I just started using the Medifast Plan around Thanksgiving at the suggestion of my nutritionist who is a Medifast coach and had seen a lot of success with Medifast and clients like me recently. I had gastric bypass in 2001 and as you can see i have lost a good bit of weight and I have been up and down a few pounds here and there but my biggest hurdle is the 300 mark. I have been over 300 pounds since i was in the 4th or 5th grade and I am having a very hard time convincing my body it should go below 300 again. I got there (294 was my lowest as an adult) for a month or so in 2011 but it didn't last long and now I am really trying to do this again. So Joey my nutritionist thought Medifast would be a good way to help me get my metabolism going again and a way to help me stay on track and make it easy for me to eat the 6 small meals a day that I am supposed to. I have allergies to wheat and soy so I am very limited in the number of Medifast products I can eat so we devised a plan using common foods and Medifast meals at first to get me used to eating the calories and the 6 times a day again and now I am moving into the plan more with more of the Medifast products. My bariatric physician came up with a 4-2 plan and added more to the morning meal to bring me to a calorie count of 1200-1400 depending on my workout that day. I workout some days up to 700+ calories and those days he wants me eating closer to 1400 cals by adding more protein (shakes or meat).