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I’m just a stone throw away from hitting triple digit weight loss with the medifast diet. I’m proud of how I look and feel, but I’m more proud of the fact that, for once in my life, I stuck with a diet until I reached my goal. I’m often asked exactly how hard and difficult this was. Deep down, I think that people suspect that I have willpower of steel or that I cheated in some way. Neither of these things are really true. But, in the following article, I’ll tell you how hard this diet really is, or at least how hard it has been for me.

Ketosis Is Really The Key With Medifast: People often think that it’s the low calories in the diet which makes you lose weight. Because of this, many wonder why they can’t just cut drastically back on what they are eating and get the same results. I shared this thought process for a long time as well. I tried to eat a low amount of calories on my own and my results were nominal at best.

I had read about ketosis and I even knew that this is why Atkins and south beach work well. I had even had success on these types of diets before, but I didn’t connect the puzzle pieces because it was hard for me to wrap my brain around the fact that medifast is a high protein diet since you’re consuming chocolate shakes, oatmeal, pudding, and chips on it. No where in this diet are you eating pork rinds and eggs and this fact sort of threw me.

But, I soon learned the this diet is in fact high in protein and low in carbs – enough so that it sort of coaxes your body into a metabolic state called ketosis. And this means that you’re no longer allowing your body to burn all those excess carbs that you used to consume. Since you’re no longer providing those carbs, then your body has no choice than to burn what is available – and what is available is fat.

How Hard Or Difficult Is The Medifast Diet?: That’s not to say that ketosis does every ounce of the work for you. You will have to eat the foods and stay away from those things that they don’t want you to consume (although you do get to prepare a large meal each day on your own.) However, this process is a little bit easier because the amount of cooking and shopping that you will need to do will be minimal. Most of your food is provided for you. Mostly, you will eat five “medifast meals” each day and then make the one meal that I mentioned before. This really is not a lot to ask, especially since you don’t need to count or calculate anything. This helps you to focus on other things and doesn’t give you a ready excuse that the diet was just too complicated.

And, since your mind is free to think about things other than food, you might find, as I did, that you just aren’t as dragged down or limited by the process as you might have thought. I actually started a class and reconnected with some friends because I now had the time and confidence to do so. I’m not sure if I would say that medifast is unbelievably easy, but I certainly would not call it hard and it’s by far been the most convenient and effective diet that I have ever been on.

That’s not to say that you won’t know that you’re dieting. You will be eating different foods. Although there are over 70 food choices and you can add some sugar and fat free ingredients to have even more control over this, it’s not like you can eat whatever you want. You do not have free reign and there will be days when you’d rather not have another shake or chili. But, I’ll tell you, once the weight begins to come off at a steady clip, this becomes a very small point that isn’t as important as you might have thought.