Judging

No they dont i have looked into them send me a link than ZUG

Sure, happy to oblige.

Weight Watchers requires a maintenance phase before granting lifetime membership status.
http://www.weightwatchers.com/help/index.aspx?pageid=1028501

Atkins' Phase 4 is "Lifetime Maintenance," so it's open-ended but still considered to be a part of the Atkins program and still has rules.
http://www.atkins.com/Program/Phase-4.aspx

South Beach similarly considers its maintenance phase unending but still a part of the plan (including going back to the first two phases during maintenance).
http://www.southbeachdiet.com/diet/about

People in general think they know it all. Especially people on MFP from my experience here. I use MFP to keep track of what I eat, I recommend it to other people but I always tell them the same thing, either stay off the forums or ignore every thing you read there. There is no shortage of people that will say "Oh, so and so is an idiot" "Yea, he has a PHD but hes a moron" etc.. Take the advice of your doctor or someone you really trust and ignore the advice from complete strangers in the MFP forums. The people judging the program you are on etc. are the same people that have no idea what they are talking about they just think they do. So bottom line is, if it works for you, forget what anyone else has to say about it.

I don't know. Yes.

thank you. this thread has made me stop judging others. all this time, i only had to turn to the internet to change my life.

I'm very non judgmental, but since I have no idea what I'm doing,I definitely won't judge anyone else...lol

Medifast isnt just any old program its proven by DOCTORS:)
Every meal is nutritious .. it targets burning fat and not muscle..
People who never would have though they could get thin have
got in thin from this program, its a lifestyle and have you ever
seen a program that has a maintenance stage Becase mf does.
iv never seen that before.

Food does not determine what sources the body draws upon for energy. You can obtain fat loss without muscle loss simply by eating at a modest deficit and weight training. It is not necessary to spend money on a program just because an MD endorsed it for a kickback.

Doctors get paid to put their stamp of approval on it. They don't have to do any research and they aren't obligated to consider an individual's financial status when endorsing it.

If you have the money and don't believe enough in yourself to do this on your own, then by all means, but you can achieve the same or better results on only your own effort.

You can do whatever you want, no one said you couldn't.

Programs aren't all bad....but, it is an extra expense that isn't all that necessary, but some people need it and sometimes the structure of the program just provides something easier for people to stick to. If you aren't doing a program you have to make that choice every time you eat something, on a program, it's more decided for you, especially with shakes and what not.

I did weight watchers years ago and it helped teach me how to eat properly. Then I had babies and went back to my old way of eating and gained and gained. But now that I am doing it on my own, it's coming back to me. Only difference being that back then I bought way more into gimmicky low fat type foods and now I realize that I need to eat more whole foods and I eat the regular fatty stuff, if I really want it that bad, I will make those fat calories work with the rest of my day.

You can't come to the internet and complain about why people make judgements, it's kinda silly. Everyone has their own experiences and opinions, some backed by facts, and other's not. People have opinions about things, that's kinda what we do as humans is make choices for ourselves, and if we have made a choice that the programs aren't for us (perhaps based on facts or experiences we have had in our lives) then we have formed our opinion. If you came to places like this asking for advice or just telling people what you are doing, people are going to have opinions on it, one way or another. You are opening it up to people to share their opinions by telling them what you are doing. If you are going to share, you have to be prepared that people are going to have opinions and they aren't all going to agree with you. If you don't want people's opinions, then don't share.....or just be confident enough in yourself and your own decisions to not care what other's say. Any kind of diet program works on the same basic principles essentially, and you can do it by yourself.....but if you need the structure of the program and that's going to help you, you know yourself better than anyone else. And what celebrities endorse or do is really neither here nor there. They are people just like us (for the most part ;-)

I love (and by love I mean that I roll my eyes and start to immediately think they're judgmental for criticizing my right to judge) how people always think that judgement is bad. You can do what you want, but that does not supersede my right to think that there is a better way to do something. I don't believe in meal replacement programs or low calorie diets. They offer deficient amounts of synthetic nutrients that would be better obtained through eating healthy amounts of real food. If you want to do Slim Fast, or whatever, I understand that's your right, but that does not supersede the knowledge I have that there is a better way.

Yes, but why cant you do it your way without telling others how wrong they are? I dont care how you do it or how wrong you think every other way is. Do it your way and shut up. Thats all Im saying.