How did I lose the weight?

Quick chat about your thyroid disease: 

This is very important about your thyroid disease and your symptoms that just won't go away - if your doctor isn't listening to you - FIND ONE WHO WILL!  If you don't know what those optimum levels are, read Overcoming Thyroid Disorders by Dr. David Brownstein or Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment by Janie A. Bowthorpe.  These books helped me learn what my body needed and gave me the confidence (by providing good information - knowledge is power) to find a good doctor.  I haven't felt this good in ten years!

OK, onto the weight loss I am experiencing right now:

I am on day 14 of my 17-day diet and have lost almost ten pounds. I would've lost more except I cheated a few times - kids wanted pizza, hubby ordered carrot cake - you know how it goes:( I am 2.9 pounds away from my first goal. Yeah!! After being overweight for almost ten years, I am feeling GREAT! Did I starve myself?  Nope.  Did I take pills that made living near the bathroom 24/7 a requirement?  Nope.  Did I fast?  Nope.  Liquid diet?  Nope.  Did I have to measure my food into small portions?  Heck no!  Did I eat all I wanted of the foods I was told to eat in phase 1 of the 17-day diet?  Yes!  (FYI - There are four phases to this eating plan, each phase is 17 days.  I will probably go right from phase 1 to 4 because I've done so well with the weight loss.) 


It has been coming off so easily too!  My sister, who started this eating plan first with her partner, was having such good success with it, that I had to try it.  My mother and my aunt are also doing it.  We're all reaching our weight loss goals easily and we are eating healthy. 

Diet isn't even the right word!  It's a healthy eating plan.  I am uber excited to have found a way to lose weight after being overweight for so long and without pills with warnings affixed to the bottle!  Struggling with thyroid disease, I  know how hard it is to lose weight and I know how depressing it can be to watch your body change and feel so out of control of it - that no matter what you do, you aren't losing weight.

This is what I used:

Seriously, it's as simple as following what this doctor says to do in this book.  There aren't any diet pills or anything to buy. What you need is at your grocery store - in the fruit and veggie aisle, from the meat counter.  It was worth the price to be able to fit into clothes I couldn't fit into a few weeks ago.

Yeah, I better go change my weight loss ticker at the top of this blog now:)  Woo hoo!