DOWN with High Cholesterol

 

Oh wow!  What a great day.  Went today for my blood work results.  Doc and I had quite a conversation.  I knew the results were gonna be good when he wouldn't show them to me right away and pulled up a chair and asked me EXACTLY what did I do these last sixty days.

Here's the GREAT news.  It even blew me away.  There is NO WAY I could have guessed that BiosLife Slim could bring my numbers down like this.   I don't think my doc has ever seen these kinds of results with statin medications that are prescribed.  He was excited with me.  We will do another follow up in three months to see what more we can achieve. 

Are you ready?

11 lbs. down and 25 inches. 

September 26, 2011                               Dec 5, 2011  sixty days later

Total Cholesterol          350                             258       -92

LDL                              249                              159      -90

HDL                                 43                                43         0

Triglyercerides             288                                279        -9  it went down and                                                                              not UP for a change

Hba1c                          6.1                                    5.6    (normal is between 4.0 and 6.0)  6.5 they put you on meds for diabetes

So let's everyone get out and do the gratitude dance for the SCIENCE behind Unicity.  This is AMAZING.

Okay, here's the questions that have come up already.  

Did you change your diet?  NO~we have eaten healthfully but not fanatically for years and even more so since the age of 40.

Did I exercise more, NO ~ I exercised less.  I am working with a coach from the TRANSFORMATION program in Unicity and he told me I was exercising TOO much previously and he had me cut down my exercise from 1-2 hours per day to only 30 minutes per day and take two days off.  

I never skipped a meal, still ate eggs and steak and some ice cream and also had a week long road trip of eating in fast food places and Thanksgiving in there.  Now can anything be better than BIOSLIFE SLIM to TRANSFORM you from the inside out?

Let's hear your stories.  Keep 'em rolling in.  Will post my brother's blood sugar results tomorrow after one week of using BIOSLIFE SLIM two times per day.  AMAZING.

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Bill Chapman’s Story

 

Bill Chapman

I can't believe how simple - yet professional this Life Transformation Program is and it really works great in comparisom to all the other things I've tried in the past 30+ years. I'm only just starting in my 3rd week of the program and my daily insulin use (I'v been on an insulin pump for over 6 years) has come from over 120 units per day down to less than 50 units per day. I was told my pancreas was dead a few years ago and would have to be removed or I'd die and I was on around 500 units (10 shots a day) of insulin daily just to get my blood glucose readings down to 180). I've used good nutrition and spent tens of thousands of $$$$s these last few years to get my diabetes to where it was before I started the Slim. Since starting on just the Slim G and getting such good results I decided to really get serious and do the Life Transformation. I've lost lots of inches and over 25 pounds total and I feel so much better. My blood pressure is finally normal again for the first time in ten years. This is Bill’s starting picture.  I will see if I can get him to post his ending picture when he gets through his thirteen weeks.  Stay tuned.

Bill is writing about joining the TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM through Unicity.  It is a fabulous program for anyone at any state of their health.  You receive all the products you need for thirteen weeks and you get a personal coach assigned to you.  Your coach will assess your lifestyle, your capabilities , and your eating patterns. You will then receive and work with your coach on a program tailor made for YOU!! 

With all I know about nutrition and fitness I still chose to go through the TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM to learn more and for the accountability factor with my exercise.  To my amazement my coach cut my exercise time from over an hour a day to thirty minutes. What a surprise.

Dr. Neal Secrist, former Air Force surgeon, who most people would say was physically fit and in very good shape went through the program and he lost ten pounds and pulled his belt in a notch. 

If you want to see what your body can transform into in just thirteen weeks JOIN US in a complete TRANSFORMATION from the inside out.  You’ll really be glad you did.

www.unicity.net  If you haven’t yet joined Unicity then use my Franchise Number to get started.  111766801  Click on opportunity and then join.

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And the stories are rolling in….

Whew, what a fun whirlwind this is.  To have a product that is so effective and reliable is just the greatest thing to share with people.  I can’t stop myself from telling people that there is something out there that can change their lives.  I would feel guilty if I didn’t tell them.  It’s their choice but I at least have to let them know it’s available.

Now to share some of the great happenings with you.  Over Thanksgiving….I came home one pound down and half an inch off.  I ate pie, I ate stuffing, I ate potatoes we were on the road, I ate hamburgers from fast food places (yuk) but I always ate my SLIM first!  I ate extra slim. 

Benny B. Weiler Hi everybody, got my new Lab results today! Since the beginning (8 Weeks) my HbA1c dropped from 10.4 to 5.9, my Cholesterol dropped -36 to 193, LDL - 32 to 131, HDL +5 to 42, Trgycerides -200 to 158. Looks like Transformation was my last exit to health!

