Medifast diet has been around for years, and as the name suggests, used to only available from doctors. Currently, freely available and claim that you can lose up to 5 pounds per week.
This diet takes all the guesswork out of dieting. You must be in good health and want to lose 50 pounds or more to run on it, and it’s not cheap, but all the work done for you
Medifast
You replace most of your meals with a choice of shakes, soups, oatmeal and bar. Simple as that – and that’s where the high cost of entry, because you order exclusively from Medifast, surprise, surprise! All calorie counting is done for you, and in the weight loss phase you are allowed one "correct" eating days are cool 7oz servings lean protein (fish, meat or vegetarian alternatives such as tofu), and 3 servings of different vegetables. You are told exactly a vegetarian you are allowed.
This is called the 5 + 1 Stage, and you follow it until you reach your target weight.
How does Medifast work
It’s basically a low-calorie, low carbohydrate, high protein, but without the unhealthy fat Atkins. You will take in about 1000 cals per day, and your body (because of the high protein content) will be in a mild state of ketosis – burning fat for fuel. So to say that you might get some side effects of ketosis, such as bad breath, but it will not be anything as bad as the stun-a-rhino-in-50-step Atkins effect.
You are also introduced with regular exercise five times a week, and are given detailed instructions on what to do – it is really quite impressive amount of information and gladdens my little heart. Because, as we all know, dieting without exercise is like the proverbial broken pencil. Completely useless!
You must feel pretty good about yourself with this stage, but Medifast is still not done – you now have the Maintenance Phase, where you introduce more calories and food groups, although Medifast mention (hopefully) that you may want to continue to have a or 2 of their meal replacement per day. I bet they do!
The point is that, now you will have your old broken all the "bad" eating habits and stick to all the happy new habits you have learned, such as eating small amounts regularly and not eating junk means used to. And exercise, of course. Yes, regularly – for the rest of your life long and healthy!