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Hi Everyone!

One of our professional users, Tamar Cohen, runs a nutrition practice called Tri Holistic Nutrition. She was gracious enough to reach out to her clients to see if any of them were willing to share their story with us. Meet Mimi, a college student who worked with Tamar. Here is her story!

"Mimi is a college student who had gained weight. We worked together for 6 months combining in-person meetings and weekly phone check-ins. I used Cronometer to help guide her on the best food choices for her overall health and weight management goals. Every week, when we got on the phone, we would look at her Cronometer log.

I could see exactly what she was eating. It made it easier to tweak her diet and make the recommendations that would fit her lifestyle and help achieve both optimal health and ideal weight.

One year later Mimi had lost and maintained a 30lb weight drop. In her own words she says “I feel very healthy and have been on a Paleo diet, like you suggested”.

I feel confident that our work together has given Mimi the tools to make healthy dietary choices that will last a lifetime."

Tamar

If anyone would like to contact Tamar about her services, click here to visit her website.

This testimonial is some months overdue.

I reached my weight goal—and I have maintained my weight goal for 6 months now—thanks to Dr. Mercola’s book Fat for Fuel—and the use of Cronometer. I am satisfied that I am eating a healthy regimen for my overall health, not just to maintain my ideal weight.

The major factors that helped me to lose weight are as follows.
1) Cutting carbs (even good carbs) to a maximum of 10 carbs/day or less
2) Recording ALL food intake in Cronometer; monitoring macro nutrients, especially carbs.
3) Keeping my healthy fat intake at the recommended high amount; eating MCT oil, 4 TB/day
4) Intermittent fasting; specifically, skipping breakfast (fasting for 15+ hours) 3-5 days/week.

Note: Exercise was NOT a major factor in my weight loss. I did not have a consistent exercise
program.

Chronology:

05-16-17
Weigh in at 138#. My goal is to lose the extra weight which has been slowly & steadily increasing since I went on full-on menopause fifteen years prior—despite all my “weight loss diet” efforts--and which, as of this date, is about 15 extra pounds. I am 67 years old. I begin a low carb program, with moderate protein. A few weeks into my low-carb regimen, I begin to follow the regimen recommended in “Fat for Fuel.”

10-9-17
Achieve a weight loss of 20# (I exceeded my original weight loss goal of 15#)

04/23/18
Weigh in at 118#. (I weigh myself every Monday morning.)

Thank you, Dr. Mercola! Thank you, Cronometer!

Hi! I lost about 150 lbs after having gastric bypass surgery. Many times during my weight loss phase I would get worried (unnecessarily, but that's me!) about whether I was getting adequate nutrition. I would turn to Cronometer and log my food for a couple of days and voila, would discover that I was doing just fine.

I also used Cronometer to prove to my surgical nutritionist that I'm getting adequate protein on my mostly-vegan diet. And knowing how many vitamins actually take in helps me adjust my vitamin & mineral supplements so that I'm not taking in excess (which can be as bad for you as too little).

Most of my friends who've had this surgery have regained a substantial amount (like 30% or more) of their weight. Even though this is pretty common and usually doesn't re-start the serious health problems they had before the surgery, I really want to avoid significant regain because, well, it's really fun to be slim! So I continue to weigh weekly and whenever I gain more than a couple of pounds, I use Cronometer to track what I'm eating/drinking to show me what I've been doing wrong. Sometimes its as simple as not drinking enough water, and sometimes it's eating more high-calorie treats than I'd realized.

For example, using Cronometer helped me identify a pattern that was causing me to gain weight. I eat primarily WFPB, but a few months ago started eating cheese. I didn't think I was eating that much but nevertheless was gaining weight. After faithfully tracking everything I ate/drank in Cronometer, though, the graph made it crystal clear that every night I had wine, I also went WAY over the number of calories I needed. Digging a little further into the graph data (LOVE that feature of Cronometer) proved the unwelcome fact that most of those excess calories were coming from the cheese! (Apparently a little wine has a big effect on my ability to estimate cheese intake, lol!)