Hi Janeen,  Five weeks:  P____ and I both are seeing results.   I am down about 6-7 lbs. and several inches.  I can tell especially with some pants that I wear.  I actually went out and bought a new pair of jeans this past weekend a size smaller...still a little tight (P___doesn't think so) but I can button them!  :)  I do like how easy it is!  I have been kind of watching what I am eating since I'm paying for this, to get better results...so hopefully it will keep working.  I haven't exercised at all, so that's impressive in itself!!  I did go off of my iron supplements and have another Dr. appt. next month, so we'll see if that is making any difference.  It's funny, I actually look forward to drinking the shake now, whereas, when I first started, I almost gagged!  I like mixing it with 10-11 0z. of water and then just shaking it a little.  I have noticed that I don't crave sweets so much anymore!  I have not been able to give up my large diet coke from McD's that I have once a day.  Do you think that would make a big difference.  I do drink TONS of water besides the d. coke.  Any thoughts?  Suggestions? A Happy Customer,  Cynthia           update:  I suggested to C.  she might enjoy the Matcha Energy to help her get away from her diet coke habit.  She used Matcha for two days.  The first day she bought the coke and drank only 1/2 of it, the second day, she only drank 1/4 of it and threw it out.  She is very excited about this and will continue with the Matcha from Unicity.

K.S.    I did get my slim and lost 4 1/2 pounds during Thanksgiving week.  It's great!  It's only a few pounds but I can feel it in my legs already.  Thanks for getting me started on it.

Hi Janeen....

Just want to tell you about my cholesterol blood test that I had last Thursday at my doctor's office.   They called me today with the results.

November 2010:    Cholesterol.............313  

October 2011:       Cholesterol...........258                                 

Readings should be    CHOL....................110 - 200    

November   2010     Triglycerides.........  132                                       

October 2011          Trig........................83  

Readings should be  TRIG.....................  40 - 150

November 2010          LDL....................... 244    

October 2011               LDL....................  199                                                  Readings should be     LDL......................    0 - 100

My cholesterol is usually around 350.     I need to get those HDL's up!!   And the LDL's down!!

My blood pressure has been really high this past year, and I was taking 50 mg of Toprol twice a day.

My reading on Thursday was 126/62..... so the doctor said I should cut the dose to 50 mg only once a day.

I was only on the Unicity SLIM-G product for 10 days before my blood test.

Ramona   (ramona had open heart surgery 12 years ago, has also had a stent put in since then, and is intolerant to statin medications. What wonderful results after only TEN days)

Okay, that’s it for now.  There’s more but I think this is enough for now.  I will save some for next week. 

Posting Skinny Pics

 

What a great feeling to be getting back into some of these clothes.  We are going shopping tonight though.  Most of the tops I have are too large and sloppy looking and many of them have lost their elasticity due to being s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out of shape for so long.  They didn’t look like that when I was filling them out but now, now you can see they have no stretch left in ‘em. 

So here’s a picture Gilbert took of me last evening.  I haven’t worn this skirt for three years and the reason I kept it…it is from Talbot’s.  I just couldn’t give away some of the better clothing that I had outgrown as I always had that desire to fit back into it.  I’m so glad now I kept some of them.

 

And now you have a great view of our kitchen where so many wonderful creations take place.  We both love to cook and we are not shy about eating.  Do you suppose that might be why we gained the weight?  One would think, but really we haven’t changed the way we eat.  We just have no desire to snack and we are satisfied, way satisfied, like we can’t eat any more satisfied with half the portions we used to eat. 

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MEASURING AGAIN

What an exciting journey.

One thing I am not….not very good at remembering how I figured out something the week before.  I really have no idea how I got those charts to show up on here.  So my good friends, if you will bear with me, I will simply update my numbers for you. 
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks with lots and lots of people giving us their stories on BiosLife Slim.  It is the most exciting product I have ever come across.  To be all natural and do so many different things from extreme healthy weight loss to astounding cholesterol lowering effects, to diabetics calling me and being so happy they are giddy.  All these things from one amazing natural product. 
So here are the measurement stats.
The weight is now 145.6 and still have that 10.5 lbs. gone and the inches this week stayed the same at 22 gone.  I am not disappointed or anxious.  I know my body will take care of itself the way it knows how to do.  I’m thinking this is the week it wants to lower some of those internal fats.  I know this.  For the past couple of years when I have used the treadmill my setting at the highest was 2.5 incline and 3.8 for speed.  Any faster than that and my heart rate was way out of whack.  Now I am doing intervals.  Warm up for 5-7 minutes at 3.0 and then run like the dickens for 1.5 minutes at a speed of SIX!!  Then back down to 2.5 for sixty seconds and run like the dickens at SIX for one and half minutes.  Do that six times with incline at 2.5 still.  It is a GREAT workout and keeps me in the fat burning zone physically for most of the day.  That is VERY exciting to me to be able to accomplish this.   So it’s not ALL about weight and inches.  My resting heart rate is down from 90 to 70 and my B/P was 107/65 yesterday a.m.  WOOT!!! 
Someone made the suggestion I should tell exactly what supplements I am personally using.
Taking the BiosLife Slim G three times per day before meals
Taking one Quad Plex Shake or Lean Complete (both from Unicity) at least once per day most days and sometimes two per day. Mix these with lots of goodies.  Yogurt, nuts, pineapple, milk, seeds, any kind of frozen fruit or berries except bananas (way high on the glycemic index) peanut butter.  Adding ingredients to your shakes will keep you satisfied much longer than just a shake.
Two capsules per day of Omega Life 3 (fish oil supplements) from Unicity
Two separate servings of LiFiber into my Bioslim before the two largest meals. 
I did not start out with this variety of products but have learned about them since starting and felt they were excellent replacements for things I was using similar to this but a different brand.  Decided I would buy from my own Franchise, smart idea, that is, eh?
So there you have it.  I don’t have any current picture to post.  I forgot to have hubby photo me on Sunday when I wore my skinny clothes and was kind of dressed up.  There will be some coming.  Plus I will post the really awful ones too sometime in Dec.  accccckkkkk!!!!   Putting myself out on the line there.  Have a wonderful week, enjoy the journey, let your body in it’s wisdom create the new you in it’s own time frame.  Don’t rush it.  

