Weight Loss
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Like many women, I gained a lot of weight after my pregnancy with my son, and I was really struggling to get off those horrible 40 lbs I had gained beyond the baby weight. I tried reducing my calories, eating balanced meals, and exercising 45-60 minutes a day on my exercise bike. Yet, I found that my body had really become used to the larger number of calories that I had been consuming to put the excess weight on in the first place.

Lisa S. Lawless, Ph.D., CEO

Now, not only was I taking away those calories that my body was so accustomed to, but I was working them off to lose weight and feeling my body get pretty pissed off with me for trying to make this change. I struggled with hunger pain, and felt emotionally raw because I wanted to do this so badly, but was having such a hard time getting through this transitional phase.

Two weeks into my weight loss program, I found I was unable to sleep because I was fighting back hunger pains, and becoming preoccupied with food. This was my fifth attempt at losing weight since the pregnancy, my son was 1 year old and I was really becoming discouraged.

At the time, I worked for a psychiatric hospital and found myself one morning sharing my plight with a co-worker who had shed 80 pounds. I began to cry as I told her how upset with myself I felt that I could not get past a month without slipping back into old habits. I explained to her that I was eating enough calories for my BMI (Body Mass Index) and had studied nutrition enough to know that I was not making it harder for myself by eating such things as "white carbs;" those carbohydrates that cause you to want more food because you providing it with no significant nutritional value (i.e.: pop corn, pasta, white bread; unlike the good carbs found in brown rice, wheat bread and whole grains).

I told my co-worker that if I could just get past the first two months so that I could allow my body to get used to all the exercise, water intake and smaller intake of calories that I knew I would be able to handle it. She smiled a knowing smile as she had gone through the exact same struggle after the birth of her child and put on 80lbs.

Her secret was Michael Thurmond who is now well known from the show 'Extreme Makeover.' He knows what he is talking about, his program works, it will keep you eating all day and it is extremely healthy. Check out his web site for more information-

MyBodyMakeover.com

Good luck and may you achieve all your goals!