It's tedious but you get good at it really fast. Once you get used to it, each meal takes maybe a minute. On Feb 21, 2016 12:37 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, how easy is it to actually input all your food? Seems like it would > be a hassle. > > *From:* Simon Westlake <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, February 21, 2016 10:30 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Fw: OT medifast > > If your goal is pure weightloss, the best and fastest way is to start > properly counting calories. Buy a Fitbit, link it up to MyFitnessPal on > your phone, and be fastidious about entering what you eat. When you really > track your calories, you will see exactly what you need to cut back on in > order to maintain weight loss (or you'll go walk another 2-3 miles to work > off the Snickers you just ate.) > > I don't think anything works except calorie counting. It's way too easy to > misjudge how much you're eating/drinking. My wife, my Dad and his > girlfriend and a number of other people I know have been doing a Fitbit (or > some similar step tracker) and MyFitnessPal and they've all lost a > significant amount of weight doing it. All of them just set MPF to 1-2lbs > of weightloss a week, it calculates how many calories you need to eat a day > to get there and it just works. For a reasonable loss of 1-2lbs a week, > you'll probably need to eat about 500 calories below your total daily > energy expenditure, which is really not very hard, especially if you > consume a lot of empty/junk calories today as those are the simplest things > to cut back on. > > I think that the truly good thing about this method is that it just > modifies your daily behavior, rather than you switching to a fad diet, > losing the weight and then going back to old habits, and it's not very > difficult or expensive. > > On 2/21/2016 10:29 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: > > And no, I don’t want to stop swallowing.... > > *From:* Chuck McCown <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, February 21, 2016 9:27 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT medifast > > I finally threw out my bag of DDT wetable powder. Not popular with the > Rachael Carson crowd... > > *From:* Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, February 21, 2016 9:25 AM > *To:* Animal Farm <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT medifast > > > You need the DDT diet. > On Feb 21, 2016 8:56 AM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Still trying to shed holiday pounds. Seems harder each year. I know a >> bunch of guys that have lost a bunch of weight with medifast. Seems >> expensive. I did nutrisystems years ago and it worked pretty good. Any >> opinions? (My wife is a fantastic cook, getting rid of her is NOT an >> option). >> > > -- > Simon Westlake > Skype: Simon_Sonar > Email: [email protected] > Phone: (702) 447-1247 > --------------------------- > Sonar Software Inc > The next generation of ISP billing and OSShttps://sonar.software > >
