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Very Happy
I have been on the 2-week prescription for 12 days and have lost 6 pds. That is even through the Thanksgiving holiday this week. I am impressed by the health benefits. My blood sugar is stable for hours and junk food no longer calls my name! I am motivated to continue because I am having such great results. I had high energy really kick in near the end of the first week and I've only been doing 30 min of moderate exercise every day. The olive oil truly made the difference for me. I used to eat diet salads with no-fat dressing - never again! There is a satisfaction that seems to really carry me through cravings and I attribute it to the regular use of olive oil.I am staying on the 2-week prescription until I lose the remaining 20 pds. I will definitely give an update. The plan is so simple that I had it memorized on the first day. Thank you, Doctor! This was very easy for me to customize for myself.Update at 4 Weeks: 10 pounds gone , over a 3rd of my goal! I even took some meals off when I finally had hormonal cravings. I decided it would be better to give in a little to cravings than to be a martyr and ultimately binge. So I enjoyed adding modest portions of spaghetti with ground beef, fruit, cheese, butter, wine, nuts, extra bread and my favorite coconut cupcake for a few days. I only gained 1 1/2 and lost it within 2 days plus more after I got back on track this last week. Understanding that I can really make progress when I'm not hormonal while maintaining (which I hope I can get better at with practice) while I am has been a wonderful discovery! I also figure that the time off balances my body because I am on the restricted part of the diet - so I feel good about having a little fruit and nuts for health. I feel so healthy and have been enjoying caviar with my sardines (buy good quality, tender sardines in olive oil). I still have a little soy or almond milk in my coffee. I love this 'diet' and will continue! 10 pounds in a month is amazing for me - It took me more than double the time to do this on another diet that was much more complicated to follow. I must have been born to eat this way.Update at 6 Weeks: Halfway to my goal weight. It was incredible to go shopping this week and fit loosely into size 10 pants when I was a tight 14 only 6 weeks ago. If I take an occasional day or two off (which I did for Christmas and blissfully enjoyed all the usual treats), I just go back to the diet 100% and the weight starts dropping again. So healthy, too! I've never been able to take days off and get back on track so easily. No more blood sugar crashes, even on off days has made me a believer. My rings have been loose for the entire 6 weeks, also.Update at almost 12 Weeks: My goal weight is in sight (10 lbs to go)! I got some butter-flavored olive oil that I love on toast every morning. I try to stay on the strict part for several days in a row and then I maintain easily in-between. I have had to overhaul my clothes and have given a lot to Goodwill. I am back in small tops and my size 10 jeans are sagging now, so it's time to go shopping for 8's. I reread the book from time to time for motivation. It's been 12 weeks, but I won't hit 3 months until Feb. 12. I am so excited that I might be at my goal weight by then. It's not that the diet is hard, but you can diet, enjoy your food, and not be starving to lose weight. I'm pretty resistant to weight loss and have to actively be on the prescription part to make progress while others can lose in the maintenance phase. It works for me like nothing else ever has!Update 20 weeks (Mid-Nov to late March 2013): I am still plugging away and it's going well. I am really getting trim and have lost about 18 lbs with 7 to go! I gained 1 1/2 last weekend eating cookies, but I don't mind. Lost it fast and painlessly in two strict prescription days of fish, chicken, eggs and vegetables (and my favorite morning toast with butter-flavored olive oil). I feel like I have finally found something that works for me for life. Life is a bit up and down and this diet works well with that. I can have an 'off' meal or two and not gain a thing most times. The cookies were a special treat and the author says he sometimes likes to indulge also. If I'm not strict, I maintain, if I indulge, I might gain a tiny bit. Definitely a loose sz 8 now in pants. Something that helped motivate me recently was the 'pause button' idea (some new book out that I saw in a news article). It helped me get a few strict days in a row, because I don't lose unless I am strict. Sorry if there is repeated information in my updates, but I truly feel and look amazingly healthy. My doctor is very happy!Mid-April 2013 - Cholesterol is down 36 points to 199! Need to buy nearly a new wardrobe for this summer.End of Oct. 2013 Will be a year in a couple of weeks. Have started showing people my driver's license picture recently and they are shocked by the change. Didn't matter if they knew me last year or not, it is a HUGE improvement. I alternate between strict days and then relaxed days. If I go way off I get stomach aches and I go right back to the Mediterranean Prescription to feel better.
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Real food and lots of it! And it works.
My brother and his wife have both followed the plan in this book for a couple of years now and have both lost significant amounts of weight AND kept it off. Because of their example, and knowing they are both gourmet chefs, love fine dining, and would not settle for a book with boring or insipid recipes, I decided to give it a try.I made my first meal today, broiled chicken (marinated in herbs, lemon, garlic, red wine vinegar, etc, skin removed after cooking) served with pan juices, and swiss chard sauteed with garlic and crushed tomatoes. I omitted the part of the chard recipe that said to boil it first; the water clinging to the leaves from washing was plenty, and I didn't want to lose the vitamins in the cooking water. Anyway, the meal was fantastic, a big plateful of food that left me quite stuffed.The chicken and fish meals are "all you can eat." You can eat as much as a half a chicken at a meal if you want, even in the two-week weight-loss kickstart! For those two weeks, it's bread ONLY at breakfast (along with an egg white and veggie omelet if you want, as big as you want!), no fruit or pasta or dairy or alcohol. These things get added back in later, along with whole grains. The two weeks can be repeated until weight loss goals are reached, and then one goes on the more liberal maintenance plan.This diet is "do-able" for me because many of these foods I serve to my family already: fish, chicken, greens, lentil soup, etc. So during the weight-loss period, I can prepare the same foods for them that I'm eating, and simply add a potato or some rice or something extra for them if they clamor for it.It's obvious why one will lose weight in the first two weeks: hardly any bread, no snacks, no sweets (not even fruit), no alcohol, no red meat, no dairy. Breakfast is pretty much the same each day but the author gives you a full menu plan and recipes for lunches and dinners. You can mix and match. What I'm wondering is how to keep the weight off in the maintenance phase, when pasta, dairy, fruit, some red meat, whole grains, etc are added back in. I'm trusting in the results I see in my brother and sister-in-law. According to him, if weight starts to creep back on, he temporarily goes back to the two week diet plan.The recipes are all quite simple. For the first two weeks, you will see some repetition of ingredients; tomatoes, lemon juice, parsley, oregano, balsamic or red wine vinegar, chicken, fish. But there are a couple of soups you can make, as well as grilled shrimp and some interesting salads such as chick pea salad or tuna and tomato salad. That one uses canned tuna, but I bought a tuna steak I'm going to broil and flake instead. It's all food you can feel good about eating, and does not remotely seem like diet food!
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