Reporting October 20, 2009 189.4 Pounds Down From 212, 50 Days Ago

So it is - my goal was 182, I am shy of it by 7 pounds. But, I'm not complaining. No, my ultimate goal, and I will hit it by the end of the year is 178 -- that's what I weighed the day I graduated from high school in 1971.

How do I remember that? a person asked me just a little while ago. Well, vanity is probably part of the reason, but I was a surfer. And, the length of your surfboard depended on weight. We all wanted to ride really short surfboards in those days. So, weight was a big deal to me and I was gaining toward the end of my senior year, hard as I tried, I kept adding pounds. Yuk!!

Well, calories are my master no more!!! I have learned how to control my appetite, at least enough, to consistently lose weight. And, I am convinced anyone can do it.

I want to share this concept that involves the use of a Vadik herb. But, just how to do it is a challenge. I have shared it with a few people and some with good success. But others, well, I must admit my process for blending and using it is complicated and if you don't do it right it tastes bad. Done right, it's good!!

So, this is my report to date. I use smoothies mostly. Actually eat only three or four meals per week. Was told by one person I'd be dead in six months on the kind of diet I am keeping. Well, I should have been dead 5 months ago! LOL!! Ain't kilt me yet. LOL!!!

So here goes, I am going to open myself up to a real challenge: my private goal is to go down to 157 pounds. I won't make that by the end of the year. But maybe by the
Spring 2010?

I want to do this because I started at 257 - thus, goal-drama animal that I am, I want to be able to say, "I lost 100 pounds."

Now go ahead and berate me for it. I have people on all sides already telling me this diet will kill me, that no one should lose so much weight on purpose, etc. Well, hell, I'm going to do it because I WANT TOO!!! LOL!!!

157 pounds is a real challenge. Then, when I get there, I will begin a weight routine to "hulk-up" to 178. Health charts I read suggest that 178 is my ideal weight.

So, there it is, I've dumped it, my private ambitions. Now, I can't back away from it, you guys will hold me to it. From today's weight its only 30 more pounds. I will slow down my weight loss process to do the next 30 in a more paced fashion.

I know my good friends will wish me well. I am looking to maybe release the process via blog and health and wellness seminars. Probably will start in the Spring.

Keep me honest and be my accountability group is all I ask. Watch some Youtube clips, Charlie Rose and some medical doctors, talk about the concept of "calorie restriction" and its benefits -- really dramatic stuff.

It hit me like a ton of cheeseburgers and fries, Americans could eat 1/2 the calories they currently consume, send those calories to Africa and it would save lives in both places!!! And, people can do this! The process is 'appetite satisfying' not an appetite suppressant. Appetite suppression is more like what happens with drugs and 'stimulants' but this herb i use is a 'calmative' something people with high blood pressure and even heart disease may be able to use safely. I'm not the expert here to say, but the things I've read suggest it.

What I can say is my life and health is no more 'controlled' by calories. I have been able to reduce my appetite urge from that of a jungle cat to only a little kitty, so to speak.

Calorie restriciton is essentially what I am doing, I have herbal help, and it works! I am "free." Free of the angst and the churning of what used to be an almost insatiable appetite.

See YouTube, Charlie Rose, the moderator on "Calorie Restricition" diets: the first part is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rai6u__Ouac Trying to embed part one here: