The Cracks In The Pound Melter Diet
OK, First let me say upfront, I am in no way affiliated with the Pound Melter E-Book by Paul Sanders nor am I selling it.
As of today I just finished the first week of using it.
I will do a follow up article at the end of my first month to let you know my complete results.
The reason for this article is because, I have not been able to find any reviews by anyone, NOT trying to sell this product and I find that extremely odd.
Supposedly over 88,000 folks have done this diet and one would expect to find good and bad reviews all over the Internet.
On blogs promoting the E-Book for sale, I see questions by consumers but no one answers them.
This says to me the reviews are only on the E-Book itself but not from folks who have actually followed the protocol described.
They can't answer the question because they haven't actually done the diet themselves.
So let me share a little about myself so you can judge for yourself whether my review is credible or not.
I am a LifeSuccess Coach with a focus on Health & Wellness.
Empowering people to not only look and feel their best but to mentally defy age as well.
My husband I have been really paying attention to nutrition and anti-aging for the past 7-8 years.
I have never had a real problem with my weight until my late 40's.
So no, there is no fantastic story here about me losing 100 lbs.
I am just your average woman, who as I got older started gaining 10 lbs.
each decade.
I have always been conscious of my looks (I have always been told I look way younger than I am) and have worked to maintain my weight these last 10 years in and around 130 lbs.
When I gave birth to my last child at age 25 I only weighed in at 130.
As I hit my early 40's I crept up to about 137-138.
When I was 46, I found a system through a company I was a distributor for that offered a diet of high protein, low cards and some awesome supplements.
(No, I am not here to sell you that system either) However, that system truly worked.
I got my weight down to 124 and maintained it for almost 1 year.
I lost 15 lbs.
in the first 30 days and then another 5 over the next month hitting 120 lbs.
I couldn't maintain that.
Within a week I was back up to 124 which is where I stayed just eating healthy but, still having my chocolate and ice cream occasionally in moderations.
I just watched what I ate.
But then I moved back up to the low 130's the second year.
I was OK with that.
Suddenly though, right before my 49th birthday I started gaining weight at a rate that completely took me by surprise and no matter what I did I couldn't maintain my low 130's.
Seriously, while I stuck to my high protein diet perfectly, the weight just kept creeping up.
I would lose 2 lbs.
and gain it right back.
If I stayed at an unhealthy caloric intake of about 900kc I maintained.
But it just was not how I wanted to live my life.
I enjoy food and I ate healthy.
I did not want to be reduced to always being on a diet especially if I saw no results.
I stopped dieting.
I just was going to eat as healthy as I could and learn to accept that this weight was part of the "Change in Life" and was hormonal in nature.
The last 6 months before my 50th birthday, my weight settled in at 145.
With winter, I could hide it, most of it anyway.
The problem was my birthday is in the month of May and summer was coming up and I realized that for the first time in my life I was not going to be able to wear a bikini and I knew myself well enough I wasn't going to like myself in a one piece.
I just didn't know what else I could do.
I have done the Gym thing, I eat right, I diet.
I am tired of this Yo-Yo.
I know most of you reading this whether its 10, 20, 30, 50 or 100 lbs.
you want to lose; you know EXACTLY what I am talking about.
Then just over a week ago, I found out I was going on a cruise in June of 2015.
While I was excited I was also conscious of the fact that I was going to be primarily hanging out with a 30 year old who had a rocking body! LOL, Oh boy, was that going to make me feel self-conscious! Then an email comes across my desk the very next day about the Pound Melter.
After watching his video, it sounded exciting and was definitely not the same old stuff we have been being fed just wrapped up in a different package.
So, I started doing my due diligence on Brown Fat.
What I read and heard really got me excited about the possibilities that maybe I could lose 10 or 15 lbs.
by June if the Pound Melter Diet worked.
For $40.
00 I was willing to give it go! Nothing else was working! I went ahead and ordered, it and read the entire Pound Melter E-Book.
And the following day I started the Protocol.
However, I am VERY skeptical.
But, his protocol is definitely all healthy foods and good for you.
So why am I so skeptical, because there is nothing to back up his results.
All the reviews out there are only from people selling it.
There is a Facebook page or two and again, no honest or real reviews.
Then, there is the protocol itself.
Paul Sanders has very specific times you are to eat the foods; with no explanation to the times.
He starts the day out at 7 Am-9 Am.
Well, what if someone day starts out much earlier? What if one wakes up late? Or they are on night shift? He doesn't address this issue.
I have now sent in a support email asking him to clarify this twice now.
And the response both times is vague.
Just this morning, I emailed back to see if I could get a specific answer.
The protocol, for the most part is self-explanatory EXCEPT there are at least 4 items of food that are not typical and he doesn't explain how one should eat them or prepare them.
There should be an FAQ on this stuff.
He doesn't mention if you can substitute foods with the same foods in that food group.
They did answer that question in a support email I sent.
But again, that in my opinion is a common question and should be in an FAQ.
