Simplify your Medifast Program
The following excerpt is from an email that our Health Coach Shirley Sileven sends out to new clients. Shirley was a counselor at the Medifast Center in Texas for nearly a year before joining out team full time. The information she gives is fantastic:
Medifast has made five of our meals very convenient so sometimes I know it can be a challenge to come up with lean and green ideas especially after a long, exhausting day at work. Here are a few things that our family did during my journey. My husband is still on his…and so we still incorporate a lot of these ideas into our lean and green meals. (I still eat low carb…it works for me)
** During the weekend, we will generally cook out at least once and so we go to Sam’s and pick up one of their big packages of chicken (we find buying the unskinned and deboned cooks more evenly and stays moist). We season it and grill it. We take what is left over and put it in a baggie in the fridge to use later in the week to quickly heat when we have “steamed” veggies or to put on our salad.
** We will also purchase fish from Sam’s in the frozen section, they are sealed individually, so you can pull out exactly the number of pieces you want….this always works “in a pinch” if I forget to take something out of the freezer to allow it to thaw….as fish thaws rather quickly and definitely cooks quicker. (If you grill out….put cedar planks in water while you’re thawing it and getting comfy from the day….to add smoked flavor to your fish….yummy)
** Some mornings before I begin my day, I will put a roast in the crock pot (with an onion) and when we all come together for dinner, it’s nice and tender….and all I have to pull together are the veggies. (It also smells good when you get home!)
** There are some nights that I will drop by Sam’s on my way home (you can also get this from your local grocery store…or Boston Market) and pick up a roasted chicken….I will generally purchase two….one for tonight’s meal and then debone the other and put it in a baggie in the fridge for another meal during the week.
** We cannot have this….but I also know/realize that our children don’t always want to eat lean and green (all the time)….so you can take this deboned chicken and put it between two tortillas, put on some cheese, salsa, and chicken….grill in a pan, cut in wedges and serve with sour cream for them (quick quesadillas) and you can continue the theme with your own meal and make a salad with the deboned chicken and to stay lite….use salsa as your dressing.
Now for the veggie ideas. Along with purchasing our meat from Sam’s, every week….we go to Sam’s and purchase a bag of spinach and a tub of field greens, white button mushrooms, tomatoes and cucumbers for our salads. I will purchase my frozen vegetables from the regular grocery store and will sometimes have some chicken or beef stock and cook my veggies in that to add “flavor”. You can always be even quicker with your veggies and open a can of green beans or asparagus. Whatever your favorites are…I’m just trying to tell you what I’ve done to give you some fresh ideas.
To date, Shirley has lost 85 pounds and her husband David has lost 119 pounds!
