What DID I Eat On Saturday?

This post is to finish up my five day record of what I ate while using Isagenix. I know virtually anyone can do this. What I say is "It doesn't take willpower because I'm rarely, if ever, hungry!"

Saturday was a bit of a test because I was away from home up in L.A. at the Ultimate Success Tour and everyone was eating lunch together. For breakfast I had 4 ounces Isagenix Cleanse For Life and right before I left I had 1 ounce Ionix Supreme. I had 4 Isagenix Snacks! at various times during the day. I took Cleanse For Life with me an packed it in ice.

In the future I definitely want to get one container of Cleanse For Life powder and I'm pretty sure that will be easier on the road. I had two more 4 ounce servings of Cleanse For Life at approximately 5 hour intervals and I had some herbal tea at lunch time with one of the Snacks! and plenty of water throughout the day. When I arrived back at home around 9:30 I had my last 4 ounces of Cleanse For Life and about an hour later I had my last ounce of Ionix Supreme with two Natural Accelerator capsules. My ultimate results were in yesterday's post.

We had a fantastic time at Isagenix Celebration today. Details tomorrow!


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What A Great Day!

This morning I weighed in at 252.2 pounds. Because I started using Isagenix when I was 276.2 pounds, that means that I have lost 24 pounds in 41 days!

Then, in the early afternoon, Steve and Sue Landis picked me up and we proceeded to pick up our new team member, Lisa. All four of us went to the Isagenix Celebration in San Diego and it was truly great. Awesome, even.

I'll share more about my Saturday food leading up to today in a later post. I've got to get to bed because I'll be up before six to get ready for the Monday Isagenix Celebration. Click on the title of this post to get a look at what Celebration is about.


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What Am I Eating Wednesday? Part II

I was overdue for Ionix Supreme at 10:00 am and as always, at least 6-8 ounces of cold water with one ounce of Ionix Supreme. My son and I both like to drink it straight and follow with the water. You might be more like my wife, Marianne, who mixes it with the water. She finds it a little "spicy".

As it heats up I like to make sure I'm getting enough water. Did you know that you should have at least one ounce of water for every ounce of weight every day? When I started releasing weight on Isagenix that meant 138 ounces of water each day. That's more than a gallon! Also, it's my understanding that coffee actually takes water OUT of your body. So I would drink more water if you're drinking coffee. This is also true for diet soda. I learned the hard way when I was diagnosed with gout earlier this year.

At 11:15 I had my first ounce of Isagenix Cleanse For Life and this time I had 12 ounces of cold water as a chaser.

It's not yet noon and it continues to get hotter here. Make sure you drink enough water!


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What Am I Eating Today? Part VI-IX

At 4:20 I had 7 cherries and then my wife reminded me to have some organic apple cider vinegar with water as a precautionary measure against recurrence of gout. This is not something that's part of Isagenix, it's just that I'm doing more than losing weight. I figure better safe than sorry.

Around 5:45 I had another ounce of Isagenix Cleanse For Life with 8 ounces of cold water.

An hour later I had my 2nd Isagenix Isalean Shake for the day, but this time with no banana. I also had some extra water and took a cherry extract pill and 1 Gout Control capsule. Again, the last two items are not part of Isagenix and I believe they have a negligible effect on weight loss.

Marianne and I went to see Eat Pray Love and got home less than 20 minutes ago. I had my 2nd ounce of Isagenix Ionix Supreme and more cold water.

I think it's time for bed.


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Dr. Christine Eros Told Me About Gout And Isagenix

The people I have met in Isagenix are among the most helpful and most fun that I've ever met. Last night I called Dr. Christine Eros to ask her about Isagenix and gout and she had never even heard of the woman who referred me to her. Yet SHE CALLED ME tonight and I had expected to be the one to call her back.

She gives a talk on medical topics once a month including her knowledge and experience related to Isagenix. Dr. Eros is very happy to have me bring people to her talks and I am definitely going to take her up on it. She's part of Metro Family Physicians in San Diego.

What she reminded me about is that many gout sufferers should use 1 scoop of Isagenix shake instead of 2. That makes sense to me as this is the highest quality whey protein that you are likely to find on this planet. So I guess that means that you need less of it if you have gout. Apparently the 1 scoop rule is also true if you have insulin-dependent diabetes.

If you are the kind of person who just wants to buy a product and then use it however you want, you are missing out without extra bits of knowledge like this. It reminds me of what I have seen on labels over the years: Use as directed.