Why is it like pulling teeth to get an answer? Then there is the fact that no where in his Pound Melter E-Book does he recommend eating the foods that actually INCREASE the amount of Brown Fat Cells one has.
He seems to make the assumption that everyone has Brown Fat Cells and enough of them.
This is simply not true.
As I found out in my own due diligence research, Brown Fat Cells are primarily found in thinner people, women and those with low blood glucose levels.
I simply don't get why he fails to mention this in his Pound Melter E-Book.
The list of foods that have the hormone needed to naturally increase your Brown Fat Cells is a short list.
Since there is no way to tell how many Brown Fat Cells one has it would make sense to recommend to eat these foods in addition to his protocol, since as he states over and over, there are NO Food Limitations.
The other challenge I have is that while Paul Sanders says he is all about making this program affordable, the upsells one has to go through in the check out process are ridiculous and then he has quite a few sales pitches with in the E-Book itself.
I am not against anybody making money.
But having sales pitch after sales definitely makes me question his motives and his credibility What is true is that leafy greens and water-rich fruits do help to cool your body temperature.
There is enough science behind that.
The question is then, by following Paul Sanders protocol & the Pound Melter Diet, can one actually teach the body to stay at the lower body temperature long enough to activate the Brown Fat Cells and will his maintenance plan really keep our body temperature there? So my goal here is this, to not only follow his plan for the next 30 days or so, but to mix in a few other things that I have know about nutrition, plus what I have recently learned about Brown Fat and write a follow up article to this one in about 3 weeks.
I want to give the consumer a real honest review.
If you have tried or are currently doing the protocol, I would love to hear from you with your results so far.
My first week results are: I have lost 1 lb.
(Paul Sanders states it takes about 30 days to kick in, so I am OK with this) While I have eaten all of the foods as in the protocol I tend to wake up later and go to bed earlier so I have shifted the times in accordance.
I am not hungry at all.
Other than what is listed on the Pound Melter protocol, I don't eat anything else for breakfast and for lunch and dinner usually have either a High Protein shake or some other protein.
I do eat some of the foods listed to increase my Brown Fat Cells, during the day, along with drinking a minimum of 64 oz.
of water or other nutritional drink.
In my smoothies I use 0 fat Chobani's Greek Yogurt and unsweetened Almond Milk and Truvia for my sweetener.
I truly believe that science has truly stumbled upon a viable piece of information about our bodies that will help a lot of folks lose weight once we can nail it down.
If the Pound Melter Protocol doesn't work, at least it is a healthy way for folks to eat and may start them down a path of healthier lifestyles, one they may not have found unless they were on this quest like I am.
As of today I just finished the first week of using it.
I will do a follow up article at the end of my first month to let you know my complete results.
The reason for this article is because, I have not been able to find any reviews by anyone, NOT trying to sell this product and I find that extremely odd.
Supposedly over 88,000 folks have done this diet and one would expect to find good and bad reviews all over the Internet.
On blogs promoting the E-Book for sale, I see questions by consumers but no one answers them.
This says to me the reviews are only on the E-Book itself but not from folks who have actually followed the protocol described.
They can't answer the question because they haven't actually done the diet themselves.
So let me share a little about myself so you can judge for yourself whether my review is credible or not.
I am a LifeSuccess Coach with a focus on Health & Wellness.
Empowering people to not only look and feel their best but to mentally defy age as well.
My husband I have been really paying attention to nutrition and anti-aging for the past 7-8 years.
I have never had a real problem with my weight until my late 40's.
So no, there is no fantastic story here about me losing 100 lbs.
I am just your average woman, who as I got older started gaining 10 lbs.
each decade.
I have always been conscious of my looks (I have always been told I look way younger than I am) and have worked to maintain my weight these last 10 years in and around 130 lbs.
When I gave birth to my last child at age 25 I only weighed in at 130.
As I hit my early 40's I crept up to about 137-138.
When I was 46, I found a system through a company I was a distributor for that offered a diet of high protein, low cards and some awesome supplements.
(No, I am not here to sell you that system either) However, that system truly worked.
I got my weight down to 124 and maintained it for almost 1 year.
I lost 15 lbs.
in the first 30 days and then another 5 over the next month hitting 120 lbs.
I couldn't maintain that.
Within a week I was back up to 124 which is where I stayed just eating healthy but, still having my chocolate and ice cream occasionally in moderations.
I just watched what I ate.
But then I moved back up to the low 130's the second year.
I was OK with that.
Suddenly though, right before my 49th birthday I started gaining weight at a rate that completely took me by surprise and no matter what I did I couldn't maintain my low 130's.
Seriously, while I stuck to my high protein diet perfectly, the weight just kept creeping up.
I would lose 2 lbs.
and gain it right back.
If I stayed at an unhealthy caloric intake of about 900kc I maintained.
But it just was not how I wanted to live my life.
I enjoy food and I ate healthy.
I did not want to be reduced to always being on a diet especially if I saw no results.
I stopped dieting.
