Also, drinking lots of water helps keep you from eating.

It’s the net loss that is the key to success. To many people see a stellar number, and then figure they can go out and have some ice cream because it’s 300 calories and they burnt 600. These people will be sorry.

The biggest bummer of all, is that once you are fitter, the amount of calories burnt in a given activity actually goes down because your body adapts to the stress you’ve placed on it.

boobs and stuff aside, the human body really does kick ass and it’s amazing what you can push it to do if you are persistent.

As for the presence (or lack thereof) of peer-review studies, the results of kits like this will vary greatly from person to person. This is all contigent upon body chemistry, past diet, current health, etc. There will be no double-blind placebo persona non gratis studies that produce extensive results. There are plenty of proponents, albeit quite an oddball selection of flakes sprinkled with actual insight from some.

Let me say that I didn’t do the kit with the intention of losing weight, it was only a byproduct.

I’ve heard this from a few people, but I can’t find a single peer-reviewed study that indicates colon cleansing is necessary or desirable.

I personally lost about 100lbs from July 2004-early/mid 2005 going from 250 to 155. The 155 was at the peak of training for a marathon. I actually way around 165 now, but it’s because I’ve been running for almost three years now, and I’ve gained some muscle from the 65mpw I’ve been averaging as I gear up for another marathon.

Keep it up.

good luck!

I am wrapping up the whole body cleanse from blessed herbs and have lost 17 lbs in a month.

I even shit parasites. Worms. Gross. It could happen to you.

Huge respect for putting your pics up. I’ll be watching closely as I have been struggling for a while and have now decided to get with the program properly.

Best of luck future thinner bloke.

And yes, I meant “at first.” It may be the easy weight, but it still is weight and it feels good!

Good advice. I’ve actually considered “falling off” on purpose for a meal or a day, just to break some of the monotony. I think the key may be in *planning* to slip a day, instead of giving into a spontaneous urge I’d feel guilty about later; but who knows, I haven’t actually done it yet. :)

I feel so much better and all of my clothes fit again! My long-term plan, is that once I get down to 179.5 (my goal/where I remember being for a while before my office induced sloth), I’m going to continue the exercise program and switch to portion control.

Hang in there. It’s not an easy thing, but you’ll be glad you stuck it out.

I enjoy the occasional fine beer or wine, I actually brew beer at home, but for the purposes of this weight loss program I am not drinking at all.

tahddeus said, “how’s the food/process/etc?”

The food is pretty good for the most part. I haven’t found anything to be inedible, although there are a couple things I don’t really like. The shakes and puddings taste pretty much all the same to me, but they’re not awful. Just kind of bland. The process so far has been easy enough, seems like it shouldn’t be a big deal to stick this out for a few months.

senseigmg said, “But I think you’re supposed to lose 2lb a week maximum, but I can’t remember why. Some sort of health thing.”

Yeah, two pounds per week is a safe average for you standard diet and exercise. With this program you can average up to five pounds per week (relatively) safely. I don’t anticipate continued weight loss of this magnitude.