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What does your food really cost?
How much do you think you spend on food a month? Most people greatly underestimate how much they really spend. To break down the cost of how much it takes for a man, woman, or family to eat, it helps to have a guideline, such as the one developed by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.
In the following examples, the numbers represented do not account for any meals from a restaurant. All of the food costs are based on buying food in stores and preparing meals at home.
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Remember that if you eat out once or twice a week, you could easily add $10 to $20 a week to your food cost.
With Americans spending over $34 billion on weight loss programs that are unsafe, including products that are not clinically proven, and claim weight loss of only one to two pounds a week, how affordable is Medifast? Here’s what you might expect to spend on the Medifast program:
These are some simple examples of how you can spend about the same amount of money as the average American and lose 15 – 30 pounds a month instead of gaining 10 pounds a year.
Is there another way I can use to help pay for my Medifast products?
If your are like most people who have bills to pay and are would like to go on Medifast program but need a way to help pay for their products while their losing the weight we have good news.
By simply becoming a Health Advisor you can have your “Shake” and drink it too and it will help pay for your own products.
For example, just become a Health Advisor and acquire 5 new customers with a total Volume of $1,000. You will earn a commission of $250.00 which will pay for your food that month.
Simply talk to your friends and relatives. At least one of them or their acquaintances knows of someone who needs to lose weight effectively. Another way to introduce people to the Medifast products is by having a “Tasting” party which allows people to try the products and is currently one of the most successful ways of helping people get comfortable with the program and the products.
I will help you get started and guide you in this wonderful “people helping” business. Click Here to find out more!
In recent years, the number of over weight and obese men, women and children has increased sharply in the United States. There are multiple reasons why this is occurring, ranging from lack of exercise to poor eating habits. A resent study appearing in the American Journal of Public Health indicates that we not even be aware of some of the main causes of obesity. The study concludes that over the past 20 years, the size of portions served outside the home has steadily increased without consumer knowledge.
Food served outside the home accounted for about 37% of a typical household’s food budget in 1970. This number has grown to almost 50% of the budget. This increase in time spent eating outside the home, matched with an increase in portion sizes given at restaurants, poses a serious health risk for us.So who is to blame? The study sampled foods from both fast food restaurants and more traditional “sit-down” restaurants and found that both have increased their portion sizes immensely. It was also noted that the vast majority of the fast food restaurant establishments that had the largest increase in portion sizes were also the most financially successful! Startlingly, some of the portions served were found to exceed FDA and USDA standards by a whopping 700%!
It doesn’t end here, however. In recent years, increased or deceptive portion sizes have begun to creep into our homes. In a recent study reported by MSNBC News, many well known cereal brands were found filling their single server boxes with much more food than their label states.
The USDA Agricultural Research Service reports that this deception can equal anywhere from 10 to 100 extra calories and 3 to 19 extra carbohydrates per serving. It is very important to understand that this could seriously harm people whether they have diabetes or are on any diet program. Other foods in violation were cookies, pasta, muffins, meats and bagels. With this abuse of standards, we are harming ourselves in more ways than we realize. Many of the foods in violation are full of calories, carbohydrates and fat, and when eaten in excess can eventually lead to serious health complications.
The trend of over proportioning has entered almost every part of our lives. Everything from beverages to candy bars is increasing in size. Even cookbooks now have decreased the number of servings expected from a recipe, reflecting an assumption that people eat more.
So what can you do to protect yourself?
- Don’t feel obligated to eat all of your food when you eat out. In fact, a smaller portions size is best.
- While at home serve dinners in smaller bowls, tricking the mind into thinking into thinking you have more food.
- Don’t be completely dependant on food labels and consult your doctor related to any medical questions.Remember, only you have the power to fight back against deceptive portion sizes.
First of all, losing weight has never been easier than with Take Shape for Life. With the 5&1 Plan, there is no calorie counting, no points system, no diet pills and no confusion. The program consists of clinically proven foods designed to help you lose 3-5 pounds per week. HereGÇÖs all you have to do when on the Medifast/Take Shape for Life 5 & 1 Plan
- Medifast Meals per day (any 5 meals; limit 1 bar per day)
- 1 GÇ£Lean & GreenGÇ¥ per day Lean Meat – 7 ounces of chicken, turkey or fish; or 5 ounces of lean beef, pork or lamb Salad/Vegetables – 2 cups salad greens and up to 1/2 cup raw vegetables (any kind); or 1 1/2 cups cooked vegetables. You may also use 1-2 tablespoons of Medifast Dressing or any low fat and low carb dressing.
