Optifast For Rapid Weight Loss
I wonder if anyone has tried Optifast? If so I would love to hear from you. I am going to talk about the Optifast Diet because I have some experience with it. A family member of mine has been doing it and so I thought I would review it here.
Optifast is a diet that doctors prescribe for patients before gastric surgery such as lap banding is carried out. This tells me it is safe as far as nutrition goes. Now we know that diets are a good way to end up even fatter than you started out. So there has to be some caution applied to a drastic fat loss regimen such as optifast. However knowing that diets can make you fat is not much consolation to anyone who is obese. How are they to lose the weight if they can’t modify their diet?
I think we need to accept that people will diet to lose weight in spite of knowing that this might rebound on them. We only need to look at Oprah and Kirstie to see the truth in that. Therefore anyone embarking on a weight loss diet must think about the fact that they will be on some version of it for ever. They will never be able to go back to ad lib eating. If that is accepted a diet can be worthwhile.
Optifast is a modified fast. The “fast” in optifast has two meanings; it is a fast way to lose weight and it is a fast, a modified fast. It produces rapid weight loss. This is because it is less than 800 calories a day.
If you thought calories were not important think again! Calories are the energy in food. Without them we starve to death. Its pretty obvious that if you starve someone they will get thinner and thinner until the inevitable end. Optifast is a modified fast- meaning it is as close to a fast as you can get and still function.
Optifast is not for the faint hearted! It is for anyone who has lots of weight to lose and who wants to get it off fast and is willing to do what it takes to make that happen.
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Atkins Diet have helped me a lot to maintain a very good physique. My mom is also on an Atkins Diet. .
I have succesfully lost 5 stone on Opifast over 3 months in the past…but I did regain it.
I am now on another VLCD awaiting surgery…this time I hope to keep it off.
Its hard in week 1, but after that it gets easier, its when you introduce food it gets hard again
Hope this helps.
Well done with the dieting. I had the same experience with Optifast- all went on again. best wishes for your surgery. Keep your spirits up – it isn’t easy.