Website design By BotEap.comI write a lot about my experiences on Medifast. The other day someone visited my blog and asked if it was possible to replicate Medifast yourself or come up with some kind of “do it yourself” alternative. I will answer this question in the next article.

Website design By BotEap.comWhat you’d have to come up with if you wanted a DIY Medifast plan: To replicate this diet, you should eat six times a day. On five of those occasions, I would eat small, low-calorie, high-protein meals. Most of the “meals” on this plan are around 90-110 calories and packed with decent nutrition.

Website design By BotEap.comI will use the very popular shakes as an example. They contain 90 calories and 10 grams of fat. Plus, they have 11 grams of protein and 4 grams of fiber. They are very low in sugar with only 8 grams. And they are also quite full of vitamins and minerals. They contain 20% (or more) of your daily needs for servings of vitamins A, C, D, B6, and B12, just to name a few. And they contain 30% of the iron you need each day, which is important for women.

Website design By BotEap.comConsidering that you will be consuming 4 more similar meals per day, you will provide your body with more than it needs nutritionally, but you will also get a low amount of calories and a high amount of protein. This works to put your body into a state called ketosis where not only are you not as hungry, but you will also start burning your own fat.

Website design By BotEap.comSo obviously you’ll want to reach this goal with any alternative food you can think of. And you will need to find five of these alternatives per day.

Website design By BotEap.comOnce a day on this diet, you will prepare a “green lean meal” yourself. This meal should contain lean protein and up to three servings of vegetables. This is not too challenging and this can be accomplished at the grocery store or even a restaurant so replicating this is no big deal.

Website design By BotEap.comWhy a Medifast alternative would probably not be profitable: Many people who ask for a DIY alternative do so because they are trying to save money. But let’s think about this. To find foods that are so low in calories and sugar and so high in protein and nutrition, you will likely have to go to a health food store. And you will need to buy enough to be able to eat these small meals five times a day. You probably want a bit of variety too.

Website design By BotEap.comA regular monthly package from the company costs $ 299, but there are always coupon codes and special offers that can make this even more reasonable. Unless you have a very good relationship with your local health food store and can get the foods at a cost, it will be really hard to beat that when you have to buy about 145 of these applicable foods.

Website design By BotEap.comIn short, I suppose with a lot of research and hard work, you could find some comparable foods in specialty stores, but they would probably be much more expensive than what you would pay to buy a real one.

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