Well, I started this blog on Friday when I weighed in...and came back today to finish it up. Unfortunately, one of the curses of being a fast typist is that if you accidentally hit the Ctrl button and the A button at the same time in the midst of your typing, you lose EVERYTHING you have typed. Yeah...that's exactly what happened to me! BOOOOO!!!! :(
Yes, I did have a mini temper tantrum when it happened (Why yes, I did stomp off into the other room muttering that I hate computers, why do you ask? <wink, wink>)...but I'm better now. And while I won't try to re-type everything I'd written (not sure I could if I wanted to), I'll get you the gist of it anyway. After all, sometimes less is more...right? ;) Anyway...
You already know from my previous post that I think Plexus is amazing...and the scales on Friday proved it! I lost 6.2 pounds in one week! WOOT! And I didn't exercise one bit that week...didn't even pretend like I was on a diet. The ONLY thing I did was take my Accelerator capsules at breakfast and my pink drink after I finished my coffee (usually mid-morning). Now, even on my best diet behavior, I've never been able to lose that kind of weight in a single week! So...this is even MORE amazing! :)
I even went to CiCi's Pizza for lunch! Yep...all you can eat salad, pasta, pizza, and dessert! And in case you've never been...their cinnamon rolls and Bavarian cream dessert pizza are AH-MAZING!!!! I usually get my money's worth and then some whenever I eat there and end up leaving stuffed to the gills! If I do happen to go while trying to diet, then I end up leaving feeling deprived! But this trip was different! I only went back to get seconds for the babies (my 10 month old and a 17 month old I babysit). And here's the most amazing part of all...I had NO desire whatsoever to get ANY dessert! Nope...not the first cinnamon roll...not even a sliver of the Bavarian cream dessert pizza I love so much! And when I walked out the door, I felt satisfied...not the least bit stuffed or deprived!
My hubby noticed a difference when we were at an end of the year program for my son's homeschool co-op group. There was a dessert social after the program..and we hadn't eaten dinner yet. I went up and got an assortment of desserts to share with my hubby...but ended up only having a couple bites of each of the two different puddings and a couple of orange slices. I licked a little bit of the cupcake icing off my fingers - but had no desire to eat the actual cupcake (and it was GOOD!). Anyone who knows me knows that my all-time favorite cake is either yellow or white cake with decorator icing (you know the kind - powdered sugar and shortening, with a dash of vanilla extract). Yeah...that's what this was, in cupcake form! David looked at me and with disbelief in his voice asked, "Are you done? You're NOT going to eat a cupcake?" He wasn't being mean...he just had never seen me turn down a cupcake before! ;) But after just the few bites of pudding, I felt like I'd eaten so much sweet that even another bite would have simply been too much! So...for probably the first time in my life, I put a delicious cupcake in the trash because I just couldn't eat it. I was still hungry...I just couldn't eat any more sweets. We went out for dinner afterwards and I enjoyed my meal, but again, had ZERO desire for dessert!
I think the thing I love most about Plexus is that it changes my desire for the foods that are not healthy for me. I don't even like Diet Coke anymore...and I was a Diet-Coke-a-holic before getting on Plexus! But now, I'd much rather have water or unsweet tea! Now, don't get the idea that I don't eat sweets at all anymore...I do. In fact, those same cupcakes I'd turned down on Tuesday evening at the dessert social showed up at a playdate (the leftovers, anyway) two days later. I had one and it was every bit as good as I thought it would be...and yet, after one, I was done. I didn't even want any more! And for me, that's the biggest part of the battle! I hate to feel deprived...so, when I feel I can't have something, that's really all I want. When I've been on diets in the past, even diets like Weight Watchers - where there are no forbidden foods, but there are limited amounts, I always end up feeling deprived and give up. But with Plexus, I don't have the desire to overindulge in unhealthy foods, so I naturally eat less. And as a result, I lose weight.
For me, this is as win-win as it gets in the diet world! I don't have to take a lot of supplements or remember to take them at a certain amount of time before eating. I don't have to count calories or have forbidden foods. I just take 2 Accelerator capsules with breakfast and mix one drink mix with water after I've finished my coffee (and it even tastes good, too)...and I'm done for the day! This is by far the easiest thing I've ever done to lose weight (and it's all-natural, too!)! I'm so thankful I gave it a try! :)
Looking forward to getting on the scale next week (yeah...I can't believe I actually said that, either!)! ;)
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