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( 3 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: 06-12-2006
I was getting very frustrated. I had been counting all my calories (1100 to maybe 1200 a day max with very low fat foods, yet according to a professional nutrionist and my doctor, I should be able to eat 1400 calories a day and lose 1 to 2 pounds a week for my age, weight, activity, etc.). I was eating balanced food groups, aerobically walking 2.8 miles a night, and doing additional exercise classes a few times a week. So, I should have been losing a lot of weight, right? I wasn't, I was barely losing 1 or 2 pounds a month (yes, a month, not a week like I should have been for normal weight loss). I'd been doing this for months and wanted to scream at the lack of progress. Why wasn't it working???? Well, I went to a health seminar at my local health food store and met a wonderful doctor who explained what was wrong to me (yes, she works for New Chapter, but it appears she knew her stuff and was right... read on). If you gained weight under stress, according to her, and you were not eating healthy, your body developed excess toxins, more than it could process and expel (i.e. potty out ). To protect yourself from the toxins, your body stored the toxins in fat cells surrounded by other fat cells like a prison. She said that when you burn those cells, you release those toxins back into the body. So, your body is going to resist burning those fat cells last after anything else. So, if you are dieting (eating low calorie, low fat and balanced meals) and exercising (30 minutes 4 to 5 times a week), and you're still not losing, she said this phenomenon or condition is probably why. In order to encourage your body to let you burn those cells, you need to pump up the antioxidants (to help process the toxins) and you need to encourage the thermogenics (to encourage the burning of fat). You also need to reduce stress and balance blood sugar levels (to prevent new toxins from being stored) .... Okay, so that is all the gobblety-gook about why I tried it and what she said this product did. Well, who really knows about all that? I don't know, and no I don't work for the company or have any interest in them. But, what I can tell you, is this. I tried it. I was doing the same eating, same exercising,... first week ... lost 4 pounds and I have continued to lose at 2 to 4 pounds a week (averaging three a week). I am thrilled. Is that superfast? No. But it is like 300 to 400% faster than I was losing before and I've not done anything differently. In fact, I now have a couple hundred extra calories more a day (approx. 1400 calories a day) and I am still losing at least 2 pounds a week. Also, family and friends have commented on how much healthier I'm looking (good coloring to my complexion and stuff like that) and everyone is commenting on my noticeable weight loss. I've lost even more inches than the weight on the scale would suggest. So, I am pleased. P.S. It was nice to learn that the company also professes to be ecologically responsible. I can't guarantee this will work for you, but it sure is working for me. It isn't cheap, but it's been worth every penny I've spent so far. Good luck to you!
