Defragged

Personally I feel that the word "cheat" is a little harsh. I like to refer to it as "off plan" vs. "on plan" regardless of whether I pre-planned it or not. I also feel that it is an individual decision based on a person's own goals and where they are within their goal if they decide to go off plan.

For myself I have a goal to lose as much as I can (healthy, of course) before mid January 2007, and when I started the Medifast Diet, I knew that the holidays would fall within that timeframe. I made the decision then to stick as close to "on plan" as possible during the holiday season.

I didn't start Medifast just to lose weight. I've done that countless times before in the last 30 years. I started Medifast to learn how to cope in a world obsessed with food (It's not just us overweight people, folks!) and to learn how to deal with it in my own personal and business life. Obviously I don't deal with it as well as others but obesity is a growing concern across the United States, so I'm not alone in keeping my weight issues under control.

I have friends who maintain a healthy weight who overeat occasionally, but they get right back on track and don't overeat again for weeks or months. Of course, I also have friends who are thin and who obsess about their weight far more than I have over the years. In my opinion, their obsession about staying thin at any cost is just as much an issue as me learning to pay attention to what I eat, why I eat, and how much I eat.

I'm hoping that some day I have the skill and commitment to rationally (not obsessively) maintain a healthy weight for myself and I'm hoping that Medifast Diet will be bringing me closer to that process. So far I've been very impressed with what I have learned on the Medifast Diet, and I never dreamed that in 5 weeks I would have lost nearly 20 pounds.

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