My Results:

I started this diet around the end of March 2007, after just turning 43 years old. I weighed almost 330 pounds. That's the heaviest I've ever been in my life. The first month I lost almost 20 pounds. Of course I was on the diet more strictly back then. If a cave man couldn't have or wouldn't have eaten it, then I wouldn't. After that I relaxed a little. This is more about a lifestyle change for me than anything else. I want to loose enough weight so I can take hang gliding lessons in the spring of 2008.

Since my first month of loosing 20 pounds, I've consistently lost weigh every month, even the month when I went on vacation for a week. I lost about 5 pounds a month for a while and then I started to level out. This meant that the weight quit coming off. So I started exercising in late September by joining a karate class. I take classes twice a week and we exercise and work on our moves for 30 minutes. I'm a Yellow belt now and should have my Orange belt in December. The Karate classes have helped the weight to come off a little quicker. In October I hit the 50-pound mark. Right now it looks like I'm going to loose at least another 5 to 10 pounds in November.

The belt that I really love to show people is the belt that holds up my pants. I've had to drill holes in it as new notches for it. The notch that I'm using now is 5 inches from where it was in March.