Many years ago I started this website and my Rogue’s Reviews blog because I enjoyed sharing my thoughts about things I like such as cars, computers and especially food. \u00a0My plans didn’t pan out as well as I had hoped as my time was limited and I was unable to update the blog as frequently as I would have liked.<\/p>\n
I’ve decided to resurrect Rogue’s Reviews and chronicle my decision to lose some weight. \u00a0I like food, a lot, perhaps too much. \u00a0Moreover, I like rich high-caloric foods. \u00a0Japanese\u00a0restaurants,\u00a0with massive quantities of food and delicious egg-yolk sauce, are a special\u00a0fondness\u00a0for me as are Italian\u00a0restaurants\u00a0with creamy pasta dishes and tiramisu. \u00a0I crave Pizza and anything with cheese as well as breads and other high-carbohydrate items. \u00a0Deep fry anything and i’ll give it a whirl (except the crickets I saw once at a street vendor in Bangkok, Thailand). \u00a0Combine this with eating fast food for lunch and living a sedentary\u00a0lifestyle\u00a0over the past 5 years and it is no wonder I’ve gained weight.<\/p>\n
I’m 5′ 10”, 38 years old and overweight by more than I care to admit. \u00a0I still have energy and can still get out and do things but I don’t want to get to a point where I can’t and so, at 280 lbs, I’ve decided to do something about it. \u00a0After hearing advertisements on a local radio station about Medifast <\/a>I\u00a0began\u00a0to look into it.<\/p>\n My research took me all over the web from reviews to case studies to supposed medical publications. \u00a0I’m\u00a0leery\u00a0of a lot of online reviews because it is so easy to fake good and bad reviews about a product on the web these days but the more I looked the more personal blogs and forums I found that indicated this diet worked. \u00a0A few Facebook friends of mine started it and seemed to be doing well and the radio personality states he has lost 20lbs in 4 weeks. \u00a0That seemed to fit with Medifast’s claim of 3-5 lbs per week and so I decided to test the waters.<\/p>\n Not sure that I could really get into diet food or commit to\u00a0something\u00a0like this, I started with a two week trial supply. \u00a0The decision has been made, the\u00a0order placed, the journey begins…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many years ago I started this website and my Rogue’s Reviews blog because I enjoyed sharing my thoughts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,54,10,11],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medifast","tag-diet","tag-medifast","tag-review","tag-rogue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}