OptiFast Diet

How safe and effective is a meal replacement program?

Review of the OptiFast diet program. I wasn’t completely thrilled with the idea of a diet that was almost completely liquid, but at the same time I had tried many diets and was unable to achieve success.

By the time I began the OptiFast diet program, I was carrying an additional 75 pounds on my 5:6” frame and was unable to exercise or do much else without becoming tired of out of breath.

I couldn’t even walk with my kids to the park, and my husband was threatening to leave if I didn’t do something. It wasn’t that he was concerned for my weight, but he was concerned for my health and didn’t want to stay and watch me eat myself into my grave.

OptiFast is not just a diet; it is a complete weight loss program that includes monitoring by medical professionals. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to stay with the program for the duration of my weight loss, but I needed something that would at least give me a boost and set me on my way. I knew it wasn’t going to be an easy decision, but I also knew my health depended upon it.

I had reached the point where just cleaning my house was a struggle and took much longer than it had in the past. Going up and down the stairs to do laundry was a real struggle and something that I needed help accomplishing—that’s when I really began to look for ways to lose weight.

The first week was a real struggle—the adjustment from real food to meal replacement was difficult. In addition, the OptiFast program has a very low caloric intake, so I had to learn to live on much less than what I had previously done.

For me that meant taking advantage of the soups and menu bars that were part of the program and drinking additional water in order to ward off the hunger pangs. I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to continue with the program, but I was determined to try. However, as I began to see results I made the decision to follow through.

After I lost the first twenty pounds, I knew that I had to stay with it no matter how difficult it was. I became used to the meal replacement, and even though it was difficult to cook for my family while I ate nothing but the OptiFast meal replacements, I knew it would be worth it in the end.

My weight loss was steady, and I began to notice changes after I had lost thirty pounds. My energy level began to return, and I was able to do things that I had not been able to accomplish for a long time. I was determined to stay with it until I lost the seventy-five pounds I needed to lose no matter what sacrifices I had to make.

It was not an easy accomplishment by any means, and the most difficult part was the transition back to real food and learning how much I could eat without putting the weight back on.

I joined a health club that my husband and I attend three times a week, and I exercise regularly at home by walking or running around with the kids. The Opti Fast diet program helped me regain my life.

Review by Stephanie Cooke