A Sticky Subject

Sean has long been a favorite of mine…Enjoy.

So many of you have been telling me that you are very happy with your big accomplishments in the morning since starting your BiosLife Slim.  YES!!! That is very good news. I thought you might like the education my friend Sean from Underground Wellness has provided.  You can do this with corn too if you don’t like to eat beets. 

One of the things that added fiber does is help with the digestion of fats.  Don’t be afraid of eating the good fats.  It will help you go to the bathroom easier.  When you see your stool floating and in a solid piece then you know that your fats are not being stored.  Fat floats!  Did you ever see the grease on top of chili or chicken soup?  It floats.

Good fats are not your enemy in a healthy lifestyle.  The starchy carbohydrates create the environment for storing fats.  Watch video #2 again at www.pgdnews.com

If you want to help your digestive system and have the excitement of being very productive in the morning, run, don’t walk to your phone and give me a call.  BiosLife Slim makes pooping EASY!!! 

715-449-4113  Call my office today!     ~Janeen

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ITS NOT A DIET

 

Here’s a picture of my salad lunch I made the other day.  That is avocado and swiss cheese peeking out under the tomato.

I am having so much fun sharing the news about Bios Life Slim.  And what terrific stories we are getting back.  It is so rewarding to know that lives can be changed within days.  I just have to tell people about this.  It’s like Owen from the Bahamas told us.  “If you know about this and you don’t tell people, it’s the same as if you are responsible for their death.  You have the obligation to tell people about this.  Let them make the decision but please don’t be negligent is letting them know about it.” ~~

GT says he is now down five pounds and very happy about that.  He is looking thinner so the inches are starting to go away too.  But you know guys; they can’t take the time to measure.  But you can see it, oh yes you can.
R. from the East coast called me this a.m. SO excited.  She JUST started on the Slim G on Wednesday this week and in only two days, her doctor has already taken away a 1/2 a pill that she was taking for diabetes.  She is excited about the prospect of getting off more of those meds.


Pete from Wausau told us in two months he has lost 11 pounds and three and a half inches.  His sugar numbers have been stable and they stay around 100 now.  He used to be on five pills to get it to do that.


Joyce from Wausau, another type 2 diabetic she hasn’t been on pills and has tried controlling her diabetes with diet but wasn’t doing such a good job as it stayed about 127 and now after two months of Bio Slim her sugar levels stay around 105 and makes her doctor a whole lot happier.  Her blood pressure was always running dangerously high at 270/135 and heart rate of 135.  Now her pressure is 150/52.


Sharon from Merrill, WI.  says she didn’t weigh or measure but knows her clothes are fitting better and thinks she has lost about five lbs. in two weeks and finds she is eating less already.


MY PROGRESS  Those size 8’s I was joyful about last posting….they are too baggy to look nice.  What?? Yes indeed.  On Monday I was down 2.5 more inches and one more pound.  The way my clothes are fitting I know Monday is going to be a pleasant surprise.


Join the happy people and let me share your story here.
Go to www.pgdnews.com watch the first two videos and then call me, e-mail me, leave me a comment and don’t delay.  You could still lose 5-6 inches before Christmas and even up to twenty pounds. 


It’s not a diet, no counting calories, or points.  Just shake, drink,  wait ten minutes and eat your meals.  It couldn’t be any easier.  See you next week.

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Fitting into smaller clothes

Oh this is SO much fun.  I kind of forgot that I even had these jeans in my drawer.  But the top three pairs I’ve been grabbing are now too baggy looking to look nice.  So I threw them in the give away pile.  What’s this??  Ah, I forgot about these.  These cute bells that I bought in Jan 2009 when I was out in Palm Springs.  I didn’t get much use out of them.     But they were so happy to get out of the drawer and into the sunlight yesterday.  So I just had to take a picture of the tag and also the “ahem” derriere to show you that they fit.  I’m not poured into them they just fit nicely.  Now that’s worthy of the Gratitude Dance. 

 It’s kind of hard to take a self portrait when you are trying to go for full length so it is a bit blurry.

size petite 8!!!!

wowsas!

 

 

Here’s what I did after pulling them on.  This’ll give you a workout.

Okay I was trying to post a video from youtube but it won’t let me for some reason so just cut and paste this or click on the link and go have some fun for a couple of minutes.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9z2ELaBVJY&list=FL2CqxXwD4nnK8g6CydoN4fQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video

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oh what fun

It’s such a great feeling to be helping people with change their lives.  There are now fifteen new people that have joined me in the endeavor to change their blood level numbers and also to lose the inches and pounds.  We are all having fun watching our numbers change.  So it’s been a busy couple of weeks and now I want to post some of those changes.

First of all here is Donna’s account with her permission to share it. She only used the product for TEN days!!!

November 2, 2011

My name is Donna Sanchez. I want to share with you my results after using the BiosLife Slim product for just two weeks.

I received my Bioslife Slim on October 10, 2011. I have my cholesterol tested every year. For the past three years my total cholesterol has gone up.

