WOW. So here I am – lost an additional 7.5 pounds during the past 3 weeks on transition – and this will be my first back to reality test week.

It will be actually a stress test week because I’ll be 5 days out of town: wedding, client meetings, friends dinner out, family dinners… I don’t have so much action usually in 2 months and now all combined in 1 week. As I have lost this much during transition, I am not too worried. It will be definitely interesting. I will NOT begin writing what all I am now indulging in or able to eat – it is too personalized the transition and my path could be very different from what you will experience.

Following my good-by letter to the accu-list – this group of people, old timers helping and newbies learning plus everything in between – has been a big part of my success during this program. Only fair to say thank you.

Thank you.

Alright, guys and gals – today I am on my first day of week 4 on my transition and I am moving on to the accu-grads list. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone here for helping each other as you do.

I consider my “voyage” (trip) on the beads a super experience and I am really happy to finally have gotten back “my” body I had lost 10 years ago.

For those fretting about transition I have a little tidbit: I was horrified that I might gain again 1 or 2 pounds back on it and so I ensured to be actually 1 pound below my end goal number when I started on transition. If I would have known then what I know now, I would have saved a whole week: during the past 3 weeks on transition I lost another 7.5 pounds! Now, I know this is a tad unusual to lose this much – I attribute it to my metabolism kick starting back into gear due to the diet and now burning again way better then it had over the past few years – I mainly want to point out that: yes, start transition when you are at your goal, no need to try and over-shoot it.

By the way – from being a 10/12 I am now a 6 (I am 5′10″), oh wow and my underwear is a 5 and considered a Small at Target. My new set of bra’s has the same size of cup but from a 38 I went to a 34. That’s 4 inches less fat. The fitting lady was really impressed that I did not lose on my cup size! But this is what you’ll hear here over and over again: you lose fat, not muscles or flesh.

There are only 2 things I recommend for all on basics:

a) if you have enough energy, do some light exercising from the beginning.

You are going to lose weight so tremendously fast that your outer layers of your skin will be happy if you help it a little and for this reason doing some regular toning (not heavy weight lifting!) helps wonders on the way to a new you.

b) try committing yourself 100% and adhere to the absolute no BLT – no Bite, no Lick, no Taste.

It is not the calories which will mess you up, it is the chemistry as this diet works these wonders because it only contains milk and veggies. No vinegar, no oil, no protein, no starches, no flour, no sugars, no nothing. That one – single lick of salad dressing containing vinegar can set you back a week.

I know I was lucky, the timing of my participating was perfect. I had no major obligations during 2 months or only such which I could handle without falling off the wagon. And even though I had a horrible rough emotional few weeks due to a loss (which usually would have resulted in bingeing), the protocol and the rubbing of the beads helped me during the hard times by allowing me to cling to the routine of the protocol. And this diet was such an opportunity for me to finally be done with the 10-year diet which lead to nowhere (aren’t you sick and tired of always thinking “I should diet”, only to falter again?) and to do it with no hunger and with such an easy to follow protocol, it felt to me personally like a “last chance” to really make it and in no way was I going to mess that up.

Wishing you all a smooth ride to YOUR goal.

You are worth it and you can do it.

—marlyse

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