The Fast Metabolism Diet Life Changing Series Part 1

Its time to give credits to our community. Its time to acknowledge the hard work and dedication for our fast metabolism dieters and be inspired from their story. Lets hear their stories out and how their life was changed because of the miracle The Fast Metabolism Diet program brought to us by Miss Haylie Pomroy. Are you ready to be inspired? Lets begin.

Note: We didnt altered/edited the following statements. What youve read here is the exact statements our fast metabolism dieters submitted to us.

"Hi. I am very pleased with the results of the diet. I have been on it now for two months. I am a senior woman with a bad knee so I cannot exercise as much as I would like but even so, I have lost over 15 lbs. This is the first success in dieting for me so needless to say I am very happy. Being unable to walk long distances or do much in the way of physical exercise limits my ability to use up a lot of energy but the Fast Metabolism Diet has allowed me to wear my clothes with more comfort and to lose the excess weight that had accumulated over the past two years.
Thank you so much.
A happy dieter." - Frieda H. Byrd

"Last spring I was at a baby shower and a relative told me about the FMD. Even though she was at a party she was eating a wonderful variety of foods from the luncheon buffet. I went home that night night ordered the book and spent the next week digesting everything I read. It all made sense. My 60th birthday was two months away and I was determined to loose some weight as I didnt want to be an over weight grandma who couldnt keep up with the grandkids. I had tried many diets and nothing seemed to make a difference. Both my husband and I love to cook and cook healthy so the diet was a great fit. We made a shopping list and a menu calendar for the week. We spent a weekend cooking and freezing and we were ready! In the first 28 days I lost 18 lbs and felt great and best of all my blood work showed that my cholesterol was finally under control. On maintenance (I eat all the foods all week) I have lost a total of 22 lbs. I am so grateful for this plan and now have 5 converts. Two of them are in my office which makes it so much fun because we share recipes and tips. We all use the app and read the blog. Thank you Haylie!" - Phyllis

" Lost 17 lbs first 26 days
Celebrating with wine Tonite !!! ( drank the whole bottle )
Cooked 32 meals for next 2 weeks while "celebrating" today.
No guilt here ..
Next 28 starts Monday
30 lbs to go" - Charlene Knight

"In February, I found myself on the edge of an unhealthy abyss. I had struggled with weight issues for years, brought on by unhealthy eating, off and on dieting, and the effects of multiple sclerosis that had limited my physical abilities and caused near constant fatigue. My weight had reached 275 pounds and my MS was winning its battle against my body. I was also fighting high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a heart arrhythmia. Lets just say I didnt see a long life ahead of me. And I was getting tired of buying larger clothes!
Thats when I heard about The Fast Metabolism Diet from former colleagues. At first read, it seemed intimidating and the thought of giving up cheese, chocolate and caffeine was not appealing. But I knew I had to make a change for me to have a future. So I jumped in and collaborated with friends to have a support system. My weight loss came fast initially. Then I hit the plateaus. Along the way, the "diet" faded away and it became my way of living.
As I lost weight, my health got better. No more high blood pressure or cholesterol. The heart arrhythmia went away. My MS was completely under control. My neurologist said to keep doing whatever it was that I was doing as there were no visible signs of the disease and my fatigue was gone.
As friends saw my physical transformation, many joined the FMD team. I was proud to introduce them to something that had changed my life. I was moved by one friend who works as a cancer research nurse. She started the diet because of me and began sharing the diet with her patients. I began to see how FMD could change so many lives besides my own.
Today, Im physically active. Im working out five times a week because this plan helped me get to where I can. I started running recently and plan to run a half marathon for my birthday in January.
The weight loss has been awesome. I weigh 205 pounds today. The weight is important. It was holding me back and contributing to myriad health issues. But more important is how I feel. I have more energy. I like what I see in the mirror. I love the foods I eat. I rarely miss my old bad habits or foods that slow down my metabolism.
I am proud to be an FMD disciple. It changed my life and Ive seen it do the same for others. Nothing in life is easy. But the FMD plan makes it that way if youll give it an honest go." - Jeff Holeman.