I started with a new doctor this year and because she was concerned about my numbers consistently rising she wanted to have me tested more frequently. I had my first test with her taken on June 15, 2011 and then she wanted to test it again in October.

My sister-in-law told me about BiosLife Slim and told me to watch the videos on www.pgdnews.com Since I knew this blood test was coming up I wanted to get started with the BiosLife Slim right away and had them expedite the shipping so I could get started.

My Bioslife Slim arrived on October 10^th, 2011. I immediately opened the box and mixed up my shake right away with my next meal. So that was the beginning. I used the Bioslife Slim twice a day and had my appointment on October 19^th, 2011 to have that cholesterol checked again.

Here’s my stats from June 15-Oct 19^th for the blood work I had done.

Total Cholesterol on June 15 was 233, on October 19 it was down to 205

HDL’s on June 15 were 88 and on October 19 it went up to 94 which is a GOOD thing.

LDL’s which is the lethal kind on June 15^th was 135 and on October 19 it had dropped to 99 which is now in the normal range.

My doctor and I are both so excited about this. I didn’t change anything I did for eating or even exercise because I injured my back. I strongly feel the good results were from using BiosLife Slim. I can hardly wait to see what the next test will bring.

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NEW CLOTHES

It's been a busy ten days. Several people went with me or met me at the Unicity BiosLife Slim meeting we went to in Wausau. Everyone that went was so impressed with what they heard that they are all on board with the product. Enough for them and their families.
Here's a website you can look at for more information.    www.resultswithslim.com
You want to see results?? Here's a picture Sarah took of me this morning. She said, Mom, we have to take you shopping, your skirt is TOO BAGGY and makes you look frumpy. Well that astounded me because I was just so happy to be able to fit into that skirt again I didn't realize it was too big for me. LOL Five weeks ago I tried on this skirt before our church convention and decided it was going on the rummage pile. I couldn't wear it because it was too uncomfortably tight in the waist to sit all day in it. LOOK AT THAT!!! I'm happy to keep it on the rummage pile but now it's because it's too big!! I am so excited.

If you want to look good by Christmas and weigh in twenty pounds lighter and many inches removed, Call me, text me, e-mail me, comment on this post, SOMETHING to get a hold of me so we can get you started right away.

three week comparison

Thought you might like to see a three week picture comparison.  Let me tell you I was shocked this a.m. when I pulled on what used to be a very snug pair of jeans and I had to find a belt to put with them.  The fun thing about that; I anticipated a couple of weeks ago that I might be needing a belt and picked one up at a thrift shop.  It was kind of small around the waist and the tip just went through the loop with only the tip showing.  Today,  I pulled that belt two inches through the loop!  WOOT!  How fun is THAT????!!! 

So here I am with the same shirt on that I had on Sept 26th.  What do you think?  Can you tell a difference?

Think about it, there are three and a half, Three Week periods left in this year.  What would it mean to you if you could go into the New Year without bringing all that baggage with you? What if, on New Years Day you wouldn’t have to make that same old resolution once again?  You wouldn’t have to say This year, I’m going to get in shape because you will already be there.  Won’t that be fun?  I’m enjoying the journey and hope to fit into that little black dress that still hangs in my closet.    Click the link below to see WHY this works.  No pills, no frills, no skipping meals, no cravings.  Just one little click, go ahead.

http://www.unicityvideo.com/previews/preview.php?vid=95 

Then, e-mail, call, text, get a hold of me so you can get started.  Three and a half three week slots is all that’s left of this year. 

janeenkay@gmail.com

715-449-4113  Let’s talk.

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m & m’s-MONDAY’S MEASURING

Women	Start	WK1	Wk2	Wk3
Neck	14.5	14.25	14.25	14.25
Chest Above Breast	40	39.5	39	38
Bra Band	36	36	36	36
Bust	41	38.5	38.5	38.5
Waist	37.5	36	36	35.75
Hips	42	41.5	41	41
Abdomen	40.25	40	39	38.75
R Upper Arm	12.6	12	11.75	11.75
L Upper Arm	12	11.5	11.5	11.5
R Thigh	24.4	23.75	23	22
L Thigh	24.25	24	23.5	22
R Calf	14.5	14.5	14.25	14.25
L Calf	14.5	14.5	14.5	14.5
Totals	353.5	346	342.25	338.25

You might notice these measurements are a bit different than the ones I first posted.  That’s because I realized I didn’t include the one chest measurement the first time I posted.  Somehow I missed that row.  So now it is in the chart.   Lookee there, I figured out how to add the chart. TA DA!!

WOOT!!  That is over 15 inches gone in three weeks.  Now I am really pumped.  No wonder that blouse fit!  Did I tell you about the blouse?  I have this red blouse and for over two years I haven’t been able to button it because it pulled and gapped.  I used to be able to button it when I bought it.  I have been using it as an over blouse for sleeveless dresses or tank tops.  Yesterday, I put it on over a sleeveless dress and I couldn’t believe it, it overlapped the button hole side by a full inch. 

That’s enough excitement for today.  I promise you tomorrow I will post that picture of all the books that I have tried to lose weight with

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by following their plans over the years.  I promise!!

All Those Methods

All Those books!

I know you’re not going to believe this, but yes indeed, I did read and try most of these.  Some of the Prevention ones I just read because most of them were aggressive exercise and standing on your head type things.  You had to join a gym or have special equipment.  But every time a new month rolled around I would look quickly at the article that told how you could lose it and have a flat belly in 2 weeks or some such ridiculous time frame.

