This morning driving to Koko for a cardio and yoga session, I had a great opening line for this post, but now, back at home, after having my banana pudding mid-morning snack, this is the best I could do:
Hey, it encouraged me on this recent food journey. I’m ready to pack up my envelope of chicken soup and caramel pecan nutrition bar that will constitute my lunch, throw in my hot cappuccino drink that be my afternoon snack and head off to Harwich Koko to work for the afternoon.
Yes, I’ve succumbed. Succumbed to the packaged diet program. For how long, I don’t know. This only the end of week two of this journey. For years I’ve watched friends lose their desired amount of weight on the Medifast plan, but I was doing okay with exercise and real food, so I didn’t bite. Now? Now at 60, fighting that slowing metabolism, with thirty pounds that HAVE to go, I’m desperate.
It all started with members at work who came in to sign up for their exercise programs. They said they lost 20-30 pounds on Ideal Protein and were now told they needed to get into a strength training program to build muscle. What a novel idea – sign up for the gym AFTER you lose the weight. They explained Ideal Protein and they ALL said it’s the ONLY thing that works – but it’s costly and strict. Hmmm… Costly I can do without, strict I need. I have come to realize that at my age exercise alone isn’t going to move this thirty pounds. What I do with food does. I need to reset my system and deal with sugar addiction. Not only sugar as sugar, but the sugar found in bad carbs, too. Now don’t get me wrong – if you’re a shopper and a cook, this can be done with real food. Unfortunately I am neither. I need boxes, pre-packaging and portability. I’m not home long enough in a day to shop, cut, and prepare real food. So….what these ladies were selling was tempting.
Of course, I hop online and google Ideal Protein. This other diet, called the New Lifestyle Diet, similar to Ideal Protein, pops up. The thing I didn’t like about Ideal Protein was that you actually had to GO there. The last thing I need is another place to go. This one was totally online – order, connect by email with a coach, easy peasy directions, no auto-ship, two and four week plans, – it was a good fit – so here I am two weeks into it. I’m just finishing my first two-week order and decided its time to blog the journey, just in case some of you out there are doing or considering this kind of thing because misery loves company. Misery? Well did you actually think resetting your world of eating to pre-packaged powder food was going to be anything but?
And so, as another day goes by, I can’t say it’s been that bad, the next box arrives on Monday, we’ll see how it goes next week, and…I have written.
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