I often hear from people who are considering the Medifast diet but who also have a love of a certain type of food that they don't want to give up.
Some common items are breads, crackers, chips, and sweets like cookies or brownies.
I heard from someone who was particularly concerned about crackers and who asked: "will I be able to eat crackers on Medifast? If so, what kind?" You absolutely can eat crackers on Medifast, but if you do, you need to eat the diet's crackers because they have been modified to be very low in calories and carbohydrates while also being higher in protein and fiber.
Regular crackers that you can get from the grocery store are discouraged while you are in the weight loss phase of the plan.
The reason for this is that regular grocery store items likely contain a lot of carbohydrates that might prevent ketosis and may delay results.
Once you have met your weight loss goals and are ready to transition back onto regular eating, you will get to a point where you can slowly introduce foods back into your day to day life.
At that point, you could chose a healthy brand of cracker and be fine as you add grains back into the diet.
People often ask me why you have to stick to the diet food.
Well, let's have a closer look at them and see why.
The garden vegetable crackers re only 60 calories per serving.
There are 12 grams of carbs, only one gram of sugar, and 2 grams of proteins.
The multi grain crackers have similar nutrition.
There are also soy crisp that are on the menu and which also make a very nice snack.
They are nice and crunchy but also have a touch of salt and often satisfy the same type of craving as a cracker might.
They come in flavors like white cheddar, ranch, and apple cinnamon.
And, these contain even less carbohydrates than the regular crackers.
These options are also quite inexpensive at only $4.
50 per box.
It's not as if you can't have any snacks from the grocery store on this diet.
You are allowed to have certain type of popsicles, dill pickles, some nuts, jello, mints or gum, and celery.
I find that people often discount the celery or the pickles but I find that they can give you the same crunch or the same salt as you might be wanting from the crackers.
If not, you can always go with the diet version and still be playing it perfectly safe.
If you must have your favorite type of crackers, try to limit the number of them and then get back in compliance on the diet on the next day.
This is only my opinion of course but I think it's better to go ahead and have a tiny bit of something if you are really craving it rather than deny it until you gorge on it.
But I don't think this is a real risk with crackers when they offer a safe version with the diet.
They also have brownies and cookies that are safe as well.