About 7 years ago my wife brought home "Protein Power" and announced that we were going on this diet. I immediately vetoed the idea and she suggested that I read the book. I did and discovered that the diet plan was very similar to my eating habits when single. We went on it. I read up on nutrients and took 400 mcg of Chromium Picolinate in the morning and 15 mg of vanadyl sulfate at night along with a gram of 1 gm of L carnitine at every meal. These nutrient are supposed to improve your insulin sensitivity so that you need less insulin in circulation to maintain a proper sugar level. Less insulin means theoretically a greater corresponding weight loss. I cut my carbs to less about 40 grams. I also walked 4.5 miles everyday before dinner at a 14 to 15 minute a mile pace.
To make a long story short I lost 20 lbs in two weeks! I lost 32 lbs in five weeks! People I knew were doing double takes when they saw me.
I was told it was impossible to lose that much weight that fast! (I was heavily into ketosis and as such I didn't need to burn that many calories to lose a pound of fat. As you know without glycogen or glucose your body cannot completely burn fat and it excretes incompletely burned fat in the form of ketones in your breath, urine, and feces. I like that kind of weight loss! It is easy!)
The walking on top of the diet made my weight loss SURGE.
One of the things that made me decide to lose the weight was my national convention in Florida back in March. Last year, I had bought a new $400 suit because all my other ones no longer fitted. This year, the suit barely fit and at the banquet, I had to unbuckle my trousers so I could sit down comfortably. I was disgusted and I resolved myself then and there to lose the weight and keep it off. I'm a goal-oriented person so once I commit to something like this, it gets done.
Well I put the suit back on yesterday and the trousers fit so loosely that I needed a belt to hold them up. But I'm not finished by a long shot. I'm back in "boot camp."