Ideal Protein Journey

Finally Deciding to Write this Down

I've been on the Ideal Protein Diet Since November 2012, and have lost 70 pounds. I've decided to start this blog because I need a hypothetical piece of paper. It's not going to be entirely about Ideal Protein, but my life as well. So let's get started.

I decided to start this Diet because basically I've done all the others. Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem.. all of them. I was even considering weight loss surgery. At the time the only thing that stopped me from the surgery, was funding. My employment insurance was less than happy to cover anything weight related, even counseling.

So my aunt had a friend who started going to an Ideal Protein Clinic. She looked AMAZING, but I thought it was just another diet, and at the time wasn't interested in starting anything new. During this time I was at my highest ever weight of 340. 

After much coaxing I was finally convinced by my Aunt to attend an open house. At the open house we learned how the diet works, and what the financial responsibility was. We even got to taste some of the food and Walden Farm's Products. The diet is expensive, but my Aunt and Grandma wanted to help. And for me it was a Go Big or Go Home kind of situation. I needed something intense if I was going to succeed in finally losing weight.

The program was not hard at all. Since I was over 300 pounds I "needed" 4 packets of food to get my necessary intake of food. A packet is what they call the food. It can be anything from soups and puddings to drinks and breakfast bars. And each one has more protein than any normal food. 

The food is pretty good. For the first 2 weeks they give you preprepared menus with about 40 different types of food. This is so you can try everything and see what you like. Growing up my mom always told me that she "has never met a child that didn't like soup." Well surprise surprise I didn't like it on the diet either. Eating the Mushroom Soup was a train wreck and a half. But this diet requires you to eat all your food everyday. After the first 2 weeks you can decide what you want to eat. My clinic sells the packets individually, which is nice because I might not want Wildberry Yogurt everyday for breakfast. Most clinics don't sell them this way, but my clinic sees the benefit of variety if you want it. I ended up not really needing variety because generally I choose 17 chocolate drinks and a handful of restricted bars and crackers for my menus. I would say the first few months my body was excited by the fact that I was no longer drinking Mountain Dew or anything else bad, and I was no longer eating crap.

My goal for this diet is to be healthy and be able to shop anywhere. I am only 27 (Just had my Birthday) and still trying to figure life out. But I'll get to that in another post.

Thanks for reading.