- Drink a minimum of 64 ounces of non-caloric fluids per day, preferably water. Because you eat every 2-3 hours, you will not be hungry or lack energy. You may stay on the 5&1 Plan until you have lost your desired amount of weight, then move to the Take Shape for Life Transition Plan.
That’s it!-áThe Take Shape for Life 5&1 plan with the Medifast products-áis Quick, Easy, Clinically Proven Weight Loss!-á
Some DoGÇÖs & DonGÇÖts for Weight Loss while on the Take Shape for Life plan:
Please note that the 5&1 Plan allows for a flexible weight-loss program where you can GÇ£mix & matchGÇ¥ any of our Medifast Meals 5 times per day. However, we suggest that you limit yourself to 1 bar per day due to the higher calorie and carbohydrate content compared to other Medifast Meals. -á
- Don’t Eat extra carbohydrates. Just one slice of bread or a single piece of fruit can put you out of ketosis, you risk losing energy, becoming more hungry, having stronger cravings and experiencing slower weight loss.
- Do-áMake sure to have 3 Medifast Meals by 2:00 PM, as part of your daily routine.
- Do Be sure to enjoy 1 of our products every 3-4 hours. Never go over 4 hours without eating.
- Do Eat Slowly! It should take no less than 15 minutes to finish a product. Help Hint: Use a straw for shakes or cut up bars into small pieces to help you slow down while eating.
- Do Drink lots of water! Drink about 64 ounces of water a day.
- Do Use the GÇ£free foodsGÇ¥ as snacks if needed (up to 3 stalks of celery, Medifast Fast Soups, Medifast Crackers, diet drinks, a small green salad, a dill pickle, etc.).
- Do Start your Transition Plan once you reach your goal weight.
- Do Exercise at least 3 times per week. Helpful Hint: Walking is a great way to stay in shape and keep stress levels low. Achieve Optimal Health by following our BeSlimGäó Philosophy.
Be sure to check your Medifast meals and make sure you do not run out during your next shipment. Any easy way to prevent this is to join my BeSlim club, where you get your Medifast meals delivered to your door automatically on a monthly basis in addition to saving up to 12% on your food. If your are a client of mine, I urge you to join now. It’s fast and easy.
Click Here to Join Now!-á
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Now that we are nearing the new year of 2007 many of us have new year resolutions of losing weight for the new year. And it’s the same story every year for many.
And Here are the major players in the weight loss area. Weight Watcher’s, NutriSystems, Slim-Fast, Jenny Craig or Medifast.
Weight Watcher’s, NutriSystems, Slim-Fast or Jenny Craig will promise you everything and most of these diets tell you that you can eat whatever you want and still lose the weight.
Sound familiar. All those diet pill commercials will tell you to go ahead, eat the pizza, drink the beer and still lose the weight. Any may of these diets use paid actors as there “testimonials”, not real people who have struggled like you and I to lose the weight and keep it off.
The fact is, you have to limit your caloric intake vs. what calories to are using up. Every other diet program out there other than the Take Shape for Life program with the Medifast foods are exactly that, diets. They offer nothing in terms of getting better health or nutrition in your body. This program and Medifast products allow you to get your calories under control safely and easily. Just eat every 3 hours and drink plenty of water and let Medifast do it’s magic. It’s as simple as that!
Using the Medifast products with the Take Shape for Life program is like having two programs at the same time. First and foremost, to help you loose weight and secondly to help reduce or eliminate your pills the doctors and drug industry in general is trying to push on you to fix one problem or another. Just turn on your TV and listen to all the drugs they want you to take for acid reflux and a myriad of other conditions caused mostly to our bad eating habits and lack of nutrition in our diets and all the stress you and I are under each and every day.
So, for the New Year why not make it Medifast and Take Shape for Life? Our Chief Architect is-áthe Prominent Doctor Wayne Andersen who is leading the charge-áto help everyone lead better lives through the nutrition the Medifast products bring and his 5 & 1 Take Shape for Life program.
Click Here to order your Medifast products.
Click Here to order a Medifast 1 Month starter variety kit if you are not currently on the Medifast 5 & 1 program.
Many web sites leave you confused on how to actually go about ordering Medifast products over the Internet, but we make it simple.
CLICK HERE to order your Medifast Products and choose one of the options below.
