Slim4Life 4 Years Later

You guessed it, my lack of updating signifies my failure to adhere to the Slim4Life plan.  For me, Slim4Life did not work.  This is not to say it may not work for you.  When it comes to weight loss, Slim4Life delivered.

Why I Slim4Life did not work for me.

While I was losing weight on Slim4Life, it became harder and harder for me to stick to the plan.  My biggest obstacle was flavor.  The Slim4Life diet is devoid of all flavor and spices.  Forget salt, forget spices, with Slim4Life you are stuck eating bland food.  My Slim4Life consultant suggested using Mrs. Dash, this was useless because their seasonings don't really add any flavor.  I even tried making my own tomato sauce using their nutritional guidelines.  In the end, it got so difficult for me to eat bland food that I would literally gag while trying to eat.

On top of that, I am a very picky eater.  I completely dislike the taste of vegetables other than corn.  Unfortunately, on the Slim4Life plan corn is a bit of a no no.  This means the only vegetable I could really stomach was the occasional slice of tomato and lettuce.

Even though Slim4Life quite cheerful proclaims you can eat what you want, you can't.  Forget fast food, and for a guy like me, who is a single father of three, works full time, and goes to school full time there just isn't enough hours in the day to cook every single meal.  Cooking multiple meals at one time was becoming a more difficult thing to do as my motivation waned.

Time and cost were also issues.  I already told you about all the time you have to invest to prepare your own meals.  Beyond that, you also have to go twice a week to counseling sessions that are supposed to help you stay motivated and on plan, to help you over the humps.  In reality these sessions are nothing more than a constant shakedown to buy more supplements.

So, here I am 4 years later.  In that time I put the weight back on.  Went up and down on various plans, spending money to meet with failure after failure.  The only thing that has ever really effective for me was Metabolife, but the pharmaceutical companies were able to use the FDA to ban that.

That is until now.  Watching a couple friends take on the same plan I now am more than two months into showed me what can and does work.  I am proud to say I have reached the exact same weight I was at the time of my last posting, so for me that seemed like a perfect time to jump back in.

Over the next days, weeks, and months I will tell you what I am doing now, how well it is working, and just how affordable it is.  Here is a hint, you won't have to buy anything and you can actually eat the foods you want.  More than words or some advertising gimmick, it's a reality.

I hope you'll join me on this journey and can learn from my experiences.