Anyone have success maintaining Ideal Protein Loss

I am actually on Ideal Protein. It is awesome! But lets look at some of the myths....
1. NO exercise.....Um no not correct, you are to do exercise just not the first few weeks while you body is adjusting, then you add in walking and light weight lifting. Yes you eat few calories and carbs this is why you don't want to over do the work outs.
2. It WILL just come back....in any diet a person will gain the weight back if they do not change their eating habits. You don't just gain weight back for no reason most people that gain the weight are those that return to their old eating habits and that's how they gain the weight the first time what makes them think that they can return to those habits and the weight will stay off.
3. You will always be hungry.....um no if you eat your IP food and your veggies and whole protein and drink the required amount of water, you will not get hungry. This diet provides the right amount of protein to maintain muscle mass. This means you get the protein your body needs. You will find most people that get hungry during any diet is because they eat carbs. You think fruits and veggies are good for you. Fruits are all sugar, your body burns it right off and leaves no reserve for you to make it to the next meal.

Downsides to the diet
1. Yes it is expensive. But you have to understand you are not only buying the food but you are being tracked and advised by nutritionist and dietitians the whole time. They know what they are doing and can adjust the diet for you if something doesn't feel right. USE their knowledge! If it is too much for you and you have and HSA account, look into how your coach bills the expense, depending on that you can actually use your HSA account.
2. Your friends will not be as supportive as they claim they will. They will constantly question your choice in the diet. But mainly while you change your habits they are staying they same. They will be eating those fries and chips and cookies in front of you all the time.
3. You will have cravings every now and then that will drive you crazy. Just stick to it and don't cheat, it's not worth it.

To make it easier
1. The first couple weeks try a variety of food. Find a center that sells the food packets individually to find out which packs you like. Most places that do food this way will also let you exchange food if you find that you didn't like it. I had a whole box of vinegar chips, ate two chips from one bag and couldn't do it. I asked them what I could do and they said pick out new food and took the unopened chips back.
2. Once you find three that you like, only order those. I find I like the premade chocolate drink, the orange drink, and the bbq chips. I do only those. I am never hungry. I eat my whole protein and veggies. 9 weeks and 38lbs lighter. Yay me! Average between 4-5lbs a week. And honestly I haven't added in my exercise yet as I have work and school and a wedding to prepare, but at the end of this month watch out!
3. Watch the videos they send you every day. They are there to teach you what to change when you are finished in the phase 1. They are very informative and helpful.
4. If you hate water, get flavored water as long as it is 0 calorie 0 sugar. I drink a powerade zero every day. I use those little flavor adders from desani. Even fresca is okay if need the carbonation, but keep it to one a day. Powerade and fresca are not a water replacement just a little alternative if needed.

I am still very far from my goal, but every day I don't eat those fries, or chips, or cookies I want them less. When I watch my friends eat them I can see what I must have looked like shoveling them into my mouth. I know that at the end of my journey my habits will change because my mind, my WOL has changed. That is the key to keeping it off.

smileypeaches: That's funny, because some of the stuff you say is the opposite of what I was told in my IP meeting when they tried to get me to sign up. Even though I mentioned I was training for two 5K on the same day they still started the meeting with the restrictive diet and she told me that I am to maintain this diet and no exercise till I have reached 100% of my weight loss goal. Then when they switched me to the "alternative" diet they told me that it doesn't work with all exercises. She suggested that if I do this diet with my exercise plan and I have no change that I should work with a personal trainer who understands the IP diet and can design an exercise plan that works with it.

Also, she said that if you stray from the diet for a week, and even though you eat healthy, if you kick yourself out of ketosis you can either not lose weight or gain a little. She said even if I have a few carrots it could affect the diet.

The person I met with also told me that the odds are I will always feel hungry (I currently eat approx 1900 calories a day) but after a few weeks it should go away as my body adjusts to the diet. A girl I worked with was on the diet for a few months and she had days where she was hungry.

I WILL second the whole "friends won't be as supportive as they claim". My bf slides into that category sometimes, and a lot of the time it's by accident.

But congrats on the weight loss. I know the IP system works (the girl I mentioned lost 80 lbs when she quit working with us) but there are sooooo many things to weight in before taking the plunge. Even though they say it should only take me 2 months to reach my goal, I find it too restrictive for me to actually stick with it. I love my carrots and spinach!! I will admit that I'm supplementing my diet with IP foods but on my terms to clean up my diet ( for example their maple oatmeal tastes so much better than my oatmeal with banana protein powder, chia seeds, brown sugar, and skim milk, less carbs and calories as well)