This is no gimmick, not expensive, really works & I did it and am still doing it~
I lost 130 lbs in 10 months doing this.
It is not a diet.
It is a modification to help get your metabolism going safely and jump start your body to burning its own fat.
I was taking part in a diet study at the Guthrie Clinic , Sayre Pa in mid 90s and told to try this and did and it worked :
1 tablet : 200 mcg Chromium GTF compounded with yeast
1 tablet : 100 mg Niacin or Niacinimide
The cheapest Chromium I found is still available was at Puritan's Pride. I used to get it at GNC for about $6 a bottle, but they stopped selling the fast acting one and replaced it with a more expensive less effective, slow acting one [ figures as drug companies just want to make money]
Chromium stimulates the pancreas to produce insulin from fat stores. I am not a diabetic but diabetics were part of the study as part of the test was to see if it would help them to control their diabetes by diet instead of insulin. It works for most depending on the condition of their pancreas, so diabetics need to consult their doctor as they may need less insulin if t hey take this, although some may need to keep taking their insulin .For others like me it was amazing~
I used the GNC brand Chromium initially but was told to make sure it was the GTF kind that is compounded with yeast~!
GTF= Glucose Tolerance Factor
yeast - from brewer's yeast is the one that works, the other ones like the Picolinate , Chromax and such simply did not work fast at all for me..
While taking the GTF/yeast type pill I began losing 1/2-1 lb a day within a week. The weight started to come off steadily between 5-7 lbs a week~
Later I stopped the GTF and tried the Chromium Picolinate GTF and I plateaued, that is I stopped losing weight. I would use the pills and lose only 1-2 lbs a month~!! That proved to me that the one compounded with yeast was the way to go. The reason they suspect to warn people about the one with yeast is some people develop joint pain.So if you do , either stop or do like I do, alternate either every other day or take it for a month, go off it a week and then back on it.
What the Chromium GTF with yeast does is stimulate the pancreas which gets your body eating its own fat stores for energy. bi-product excretes in your urine, so you dont have to worry about your stools.If anything you might experience slight constipation, for which you only need to take in more fiber, such as the Walmart /generic brands of any stool softener or better yet green beans.
The Niacin is a B vitamin that helps to lower cholesterol. by itself it causes a catalytic reaction that can cause hot flashes or a temporary itchy burny feeling that goes away in about a 1/2 hour. Some people mistake this feeling for an adverse reaction or allergy. This is a wrong assumption however.What actually happens is that your fat cells are filled with 'sludge' that doesnt release by normal osmosis. You will see fat usually accumulates on the stomach, thighs, buttocks and upper arms and if you are very overweight ~ your neck with a double chin.
Niacin opens fat cells to release sludge. By itself however it may open the cells but not release sufficient 'sludge' to make much of a difference other than that itchy feeling.
When taken with the Chromium GTF, the Niacin opens to flush and the Chromium helps eat out the sludge which then is passed with your urine.The two pills work together.
After 1-2 weeks of taking them daily you begin to notice the flushing feeling decreases and at best you might feel a bit hot for 10-20 minutes The more you take them, the more your body is cleansed from fat and the fat cells deflate.This causes weight loss in all the right places. You will lose inches faster this way than on any diet.
The next important thing to do is wean off soda~! Soda is the culprit in causing fat cells to some how cinch and hold in sludge in the first place.
I was/am addicted to Diet Pepsi for years but didnt lose an ouce. Diet sodas are misnamed and misunderstood. They are only acceptable for diabetics who cant have any extra sugar.They dont help in weight loss at all~!!!If you are not diabetic and insist on drinking soda, you are probably better off drinking real soda occasionally, as it isnt the calories of that which you would lose.
Soda has carbonation, which is an enemy to your body~!!
Carbonation is a waste bi-product [CO2] and it poisons your body.
Water is the best thing for you to drink. I hated drinking water and rarely had any that wasn't either soda or juice. I got fatter and fatter for years. I drank diet soda and still like to drink it occasionally even though I know its bad. Better to get a bottle of water, and refill it every time its finished and start out trying to drink at least a 1/2 gallon a day.
I found it easiest drinking the bottled water and got from 1/2 gal to 1 gallon per day. Initially I went pee alot but as your body detoxifies, your bladder gets stronger. All your organs get stronger.When I moved to Phoenix for several months I actually got myself up to 2 gallons a day.
Drinking water flushes your body and gets & keeps your digestive track clean while it cuts down the acids that build up. It also gradually reduces the feeling of hunger to where you can eat less at a time.
