JumpstartMD

This is the ONLY thing that worked for me. I have been struggling from a 50 lb weight gain 6 years ago when i quit smoking cigarettes. I am close to the 2 month point and have lost 22 lbs. At first the diet was hard to follow because i am a vegetarian already but Lauren, health coach and Adrian~ nurse practitioner helped me with ideas of what to eat and other options. I have lost so many inches. I have made so many changes that i thought would be so hard, but became easier. I never gained any weight during any of my meetings… only lost. This was the ONLY thing that worked for me. I am pretty confident that i have changed so many eating habits for good ! For life. Highly recommend this!

This lifestyle diet really works!!! I’ve lost 23 lbs. in 14 weeks, an average of 1.6 lbs/​week, so slow and healthy. The receptionist, nutritionists, and doctors in the Mt. View office are wonderful, very supportive and full of ideas and suggestion that help. They check my blood-​pressure at every check-​in as I opted to take the appetite-​suppressant; it was extremely helpful the first month but now I only use them when I have bad cravings and am phasing them out. The JumpStartMD diet is low-​cab similar to Paleo and Atkins and is not hard to follow for me at all. You get your carbs from vegetables and fruit and cut out bread, pasta, rice, cereal, cakes, cookies, chips, potatoes, beer, wine, and anything else that’s high-​carb. No need to count calories but you watch the portion sizes. I have to admit I’m too disorganized to stick to many diets but with this one, it’s been enough to cut out the bad stuff that I wasn’t supposed to be eating anyway and keep the correct portion sizes, and the pounds keep coming off. I have an injury so the only exercise I do is walk my dog and do some light weight training at home for upper body. Once the weight loss goal has been reached, you get to add in some carbs, like oatmeal and whole-​wheat pasta and brown rice, but in order to maintain, I’m thinking it won’t be possible to have carbs with every meal every day, so this is the lifestyle part. I’m finding I feel better and less bloated without the carbs so that’s motivation to stay away from them as much as possible. Once in maintenance mode, more exercise is recommended to maintain the goal weight. This approach makes a lot of sense to me, and I feel I’ll be able to keep the weight off in the future by following the JumpStartMD guidelines. I plan to add to this post in a year when I’ll know how I did maintaining my new lifestyle diet.