Playing at Medifast or Changing Your Life?

I don't want you to read the title of my blog and feel badly in any way.  If you have been "playing at Medifast" for the last month or two or 8 or 10, the point of this blog is not to publicly scourge you or call you out or shame you.

What I DO want to do is offer hope. 

Firstly, playing at Medifast gets us nowhere.  It renders the program completely ineffective and keeps us in a state of denial.

Let me ask you, any of you who have been "on Medifast" now for more than a couple of months.....are you shrinking?

Are your clothes getting loose and are you dropping sizes?  Because that is a FOR SURE side effect to doing this program honestly and accurately.  You see all the success stories day after day, and you say "I wish that were me, why can't that be me...." and to that I give you a quote from Alexander Graham Bell:

"When one door closes another door opens, but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

Are you looking at the closed door of "mindless eating whatever I want when I want it" and wishing that door was open again?  Are you sitting by that door and hoping that you can at least get a thumbnail in it?  Are you wistfully longing for the days when you could eat a double double and milkshake without remorse or guilt?  Are you mad at your body for storing extra calories as fat?  Are you discontent?

Because discontentment really breeds non-adherence to the plan, and non-adherence to the plan, no matter how small, effects your results.

Are you content with this process of getting healthy?

If the scale hasn't moved, and the clothes are not getting looser, then take a good long look at your plan.  Have you modified it?  In any way?  Do you know better than the experts who developed the plan?  Are you responding to a little bit of extra hunger with "a couple of ounces of protein" every day or two?  Are you grabbing a "handful of nuts" on your way to bed because you are afraid of having an empty feeling in your stomach as you go to sleep?  (And then you grab another handful in the middle of the night on the way to the bathroom). 

Is this you?

I want to offer hope.  Hope that if you will STOP looking longingly at that closed door which only leads to the fat room you came from (where you felt miserable all the time but ate whatever you wanted), and START looking towards that door of health which IS open and available to you if you will just WALK THROUGH IT and leave the longing discontentment BEHIND, you will "get it".

What will you "get?"

You will "get" that health is a process.  That the results ARE important, but the PROCESS is even more important.  Everyone wants the results, no one wants the process.

What is the process?  Get some accountability and support.  Get Dr. A's Habits of Health and start reading it thoughtfully (with a pen and a journal to write down your thoughts as you go).  And while you are doing this, stay on the plan which is outlined in the Quick Start Guide.  No one ever went wrong following that to a "T".  Don't add stuff.  Don't miss meals.  Drink you water.  Keep your exercise to 45 minutes per day, and don't START exercising until you've been on the plan for 2-3 weeks already (unless you were exercising regularly before the plan, in which case cut the time and intensity in half for 2-3 weeks). 

Is your mind already drifting to the things you will have to give up and "looking longingly" at them?  Until you are really ready to let these things go, you are NOT ready to walk towards health. 

So are you ready?  Are you ready to live life for more than just your stomach?  Or is your stomach in total control of every aspect of your life?

I say there is a different way available to you.  But YOU have to decide to grab onto it and commit to the process.

Are.
You.
Ready?