Hi there folks! Anyone every try Optifast or Medifast either before or after they had lapband surgery. I'm not talking about pre or post Op just before you got the band or after you have been approved to return to eating solids? Did it work for you?

oh for those who dont know what those are. Opti and medifast is a supervised plan where you drink shakes as Meal Replacements all day or some programs have it where you drink 3-4 shakes and then have a low calorie/low carb meal for dinner and a few Snacks.

I'm thinking about doing this.

I did Medifast for about 3 months years before the band. I did it and it was not too bad but I did not like a lot of things so I would just order the things I liked, as everything is the same calories and everything. I ate the banana pudding and drank the hot chocolate for the last 2 months 5 times a day one or the other. After 3 months my skin smelled like soy. I later switch to the "New Lifesyle Diet" same thing but they were cheaper and it was a little bit better tasting. They have a website too.

If you are doing low carb they have some good Snacks and the bars are good too but they said to only eat one bar a day. After getting the band you could not pay me to do it again and I still want to lose 5 or 20 lbs.

Hope that Helps.

Cheri

Thanks for a response! Why wouldn't you do it again. Just curious? Did u lose weight?

Just the thought of opening the cabinet and seeing 200 white packages with no photo on them and then drinking or eating the samething time after time for months at at time.

Cheri

i did it also b4 the band, and agree with the above, never again, u need a cabinent just to store all thoose white envelopes in lol.

i lost weight but get really really board with it and after 3 months never did it again.

now banded im sooooglad that i do not have to have a diet like that ever again,

I have quite a few of those boxes in my pantry right now. I am mixing them in occasionally for a liquid meal, but they are all around 100 calories, and 13 or so grams of proteins and a bit high on the carbs. I had done it once several years ago and lost quite a bit of weight in the 4 or 5 months I did it. After I came off it, once again my weight went up and past what it was before I started it. Back in the first of the year, I ordered it again and had fully intended on doing it. I think I managed 2 weeks and thought that there was no way I could do it again. So my journey to get the lapband came next. It is really hard to stay on the program for an extended period of time, and drinking those packets gets really old quickly. However, if you are willing to do it, it did work for me before. It just didn't stick.

I was very successful on medifast. I lost 85 lbs in about 9 months. But like everyone else, once I went off the program the weight crept back up. I'm also on my lap band journey so that I don't have to do that extreme of a diet again. It worked for me, and I got used to it. I actually sort of envision that I will be eating like that for a long time during this process of weight loss, but I hope that I don't have to be that hard core. It's not a great way to live your life, you are very, very restricted. Good luck to you!

-Sarah