In addition to these I did Susan Powter.  Remember Stop the Insanity?  Well, looking back….I do believe that is when I started packing on the pounds.  Susan’s mantra was it takes fat to make fat and she advocated high carb-lo fat.  Well it sounded good to me at the time but I do believe that is where the Leptin Resistance started kicking in.  She said you could eat all the calories you wanted as long as they didn’t have much fat in them.  Funny, there are a couple of doctors out there who advocate this too.  Let’s see, there’s Dr. Neal Benard, Dr. Pritkin, and a couple of others.  Another book that is missing is Barry Sears eating 40/30/30  40 g carbs, 30 g protein, 30 g fat.  I tried Deepak Chopras spiritual way to lose weight. And there are probably others.  Nutritional books were kind of an addiction with me.  I liked to read and try things too so I could help other people.

Here’s the picture you have been waiting for….well one of them,  I promise I will post the Before pictures sometime before ninety days is up.  Without further delay, got that drum roll going?

Stories and More Stories

What’s not to like about this?

NEVER SKIP A MEAL and still lose fat.

At the Unicity meeting I went to last Saturday I got to meet a few people and hear their stories about using Bios Life Slim.  It was great to meet real people face to face that have their stories to tell.  I’d like to share them with you.

First off, was Wes.  Wes is eighty-seven.  Here is his story as he told it.  “A few months back I went to the doctor and he told me I had diabetes.  That scared me.  He put me on some pills for it.  It really scared me.

When I told my neighbor, he told me about this product his daughter had used to lose weight and it was supposed to be good for diabetics.  Well, Julie came over and talked to me and I bought a couple of boxes but when it came, I had lost my interest and just threw it in the cupboard.  I waited two months and then I had to go back to the doc.  He scared me again and I came home and started taking this stuff.  When I went back (to the doctor) two months later, he said, well Wes, your cholesterol went up a little bit but your A1C (diabetic test) came down from 8 to 6.1(4-6 is the normal range) and you’ve lost thirty pounds.  Now I wasn’t even concerned about my weight, I just figured, I am what I am and I didn’t care one bit about the weight, until the doc told me I lost thirty pounds.  Then I got excited about it.  When he wrote my prescriptions he didn’t write me anything for the diabetes. “

Jackie ~  “I run a bar so I know lots of people but I also like my three beers a day.  That’s who I am and that’s what I do.  So Julie came in one day and told me about this product she had used to lose weight and I could see she looked GOOD!  I bought some to humor her and it sat in my closet from January to March.  I never get in front of a camera.  NEVER!  But someone caught me over the holidays on a picture and I happened to be looking through those photos in March.  I knew I was big but that picture showed me just how big I was.  So I dug that stuff out of the closet.  I haven’t changed a thing about the way I eat but I dropped forty-one pounds.  I went from a size 16 to a size 8.  I still eat pasta, I still drink my three beers a day, all I do, because I’m not hungry after drinking my Bios Life Slim, is when I go out to eat, I ask for a to go box right away and I put half of my meal in there and take it out to the car right away.  I was raised to clean my plate so even if I’m not hungry, I would eat it anyway, but now I’m so uncomfortable if I do that, I just cut it in half and I’m completely satisfied but not stuffed anymore.”

Helen ~  “I got on this to lose weight a couple of months ago.  It had to be simple for me, or I wouldn’t do it.  I have said for a long time, the only way I’ll lose weight is if someone sews my mouth shut.  I haven’t changed anything about the way I eat, I just don’t want as much to eat.  We went out last night and I ordered the big steak and baked beans like I always do but I could only eat 1/3 of it and those beans that I love, I had half of them.  I took the rest home.  I like beer too and I had my two beers.  I haven’t changed anything and I have lost twenty-seven pounds in two  months.”

So there you have it.  If after watching the videos and reading the stories, you want to get started so you look GREAT by Christmas, leave me a comment, call me, e-mail me, Let’s have fun and lose this fat together!  To your good health!  Thanks for visiting.

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On losing FAT

losing weight and losing fat are two different things

There are exciting things going off around here.  The scale now shows OUT of the 150’s.  Woot!  And that’s a happy thing.  That means I have lost over 1/2 a foot of weight.  Think of a seven inch bed of concrete laid down and that’s how much fat is gone from my body.  I say that because it’s not only seven pounds gone now but seven inches too! 

It is SO fun,  I mean, REALLY fun to pull on clothes that I didn’t- couldn’t wear this summer and actually be able to zip them up.  The pants I took my before picture in (you haven’t seen it yet, but you will)  They actually sit now right below my belly button where they are supposed to sit.  Before, because of the fat, I had them pushed down and the waistband was still rolling over.  And the fat, well the fat hung over like the  big ole muffin top it was. 

BEAUTY~ I am not skipping any meals.  I’m eating like I normally would.  I have more energy as the fat burns and I feel great, especially looking in the mirror.  WOOT!  My blood pressure this a.m. was 104/67 MUCH more in range for me.  My pressure used to always run on the low side and what is normal for others is high for me.

Now for the lesson~ Losing Fat vs Losing Weight

Quick, the store is having a sale, it’s 5 lbs. for three dollars.  Let’s go!  Whaaaattt??? Five lbs. of WHAT? 