This is just the first batch of life-changing stories our fast metabolism dieters submitted. How are you feeling after reading their life-changing stories? Did you get inspiration to complete your diet too? We do hope YOUR success story will be the one to be posted next time. Do you have any message from them? Comment in the comments section below. If you wanted your success story to be in the next batch of life changing stories, you can send us your success story now!  

She dropped 8 dress sizes by changing her style

At her heaviest, Rose Anne Schulman had no idea what she weighed because she was too embarrassed to step on a scale.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Rose Anne Schulman wore a size 20; now shes a size 4
Schulman lost weight by making small changes to her diet
She takes a Zumba class twice a week and walks to her synagogue on Saturdays

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(CNN) -- Rose Anne Schulman has been known to go into the grocery store, buy fried chicken and eat four pieces of it in the parking lot.

But that was the old her.

Now when she has that craving she buys a rotisserie chicken, takes the skin off and eats only one piece.

She doesnt actually know how much weight shes lost over the last year-and-a-half because she previously was too embarrassed to get on a scale. She knows she once wore a size 20. Now shes a size 4.

A former dance teacher, Schulman never thought about what she was eating because she burned so many calories with aerobics, jazz, clogging, tap and ballet. Then a broken foot landed her on the couch. She remembers sitting in her house for weeks, eating her sorrows away.

"Every time there was a crisis I turned to food for solace," the Atlanta resident says. And once she started, she couldnt stop.

Her weight went up and down as her foot healed and her husband recovered from two different life-threatening illnesses. Schulman would lose 20 pounds then put it back on, then lose and gain again.

Two years ago, she was shopping for a dress to wear to her sons wedding. Everything she tried on she thought looked like a potato sack. When she finally found a dress, the saleswoman told her it would look better if she lost 5 pounds. Schulman remembers thinking the woman really meant 35 pounds.

With five months until the wedding, she went home and decided to try to lose five pounds by watching what she ate. Those five pounds disappeared pretty quickly.

She started questioning all her food choices. "Is it worth it to eat this piece of cake?" she would ask herself. The answer was usually "No."

She soon realized she didnt need what she calls the frills, such as croutons and mayonnaise-based dressing on salad. She became more and more careful about what she put in her mouth. She read food labels. She stopped sampling her recipes while cooking.

People often say to her, "You cant lose weight that way," she says, and she proudly tells them, "Yes you can because I did."

Soon that dress for her sons wedding in June 2012 was too big. She needed a size 16 and was elated to fit into a "normal" size.

"I didnt look like the fat lady anymore, but I didnt look like the skinny lady either," she says. She kept at it by making simple changes -- a strategy she continues today.

At breakfast, for example, shell go for low sugar instant oatmeal, which is 110 calories instead of 160 calories for the regular packet. All those extra calories add up over the course of a year, Schulman says, and to save them you arent really giving up anything.

Portion control is also important, she says. Instead of eating a sandwich or two for lunch, she has soup and tuna salad or cottage cheese. Because she lacks discipline, she buys individual cups of cottage cheese instead of a big container to prevent herself from eating twice as much as she should.

She wants people to know eating healthy doesnt have to be horrible: "You just have to think about what you are doing."

These days she doesnt even have the urge to eat anything fattening, although she did enjoy some chocolate cake with ice cream on her birthday. She shared it with her husband, Alan, who is also reaping the benefits of his wifes change in lifestyle. Alan has lost 85 pounds.

Schulman lost 25 pounds before she even added exercise into the equation. Now she takes a Zumba class twice a week and walks several miles to and from her synagogue to attended religious services on Saturday. She says that walk is much easier at her current size than it used to be.

Shes tried other exercise routines such as walking on the treadmill, but says that bores her and she ends up going home and eating afterward.

One year after trying to take off five pounds to fit into that size 20 dress, Schulman was wearing a size 8.

On a recent shopping trip, she came out of the fitting room in a dress and the saleswoman told her it was too big. Schulman laughed and showed the woman a picture of the old her. Then she bought a size 4.

She says she was happy when she got down to a size 10, but shes happier at a size 4.

"This is the first time in my life that I feel like I dont need to lose weight," she says.

Schulman, now 65, worries about gaining the weight back but knows its different this time. Shes still getting used to her new body but says its definitely not temporary.

"I didnt go on a diet," she says. "I changed my lifestyle."