Tiredness

AJW · August 22, 2009

Medifast Official Site | Quick, Easy Clinically Proven Weight Loss You can read all about it.

When I could eat all foods, I followed their plan which consists of 5 Medifast meals and one lean/green for dinner. Sample menu: Blueberry oatmeal (I'd get real blueberries and put in this) for breakfast; Medifast bar for mid-morning snack; lunch would be a Medifast shake (I'd add a banana & some womentowomen.com soy Protein to supplement, makes it yummy but you could add whatever Protein or no protein, each shake is 11 grm protein; a bar in the late afternoon, and dinner would consist of meat or fish entree plus a veggie. We grill a lot so would grill fish, chicken or meat & grilled zuccini with some Feta cheese on top. Keeping the portion sizes small that's about 800 calories a day. Each Medifast meal has the same number of calories (110), Fiber, low carbs, low sugar, 0 fat. I lost 26 pounds doing this before surgery. I'm still doing it and will continue with the bars and oatmeal when I can have those foods. This worked for me because it's easy, you can take the food with you, it's goof proof, no measuring or counting involved. People lose a lot of weight on Medifast but it's much easier to stay on it with the sleeve surgery. You get full so easy.:smile:

What's involved in the medifast diet AJW?

Malaika · August 23, 2009

Thanks - I will definitely check it out - easy sounds good and since I don't really enjoy eating, I don't really care what I eat - if I don't have to do a lot of planning, that would be great for me -- and probably Bearded too!

meowmeow · August 23, 2009

How is everyone getting their PROTIEN on Full Liquids? I do chicken/beef broth, but that's only 2grams.

AJW · August 23, 2009

I have a Protein Shake for Breakfast, lunch and after dinner and get it all in fine. I'm getting a little sick of shakes, but I don't like a lot of the alternatives. I have Soup for dinner. The first day of full liquids I tried clam chowder with the clams and potatoes strained out. It was yummy, but I ate maybe 1/3 of the bowl and was FULL because of the milk in the soup, very filling. Last night I had strained Minestrone soup, whoop, how exciting is that?! Tired of liquids but don't think I could stomach anything mushy just yet anyway. I don't like that overly full feeling I had with the chowder, and it happened after 5 min. and I was done.

meowmeow · August 23, 2009

Oh..I see, I'm still on my 1st week of Clear Liquids. No cream Soups allowed for me. I ordered WONTON Soup, then strained all the wontons, etc. out. It was delicious! I'm making homemade chicken broth right now...leeks, carrots, celery, etc. then strain that. I hate canned stuff .. too much sodium :-( I found some liquid Protein, clear, it tastes horrendous, but at least I can do that for the next 3-4 days. How did you figure "one week"? From the actual day of surgery or after you got out of hospital and could do icechips?

AJW · August 23, 2009

You asked how everyone was doing on FULL LIQUIDS so I responded. Clear Liquids are not full liquids, so I can have cream Soups at this point which started on day 11 post-op.

Day 1 is the day after surgery or the first day you can sip Water.< /span>