Medifast????????????

Hi all, hows it going? My delima is this- Do I go on medifast and make sure I loose the required weight or do it myself and pray that I loose the required amount? Any Ideas? Well I hope all is well and think spring people.... becca

Becca - Here's my two cents for what it's worth. I'm guessing that your physician is requiring you to lose an X amount of weight before you can have your surgery. My PCP uses the Medifast program for his patients. He's even used it himself. I personnally have never used Medifast. I DO KNOW that Medifast is very safe (or so my PCP says) and works well. I believe that it is a mostly liquid diet. That would get you used to going on only liquids for the 3 weeks or so after surgery. I also believe that Medifast is a bit on the expensive side. I have also seen first hand (watching my PCP who used Medifast) that the weight comes back on after you stop the program which is why you would want to use it only to lose the required weight to have your surgery. If you were able to lose the weight on your own than why would you have need for the surgery? Losing the weight on our own is very difficult. Especially if we have a required amount to lose. My vote would be to go ahead and use the Medifast program especially since it IS a phyician monitored program so it's probably one of your safer programs to use. Good luck and keep us posted. Melody

Rebecca-I would second that, I haven't used Medifast, but my sister lost about 80 pounds a couple of years ago on it-she kept it off pretty well until last summer, then it started to creep back. It is very safe, and my sis says the shakes can be made lots of different ways so you can really make them delicious. good luck, hon! (( hugs )) lynn k