Comments on: Advertisements For Medifast

By: John

John — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:35:28 +0000

Of course people gain weight after they end their diet, that's because they go back to eating the way they did prior to the diet and is really no fault of the medifast diet itself. The fault lies on the people people who don't read the literature that is often provided with the diets pertaining to the food "common" food reintroduction period. The real travesty with medifast is that they sell 4 weeks worth of oatmeal, slimfast, and granola bars for $300. Ouch.

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:14:34 +0000

This obviously isn't a before and after. It is not meant to be a before and after, it is a marketing ad to catch your attention to have you further investigate Medifast. I do believe that you all are thinking way to literally. if you were to go to the Medifast site then you would see the numerous testimonials that they do have and Medifast does save lives, everyday. It saved mine.

By: Carol Zachmann

Carol Zachmann — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:30:02 +0000

Oprah did NOT do the Medifast diet. She did a different program that has a similar name called Optifast. These are two different diets.

Any diet will help someone lose weight. Unless you change your lifestyle and eating habits though, that weight will come right back.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:09:18 +0000

While this is pretty insidious Photoshopping and diet scam manipulation, I have to note that if I stand up straight, you can see my top four ribs even though I have a fair amount of weight to lose. It just depends on how your fat is distributed – mine seems to all be in one big “tire” lower than the waist of this girl’s jeans.

By: Harl Delos

Harl Delos — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:00:30 +0000

The fact is, diets don't make you skinny; they make you fat.

You can gain or lose about 10% of your weight relatively easily. It's virtually all water, of course, but you can do it.

About 2% of the population permanently loses a significant amounts of weight each year. It isn't intentional; it happens because something goes wrong with your system. When someone becomes diabetic, it is fairly common for them to lose a lot of weight, because their bodies are starving.

Pills that are supposed to supercharge your metab9olism? It's easy to tell that they don't work, because YOUR BODY TEMPERATURE DOESN'T CHANGE, which is what would happen if you were were burning up that food.

Nutrition researchers now believe that body fat is a "stress organ". If you are overstressed, it gets bigger, just like an overstressed heart or overstressed liver becomes enlarged. There's no known way to reduce the size of an overstressed organ.

When you go on a weight-reduction program, you stress your body, and the result is permanent weight gain. Over 95% of those starting a diet four years ago today weigh more now than they did then.

Still, you have the diet programs saying "Look, I lost all this weight, and then they explain that they've changed the program, and they lost weight on a previous diet. They changed the diet because the old diet generally didn't work. The new one doesn't, either, but nobody can prove that, yet.

Do a medline search, and you'll find that there is NO weight loss diet that is even 20% effective in taking off 40 pounds and keeping it off for 4 years. None at all. You'd think that if cutting calories, carbohydrates, fat, or some other nutritional restriction resulted in permanent weight loss, someone would have been able to show results....

By: TrishNYC

TrishNYC — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:55:04 +0000

What makes it even worse is that she is not large enough in the "before" picture to justify a liquid fasting diet! I thought only the morbidly obese should consider fasting after a doctor's recommendation since they are dangerously low in calories and nutrients.