Considering doing trial?

cowgal

I received information in the mail yesterday to be a part of a trial for survivors that needed to lose weight.  It had a whole list of criteria to qualify.  I do need to lose weight and I did prior to diagnosis but at this point I am still up 18 pounds from my diagnosis weight in addition to the rest of the weight I need to take off.  The trial would have you eating two shakes a day, two prepackaged meals and 5 one cup servings of fruit and vegetables.  This is how you have to eat for 6 months and then they put you on a maintenance monitoring program for a year.  It is obviously very limiting and a big committment.  I would still need to make an evening meal for my husband.  There is also an exercise component to it as well. 

I wondered if anyone else had done something similar and if so was it successful, doable, undoable, etc.?  Thank you.

badger

hi cowgal, I haven't done anything like what you're describing but have an idea for you.  There's someone in the "Wednesday Weigh In" group here in the Fitness forum, who's doing the optifast program.  She goes by Blessings2011.  Good luck!

cowgal

Thanks Badger.  I have decided that I won't be able to do the trial because I can't meet the being able to walk "briskly" for 10 minutes.  I can walk more than 10 minutes but I can't do the briskly part due to joint pain from the Arimidex.  I called and let them know and it eliminated my eligibility from the trial.