My scale was down again this morning and I'm very happy.
I know it won't continue, but I'm going to celebrate (without food
) while it does. It feels good to have a fairly "easy" fast weight loss after 10 years of sporadic slow weight loss on low carb and earlier years of almost no weight loss on low fat. I believe I've lost weight slowly due to to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, menopause, emotional eating, stress, and my like of food
.
For the first 13 weeks of this year (91 days), I ate less than 50 g net carbs per day and lost a total of 6.8 pounds. For the past 10 days on JUDDD, I've averaged about 45 g net carbs per day (almost the same) and lost 6.2 pounds.
And, I've almost lost the same amount on JUDDD as I did on a miserable round of hcg drops last year.
I’m going to summarize my experiences of hcg (spring of 2011) versus JUDDD (spring of 2012). In both cases, I was eating low carb (15-50 g net carbs per day) long-term before beginning the program and during the program.
hcg -
Supplements - homeopathic hcg drops multiple times a day
Calories - about 500 each day
Starting weight (pre-load) - 185.8 lbs
Weight after 10 days on program - 178.8 lbs
Weight lost in 10 days - 7.0 lbs
Weight when I stopped the drops after a total of 21 days - 175.6 lbs (10.2 lbs total)
Feelings - There was hunger but it wasn’t too bad the first week (after the load days), plus the big initial weight loss was very motivating. By the third week when weight loss had slowed to a crawl and hunger increased, it was hard to continue (but I did without cheating). However, I started two additional hcg rounds later in the spring and summer and aborted them each after a week because I didn’t want to do it anymore.
JUDDD -
Supplements - 200-mg of trans-resveratrol twice a day
Calories - about 700 on down days, alternating with about 2200 on up days
Starting weight - 184.2 lbs
Weight after 10 days on the program - 178.0 lbs
Weight lost in 10 days - 6.2 lbs
Longer term - We shall see, but I’m very optimistic
Feelings - Very little hunger on down days (and, of course, none on up days) and each successive down day is getting easier. So far, JUDDD has been very easy to follow. I feel lighter and more energized.
Your mileage may vary. For me, weight came slightly faster for the first ten days with hcg, but JUDDD is so much more enjoyable. I believe that JUDDD will be sustainable for me. If I were looking for a way to jump-start weight loss, I’d at least give JUDDD a try before going to hcg.