Most multivitamins have traces of Chromium and Niacin. People who dont like the niacin flush often take the flush-free buffered Niacin to obtain the B vitamin alone. The flush-free Niacin will not help in weigh loss.
As your body detoxifies, you will find you crave less sweets as your body will be eating its own sugars that were converted to fats. This is what you need in reaching 'ketosis" which is when you will begin to burn the fat and toxins the same as with physical exercise. The problem with being obese is your body aches and resists effort in exercising and tend to become sedentary. Changing your metabolism safely with what I have told you, will boost your body's ability to begin functioning properly.
False methods to accomplish similar results are dangerous diet pills which were never meant to be taken for more than 2 weeks and shouldnt even be on the market. They consist of stimulants, caffeine [which also causes sludge to build up in fat cells and messes up your digestive tract] So many diet products are made with stimulants and caffeine. They seem to work initially but are addictive and once stopped, wreak havoc on your body, particularly your heart causing or contributing to high blood pressure~!!
AS you take your "
Chromium GTF compounded with Yeast" [ will say it right on the bottle, read the ingredients when buying it as there are many 'fake ones' made with the Chromium Picolinate instead. Take the GTF with the Niacin.
The other Chromiums have mixed results but each claim the relationship of weight loss, lowered cholesterol and pancreas support.
Chromium - Information and Recommended Uses
I lost weight using the one with the yeast but didnt lose any significant amount of weight with the picolinate & other type. Even the one said to be wrapped in Niacin, there is nothing to tell how much it contains. You need to take 100 mg daily of the Niacin daily
Once I upped the chromium to 400mcg of the GTF but
it didnt make me lose weight any faster than taking the 200 mcg.
Same with the Niacin, more than 100 mg made the icky hot flash feeling last longer and nauseated me.
The 100 mg dose was tolerable and the combination helped me lose alot of weight.
Start at bedtime til you get
used to the flushing feeling.
Once you see and know how it makes you feel, then you can start taking it in the morning instead. The feeling is like a hot flash or sunburn and can get a bit itchy but it doesn't last more than an hour. I don't even get the itch by the 2nd or 3rd day when resuming it after stopping a while.
I would stop only when I ran out of pills or when I was on prescriptions for something else if the doctor suggested it, but that was only precautionary. Now I take it right along with my regular meds.
Never double dose! It will not work any better or faster. It will only excrete in your urine/stools and will not speed up any weight loss.
Just take one tablet of each 1 time every day, together.
I had stopped taking Chromium when I couldn't find it in stores anymore and feared maybe the diet manufacturers had succeeded in removing it from shelves [because it actually works and is very cheap].
They want you to buy their junk products instead and prey on overweight people to keep buying their toxic diet remedies instead.
Next thing to do is to add fiber. Green beans are perfect!! They are low in carbs and calories and pick up the flavor of the food they are in.you can even add them to tomato sauce!! Mix them into pastas,soups, rice and salads. If you like them [many dont] you can even eat a can of them with lunch or instead of lunch. Sprinkle in some garlic, onion or grated cheese. Add them to oodles of noodles or other soups.
Commit yourself to 5 cans of green beans a week~
Besides being a good fiber, they digest slower, so they will fill your stomach up making you less hungry~ They are cheap and good for you. Lettuce is okay but turns to water in your stomach and you get hungry a 1/2 hour later. Green beans on the other hand dont fully break down til they get into your intestines, so you wont get hungry as fast.
Now 5 cans of green beans may seem like alot each week but as you see the weight starting to come off faster and faster without actually dieting, you will learn that green beans are your friend.
You can also use fresh or frozen. I personally prefer the canned.
If you drink alot of soda, try to cut down as it will slow the process of weight loss and even bring it to a standstill sometimes.
Chocolate~ friend or foe? Dark chocolate causes the release of hormones such as serotonum in the brain giving you 'satisfaction'. milk chocolate just tastes so good, it is a pleasure food. It also keeps you fat. I decided to stop my unconscious consumption of chocolate. I am a chocoholic so I coudln't quit altogether. I limited my intake by not keeping it at home. If I really want some, I will go to the store and buy 1 bar only and when I go to eat it, I will stop everything I am doing and pay attention to it while I eat it. This way I stopped my unconscious consumption and became satisfied with a little instead of a lot and also began to go longer intervals without it. Instead of eating it daily, I went weekly and then monthly and now only occasionally.
