What Am I Eating Today? Part IV

Not sure why the message from my phone turned into two messages of what I call "Space Egyptian", but here's what it should have said:

Waiting for my honey @ Dana Point. She'll be returning from her sister's on Catalina Island.

Most recent eating update - 11:45 am 1 ISAGENIX IsaSnacks! & 12 oz cold water.

Marianne just called to say the boat is a little late - they're whale watching!

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What Am I Eating Today? Part III

At 9:20 I had 1 ounce of Isagenix Cleanse For Life and 8 ounces of cold water.

I am still amazed that I am rarely ever hungry using Isagenix.


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What Am I Eating Today? Part II

At 8:10 I had 1 ounce of Ionix Supreme and 8 ounces of cold water.


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What Am I Eating Today? Part I

In an attempt to allow you to see that you can do what I am doing, today (and possibly the next few days) I am sharing what I eat.

Breakfast 7:15

1/2 banana blended with 2 scoops Isagenix Isalean Shake, water and ice cubes.

I was making shakes with cold water and that was good, but I discovered that
the official recommendation of adding ice cubes is better (because the shake
is creamier).

More later.


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Do You Ever Get Tired Of Playing Phone Tag?

Today EzineArticles went live with my new article,

"Meet Me at Starbucks Sometime Tomorrow Afternoon"

and I highly recommend that you read it if you want to make better use of your time. The author has lots and lots of experience with phone tag! ;-)

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Released Over 22 Pounds In 29 Days!

Facebook friends are nice to have, especially when you develop the relationship by connecting in person or on the phone. Yesterday I finally got to talk to Valerie Rene Sheppard after being connected on Facebook for a little while. She is an encouraging person with a lot of experience coaching. I would check her out if I were you.

Connecting with someone like Valerie isn't just "nice", it's productive. I commented on her Facebook profile and she reminded me that she and others are waiting to hear about my weight loss progress. If you want to find out HOW I'm doing it, you can read previous posts (not necessarily yesterday's).

Here are some facts:

-My scale read 254.0 this morning versus 276.2 when I started 29 days ago.

-I've only been hungry twice and neither of those times have rated more than a
5 out 10 on my hungriness (dictionary, please!) scale. Once was when we had
done a lot of walking with a friend at SDSU and the time between breakfast and
lunch was nearly 7 hours with only a mini-mini snack in between (3 cherries).

-I gave up coffee more than a month ago and I'm not tired!

-I conquered what I call a level two gout warning last week when we were
celebrating (too much - skip the pulled pork, pita chips and what do you call
those things...cream puffs, riiiight) with that friend and his family before
he went back to Michigan to profess about Sociology.

-I have better sleep overall except when I'm awake and excited about being
so close to a weight that I haven't seen in at least 14 years.

-My body fat read 35.1% and that's a big improvement over the 40% area I was
at when I started less than a month ago.

Woot! There it is!

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My Influence Project Email

Hello Justin! Happy August! I created this little message - will you play with us? :-)

(even if you think you've seen the first part before)

I'm really enthused about two things I saw this weekend.

First - The Influence Project (This could be really big.)

Here's how it works - you click on The Fast Company Link & it records whether I got a click to my Fast Company Link.
http://fcinf.com/v/akea

It measures the influence of you and me relative to the tens of thousands of other people participating online. It's fairly quick.

This could be also - a way to help someone we or you or I believe in. To support them in their cause. To get their cause publicity!

So - would you take a leap of faith and click on My Fast Company Link right now, because it will become more obvious as you learn by doing.

The 2nd thing? (This could be even BIGGER.) Well, because I am about building relationships online and offline to help us move forward with our projects (yours and mine) I look for better and better ways to do that. I learned about this 21 yr old named Justin Sachs who is doing amazing things. And at his gathering yesterday we learned about The Contribution Game from his friend Darren.

Ready for the question?

What is the best way for me to contribute to your life?


That's what I'm asking right now.

Have a wonderful week!

Take care,

Charlie Hicks-Moore
"Dr. Network is Back!"

P.S. If you choose not to click the link, would you send this message on to some people who you think might want to play? :-)

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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I Do Have To Watch Out For Gout

Last night I got a little too enthusiastic with all the mixing of problem foods. Probably would have been just fine without the cream puffs. This morning I got what I call a stage two warning of a gout outbreak if I continued down this path. My right ankle/achilles tendon area started to stiffen up. I don't know if there is a stage three warning or if the next stage is actual gout, but I do know I don't want it.

In addition, I felt a little sluggish this morning. I got right back into my normal Isagenix routine and now as I look back on my day I didn't have any meat or poultry or fish. Some reading this may be amazed that you can go without that protein and I'm not a vegetarian by any means, but you really can go a couple days at least without any meat, poultry or fish unless you have a particular problem which means you must eat those. My dad had that for the last couple years of his life, but he had messed up his insides pretty good.

This afternoon I got most of my energy back that I feel on Isagenix and I expect tomorrow to be back to this "new normal". What DID I have besides Isagenix foods? Pineapple and cherries (separately). Again, I didn't feel hunger pangs all day. That makes only twice in 25 days I've felt hunger pangs. Once, which I recounted in an earlier post, it was a 5 out of 10. The other was barely worth mentioning at 3 out of 10. This is good stuff!

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Party With Friends Before They Go Home

We had a nice time with good friends from high school and several family members of one of my friends. I "took the night off" and ate stuff I haven't had in a while. And it's fine with Isagenix - just don't do it everyday.

What was my menu? Pita chips with hummus, honey peanuts, pulled pork with barbecue sauce, cole slaw and did I mention pita chips and more pulled pork and hummus and oh, yeah...several cream puffs. I know I won't lose weight today. I'm good. I'll have some more Isagenix Cleanse For Life before I go to bed and back to a more normal day tomorrow. Your friends don't leave for Michigan everyday, you know. I love the latitude with Isagenix!

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