4 months and 53 lbs later!
I just want to let everyone know about my experience to
possibly help people out on their diets. I am 24 years old 5 feet 4 inches tall
and at the time I started alli I was 183 lbs. I was the person out there that
never considered themselves “fat” out of shape, overweight, or what have you
until one day in the afternoon in August 2008 when I was out to give blood at
the local Red Cross. I always gave blood every 6 months but between 6 months
the last time I gave blood I had gained more weight and health started to take
a plunge. I went in to give blood that day and during the time that they give
your retinue exam before they draw the blood out of you the lady sat me down
and started to do my heart rate looked at me and her eyes were as big as
bowling balls and said, “Hold on I will be right back!” She came back a little
while later and tested again the heart rate and then told me if I had been
doing drugs, I was taken a little bit I told her No! Why, she said your heart
rate is beating 113 beats per minute she said if they would have taken any
blood out of me I could have gone into cardiac arrest. She tested my blood pressure that was though
the roof; I don’t remember what she quoted me however it was high none the
less. I was sitting there thinking how could this happen! Now that I was
thinking about it I was gaining a little weight for the past couple months
which was adding up and I went home to started to plan a way I could try to shed
some pounds. I went home and got online
and found what a BMI Calculator and I typed in my height and weight and found
out that my BMI was 31.4 BMI which is considered Obesity. I was very shocked to
find this out!
I started to go online to try to figure out a plan of action
that I could change myself to get into the healthy way of life again and get
everything back to a normal state for my body and well being. I figured out at
first I would try “SLIM FAST” and substitute. 2 meals a day breakfast and lunch
and with lunch I would have a breakfast bar with the slim fast and then I would
have a very small dinner for a total calorie count of right around 1500
calories a day! I started this on August 1st was losing about a pound a week. I
was watching TV the following week and saw the commercial for ALLI on the TV. I
started doing research on this product and found out a lot of people were
having the “EFFECTS” from the product and I was really questioning if I would
do this or not. I decided the next day I would go down to Walgreens and pick up
the product and give it a shot I figured what the heck if I could lose more
weight within the next couple months, and stick to the plan I would be ok. I
opened up the kit, and started to read the books, and to be honest with you I
was really happy I picked it up ALLI is a program that really paints a path for
you on weight loss as well as provide you a kick with the pill to help you out.
ALLI is not a magic pill to solve your problems; however it can help you if you
work with ALLI. I started ALLI on August 13th 2008 and took that
with my Slim Fast 2 meal substitute and my light dinner meal I did change one
other thing. I have had very intense surgeries on my ankles as a child, and
could not do any “HIGH” impact exercises. So I went out and purchase an exercise
bike. After eating at night I would spend an hour on this bike, and bike 15
miles to 20 miles or 1 hour on the bike 3-4 days a week. I want to say I was losing
then about 3-4 pounds a week which was great. I never cheated once during my 4 months of
being on the diet and never wanted to cheat due to the effects I was seeing and
how fast the weight was coming off I didn’t want to disappoint myself to get
myself off the track.
4 months later and on December 27th 2008 I
decided to stop ALLI at least the drug portion however I will still plan on it on
a day to day base, because again it is not a magic pill this is a life changing
decision. I am now 126 lbs with a total weight loss of 53lbs I feel great my
heart rate went from 113 beats per minute resting down to 56 beats per minute
resting and my BMI is now 21.6 I feel great I haven’t felt this good sense I
was back in high school. I am pretty much zero fat on my body and I am now
working on picking up some whey protein at the local GNC here and subscribed to
the local gym and am going to work on gaining about 20 pounds of muscle which
will put me at 147 were I need to be. During
the past couple days of being off of ALLI I have maintained the weight without
a problem and not gaining or loosing anymore just what I wanted.
If I could tell anyone one thing which I have learned which
is stick to the schedule that ALLI creates for you and stay on it, it is proven
do work and does work I can tell you myself it does work. Never cheat if you
can however if you do need to cheat, cheat get it out of your system and then
move on never just sit on it and just mope around and think about it. Today is
today and tomorrow is tomorrow. But Happy 2009 to everyone out there and let
everyone loose a ton of weight thanks to ALLI.
ALLI Thank you for your success!
Randy Olsen