Dark chocolate is better for you than milk chocolate. It has something in it that doesn't clog you the way milk chocolate does, so it is the lesser of two evils.
Chromium GTF helps break physical addiction to sweets, but only you can decide how to handle your emotional addiction to sweets such as chocolates.
Once your body gets into Ketosis [usually 6 wks for women who diet, but with this advice you can reach Ketosis in about 2 weeks~ start to walk more as you can. I was more than 250 lbs overweight so any thing resembling exercise woudln't work for me as I exhausted too easily.Swimming is great if you can do so, but I didnt have access so that wasnt an option for me.
I would go to Walmart, grab a cart and walk every aisle to exercise, lol.. I used to barely make it around the store once, but now can zip all over there. I also have a cane so I can walk other places too now that I coudln't do before.
The dietician I was seeing told me that there are no 'bad foods' only bad quantities.Never clean your plate~! Always leave a little on your plate to toss out. This will break the survival mentality mode your brain is in subconsciously. Never eat til you are stuffed. Always leave a little space in your gut that feels like it could eat a few more bites but stop when the actual hunger stops.Even if its only 15 minutes and then you need that one final bite.
If you make a big pot of something up, use small tupperware containers to make up smaller portions and freeze them, only taking one at a time out to eat.This causes you to reduce the portions to semi normal ones.Drink a bottle of water while you are microwaving your container of food, which is like having a TV dinner ~!
I also started eating open faced sandwiches rather than closed. They require the same amount of bites when eating but is half the bread... little things like this will help you to reduce the quantity of consumption without feeling like you are 'dieting'.
When, if I would go to McD's or other fast food places, I would take the top off the bun 7 toss it out before eating the rest. Same amount of bites apply but less carbs.
Other than that I eat normally, whatever I want, but do consider trying to eat a bit healthier without getting into some diet that I will fail at. We are all wired similarly yet differently with different tastes but if you at least take the
Chromium GTF compounded with Yeast along with the Niacin 1x a day, drink more water, less or no soda and increase fiber foods such as green beans, you will begin to loose weight faster than you ever imagined and since these are suggestions to boost your metabolism rather than diet pills or crash diets, its a method that you can live with for the long term.
So far I have lost 130 lbs and was initially satisfied. I couldn't exercise when I was 375, it was just too hard to do.Even on a hospital treadmill, they would stop me after 90 seconds as my heart would hit maximum output, so that limited me in many ways. I was a bit flabby after the loss so I had excess skin removed from my abdomen, which surprisingly only weighed about 5 lbs for a 22 x 8 inch slab below my belly button, some would call an apron.
My daughter had a friend in high school who was always the fat girl since kindergarten and had terrible esteem issues. She got a bottle of Chromium and Niacin and lost 36 lbs in less than 6 wks and was totally thrilled and happy with herself and kept with it.
Good thing about this is it helps keep your pancreas healthy and lowers the bad cholesterol so helps prevent heart disease. Also if you want to eat something delicious that you know is considered taboo, you can because you dont have to count cals or carbs or stop eating, just add the water & fiber along with what you do eat and let the chromium /niacin do its thing.
If you wanted to find the right amount of Chromium in food to accomplish this you'd have to eat more than a dozen bowls of oatmeal a day, which would more or less gag anyone no matter how much they liked oatmeal.
Let me know if you try this and the results. Then tell others, paying it forward to help others in the war on obesity!
I researched and found the right Chromium on Puritan's pride website.
They have a sale that you can buy 1 get 1 free or buy2 get3 free.the search engine had a page for a code to get free shipping + 10% off so I used it .
Their current coupon code :
TAP4JUL expires 7/9/2011 but if you read this later, just look up any coupon codes they have before ordering.
I just bought 2 & got 3 bottles free + 10% off & free shipping for $10.79 This is enough Chromium for 500 days ~!!! each bottle has 100 pills...It arrived in 3 days after I ordered. I used Paypal to buy it too so they dont have any of my credit card info, so it was a secure purchase online.
Here is their link for ordering:
GTF Chromium 200 mcg 100 Tablets | Chromium
I do not work for these people nor am I selling anything or spamming. I am simply sharing what really works for me and now that I have a new supply of it finally after not taking it for 6 years I am excited and telling anyone I meet that needs to lose weight~!
I think I am going to copy this letter into my blog too to show others who might want to lose weight. Depending on your own health, you might be able to exercise or diet with this as well, but it will only help you in losing weight.
I wish you the best in your weight loss program.
Ave Hurley
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How I lost 130 lbs - fast~
