Products
OPTAVIA Fuelings
Our Fuelings help make change easy. They remove the guesswork and offer a simple, nutrition-dense, delicious variety of choices to help you build new healthy habits.
All OPTAVIA Essential Fuelings and OPTAVIA Select Fuelings contain 24 Vitamins and Minerals; high-quality, complete protein; the patented probiotic GanedenBC30®; and no colors, flavors, or sweeteners from artificial sources. Best of all, each Fueling is nutritionally equivalent and portion-controlled,
so you can substitute any one for any other. Not in the mood for soup? Try a brownie instead!
Lean & Green Meals
Your Coach can help teach you another daily healthy habit: Lean & Green meals. A Lean & Green meal includes cooked lean protein plus three servings of non-starchy vegetables and up to two servings of healthy fats. That means your options are virtually unlimited, with a wide spectrum of vegetable and protein choices. Best of all, you can enjoy a Lean & Green meal any time of day — whatever works best for your schedule.
A distinguished Scientific Advisory Board
The role of our Scientific Advisory Board is to continually review the effectiveness, safety, and nutritional benefits of our products and programs. Our Scientific Advisory Board is composed of a distinguished panel of scientists and physicians from leading universities across the United States.
The work of this cross-disciplinary group builds on our heritage of a medically sound approach to healthy living and the incorporation of leading-edge, clinical research into the company's products and programs.
Lawrence Cheskin, MD
Medifast Scientific Advisory Board Chairman Associate Professor of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Director, Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center
Simon Barquera, MD, PhD
President of the Nutrition Board of Professors at the Mexican School of Public Health and Director of Research on Nutrition Policies and Programs, National Institute of Public Health
Susan Barr, PhD, RD
Professor, Food Nutrition and Health, University of British Columbia
George Bray, MD (not pictured)
Boyd Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University
John Foreyt, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Steven Heymsfield, MD
Professor and Chair, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University
Mark Messina, PhD (not pictured)
President, Nutrition Matters and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University
Sylvia B. Rowe
President of SR Strategy and Adjunct Professor at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Plans
Optimal Weight 5 & 1 Plan®
Our most popular plan is the Optimal Weight 5 & 1 Plan®. It, along with our clinically proven plan, was designed by physicians, dietitians and scientists. It helps you feel full while learning the healthy habit of enjoying six smaller meals each day. That means that every 2 to 3 hours, you’ll get to enjoy delicious, nutritious food that fits your lifestyle.
The Optimal Weight 5 & 1 Plan® is uniquely flexible and simple, with dozens of delicious, convenient, nutritionally-interchangeable, scientifically-designed Fuelings. Of course, your Coach will help you customize and choose the perfect plan to meet your personal goals.
"Take it no matter what your journey is, weight loss or not,
big or small, take it one day at a time. One day and one habit at a time.
You don't have to tackle a mountain in a day."