Yep that’s what you should be asking when you begin your fat loss journey.  Do you want to lose FAT or do you just want to lose pounds?  Pounds could be losing critical muscle and water.  Yep, you’ll see the numbers on the scale go down and eventually you will see inches go down too because starvation always equals inches lost eventually.  But when you see the inches go down and sometimes even more than the weight, then you will know you are on the right track.

Let’s take a look at some popular weight loss programs that get pitched to us.  (names changed slightly so there will be no copyright infringements)  Use your imagination. :0

Waste Watchers:  Yep, how many people do you know who have been this route?  mmm-hmm I think everyone of us knows someone.  Were they successful in taking the weight off?  Most of them were.  Were they successful in keeping it off.  Most of them were NOT.  Within a year every single person had gained all of their weight back and within the second year they have gotten much larger than before.  Why is this?  WW is based on starvation.  You get calories proportioned out to you based on your goal and your starting weight.  When you eat less than it takes for your Basic Metabolism Rate (BMR )to keep a couch potato alive, your body will begin to use muscle for fuel.   Muscle is where the fat is utilized.  If you decrease the size of the muscle you have LESS fat burning capability.  The body says, “I’m starving” and it saves the fat.  The muscle gets smaller.  So when you decrease your calories and increase your activity your body actually stores fat.  It wants to burn the fat but if the furnace (muscle)  is smaller how can you get more wood (fat) in there?  Does that make sense?  What you want to do is have your furnace be more efficient.  (kudos to WW…they now say cutting calories is not working and allow endless fruits and veggies to count as no points)

You do this by NEVER eating lower calories than your BMR.  How to you calculate that?  It’s simple.  Take your current weight and take 10% of it.  Add two zeros.  If you currently weigh 160 lbs.  It takes 1600 K (calories) just to keep you breathing and your heart functioning and all those other good organs inside.  

If you go on a 1200K “diet” you will be starving your body of 400K per day and you will lose weight and you will lose the ability of your body to burn fat effectively.  So when you stop going to the WW meetings because you have met your goal, and you’re all happy and you start eating again, the body can’t burn the non-diet extra calories up, your furnace has gotten smaller and your fat storage capacity has become larger and so you store more fat. 

Same thing with Jinny Crage, they feed you processed food in small quantities.  Where is the nutrition in that?  Very little in there the body can use, it uses energy (calories) to try and process all the processed food and you lose weight.  I had a friend who operated a system like this in Canada and they weren’t health experts.  Anyone can buy a franchise.  They couldn’t figure out, how come when the people were through their program their weight was down but their body fat percentage was up?  Hmmm…they felt they were helping people and they wanted to help people, that’s why they bought the franchise but they were disappointed with the results.   She told me they had lots of repeat customers because very few of them could keep the weight off once they left the structured meal program. They sold the franchise.

I hope this session has been helpful for you in understanding a bit about the internal workings of our body.  Just for the record……when we get desperate to lose weight, most of us will try anything, regardless of the health consequences.  I KNOW all this stuff and yet, about four years ago, I went ahead and joined WW on line and tried it for about six months.  The problem….because I knew all that, I didn’t follow the program very well and , well I did gain a few more pounds. 

Tomorrow….I will tell you all the weight loss systems I have tried since 1996 when my fat started showing up and I weighed only 120 lbs. then.  Wouldn’t I love to see that weight again?!  Yep, I had a poufy belly starting back then and that was the beginning of my weight watching.  Of course, I didn’t know then what I know now.  See you tomorrow. 

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Sunday October 9, 2011

CATCHING UP

Where did the week go?  Let’s back up to Wednesday.  What I can remember.  I took a couple pics of our meals for the day.  This was lunch.  I used a couple teaspoons of avocado oil to saute the veggies and tofu.  As soon as they are tender crisp and tofu a little brown I add a big splash of Bragg’s Liquid Aminos.  This made a very satisfying and healthy lunch.

 

One of my favorite foods. Chicken done on the grill.  This was so succulent and yummy.  It’s called BARE chicken because it’s grown without hormones and processed without being steeped in a salt water solution or injected with sodium.  If you look at most chickens and pieces in the store you will see they contain up to a 15% solution of sodium.  That helps to preserve them because of the terrible way they handled them.  It also plumps up the chicken and makes the meat absorb and hold water.  More $ per pound for the sellers.   If it makes the chicken retain water, what do you think eating that chicken will make your body do?  Yep, take in the sodium and retain water, creating extra poundage for you on the scale.

THURSDAY:  I still have this hemp protein on hand.  You can see it’s from Trader Joe’s.  Want a little tip?  Don’t buy it!  It tastes awful and it is very gritty.  Since I bought it and I know hemp seed IS good for me, I’m going to go ahead and use it up.  I’ve got about five more servings I think.  It’s preeeeettttyy bad!  Healthful ingredients but nasty on the tongue.

  Thursday, Gilbert came home and said how soon can you have a bag packed and be ready to go for a couple of days?  Well,  I had a call coming in at two so I told him about three o’clock.   So off we went up to the beauty of the North Woods.  It’s pretty here too but we went up to stay overnight by one of the lakes in Eagle River.  It was GORGEOUS.  We enjoyed our time away…so what do you eat when you are eating out?  That’s a question I get asked often.  Thursday evening we went to a supper club and had a sirloin steak, baked potato, French onion soup and a fried white piece of dough that was like Indian Fry bread.  We split the steak b/c it was twelve ounces and that seemed a tad more than either of us wanted to tackle.

