I had the chance to go to some great training a couple of weeks ago as an Independent Health Advisor for Take Shape for Life. I learned something that has already proved to be very valuable in my own weight loss journey.

It is recommended, while you are on the Phase One “5 & 1 Plan”, to have at least 2 shakes a day. I guess I’d never given much thought to the “at least” part of that recommendation. It was explained to me at this training that the shakes really are the heart of the program. When Medifast started out years ago, it was only shakes. Thank goodness they’ve gone on to develop over 60 meals now to break the boredom of just shakes all the time! But the shakes really are the center of the program.

They recommended that if we had clients that were stalled out on their weight loss, to try simply having more shakes for their meals during their day, and maybe even eliminating the daily bar for a week or so, just to vary things enough to break something loose. I decided to take the advice myself to see what kind of effect it would have. For the last few weeks, I’ve tried having four shakes a day, one bar, and then my lean and green. The results have been very promising! I had been at a plateau for a little while now, and this really served to bust through it.  And what’s more, I still wasn’t hungry like I thought I would be having so many shakes.

So, while I don’t recommend doing all shakes all the time – the food boredom would probably sabotage your program – I do recommend increasing the number of shakes for a while if you’ve stalled out a little bit.