re: Anyone done Ideal Protein?

Ive heard of people doing well on Ideal Protein but to me Id be miserable with how restrictive that diet is. The reason the majority of people go off diets is bc they dont enjoy most of what they eat so they revert back to a poor diet.

A little over a yr and a half ago my wife and I did the Six Week Body Makeover program but continued the same diet for over a year. I went from 235lbs-174lbs while going from a 44w-34w. Now we still eat our 5-6 meals a day but we arent "as" strict now. On the program we have protein every meal every 3 hours but it pretty much breaks down 40P/40C/20F. The great thing about it is that you have very balanced meals and the meals are really good and filling. The bad thing about it is that you HAVE to have meals prepared or else you wont have great results. The thing I like about this program over other diets is that you actually lose bodyfat compared to just losing weight and then ballooning up once you dont eat "diet type" meals.

We bought a pressure cooker and a digital scale and typically made our meals on Sundays or cooked a meal or two at night. The great thing about the pressure cooker was that we could make a weeks worth of a meal in 30 or so mins. And a major plus was that after we made our portions for the week we would portion out the rest and freeze it. At once point we had almost 3 months of food stocked in the freezer already portioned out.

My typical day of meals. Meals are every 3 hrs:

Breakfast: 11oz casserolle (sp?) of egg whites/potatoes/low sodium salsa

Snack 1: protein shake mixed w/ water and a banana

Lunch: 2 cups brown rice, 4oz chicken, pork, or fish/shrimp and a sizeable portion og green beans

Snack 2: protein shake (w/ water) and a large apple

Dinner: same as lunch but I'll choose a different type of protein and sometimes I'll have 6oz red potatoes instead of rice. I also typically have brocolli for dinner.

As far as supplements/ vitamins go I get them from walmart and take 2 mens 1 a day multivitamins, 3 fish oil caps in am and 3 in the pm, and 2 calcium pills.

You also need to drink water constantly. My goal was a gallon a day and now its second nature. While at work I dont use any flavoring but when Im home I do. This was one of the hardest things for me bc I loved my soft drinks. I was drinking wellll over 100oz of dr pepper a day.

I could type alot longer but thats just a brief overview if you are interested. Let me know if you have any other questions and good luck with whatever you do.