Diet advice based on real world personal experience!

“The Medifast Diet Just Didn’t Work For Me & Unfortunately, 

It Likely Won’t Work for You Either!”

My Medifast Diet Experience

What you’ll find in this open letter is information that will help you better understand the Medifast Diet approach to losing weight and my experience with it. I wish I had this information before I spent my hard earned money on the Medifast Diet.  It's my hope that you will find my experiences and my recommendation to be of great value as you evaluate your weight loss options.    

Hi there.

My name is Jessica Seymour. 

At the time I'm writing this, I'm 38 years young and have a fantastic family of 5 including Craig my handsome hubby, and our 3 boys - Conner, Alexander, and Trent.  That's us below in a recent picture.

I've been pretty active and physically fit for most of my life and didn't really have weight issues until I gave birth to our first son Trent just over 5 years ago. A year after giving birth to Trent, I still weighed 173 pounds and I was so embarrassed about how much I weighed that I knew I had to do something about it. 

The extra weight made my sleep fitful, my ankles would swell up, and I would get headaches daily. Unfortunately though, my body had so many aches and pains that I couldn’t find the energy or will power to be more physically active, so I had to focus my efforts on diet. 

The first diet I tried was the Atkins Diet.  I had heard a lot of mixed reviews about it over the years but decided to give it a shot anyway just based on the fact that what stuck in my mind was how some of my co-workers had dropped weight pretty quickly with it in the past.  You can read all about my Atkins experience further here.

My next choice (because they make the food look so good in their ads) was to try the Medifast Meal Plan Diet program but I should have known it wouldn't be that easy.  My Medifast experience proved to be a short lived, eye opening experiment I’ll just call; “Can Guess what meal you’re drinking now?” You can read about it further on down this page. 

I then joined LA Weight Loss, but that turned out to be a huge mistake for a number of reasons which you can read all about here. 

About six months after my LA Weight Loss fiasco, I decided to give dieting another shot with The Zone Diet program at the urging of a good friend whose father had seen good results with it. Learn more about my unsuccessful Zone Diet experience here. 

The good news is that at the time of writing letter, I weigh in at a healthy and happy 128 pounds, I've lost what was a significant belly and most of my butt and have maintained this weight within a couple of pounds for over two years now. 

This despite my lack of success with Atkins, Medifast, LA Weight Loss and The Zone Diet. 

My secret weapon is a comprehensive weight loss program that uses “ Calorie Shifting”, to deliver results; But... before we get to what is working for me, please take a few minutes to read about my experience with the Medifast Diet program below. 

About the Medifast Diet… 

Medifast claims its 5 & 1 Plan is a low-fat, low-carb, low-calorie diet plan that allows the typical dieter to remain healthy while losing weight at a rate substantially faster than one would lose under a traditional diet plan.

In simple terms, Medifast is designed to take individuals into a state known as ketosis, which is actually a fancy name for starvation. This occurs when the body’s supply of fats and dietary carbohydrates are interfered with, so that blood sugar may not be utilized normally and fuel must come from stored fat and muscle protein. This process creates a high level of breakdown of fatty acids by the liver, which produces the ‘ketone bodies,’ along with Acetoacetate and B-Hydroxybutyrate, all of which are released into the blood. In addition, they are also converted to Acetone, which often causes bad breath in those who fast.

Their most popular weight loss plan is most commonly known as the  “5 and 1” diet.  It uses an 800-1000 calorie model, which is made up of 5 meal replacements and one "real" meal per day. The “real” meal contains a lean protein, vegetables and salad. This developer claims that individuals who use this system may lose 2-5 pounds per week. However, these kinds of diets often cause individuals to feel sluggish and zapped of energy, which may account for the large number of failures.

Medifast Meals come in individual packets that you mix with water and microwave or refrigerate. Examples of their food offerings are shakes, soups, stew, chili, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, fruit drinks, iced teas, hot beverages, bars and puddings.

My experience with the Medifast Diet… 

As I'm a busy wife and mother of 3 growing boys, I thought that the Medifast option might be a good one for me because I could eat their prepackaged foods while still cooking regular meals for my family.  This would save me having to cook a special "diet meal" for myself I hoped... as I'd simply whip up the Medifast foods for myself at meal time.  Unfortunately that didn't work so well as I simply found the majority of their food products to be borderline inedible.

The oatmeal and the shakes are bland and borderline inedible. As for the other food items I tried, I found the taste to be nonexistent or if there was a taste it was nasty and bitter or gritty. Just not pleasant.

Weight loss for me is not about torturing myself, so it’s important that I am able to enjoy the foods I’m eating on any diet. 

I stuck with this diet for about 2 months eating the bad foods and always feeling hungry… but the final kicker was that the weight loss was so slow (slower than any other program I had tried) that it was impossible for me to remain motivated.  I just couldn’t see the goal line so I eventually just gave up and didn’t bother reordering more food. 

You might think hating the foods might be an advantage because it would make you not want to eat but I went the opposite way. I was always hungry and unsatisfied and as a result I craved unhealthy snacks and treats.

My Results… 

If you like food that has taste, and you like a diet that leads to reasonably quick weight loss, you might not want to do this one. 

3 Key Learning’s…

1) This diet is not for you if you enjoy eating. I’m not talking about eating excessive quantities of food (which is wrong) but rather enjoying the taste and textures of your food.

2) If you’re looking for quick weight loss to stay motivated, this is probably not the best diet choice for you.

3) This diet is very restrictive in terms of your food choices. If food variety is important to you then Medifast would not be a good diet option for you.

• A big positive is that it works without you needing to radically change your lifestyle.
• It uses a unique but simple approach called Calorie Shifting which teaches you how and when to eat in order to turn your body into a fat burning furnace. 
• It's convenient because you eat real food, that tastes great and that you buy at your local grocery store for reasonable prices. 
• You won't be tempted to cheat because you eat 4-6 times per day, and NEVER feel hungry. 

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