How Many Calories Do You Eat? (Weight Loss)

[Starfish]

I noticed that freedieting.com link had links to Medifast, a plan where they sell you a packaged plan...like 4 weeks of food, etc.

Has anyone here used this? I am considering it for a very short term. I am a little out of control right now, and also seriously crunched for time, so I thought maybe just eating what I was sent, totally pre-packaged so as not to have to make portion choices, make time to shop/cook, etc, might help sort of snap me back to some healthier habits and help me get back on track.

[DarcyInOregon]

Has anyone here used this? I am considering it for a very short term. I am a little out of control right now, and also seriously crunched for time, so I thought maybe just eating what I was sent, totally pre-packaged so as not to have to make portion choices, make time to shop/cook, etc, might help sort of snap me back to some healthier habits and help me get back on track.

Starfish, don't do it. Those packaged foods are not healthy, not even for the short-term. If they were effective for weight loss, everyone would be standing on the roof tops shouting the news.

Regarding my IBS as mentioned in other posts, I have had IBS for a lot of years. Animal fat in my diet triggers it for me, so I've eaten low fat for more years than I can remember. What happened to me is I was without symptoms for so long, I truly forgot I have the disorder. Last autumn I went to Las Vegas for a long weekend and I indulged in meals at the fancy expensive chef restaurants. The portions are small, but there are more courses. After the trip, I got problems internally, without being graphic about it. And the symptoms lasted. It wasn't until June of this year that the light went off over my head and I thought oh my goodness, this is my IBS. Those tiny little portions at the fancy chef restaurants were high in cream and butter and who knows what type of animal fats, and that did it to me. By then I had been having intestinal and digestive problems ongoing for over six months. Once I realized what it was, I upped my fiber, and I took my animal fat down to almost nothing. The symptoms abated and disappeared, but I believe that because the problem lasted for so long, that the good stuff in the digestive system and intestines were all killed off. So I am taking that pill that starts with an A, eating the Dannon Activia every day, and this week sometime my order of Kylea will arrive in the mail and that will add more pro-biotics and enzymes into my system. I hope to have everything inside me back to normal by the end of the winter.

There is no need to PM. People should talk about IBS openly because a lot of people have it and don't know it. And it is difficult to lose weight with IBS because it changes the digestive system. If we discuss IBS openly on this forum, then others can learn, and maybe the knowledge will help others.

Other than messing up my weight loss, I am not really afffected, not like others who suffer seriously. I control my IBS through diet, or at least I did until the Las Vegas weekend. No more fancy chef restaurants for me.

Darcy

[kelownagirl]

IBS - yeah, doesn't bother me talking about it, just wasn't sure if it was ok with you. Anyway, sounds like you and I are pretty much alike. Animal fat's a bugger. My biggest saving grace was taking a glass of metamucil immediately before I eat dinner (then later 5 capsules and big glass of water). Almost always saved me from the terrible cramping and subsequent, well, you know... Anyway, after several years of doing that, eating more fiber, fruit, veg, etc, and really decreasing my stress levels (divorce) - I think I've almost got it beat. I rarely get any symptoms now and when I do, I always know what has caused it...