05-26-2014, 12:43 PM
I had the expectation that based on the design, weight loss would start within a couple weeks and be steady at 2-3 pounds per week. The first week my friend who weighed herself on my bathroom scale used it, she began losing weight, and she lost about 12 pounds in a month. Then she hit a wall and stopped losing weight, only hovering. That lasted I guess three months, and I realized that it was not working as I had expected, so I gave up hope of that and started watching what it actually did. Then she lost another 10 pounds in 3 weeks. Now she's really motivated again, and is having a wonderful time exercising and being active trying to continue. I should mention that she was so afraid that she would have gained weight because about the same time she started losing weight, she started using a form of birth control that is known to usually cause weight gain, and yet she is still losing the weight. I am amazed.
My scale is a middle grade Weight Watcher's scale, and I bought it at a Bed, Bath and Beyond for I think just about $40 US. I bought it because when my friends who are testing or using the weight loss program come over, I can corner them and get some data on how the program is actually performing, instead of "I feel like I'm losing weight!" and "I'm wearing a smaller size now, but I have no idea how much I weigh.". None of them have a scale of their own.
I have three extremely resistant testers for the weight loss program. Two are male, and one is female. One is the one I created weight loss for 8 years back, and she responded to it (being a major control freak) by resistance that whole time until she started using Version 6 of the current program. During the time From when I met her in college to probably five or six months ago, she was steadily gaining weight. When I met her she was at 155ish, and looked pretty good for her body type. In fact we met when I asked her out on a date back in the day. But we ended up friends instead almost immediately. By the time she asked me to create a weight loss program, she had had a kid and gotten married and was at about 180 pounds. For the next 8 years, she tortured me with constant nagging about making the program better, and we went through probably two dozen revisions of it. At her heaviest she weighed 344 pounds, and at that point I just gave up on her. She responded by pleading for a copy of Version 6, and I reluctantly gave it to her, expecting more of the same. But this one she responded to, and she has lost a lot of weight since she started it. I believe she's down to somewhere around 300 pounds now, and still losing.
The second tester is someone I met around the same time I met Andrew, and he is an extremely strong willed personality who loves to have fun and party. He sees social eating as part of being social and being social is part of how he makes contacts, which translates into money for him. He has been using my weight loss programs for about 2 years now. His response has typically to tell me about his weight loss, but not the weight gain, so he originally led me to believe that he was losing only, when in fact he was gaining it back after a time. On Version 6, he has lost weight and kept it off, and even gone 10 pounds below his previous "brick wall", but he has stopped there for five or six months now.
The third tester is our very own Ben, and he's the newest of the weight loss testers. As you can see from his journal, Version 6 is working very well for him. So I have gotten 2 of my 3 most resistant testers on the path to losing the weight, with one stalled. I'd say that after 8 years of work, that's pretty good, but I have several improvements I am eventually going to add to the program, which will eventually be released as Version 7. When that will happen I don't know. But I do know that after Version 7, shy of some sort of amazing breakthrough, that's where development will end for this program.
My scale is a middle grade Weight Watcher's scale, and I bought it at a Bed, Bath and Beyond for I think just about $40 US. I bought it because when my friends who are testing or using the weight loss program come over, I can corner them and get some data on how the program is actually performing, instead of "I feel like I'm losing weight!" and "I'm wearing a smaller size now, but I have no idea how much I weigh.". None of them have a scale of their own.
I have three extremely resistant testers for the weight loss program. Two are male, and one is female. One is the one I created weight loss for 8 years back, and she responded to it (being a major control freak) by resistance that whole time until she started using Version 6 of the current program. During the time From when I met her in college to probably five or six months ago, she was steadily gaining weight. When I met her she was at 155ish, and looked pretty good for her body type. In fact we met when I asked her out on a date back in the day. But we ended up friends instead almost immediately. By the time she asked me to create a weight loss program, she had had a kid and gotten married and was at about 180 pounds. For the next 8 years, she tortured me with constant nagging about making the program better, and we went through probably two dozen revisions of it. At her heaviest she weighed 344 pounds, and at that point I just gave up on her. She responded by pleading for a copy of Version 6, and I reluctantly gave it to her, expecting more of the same. But this one she responded to, and she has lost a lot of weight since she started it. I believe she's down to somewhere around 300 pounds now, and still losing.
The second tester is someone I met around the same time I met Andrew, and he is an extremely strong willed personality who loves to have fun and party. He sees social eating as part of being social and being social is part of how he makes contacts, which translates into money for him. He has been using my weight loss programs for about 2 years now. His response has typically to tell me about his weight loss, but not the weight gain, so he originally led me to believe that he was losing only, when in fact he was gaining it back after a time. On Version 6, he has lost weight and kept it off, and even gone 10 pounds below his previous "brick wall", but he has stopped there for five or six months now.
The third tester is our very own Ben, and he's the newest of the weight loss testers. As you can see from his journal, Version 6 is working very well for him. So I have gotten 2 of my 3 most resistant testers on the path to losing the weight, with one stalled. I'd say that after 8 years of work, that's pretty good, but I have several improvements I am eventually going to add to the program, which will eventually be released as Version 7. When that will happen I don't know. But I do know that after Version 7, shy of some sort of amazing breakthrough, that's where development will end for this program.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!