People tend to lose at different rates depending on health and amount of detox needed. I would highly recommend giving it at least a second week.

Christina

hi, i have been on USD for about 3.5 weeks. I am also 15 lbs overweight,and also exercise regularly, and have lost 5 lbs. I did go about a week with no weight loss, but stayed with the program. This program is working for me! I have quit caffeine (Miracle!) and do not crave sweets at all, amazing!! I have never felt this good. I try not to look at the scale every day, instead measure progress by how my old clothes fit. Hang in there, this is a common sense program that works!!

I'm glad you posted because I was certainly going to.  I've only lost 2# & am 25# overweight (over my personal weight where I want to be - not BMI).  I do exercise regularly 4-5x per week for 30 min+.  I thought this diet was a shoe-in for me; I had lost 7lbs yesterday when I weighed myself.  Yesterday I had 1 decaf grande non-fat mocha with my mom and sister yesterday so that was my only cheat for the week.  Now I'm to only 2lbs lost this week...

My sister went on the diet with me, had the same exact coffee yesterday and lost 5lbs.  Too weird.  She doesn't weigh much more and didn't exercise at all.

I'm sticking it out for 2 more weeks because I do feel better, my clothes fit better & I like the food.  Any thoughts from anyone on this result?  It's a bit discouraging but I think through time & continued effort it will be good.

Perhaps your body is still in a detox mode and than often prevents early weight loss.  Stick with it, you will notice a difference in how you feel even if you experience no weight loss yet

ANother thing to consider is that if you are exercising, you may be building muscle.  Muscle weighs more than fat.  A better guage of your progress would be how you are feeling and how your clothes fit.  Are you feeling better?  Are you clothes looser?  Don't always rely on the scale to guage your progress - it is not necessarily a true reflection.  Plateaus are also common and is just a way of your body adjusting to the changes you are making.  Best way to beat a plateau and get things moving again is to change up your routine a bit.  The body gets used to the same old thing and will plateau.  Give it a challenge to rev things up again.

ALso for the person that had the latte - did you ever consider that you may be allergic to one of the ingredients in the latte?  If so, that is a reason why you reversed some of the progress that you made....something to consider anyway.

Good luck to everyone...this plan works.  I'm on my second week of detox and am down 7 lbs and never felt better.  More enery, less congestion.  During the first week I went from a Mod toxicity (89) to mild toxicity (22) and am still trying to get below 10 before I start adding foods back in to see what I am allergic to.  Hang in there! 

Thanks for the positive words Kerry.  I love cooking, but found the USD UltraBroth recipe a bit to strong for me, so I had a hard time drinking it.  The TJ's version only has 5 calories and is low is sodium. 

I had a friend send me a press release from John Hopkin's Hospital re: nutrition and cancer.  I'm going to try to figure out how to post it.  It really reinforces many of the points that Dr. H. makes.

Have a great day!

Hi,

my experience with not losing weight is with another program, one, that worked before. I had a consultation and it turned out that actually my whole self is blocked. It was some kind of stress that I didn't even recognize. First I settled the problem with the stress and then ... I lost weight with a regular food.

By the way I am absolutely new in this program. But I want to try it. I want to "wash" my body inside from the toxins. I will start in the end of next week because now I follow another program /which is in harmony with this one/ and I want to finish it and to start this program. But I would rather try the 8-week program.

P.S. Sorry if I make mistakes or express my ideas not that correctly, but English is not my mother language.

Hi.

 I just finished week 3. This week my weight stayed the same but I lost 1.5 inches from around my hips and 2 inches from my waist. I was amazed. I measured twice just to make sure I hadn't made a mistake. I am still eating with the USD plan and using a little agave nectar to sweeten my smoothies. I am making a wonderful vanilla, cherry, banana & almond smoothie that is unbelievably good..

I did some experimenting over the weekend and was floored by the results.

I take care of my 91 year old mom at home and over the weekend she wanted some soda/ ginger ale. I had some organic soda in the fridge from before detox. It was sweetened with Splenda. I poured her a glass and took 1 sip. Just 1 sip. It was gross. It tasted metallic and a little bitter. I knew the soda hadn't changed and was amazed that I'd been drinking the stuff and loving it before. It was just last month that I told my bf it was the best soda I had ever tasted!

My second experiment involved introducing a food back into my diet. I am allergic to apples, carrots and rice. I can eat cooked carrots and apples with no symptoms. But, I wondered over the weekend if I was really allergic to apples or whether it was my toxic system that reacted to apples. Maybe something had changed since I was eating clean and I could have an apple. So....I made my organic chicken stir fry and used a granny smith apple as a garnish around the edges. Within a half hour of eating, my gut was churning. I felt like I hadn't eaten in years. I started itching on my left foot and noticed a slight rash under my left rib cage. Most significant to me was that I felt like I was starving and nothing would fill me except high fat processed baked goods. I didn't eat them. I drank a smoothie, water, ate other frish fruit and waited it out. But what an experiment. Had I been overeating all the wrong things and had such intense cravings for years because this stuff somehow buffered my symptoms? I hadn't had a craving since I started the diet, and I ate one food I was allergic to and I felt like I could have eaten the entire bakery of foods and not have been full. I am now sure that my weight problem has it's roots at the cellular level and is definitely based on inflammation.

Otherwise, I still have headaches off and on and other symptoms of continued detox but I see them as encouraging. I have probably been toxic for over 40 years, I can't expect it to reverse just a couple of weeks.  I see these signs as  my system getting well.

How are you all doing?

I start my second week today.  I ordered the food.  Any one with stomach pains and some bloating?  I wonder if there is too much carbohydrate for someone who is 68.

I ordered the food and the food is good.  Today I feel I need some adjustments to the food.  Help please.  I found that I lost more weight during the preparatiion week.  I lost 2 lbs this first week

Thanks for your help