Don't hold back - tell us how you really feel about these new diet meals!

About the protein content, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there's even less protein in them than in the Lean Cuisines - I mean the RDA for protein keeps dropping, so it won't take much to be able to label it as high protein... probably even less protein than a Lean Cuisine.


The name is pretty stupid sounding, but I figured that Vital Pursuit must be referring to all the vitality you're convinced you'll have when you reach your goal weight from the GLP-1 drugs - and goal weight is what you're pursuing. And somehow these itty-bitty meals will have enough protein in them to prevent the muscle loss associated with the drugs.

Weird name for diet meals though - sounds more like it should be a trade name for the drugs themselves. So yeah, surely they could have come up with something better, even if it was condescending and utterly stupid too.

PT Barnum is often cited as saying, “There's a sucker born every minute” (or something like that).

For those of us who know that with every drug, comes a side effect, most of which are undesirable — we will abstain unless absolutely necessary, and all else fails.

It might not even be that someone is incapable of critical/independent thinking. If they are not mature about their emotional regulation, and aware of how this affects their decision making.

Especially when there is so much disordered eating, used as a coping mechanism, and the big mistake is not developing more variety of coping strategies. A book about treating addictions once emphasized how much addictions simplify the addict's life. But it also infantilizes, trapping them from even forming the idea of changing their behaviors.

Whatever people need to give them the space to grow up, that's what will work. Getting the great feedback from my body about lowering carbs kept me on plan, or got me back on plan.

"Feeling mentally and physically better" became my new coping skill, to replace the "goodies plan" which was all young me could come up with.

I grew up. I can do better. Which is how I did.