sports so it often left me too weak to continue that route. So I figured seeing I ‘had’ to eat that I could always throw up afterwards, but I never felt like it so that didn’t last long either. But being even a little overweight always makes me, even now, a little depressed.

In my late teen to early twenties I tried diet pills and every other fad that passed through Woman’s World but my weight has always stayed the same. The diet pills may have been working but they left my heart racing so fast that when I hadn’t taken any I would have bad chest pains and that scared the crap out of me. I always figured I was killing my heart muscle so I stopped taking them. All the other diets were short-term solutions to a long-term problem so they of course didn’t work either.

Now that I have gained the most weight in my life, I just had a baby, I am finally taking a healthy approach to getting the ‘baby weight’ off.

If you’ve been trying unhealthy diets, not eating, diet pills, or have just flat out failed diet after diet, try Medifast.   It’s a healthy diet that works.

Many diet attempts end in weight gain.

April 142008

It seems the more I diet, the more weight I gain.  The consequence of counting calories generally seems to result in additional calories.

Once I discover I have reached my daily limit of calories, I find myself stressed out and only seeking more food as a source of comfort.  When I pay specific attention to the caloric content of each food I place in my mouth, it is almost as if they double in significance.  My body reacts to the caloric counting by adding tenfold any calories I have missed throughout the day.  At weeks end I generally weigh 2 pounds more than when I began.

Another method aside from calorie counting I have used, is food prepared in advance and properly portioned.  Unfortunately, this too has resulted in binge or over eating.  I find myself staring at the food and overly hungry mentally and emotionally when I discover I am limited to what I can consume that day.  The psychological effects of dieting are simply tearing me apart.

I have also attempted to follow the eat what you want diet, just properly portion your meals.  This was not successful for me either, simply because I would grab two portions at a time to satisfy my hunger and then end up snacking in the evening when all of my portions were gone.

If you’re looking for a diet that doesn’t end in weight gain, but instead actually works the way it’s supposed to, try Medifast.  Don’t wait until you’ve run down the entire list of diets to discover it…and if you’ve already run down the list, try the Medifast diet program now.

Dieting and Me

April 132008

Diet is an everyday word in my life.  I am a 41 year old mother of two who has struggled with my weight my entire life.  As I aged, I gained more and more weight.  I have tried every single diet and diet pill that is available, legal and illegal ones.  None of which has helped me lose enough weight to be noticeable.

I have watched television commercials about the diet foods that are delivered directly to your door.  I had begun to wonder if this was just another lose weight with our product ad, and then I was proven right.  A spokesperson for the company was a famous person that I had seen on a talk show saying she had lost her weight another way.  That blew that diet.

The one that I recommend you try if you’re tired of failed diets and if, like me, you’ve struggled with losing weight your entire life is Medifast.