Have you seen those ads? The ones that say “I lost x-amount of lbs. by obeying this one simple rule” or words to that effect? I’ve clicked on a couple of those ads and I didn’t see ANYTHING that spoke of one simple rule unless the rule was to buy the product they were selling with their long-winded, psychological key-word loaded sales pitch. And, man! has everyone jumped on the “one simple rule” bandwagon! Now those ads are everywhere hawking every imaginable kind of product. Well, I’m not selling you another ebook, diet or wrinkle cream. I lost 50 lbs. after being very overweight my entire life from childhood until I was 48 or 49 years old. And it was an accidental discovery that did it. A discovery that took YEARS for me to stumble on.

All my life I have suffered from SOMETHING. I can’t say for sure exactly what medical term might be stuck on my condition but I have been overweight from childhood, always had an inescapable drive to eat, eat, eat; nothing ever really satisfied the constant cravings that drove me to eat more and more and more even when my stomach was so full it hurt and I wanted to vomit! Still I was driven to eat. I could not tolerate the heat, never felt cool and comfortable even in the winter, was constantly fatigued and prone to sudden loss of strength, suffered from hypoglycemic episodes, dizziness . . . ya-da, ya-da, ya-da. For years I went to doctors for this symptom and that only to be treated by them as if I were imagining things or was a hypochondriac. Nowadays I have very little liking or respect for doctors.

I finally got tired of getting nothing for the time and money I spent in doctors offices so I began reading everything I could read about health and nutrition and natural healing and trying some of the things I read about and finally I began to feel a little better but never found a solution to my weight problem or constant cravings.

When I got to be about 39 my thyroid went hyper. Again a doctor told me I was imagining things but I insisted he do a radioactive test and sure enough! I had what they called a ‘cold nodule’ on the right lobe of my thyroid and their obvious solution was to remove it. (Wish I’d known then what I know now! I’d still have it.) The end result was going on thyroid medication for life.

For years the only thyroid medication I knew anything about was synthroid. That didn’t really work for me. Oh, it kept me alive but something was missing; I just didn’t feel right. Constipation was a chronic problem (how embarrassing!), my hair began thinning (not the amount, the actual hair shaft was getting thinner), I still had NO energy and just drug myself along day after day (getting boring, isn’t it?). One day I heard about another kind of thyroid medicine - levothyroxine - so I tried it. My hair began getting thinner - this time it was the amount; no improvement in bowel function; mental focus, memory and brain-fuzz were getting to be real problematic. So I started asking around and I heard about levoxyl. So I tried it. Success! I felt better and my hair quit thinning. So far so good. Still no energy or weight loss though that honestly was not what I was looking for or expecting at this point. I was just trying to feel better and function better.

About this time I hit menopause or more aptly, it hit me and knocked me off my feet. Each month when I got my period I felt as if I were having a heart attack and I began to believe that I was going to die from one of those episodes. I did not believe it was my heart but I didn’t know what was causing it or what I could do about it. Thank heaven I had no insurance and no money to go to a doctor! I told a friend what I was experiencing and she gave me a book by Dr. (yes, doctor!) John Lee and a jar of the product he endorses - progesterone cream. I firmly believe those things saved my life. Dr. Lee’s book explained what changes occur throughout your life in your hormone levels and how those changes affect your body. He also explained that many menopausal women die of heart failure though having no signs or symptoms of heart disease. Reading his book, I began to realize that I had been suffering from hormone imbalance for years, in fact, I believe all my life. So how does all this relate to losing 50 lbs? I’m getting to that.

Progesterone cream was a great beginning but there was still something missing. I still did not function as other people did. I still had NO energy. It was all I could do to get through a day at work. Other people went out and had fun after a full day at work. Not me! I slept all weekend just to have the energy to go to work again on Monday. I began researching natural products that would support your hormones since that was what appeared to me to be my source problem. Now you have to understand that I have been reading and studying about natural health products for years but it’s been an on-again, off-again thing. I would read something and if I could afford it, I’d try it and then I’d get broke and would have to fall back on fast-food, junk-food until I started feeling terrible again and then I’d do some more reading and start trying to eat better and take supplements and vitamins, etc., etc. and my thyroid problems had affected my memory so I couldn’t remember a lot of what I’d read. So lots of time has passed by and I’m still doing this but getting a feel for what might work for me when I read something new and now I read something about DHEA and Pregnenelone. So I decided to try them but I didn’t know really how much I should take. However, I found both in 100mg dose and I began taking them along with multiple vitamins and minerals and progesterone and I quickly began to feel better and more energetic.

Now it takes a while for these substances to build up in your body so I’d been taking them for six months or so still trying to gauge their effect when I hit some sort of a plateau level and bam! the weight started falling off like 20 lbs. in a month and my appetite went ‘bye ‘bye. For the first time in my life I could eat a meal and feel satisfied and not immediately start thinking about when I could eat again. My stomach did not bloat, everything digested well and I could actually wear blue jeans with a set-in waist-band again! (Did I mention that I’d had to go to stretch waist-bands a few years before because of chronic stomach bloat?) I could eat things I’d had to give up years before because I couldn’t digest them! I could eat a meal and still breathe! I could eat a meal and still feel able to get up and go for a walk! It was unreal! I actually had energy - I had forgotten what it felt like it had been so long. BUT! Big but! All of this was NOT without complications. I would not recommend anyone to try this approach on their own because there are some very difficult problems that you should be aware of and I don’t know where else you can find this information. I know this was very lengthy but if any of this sounds familiar to you please stay with me for part two of this report.