Joy's intro:

Approaching age 45, homeschooling mom of 3 boys, a small business owner, and a "lifetime member" of a popular US weight loss program, I found myself once again too heavy to enjoy life to the fullest with 50 extra pounds on my frame. Despite eating an extremely healthy diet for the past 2 years, the weight just hung onto my figure. I considered going back to countless meetings, eating a diet that is not as healthy as touted by that program, or rejoining the health club again, spending precious time away from family to work it off- AGAIN.
A friend, locally, sent an email about her weight loss using hcg, and I looked into the program by reading Dr. Simeon's booklet online; only to find myself angry at the idea of a 500 calorie diet being "healthy". That US weight loss program to which I am a "lifetime member" had trained me that too little calories, "crazy" diets, anything that didn't follow their high fiber/lowfat model would be detrimental and return to me in spades with more weight.
However, I read some reviews on Amazon.com about Kevin Trudeau's book, decided that an author who had so many people up in arms must be bucking the system that had kept me fat, and ordered the book. The day after I received my Weight Loss Cure book and devouring it, I went to see my friend who lost 27 pounds in a 45 day round of hcg. Have you ever heard that "seeing is believing?"
Seeing my friend, trim, energetic, gave me hope to regain energy and health, as well as a way to avoid health problems that arise from being 50 pounds overweight that tend to creep in at my age. I could see myself more active in a body that weighed what it should with a hypothalamus that wouldn't allow me to regain again the weight I lost!
It is my earnest desire to share my progress to readers and offer them what my local friend offered me: a real person, losing real weight offering real hope for lifetime health and fitness using this fantastic program.