For breakfast we went to a place called Dinky Diner, it has been around since 1943, just a tiny place but wow could they turn out a great breakfast. I had a three egg vegetarian omelet with swiss cheese.  I could only eat a two egg portion size.  I had 1/2 piece of whole wheat toast with it and I was very satisfied with that.  In the past, I would have eaten that whole thing because of the taste, but I had no room for it.  And YES, we did take our water, shakers and Bio-slim packs in with us and drank it before we ate.  I had to really convince Gilbert it was okay to do that.  He wouldn’t take his in the supper club but I did.   

For lunch we stopped at Subway and I chose their spinach salad with roasted chicken and built my own salad from their choices.  I topped it with vinagrette and it was super yummy.  Supper we were with Sarah, Tony and his parents and we all went out to eat after watching the salmon run in Kewaunee,  oh my that was something.  To see those big fish flying through the air going upstream on those water falls.  I took my shaker in, and ordered baked white fish and cross cut seasoned fries.  I dare say that is the first time Janeen has EVER left a french fry on her plate.  I ate only three of the fries and the others at the table ate the rest of them.  I just didn’t have any desire to eat them.

Saturday:  Was really in a hurry because the BioSlim meeting in Wausau was at 9:00 and I thought it started and 9:30 so I quick ate a couple of scrambled eggs and took an apple with me.  Lunch was 1/2 of a terrible salad from Wendy’s.  Supper was grilled pork chops, acorn squash and brown rice.   I do a lot of grilling when the season is on because it’s hard to get the heat out of the grill in the winter, even though I love grilled food, it’s just not so easy in the winter.  I start that gas grill as soon as I can in the spring.

Now that brings us to today:  Sunday:  I weighed each morning but saw no change and now today I am down another pound.  So that is six full pounds gone.  I do know tomorrow the inches will be a nice surprise too.  The skirt I am wearing today could be taken in by two inches in the waist and I bought this thing not so long ago.  I bought it and never wore it because once I got it home I just looked FAT in it.  I suppose because the shirt that goes with it was so snug the fat just showed up.  In the store I had a different shirt on with it but it didn’t match it, and I was just trying the skirt on and didn’t care about that shirt so didn’t look at it as an outfit.  Good thing it didn’t cost very much because I won’t be able to wear it again, it will be way to loose.  WOOT!!! What a great feeling.  I am SO liking this product.  (everyday I’m doing the happy dance)

For breakfast this morning I mixed that hemp protein into a glass of LifeWay Kefir.  It went down a little easier but I will be glad when that canister is empty.  Lunch was enchiladas.  I’m going to give you a picture and the recipe.  These are so easy and taste so good.

I had made a kettle of pinto beans the other day and wanted to use those up.

Here’s the recipe

Pinto Beans and Rice Enchiladas

2 cups pinto beans mashed

3/4 cup cooked brown rice

1 Tablespoon chili powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1- 8 oz package shredded Mozzarella cheese (divided)

1 – 9 oz can enchilada sauce

6 large black olives sliced

1/2 small jalapeno pepper, chopped(optional)

10 corn tortillas

Stir all ingredients together except enchilada sauce, tortillas, and half of the cheese.

Spray an 11 x 9 inch baking pan with Pam or baking spray.  Put two Tablespoons of enchilada sauce in bottom of baking pan and tilt to fully cover the bottom.  If your tortillas are refrigerator cold, microwave them for 10-15 seconds to soften so they won’t tear.  On each tortilla, place 1/4 cup of mixture and roll up and place in pan.  Carefully pour enchilada sauce over all so that each one is thoroughly covered.   Bake in a 350 oven 20 – 30 minutes so that the middle ones are hot and cheese is melted inside them.  Then, turn the oven off and top them with the remainder of the cheese and let the heat of the oven melt the cheese. 

While the enchiladas are baking, finely chop some lettuce and add some cilantro leaves and tomatoes.  In a blender or Magic Bullet, blend a half cup of buttermilk dressing with a peeled avocado.  Serve all together with the salsa of your choice.  

Two enchiladas makes a serving.  Serves 5

Hope you enjoy it.  It’s a standby for us.

I’ll post my inches lost tomorrow!  See you then!

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Tuesday oct 4 2011

Gilbert told me when I lost five pounds he would start using the product.  Well today is the day!!  Five pounds gone the first week.  That has NEVER happened before.  I have never lost five pounds in the first month.  I tend to hold on to the weight and then all my efforts and eating carefully and exercising more and drinking water bring me at the most a three pound loss per MONTH.  And that was only once otherwise it’s less than 1/2 a pound per week. 

I can see how it is that people stick with this product.  If you SEE results you are pleased and you want to see more.  (pavlov dog response, ring the bell and I’ll lose more)  ha ha  well it’s not that simple.  But really, drink fiber ten minutes before a meal, wait four hours between your two daytime meals and twelve between supper and breakfast.  Eat some protein for breakfast.  How simple is that?   Click on that September post and watch that video again if you have questions.  It says it all.

