It's been about four years now since I've followed various flavors of a diet "program".  I've gone through Weight Watchers, NutriSystem, The Zone, South Beach, some others I've forgotten, and now, finally, Medifast.  Another difference between Medifast and all the others is the consistency of weight loss. 

With many other diet programs, you expect to gain weight now and again.  The slow and steady program is indeed slow, but not always steady.  Overall, the scale goes down, but you lose 2 here, gain 0.5 there, lose the .5, then lose 1, then gain .2, etc..  Most of the weight loss charts have the general downward trend, but the ups are plentiful.

With Medifast, most of the stories, including my own, echo a theme of consistent loss.  If you follow the diet, you lose weight.  Each week may not be the 2 to 5 pounds lost that they advertise, but you lost 3, then 1, then 2, then 4, then 0.5, but you are losing, losing, losing. 

Medifast's motto is "easy. fast.  Medifast."  While the easy is debatable, the fast is not.