More of Dick’s Story
[Note: Dick's story begins in two previous posts below. Scroll down to find them.]
I have been blessed with so many good things in my life. Hard work and luck and perhaps Divine intervention have added up to a pretty good ride when my battle with weight is subtracted from the equation.
So at 48 years old, I am surrounded with all the things a man could yearn for but I was approaching the point that none of these blessings maintained their inherent value. I had eaten my way to edge of oblivion…
On October 12th, 2008 I began to eat this so called Healthy Chocolate and for some unknown reason I ate the chocolate just as I was directed my dear old mom. I bought 2 months worth and thought “what the hey” might as well eat it. I ate 4 pieces a day and began to consume water at an increased rate. By day 6 my lovely bride asked me if I was feeling alright to which I replied. “I am just fine, dear.”
By day 10, my bride asked me again if I was feeling alright to which I replied, “I fine and why are you asking me that question?” She said, “Dick you are not eating near as much food as you usually eat.” She went on to say, that through all the years she had known me there had been one thing that held true… my appetite…. and from her point of view I was just simply not eating like normal. So, I dismissed her claim and went to bed per the normal. When I got up the next morning I thought about what she had said so I got on the scale. I had weighed the 12th and it was 376. Special scales for fat people… $200 dollars… and in like new condition because I had only stepped on them a couple of time in 5 years. Day 11 my weight was 368… 8 pounds in 11 days. Hmmm? I felt fine, didn’t realize I had changed anything but I had lost 8 pounds.
I went to my primary care physician that afternoon and used their scale and my weight was confirmed… 368. So I got excited!!!
By the way, if you want to look at the products from company please to www.cocoxo.net . Look on “my links” ( all kinds of info) and you will be able to learn about the company and the products! This chocolate is a little expensive but when I looked at all the fast food I was no longer eating and all the “crap” I was no longer buying the cost factor went down significantly. I ordered 3 more months worth and started to get excited about the possibilities.
I began to realize I really was eating less and I felt great. I started (involuntarily) cutting back on carbs because I just simply did not crave carbs. I accomplished this by eating lean meat and lots of greens. Over the next 6 weeks my diet consisted of nothing out of a box or a bag and I spent a lot of time shopping for the right food and getting all the processed foods out of my diet. I left off things like pizza, Doritos, cheeseburgers and ice cream… and replaced it with romaine lettuce, blue cheese and bacon salads, with small steaks, fried chicken with skin on but no flour with spinach and cream cheese and chocolate, chocolate and chocolate. I would have some walnuts, almonds and Macadamia nuts and lots of water. As I continued on this pattern I stayed satisfied and by the end of the 8th week I had lost 44 pounds!!!
I went back to the doctor and when I weighed he said do you realize you have lost 44 pounds? And he asked how are you doing it? I replied I am eating raw chocolate everyday! He laughed at me so I didn’t persist. I left his office with a huge warm fuzzy… with HOPE!!! Let’s face it, I had lost 44 pounds, but I was still a massive human being… But my size 54 pants were now 48’s and that was real progress. And I had done this right through the holidays… WOW!
I stayed at it, I mean I ate the chocolate every day 4 times a, I drank water, I ate greens and lean meat and my body continued to change.
- Live Strong,
Dick