Choose Option 1 to Order a Starter Kit (New Clients)
Choose Option 2 to Order Products (New or Existing Clients)
Choose Option 3 to Join-áThe Take Shape for Life-áBeSlm Club and Save Up to 12% (Existing Clients)
Also if you donGÇÖt want a 1 Month Variety Starter Kit you can receive a discount Available to 1st time Clients and Receive $25.00 Off Your Order of-á$75.00 or More!
Just scroll down the page after clicking on the CLICK HERE link above and enter Your Name and Email Address. You will see a web page giving you instructions on-áhow to order on-áthe top of the page.
Now once you order your Medifast products, here are some simple Do’s and Don’t to follow when on the program. And remember, your health advisor will contact you to make sure you are following the guidelines and your are on your road to good health and a slim new-áYOU!
1. Make sure that out of your 5-6 (4-5 on Modified plan) products you are having, at least 3 of them are shakes.
2. Make sure you are having 3 of your meals by 2:00 p.m.
3. Eat every 3-4 hours and never go over 4 hours.
4. Eat slowly! It should take a minimum of 15 minutes to finish your meal. Try using a straw for the shakes and cutting the bars into small pieces to help you to slow down while eating.
5. Drink a lot of water. Minimum of 64 oz.
6. Do not eat any extra carbohydrate foods! Just one slice of bread or piece of fruit can put you out of ketosis (the state at which your body burns stored fat as energy).
Once you are out of ketosis you will lose the benefits of being in ketosis which includes having energy, not feeling hungry, reduced cravings and minimal loss of muscle mass.
7. Use the GÇ£free foodsGÇ¥ as snacks if needed. Celery (up to 3 stalks), bouillon, Medifast crackers, diet drinks, small green salad, dill pickle, etc.
8. Once you get to your goal weight, start your Transition Plan.
9. To keep your weight off, follow our Success for Life plan. Include 2-5 of our products (shakes are best!) along with at least 2 regular healthy meals each day. Medifast products are a great snack product! By incorporating them into your diet, you will successfully keep your weight off!
10. Enjoy your healthier life! Exercise at least three times a week. Walking is a great way to stay in shape and keep stress levels low!
The other major diets out there, Weight Watcher’s, NutriSystems,-á Slim-Fast or Jenny Craig all offer pre-packaged meals that will allow you to lose weight but none of these will allow to keep it off for long as most other fad diets do today.
Medifast and Take Shape for Life offers much more than any of these diets. For one thing, the other diets have pre-packaged meals that are not geared toward our fast food society. Medifast meals on the other hand can be mixed in a few seconds and are really the best fast food you can take with you on the go. If you don’t like to mix your Medifast food we also have ready-to-drink shakes and other foods that you just grab and go.
None of these major diets or any of the other million “fad” diets out there will help you not only lose weight but also actually get your health back.
How Medifast gets your health back is allowing your body to reduce or even eliminate some or all of your medications while providing your body with right balance of nutrients to support your body during weight loss and in the maintenance phase.
Take Shape for Life has over 70 different tasty Medifast meals that will offer you variety during your weight loss and not get bored.
I just saw a commercial for NutriSystems. These are all foods you have to cook and prepare. Just remember that when you need to rush off in your car and have to grab something fast.-á Most people who need something fast will end up going to McDonald’s and get some fattening foods with heart attack causing Trans Fats in them.
So you have a choose (and there are really on 5 major diet foods to choose from) all in all Medifast offers you much more than other weight loss diet food and programs available today.
I’m just waiting for Kristy Alley to fall off the Jenny Craig diet and switch to Medifast!
Click Here to order your Medifast products.
Click Here to order a Medifast 1 Month starter variety kit if you are not currently on the Medifast 5 & 1 program.
The BeSlimGäó Club is a progressive discount program designed to help Health Advisors and clients on autoship maintain their success on the program and reward them for living the BeSlimGäó philosophy by incorporating Medifast Meals into their daily routines!
In months 1-3, clients receive a 5% discount on their BeSlimGäó Club order over $75. In months 4 the discount increases to 8%, and then in months 7 and thereafter, the discount increases again to 12%! Health Advisors and clients are eligible to join the BeSlimGäó Club and take advantage of these special savings after they have placed at least one order with Take Shape for Life.
ItGÇÖs easy to join the BeSlimGäó Club GÇô simply select the products and quantities desired, provide payment information and select a process date. If your card expires or declines, a client contact center team member will call you to inform you so your information may be updated to prevent any delay in the shipment of your order.
Right now, the process date is the date that the order will be generated for fulfillment and payment. The order will most likely ship the following business day. Therefore, it is important to add an extra day for this processing when you are selecting a process date during your BeSlimGäó Club order set up. In the future, we hope to make the process date the same as the shipping date.