I just was going to eat as healthy as I could and learn to accept that this weight was part of the "Change in Life" and was hormonal in nature.
The last 6 months before my 50th birthday, my weight settled in at 145.
With winter, I could hide it, most of it anyway.
The problem was my birthday is in the month of May and summer was coming up and I realized that for the first time in my life I was not going to be able to wear a bikini and I knew myself well enough I wasn't going to like myself in a one piece.
I just didn't know what else I could do.
I have done the Gym thing, I eat right, I diet.
I am tired of this Yo-Yo.
I know most of you reading this whether its 10, 20, 30, 50 or 100 lbs.
you want to lose; you know EXACTLY what I am talking about.
Then just over a week ago, I found out I was going on a cruise in June of 2015.
While I was excited I was also conscious of the fact that I was going to be primarily hanging out with a 30 year old who had a rocking body! LOL, Oh boy, was that going to make me feel self-conscious! Then an email comes across my desk the very next day about the Pound Melter.
After watching his video, it sounded exciting and was definitely not the same old stuff we have been being fed just wrapped up in a different package.
So, I started doing my due diligence on Brown Fat.
What I read and heard really got me excited about the possibilities that maybe I could lose 10 or 15 lbs.
by June if the Pound Melter Diet worked.
For $40.
00 I was willing to give it go! Nothing else was working! I went ahead and ordered, it and read the entire Pound Melter E-Book.
And the following day I started the Protocol.
However, I am VERY skeptical.
But, his protocol is definitely all healthy foods and good for you.
So why am I so skeptical, because there is nothing to back up his results.
All the reviews out there are only from people selling it.
There is a Facebook page or two and again, no honest or real reviews.
Then, there is the protocol itself.
Paul Sanders has very specific times you are to eat the foods; with no explanation to the times.
He starts the day out at 7 Am-9 Am.
Well, what if someone day starts out much earlier? What if one wakes up late? Or they are on night shift? He doesn't address this issue.
I have now sent in a support email asking him to clarify this twice now.
And the response both times is vague.
Just this morning, I emailed back to see if I could get a specific answer.
The protocol, for the most part is self-explanatory EXCEPT there are at least 4 items of food that are not typical and he doesn't explain how one should eat them or prepare them.
There should be an FAQ on this stuff.
He doesn't mention if you can substitute foods with the same foods in that food group.
They did answer that question in a support email I sent.
But again, that in my opinion is a common question and should be in an FAQ.
Why is it like pulling teeth to get an answer? Then there is the fact that no where in his Pound Melter E-Book does he recommend eating the foods that actually INCREASE the amount of Brown Fat Cells one has.
He seems to make the assumption that everyone has Brown Fat Cells and enough of them.
This is simply not true.
As I found out in my own due diligence research, Brown Fat Cells are primarily found in thinner people, women and those with low blood glucose levels.
I simply don't get why he fails to mention this in his Pound Melter E-Book.
The list of foods that have the hormone needed to naturally increase your Brown Fat Cells is a short list.
Since there is no way to tell how many Brown Fat Cells one has it would make sense to recommend to eat these foods in addition to his protocol, since as he states over and over, there are NO Food Limitations.
The other challenge I have is that while Paul Sanders says he is all about making this program affordable, the upsells one has to go through in the check out process are ridiculous and then he has quite a few sales pitches with in the E-Book itself.
I am not against anybody making money.
But having sales pitch after sales definitely makes me question his motives and his credibility What is true is that leafy greens and water-rich fruits do help to cool your body temperature.
There is enough science behind that.
The question is then, by following Paul Sanders protocol & the Pound Melter Diet, can one actually teach the body to stay at the lower body temperature long enough to activate the Brown Fat Cells and will his maintenance plan really keep our body temperature there? So my goal here is this, to not only follow his plan for the next 30 days or so, but to mix in a few other things that I have know about nutrition, plus what I have recently learned about Brown Fat and write a follow up article to this one in about 3 weeks.
I want to give the consumer a real honest review.
If you have tried or are currently doing the protocol, I would love to hear from you with your results so far.
My first week results are: I have lost 1 lb.
(Paul Sanders states it takes about 30 days to kick in, so I am OK with this) While I have eaten all of the foods as in the protocol I tend to wake up later and go to bed earlier so I have shifted the times in accordance.
I am not hungry at all.
Other than what is listed on the Pound Melter protocol, I don't eat anything else for breakfast and for lunch and dinner usually have either a High Protein shake or some other protein.
I do eat some of the foods listed to increase my Brown Fat Cells, during the day, along with drinking a minimum of 64 oz.
of water or other nutritional drink.
In my smoothies I use 0 fat Chobani's Greek Yogurt and unsweetened Almond Milk and Truvia for my sweetener.
I truly believe that science has truly stumbled upon a viable piece of information about our bodies that will help a lot of folks lose weight once we can nail it down.
If the Pound Melter Protocol doesn't work, at least it is a healthy way for folks to eat and may start them down a path of healthier lifestyles, one they may not have found unless they were on this quest like I am.
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