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Buying a good scale…

January 25, 2016October 18, 2015 by Chris

Hi, Dr. Jack,

I just wanted to tell you that I bought a new scale. It is one of the Tanita ones you talked about. It should be arriving in a week. Sure has a lot of information on it. Things are going well…. scale is up…

Chris,

You are going to have to trust me on this. This is normal. There are so many variables and you can’t allow the weight loss cycle get you discouraged. Rarely, and I mean rarely, does anyone not go through this. It’s like the stock market. There are fluctuations, ups and downs, but ultimately you are looking for the trend of going up. Here, we are looking for the trend of going down. This is NOT a sprint. It’s a marathon. This is a lifestyle change that will take time. Two days of cycling is nothing when we are talking a full year to reach your goal. Keep your chin up. We’ll talk this afternoon.

Dr. Jack

One of the things Dr. Jack recommended to me was to get a good scale. I never thought much about it at the time, but long term I see why you need it. Weight is one number. Doesn’t tell you much when you think about it. It tells you that you gained or lost. But it is not taking into account daily fluctuations. Maybe the soup I made had a little too much salt. Maybe I didn’t drink enough yesterday. At first, I didn’t see what this new scale would do, but long term? Once again, Dr. Jack knows his business.

You have to heal your mind too…..

January 25, 2016October 14, 2015 by Chris

Hi Chris,

This is the interview I was telling you about. He is an award winning life coach and has some good information. Just trying to give you everything I can to help you achieve “our” goal!

Dr. Jack

I decided to listen before work….it was interesting. It helped me to see so much of what I keep hearing you say about how it is a matter of inner healing and the weight will follow. I had the weight as the front runner but I need to move that in priority to the side a bit. It is an added benefit, but so much more attention should be on the healing.

It was interesting. I will listen again, and take better notes.

Thanks!

Chris

Negative people…. And what they do to us…

January 24, 2016October 13, 2015 by Chris

Dear Chris,

My suggestion is to avoid negative people as much as possible. Not only while you are making these great
changes in your life, but always.

Dr. Jack

Not long after I started with Dr. Jack I started to notice more and more the negative people I encountered. It started with a comment that a child made to me about my size. It cut me to my core.

October 11th…. six days, 10 pounds??? How is that possible?

January 24, 2016October 11, 2015 by Chris

Dr. Jack,
Hugggggggggggg….. I have such great gratitude for you today…. Thank you for taking me. I can’t even believe it. I checked twice because I thought it wrong but I am 0.8 from ten pounds gone. My hope for myself is flooding back in me…… All this time it wasn’t about what I did wrong….. I just needed help that no one would give me. All they gave was criticism. I told you the day this happened, I would burst into tears and I did. I feel like I am being freed from all this self torture of being a failure. I know there is a long road to go…..but I am so relieved today.

Thank you seems so inadequate.
Huggggggg
Chris

Five pounds two days? What???

January 24, 2016October 7, 2015 by Chris

Chris,

This is great. I love your attitude. You are ridding your body of so many toxins and this is exactly what you need. The fact that you are down almost 5 pounds shows that the road to optimal health has begun.
Keep it up and enjoy THIS day. You deserve this!

Dr. Jack

I looked a the scale a few times, got off, got back on. That is not possible. I had been on Paleo for almost six months and lost six pounds TOTAL. So how could I possibly lose five pounds in two days?? Is that even possible? As soon as I started this way of eating I found out that things in my body were changing.

When Hope walked in….

February 18, 2016October 6, 2015 by Chris

Dear Dr. Jack,

     You are the first person that I really feel understands this struggle. So much of what you say to me in these conversations just hits me. No thanks will ever say that enough!! I sat here eating dinner and thinking that you really don’t know what you have changed in just a short time. When I called today I thought, wrongly, that here I would be again, that you would tell me, you are screwing this all up! But you didn’t….. You are so encouraging ! do you know….. That for the first time in what seems like years, I ate dinner today and I felt like I could just enjoy it. That it was okay to eat it. That I was doing what you said and the rest you will figure out.
     I know you see hundreds of people. But to me, I don’t feel like a number with you. I feel like a person. Like it matters. Like how I am doing matters. No thanks will ever be enough for that either. I just feel like I can succeed with you.
I am so happy that I didn’t give up here…because I was ready to. The day I watched your webinar I kept asking myself what will he say different, but then ALL of it was!
       Today I have something I thought I lost…….hope.

October 4… The meeting…

January 24, 2016October 4, 2015 by Chris

Sunday, October 4th…. I watched the Bills game and reread the parts of the manual I thought I needed to just check over. I jotted down the foods I thought I would make into meals as I went along and wrote notes to ask Dr. Jack about. I opened all the supplements and I got out some snack baggies and labeled them by the day and meal. I organized a week’s worth and waited for the call.

Dr. Jack called on schedule. He was very nice, and I started feeling more comfortable almost immediately. His cheery attitude and positive demeanor are contagious. He had asked me earlier in the week what my objective was for the first twelve weeks. I had said, “Listen, I just want to lose forty pounds.” He asked why and I told him if I just lose forty I will feel like this is a doable thing and then I know I can keep going. He assured me that I was going to lose the forty and maybe more. Of course, I was skeptical. This poor man had no idea what he was getting into!

Sometimes you have to go all in…

January 23, 2016September 27, 2015 by Chris

Dear Chris,

I have seen all this before. Hashimoto’s is no mystery to me. I have a proven track record of dealing with difficult cases. I know I can help you.

Dr. Jack

Sometimes in life, you just have to take that giant leap of faith. You have to just take that first step. Put one step on the path and just start walking. Like in the Wizard of Oz….follow the yellow brick road…

This was mine. I told myself that this is my last try. If this does not work, I am done trying. I felt like I was on the ground, dirty, beat up, feeling like the world’s biggest diet failure with no hope. I had this one try left in me. This was it.

I told Dr. Jack I was all in. He talked to me in detail about his idea. His main focus and mine would be that he was going to help me to get my body healthy. Then the weight would just go. He explained cellular healing to me, what the cause of my Hashimoto’s disease was, and how to repair it.

When you can’t decide, you call your best friend…

January 26, 2016September 26, 2015 by Chris

Dear Dr. Jack,

I am in.

Chris

Everyone needs someone in their life who is no nonsense when it comes to making a decision. I am no different. About nine years ago, I found a best friend who has truly inspired me, pushed me and saved me in the most important ways a person can save another. His name is Mark, and we have next to nothing in common. Isn’t that the best thing ever??

We found each other on the internet many years ago when I was searching for help with a problem. We connected and I knew in an instant that this man was my very best friend. Over the years we have known each other we have shared many things. With Mark came a whole other family of people that I value and who I think of as my own family.