To set up your BeSlim membership just CLICK HERE and select Option #3.
Follow these steps to change your BeSlim Club order.
BeSlimGäó Club orders can be changed by calling 866-200-6715 In order for a change to be made to the current monthGÇÖs order, the change must be made two days prior to the orderGÇÖs process date.
Clients must verify the contents of their BeSlimGäó Club order each time a change is made and approve the change.
In addition, BeSlimGäó Club orders can be put on a one-month hold without losing discount structure.
BeSlimGäó Club orders can be cancelled by calling 866-200-6715. The cancellation request must be received two days prior to the orderGÇÖs process date to take effect in the current month.
Take Shape for Life is proud to announce our newest Medifast Meal from Take Shape for Life – delicious new Scrambled Eggs! These eggs are now available for purchase!
Each serving of our new scrambled eggs is a fully fortified Medifast Meal and can be used at any time of the day! With 12 grams of protein and only 2 grams of fat, this great new product provides even more variety for you as-áyou work on-áyour Take Shape for Life weight loss program and as-áyou transition to the BeSlimGäó philosophy for life!
What a great way to set your new year in motion…with a new product and new ideas on how you can continue to help you achieve optimal health!
Be sure to try our new Scrambled Eggs and sample them with your family and friends. We think they make a great addition to our menu of delicious Medifast Meals, provide variety, and add excellent nutrition to a great program.
Our yummy Scrambled Eggs (item #72860) are $14.50 per box.
We are excited to announce this new product and look forward to adding new products to your menus in 2007!
Click Here to order your Medifast Scrambled Eggs Today.
Click Here to order a Medifast 1 Month starter variety kit if you are not currently on the Medifast 5 & 1 program.
With a seemingly endless stream of companies laying off people in good jobs and so-so jobs it makes sense to look at alternatives these days to employment. The weight loss industry is booming and many people are in desperate need of losing weight and getting their health back. Health Advisors that join Take Shape for Life will be rewarded financially with much increased brand awareness in 2007. Here are some details on what is in store for the start of the new year.
Medifast Infomercial’s to Begin Test on December 27th!
We are excited to announce that our parent company, Medifast, Inc. will begin running an infomercial test on December 27th! Our very own Lori Andersen from Take Shape for Life will be starring in the infomercial! She will be included (along with some other very famous Take Shape for Life Health Advisors!) in this new method of advertising that will begin running on cable channels on December 27th.
The benefits of this type of advertising for Take Shape for Life Health Advisors are numerous. Not only will you benefit from the increased advertising in the form of brand awareness and increased credibility of our brand (we will provide our new money back guarantee in this infomercial), but this will also generate LEADs for you and your Health Advisor downlines. This is an incredibly exciting time to be a Health Advisor, and with the increased awareness of the great results one can gain using the Medifast brand, you will win too!
We will forward along the schedule of when the infomercial’s will run as soon as we have it.
We are fully dedicated to helping our Health Advisors enjoy all the benefits of the worthwhile advertising our parent company is doing, and we would love to hear from you on your comments about the infomercial when you see it!
Join me and become a Take Shape for Life Health Advisor Now and help me get America healthy again!
CLICK HERE to sign up with me and become a Health Advisor.
As many of you may know, Medifast star Nhedi Uzowihe, who lost 170 pounds using Medifast products, was featured in the GÇÿHalf My SizeGÇÖ issue of People magazine late in 2005.
We are excited to announce that she will again grace People magazine THIS year, and was selected at People magazineGÇÖs FIRST choice for the “alumni feature” in the Half My Size issue!
This issue of People hits newsstands on December 30, 2006! We hope youGÇÖll pick up a copy to-áread about-áthe benefits of using Medifast products and how through the Take Shape for Life program,-áyou too, can achieve optimal health and maintain their good health year after year with-áour support and Medifast products.
NEXT YEAR we would like to see some entries from Take Shape for Life! We know youGÇÖre out there, and weGÇÖd love to submit YOUR success story to be featured on www.GetYouHealth.com!
And who know, you may too be featured in People magazine after the exposure you get from being on our busy web site! Watch for the December 30th issue of People! Another great way to start the New Year!
Join me and come on the health journey of your life with Medifast and Take Shape for Life!
Click Here to order your Medifast products.
Click Here to order a Medifast 1 Month starter variety kit if you are not currently on the Medifast 5 & 1 program.
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