Gary W. Achee's Page

Just a pic of my bride and I of 37 years. Her name is Mary. This is at Little River Canyon in northern Alabama.

Carol,
First, "cat" is short for catastrophic adjuster such as hurricanes, earthquakes etc. Next, this explanation on the weight loss is a little lengthy but important. Let me preface this by saying that my doctors thought it was quackery and that it couldn't be done but the science was sound and solid. I started first by reading Kevin Trudeau's Weight Loss Protocol, The Cure for Obesity. You can look this up online. I read the book then took a copy to a friend that is a nurse practitioner and owns a health food store. She read the book and said that she would help me with the diet. I then took copies to both my doctors and asked them to read the book and just let me know what they thought. Since they are both mainstream medical doctors, they were thumbs down. I asked if I did the whole thing, would there be any consequences? They said unequivacably "no". They both believed it to be a very healthy adventure but that they would like to participate and monitor my experiment. They just couldn't fathom how it would be possible to adhere to the regimen. Frankly, I didn't know either but I was to the point of total exasperation and desperation and was willing to commit to this whole thing. I then revisited my healthy nurse and she set me up with all sorts of cleanses and detox herbals. She explained that fat can't leave the cell until most of the poisons and toxins were released. I was dubious and she said to trust her for once. I did and she put me on a healthy breakfast smoothie that I prepared myself every morning. It was tasty and filling and lasted untill lunch. For lunch, she told my wife to always have a large bowl of cooked beans in the fridge so that I could warm a bowl every day. Any and all kinds of beans with no meat. Beans are your friend (though they don't make your friends happy). Flavoring the beans with no meat is a secret also. Ask your health food store about a spice called "Spike". This stuff is all organic and great. I also have a small salad with my beans and made my own balsamic vinegarette dressing. Easy to make. Lunch is very filling and I work physically hard most times and it lasts until dinner. Dinner consists of a large to huge salad with an apple diced in it and I eat that last in the pool of balsamic vinegarette that is left. I also have a skinless chicken breast with a little Whorstershire sauce. Every day I stick to this regimen, I lose 1 pound. When I did this for 60 days, and lost 60 lbs., I then ordered HCG from an online source. HCG is short for Human Chorionic Gonadotrophan. This is not a growth hormone but quite the opposite. Read the book and it explains how it works. This was what interested my doctors. They agreed with the science but didn't think that I would do it. I did it and it was unbelievably great. In a nutshell, while on this stuff, you will consume no more than 500 calories a day and you WILL NOT BE HUNGRY. Your body will still be using the same fuel it always does but the fuel will be your fat. You will be burning 2000 to 3000 calories in fat per day. Your toilet bowl will show the evidence by the orange ring that your urine will cause. That orange ring is the fat leaving your body. Sorry, kinda gross but you asked and I'm tellin'. Gotta clean that bowl more often now. Also, if you can do the HCG thing, that's where the cure for obesity is. Without that, it's just another diet and you will regain the weight and all is for naught. I took a sabatical from the diet a couple times for some motorcycle trips with my old Viet Nam war buddies and ate road food with all the trimmings including cobblers and other assorted goodies and when I returned home the first thing my wife did before she even kissed me was to weigh me. No gain. Both times. There are other details and nuances that I could get into but I think you get the gist of it. Now, I do the diet during the week and pig out on the weekends and life is good. My energy level has skyrocketed not to mention my sex drive. Used to be who ever wanted to do the work. Now it's like when were in our thirties. Still, leave me alone, I have a headache. Just kidding y'all. The only thing I had on my side for this to work was "desperation". Otherwise, like the doctors said, it's too much of a change and committment. By the way, my cardiologist called be and said that I inspired him to try it and he has already lost 30 lbs.. 'Nite y'all, Gary