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.

Photo of the thick bread sandwich in this story….

"It will be frozen meals that are high in protein, filled with fiber and contain essential nutrients. The products will range from bowls to pasta and sandwiches to pizza. All will be “portion-aligned” and some will be gluten-free or air-fryer ready."

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/trendin...uFWW3OJ-Mop9DPR

Looks like the same picture I saw on the original story about their new frozen meals.

I wonder if that's an actual sample of what they'll be selling, or if it's just a stock photo?

If that's really one of their "high protein meals" it's mostly bread - and based on what little bit of meat-like substance and cheese-like stuff is hanging over the sides of the tiny sandwich, it can't possibly have much protein at all in it. (I'm guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of about 12 g, and that's if you count every smidgen of protein in the bread and veggies too.)

Which they DO, of course. And with all the added foodlike ingredients IN the macro roundup, how much is even that?

Which is why I'm so skeptical of the macros on the package, and how it's a reminder to not buy packages. Unless they put the macros on my ground pork and brisket and eggs.

I'd like to know that.

They're required to count every bit of protein on the nutrition facts labels - just not required to mention that some of it might be from plant sources.

As it is now, they break down the fats into saturated fat, trans fats, and a whole separate line for cholesterol. Then the carbs get broken down into fiber, total sugar and added sugars.

But protein? They barely tell you how many g of protein there is in a serving - very few labels even list what percentage of the RDA for protein is in a product.

I wonder if there will ever be a day when they break down the protein content into animal sources and plant sources? I think vegans would appreciate knowing that none of the protein is from animal sources, and I know I'd appreciate knowing how much (if any) of the protein in the foods I choose are from plant sources.

Who knows? Might be something a vegan and I could actually agree on - that the label needs so show amounts of the protein source.

DOH! Yes, they do. I do buy things with labels, I need to pay better attention