Let’s see, yesterday I had an apple and cheese for breakfast.  Lunch was this yummy combo of Tofu, stir fried celery, green peppers, onions and garlic.  I used avocado oil to stir fry in and kind of brown up that tofu. I added a couple splashes of Braggs liquid Aminos and super yum!  I have a couple of boxes of Tofu to use up before they expire (must have been a sale on ‘em) so I will probably use this for my lunch most of this week, making it fresh each time.  And every time I tell someone I ate tofu they always ask me…do you like that????  Well, Yes, I DO! 

Here’s a pic of yesterday’s lunch.

Supper was leftover roast beef, with potatoes and gravy all reheated in the same pan and then some squash.  mmmm.  love squash.

I did get out at 5:00 for a gorgeous 45 minute walk.  It was so pretty.  And man was I busy today, got all kinds of things accomplished.  I did read somewhere that energy picks up about 7-10 days in, whew, I guess it did and I slept really well last night too.  ah, that's right, I did enjoy 2 tsps of peanut butter and and apple around 4:00. All that work burned more calories likely and my body said..Snack Time. Enjoy this fine autumn day, hope it’s as beautiful by you.

Monday’s tape measure day

Also blood works results

Whoo-hooooo I really never thought I would see the day again, when I would be excited to jump on a scale and use a tape measure.

Think about it, how many times over the past few years has that been a moment to dread.  How about, if you don’t use the tape measure or scale, you don’t like looking for clothes in your closet because most of them, you KNOW are too tight.  They used to look nice and you loved them but now??? the closet is packed and we have nothing to wear.  I find myself choosing the same things over and over because in truth…I might be able to cram myself into some of those clothes but they are not comfortable to wear all day long.  I realized awhile back that fitting into something and looking good in it are two very different things.

How about, I can wear it but I have to wear a long shirt and the skirt is unzipped two inches so I can breathe.  Yep, done all that and I didn’t like myself one bit during that process.

You know what happened today???? It’s exciting for me…I pulled on the comfortable pair of new capris that I just bought about a month ago, the size 14 pair….they are TOO LOOSE.  If I had tried these on that day and they fit like this, I would have left them there and tried on the twelve.  It would be the reverse of what actually happened.  I tried on the twelve, they were tight, I grudgingly went back for the fourteen and sighed with resignation that I simply cannot lose weight.

So here are todays results.  I’m not going to post the individual inches lost every week.  I would if I could figure out how to put a chart on here that I could add to, but you’ll be happy to rejoice with me because FIVE and A QUARTER INCHES are no longer on my body.  ( doin’ the happy dance here)  Yes, FIVE and a QUARTER INCHES, and down four pounds.  So don’t get discouraged if you find you aren’t losing a pound a day, the inches coming off are just as fun and actually healthier too.  You can lose weight and store fat, what you want to do is lose the fat and in some cases increase the weight as your muscles tone up and become more efficient at burning the fat.  Yep, your muscle is the furnace. 

And here’s the blood work

Total Cholesterol 350 Normal levels 200 and lower

HDL (the good guys) 43  40 and above the higher the better

LDL (the bad guys) 249   4-100

Triglycerides 288    150 and lower the lower the better

Glucose  95 65-100

Blood Pressure 136/80  normal for me is 120/70

So there you have it, let’s watch these numbers change.

Thanks for checking in! 

Sunday’s Post

 

No weight loss today. but man, that dress I wore last Sunday sure looked a lot better on me today than last week.  I’m excited to be taking measurements tomorrow.

Today’s meals:

Breakfast:  I wasn’t very hungry at all when I woke up.  I drank my fiber drink and had a pear and a piece of longhorn colby cheese.

Lunch:  MMMM  old fashioned pot roast with potatoes, onions and carrots all cooked together and home made gravy.  I had a plate that was full.  Two whole carrots, one small potato, 1/2 a large onion, lots of gravy and about four ounces of meat.  I ate that and that was all.  My normal habit is to keep eating for taste.  You know, it just tastes so good.  I almost always have three potatoes with gravy and at least another ounce of meat with gravy.  I could NOT do it.  I could not eat another bite.  Gilbert couldn’t believe that was it!  What he said, you’re not eating more than me for a change?  LOL

(clarification here!  I am NOT trying to deliberately eat less of anything.  I am NOT fixing any “special” foods, I am NOT saying oh, yum, I could eat more but I won’t)

It was so beautiful out today.  I just wanted to go for a walk.  I grabbed my camera and went out just walking, not pushing, not over exertion, but not strolling.  Just walking and stopping whenever I wanted to take a picture or two.  Saw some beautiful butterflies and the milkweed is opening.  I walked for about forty minutes. 

Snack:  I was a tiny bit hungry at 4:00 and we were watching the football game on our laptops and I ate an apple and a Tablespoon of peanut butter. It’s a favorite standby snack.   ( Packers  beat the Broncos and now are 4-0)

Supper: Now, since I snacked, I’m not hungry.  Something light then.  I had this soup in the cupboard and added to it the leftover ring of bolgona which was about seven ounces.  I heated up the last of the cornbread and had a small piece of that to go along with the bologna soup. Ha ha.  A new concoction.  Here’s the soup pic.

I go to the doctor tomorrow morning and will go ahead and post my stats.  You’ll be shocked I know but that cholesterol and triglycerides is something I have battled with even when I only weighed 100 lbs. at age twenty one.  Being thin outside doesn’t mean you don’t have internal fat.

Good Night, then, til tomorrow!