Tomorrow my shakes get smaller. If you're paying attention you DO learn something new every day.

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15 Days Almost Equals 12 Pounds Down!

This morning I knew it was going to be a good experience when I stepped on the scale, but it exceeded my expectations. I haven't been perfect in the last couple of weeks on Isagenix system, so to lose this much weight this fast has been amazing to me. I purposely haven't done everything exactly the way Isagenix lays it out because I've been concerned about losing too much weight too fast and upsetting the balance in my body. When you have had one gout attack it really gets your attention. When you have 4 or more in just over a month? That's REAL behavior modification!

So I have had more calories than recommended in most of my meals during this time and still I get these great results. I love Isagenix! Thank you, Sue Landis, for coming back into my life and explaining this in a way that helped me understand that Isagenix isn't a diet.

Here is what I saw on the scale this morning:

264.4 pounds

This means I have lost 11.8 pounds in 15 days.

37.5% body fat - a new low during the 15 days.

52.3% water content

The last figure means that it's fair to say that I haven't been losing only water as that percentage has consistently risen.

High Five!

Have a great day! I am. :-)


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Ate At Lou And Mickey's And STILL Lost Weight

Yesterday I was at the San Diego Comic-Con with my son, Stuart, and his friend Dan. I'll give more details about Comic-Con in another post, but it was fun. I started the day with Isagenix Cleanse For Life and then a little later I had my Isagenix Isalean Chocolate Shake mixed with a banana. I had one Isagenix Snacks! (Chocolate) a couple hours later and I wasn't really hungry when Stuart texted me near the end of Danny Elfman's panel.

One thing that stuck with me from Danny Elfman's question and answer session is this:

Deadlines Have Value

He said that if it weren't for deadlines he would still be working on the soundtrack to "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" which came out in 1985!

After Stuart and Dan found me outside Room 6 near Mrs. Field's cookies (which didn't even tempt me - thanks, Isagenix!) we walked out into the sunlight and into the Gaslamp District where we sat down at Lou & Mickey's for lunch. My niece, Samantha, used to work here and both the hostess remembered her and Brady, our server, did as well. I hadn't counted on an appetizer, but Stuart ordered the cheese with marinara sauce and it looked a little odd and a little big when it came because it didn't match the mental picture of cheese sticks that I had previously enjoyed. Lou & Mickey's version of what amounts to fried cheese has the cheese inside a small loaf. At least that's the way it appeared to me - and it was delicious! I had chicken caesar salad and you could really taste how good the chicken was. I realized when I started on the salad that I could probably get by with a quarter of it. I decided to enjoy it all as my dinner was going to be an Isagenix shake. I just started on the two-shake regimen a couple days ago. I guess you could say that I worked my way up to it from my one-shake-a-day first week or so and I'm pretty amazed that I can curb my hunger no problem. (Maybe giving up coffee helps with that?)

About 5:30 I had Isagenix Want More Energy? powder mixed with water. We walked a lot yesterday as the San Diego Convention Center is a big place, especially when you walk through the Marriot, too. After we took the trolley back to Old Town I drove us home and somewhere on the trip home I realized that it had been a long day and with the lost sleep recently from our heat wave (I know that some of you don't think 90+ is a big deal, but it makes it tough for me to sleep.), I was just about ready for bed when we got home a little after 8.

That's when I had my 2nd shake of the day and put bedding together for our sister-in-law and her youngest son who were to spend the night on the floor sharing our room. She had been pretty sick earlier and I said a prayer that this would all be all right, and after finishing what little I had to do I laid down and fell asleep a little before 9! I slept 11 hours and that's the first time in a LONG time that I've done that. I did wake up a few times, but I rolled right over and went back to sleep. Some people forget the value of good sleep. Rather, some people if they aren't sleeping well and they try something like Isagenix or meditation or prayer or more exercise or WHATEVER gets them the SLEEP results they want, they tend to forget to give their strategy credit weeks or months later when they are sleeping well on a regular basis. It seems like the new normal or even like it's always been that way and when they view it that way they often feel like they can stop using the strategy (or tactics, for you military sticklers) that got them to this new and better place. I've seen that in personal development, too. But, I'm not going to do that. There's a reason Isagenix calls their product Isagenix Cleanse For Life.

Long story short (TOO LATE!), I got on the scale this morning and found out that even after that luxurious lunch at Lou & Mickey's, I'm down to 267.4 pounds. That means I'm down 8.8 pounds in 11 days!

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