OK, first let me say up front, I am in no way affiliated with Paul Sanders’ Pound Melter eBook nor am I selling it. As of today I just finished the first week of using it.
I will do a follow-up article at the end of my first month to let you know of my full results. The reason for this article is because I have not been able to find any reviews from anyone NOT trying to sell this product and I find it extremely strange. Supposedly, over 88,000 people have done this diet and one would expect to find good and bad reviews on the internet. In the blogs that promote the E-Book for sale, I see questions from consumers but no one answers them. This tells me that the reviews are only in the ebook, but not from people who have actually followed the described protocol. They can’t answer the question because they haven’t actually done the diet themselves.
Let me share a bit about myself so you can judge for yourselves whether my review is credible or not.
I am a LifeSuccess Coach with a focus on Health and Wellness. Empowering people to not only look and feel their best, but to mentally defy age. My husband, I have been paying a lot of attention to nutrition and anti-aging for the last 7 or 8 years. I have never had a real problem with my weight until I was 40 years old. So no, there is no fantastic story about me losing 100 pounds here. I’m just an average woman, as she got older she started gaining 10 pounds. every decade. I have always been conscious of my appearance (I have always been told that I look much younger than I am) and have worked to keep my weight these past 10 years at and around 130lbs.
When I gave birth to my last child at age 25, I only weighed 130. By the time I reached 40, I weighed 137-138. When I was 46, I found a system through a company I was a distributor for that offered a high protein diet, low cards, and some amazing supplements. (No, I’m not here to sell you that system either) However, that system really worked. I dropped my weight to 124 and kept it off for almost 1 year. I lost 15 pounds. in the first 30 days and then another 5 over the next month reaching 120 lbs. I couldn’t keep that. Within a week I was back up to 124, which is where I stayed eating healthy, but having my chocolate and ice cream from time to time in moderation. I just looked at what I ate. But then I went back up to the low 130s the second year. I was fine with that. Suddenly, however, just before my 49th birthday, I started gaining weight at a rate that took me completely by surprise, and no matter what I did, I couldn’t keep my low 130.
Seriously, even though I perfectly stuck to my high-protein diet, the weight kept going up. I would lose 2 pounds. and retrieve it immediately. If I stuck to an unhealthy caloric intake of around 900kc, I stuck to it. But it just wasn’t how I wanted to live my life. I like food and I eat healthy. I didn’t want to be reduced to always being on a diet, especially if I didn’t see results.
I stopped dieting. I was just going to eat as healthy as I could and learn to accept that this weight was part of the “Change in Life” and was hormonal in nature. The last 6 months before I turned 50, my weight leveled off at 145. With winter, I was able to hide it, most of it anyway. The problem was that my birthday is in the month of May and summer was approaching and I realized that for the first time in my life I was not going to be able to wear a bikini and I knew well enough that I was not going to like myself in a single piece. He just didn’t know what else he could do. I’ve done the gym, I eat well, I’m on a diet. I’m tired of this YoYo. I know most of you are reading this, whether it’s 10, 20, 30, 50 or 100 pounds. Do you want to lose; You know EXACTLY what I’m talking about.
Then, a little over a week ago, I found out I was going on a cruise in June 2015. While I was excited, I also knew I was going to be dating mostly a 30-year-old who had a swing. body! LOL, oh boy, that was going to make me feel self conscious!
Then an email arrives on my desk the next day about the Pound Melter. After seeing the video of it, it sounded exciting and it definitely wasn’t the same thing they were giving us, just wrapped in a different package. So, I started doing my due diligence on Brown Fat. What I read and heard really got me excited about the possibilities that I could maybe lose 10 or 15 pounds. for June if the Pound Melter Diet worked. For $40.00 I was willing to give it up! Nothing else worked!
I went ahead and ordered, and read the entire Pound Melter eBook. And the next day I started the Protocol. However, I am VERY skeptical. But, his protocol is definitely all healthy and good-for-you foods. So why am I so skeptical? Because there is nothing to back up their results. All the reviews out there are just from people selling it. There are one or two Facebook pages and again no honest or real reviews.
Then there is the protocol itself. Paul Sanders has very specific times when he must eat food; no explanation at the time. Start the day between 7 am and 9 am Well, what if someone starts the day much earlier? What happens if one wakes up late? Or are they on the night shift? It does not address this issue. I have now sent a support email asking you to clarify this twice. And the answer both times is vague. Just this morning, I emailed him to see if I could get a specific answer. The protocol, for the most part, is self explanatory EXCEPT there are at least 4 food items that are not typical and it does not explain how they should be eaten or prepared. There should be a FAQ about these things.
It doesn’t mention if you can substitute foods with the same foods in that food group. They answered that question in a support email I sent. But again, in my opinion, that is a common question and should be in the FAQ. Why is it like pulling a tooth to get an answer?
Then there’s the fact that nowhere in his Pound Melter ebook does he recommend eating the foods that actually INCREASE the number of brown fat cells you have. It seems to assume that everyone has enough brown fat cells. This is simply not true. As I discovered in my own due diligence research, brown fat cells are found primarily in leaner people, women, and people with low blood glucose levels.
I just don’t understand why you don’t mention this in your Pound Melter ebook. The list of foods that have the hormone needed to naturally increase brown fat cells is a short list.
Since there is no way of knowing how many brown fat cells you have, it would make sense to recommend eating these foods in addition to your protocol since, as you state over and over again, there are NO food limitations.
The other challenge I have is that while Paul Sanders says it’s about making this show affordable, the extra sales one has to go through at checkout is ridiculous and then you have quite a few selling points on the E- Book. . I am not against anyone making money. But having sales pitches after sales definitely makes me question their motives and credibility.
What is certain is that green leafy vegetables and fruits rich in water help to cool down the body temperature. There is enough science behind that. So the question is, following the Paul Sanders protocol and the Pound Melter diet, can the body really be taught to stay at the lower body temperature long enough to activate the brown fat cells and will your maintenance plan actually maintain our body temperature there?
So my goal here is this, not just follow your plan for the next 30 days or so, but mix in some other things that I know about nutrition, in addition to what I recently learned about Brown Fat, and write a follow up. article to this in about 3 weeks.
I want to give the consumer a real honest review. If you have tried or are currently doing the protocol, I would love to hear from you with your results so far.
My first week results are: I have lost 1 lb. (Paul Sanders claims it takes about 30 days to kick in, so I’m okay with this) While I’ve eaten all foods as per protocol, I tend to wake up later and go to bed earlier, so I’ve changed the times in to accept. I’m not hungry at all. Aside from what is stated in the Pound Melter protocol, I don’t eat anything else for breakfast and for lunch and dinner I usually have a high protein shake or some other protein. I eat some of the foods listed to increase my brown fat cells, throughout the day, in addition to drinking a minimum of 64 oz. of water or another nutritious drink. In my smoothies I use Chobani’s Fat Free Greek Yogurt and Unsweetened Almond Milk and Truvia as a sweetener.
I really think that science has really stumbled upon actionable information about our bodies that will help a lot of people lose weight once we can nail it down. If the Pound Melter Protocol doesn’t work, at least it’s a healthy way to eat for people and can start them on a path to healthier lifestyles, one they might not have found unless they were on this quest like me.