I couldn't play with my children; my fatigue was unbearable. I was becoming sicker and sicker and then I heard Dr. Fuhrman speak. I've lost sixty pounds, going from a size 22-plus to a size 8 and have remained at 125 pounds for three years. Dr. Fuhrman saved my life. My three teenage sons and my daughter witnessed the results I've attained and they all have adopted his plan, receiving dramatic health improvements as well. No more allergies and digestive problems.
— Lynne Bush I thank my daughter Geri for insisting I go see Dr. Fuhrman. She said if anyone can help you, it's him. Well, she was right. After twenty-five years of taking insulin, I was off it completely in a few days. I was a great patient and did exactly as Dr. Fuhrman said, and it was well worth it. After losing sixty-five pounds, I have been medication-free for two years. I owe it all to him. — Gerardo Petito
Let me tell you about a typical day in my private practice. I'll see anywhere from two to five new patients like Rosalee. When Rosalee first walked through my door, she weighed 215 pounds and was on two medications (Glucophage and Glucotrol) to control her diabetes, as well as two more (Accupril and Maxide) to control her high blood pressure. She'd tried every diet on the market and exercised but still couldn't manage to lose the weight she wanted to.
She came to me desperate to regain a healthy weight and skeptical that my program could do anything more than what she achieved in the past — failure. I asked her what in her wildest dreams she thought her ideal weight would be and how long it would take her to attain that goal. She thought that her ideal weight would be 125 and that she would like to be there within a year. I smiled and told her that I could design a diet for her to lose about five pounds the first month or twenty pounds the first month and reduce her medications.
Not surprisingly, she picked the latter. After hearing my explanation of the program I designed for her, Rosalee was psyched. With everything she had learned from reading about dieting, she had never realized how all the mixed messages had led her down the wrong path. The plan I outlined for Rosalee made sense to her. She said, "If I can eat all that good-tasting food and still lose that much weight, I will definitely follow your instructions precisely." When Rosalee returned to my office the following month, she had lost twenty-two pounds and had been off the Glucotrol for four weeks and the Maxide for two weeks. Her blood pressure was normal and her glucose was under better control on less medication.
It was now time to reduce her medication even further
and move to the next phase of the diet.
Rosalee is typical of the thousands of patients I have seen in my
practice, men and women who are no longer overweight and chronically ill. I get such a thrill from helping these patients regain optimal
health and weight that I decided to write this book to place all the
most important information for weight loss and health recovery in
one clear document. I needed to do this. If you implement the information in the pages that follow, you too will see potentially lifesaving results.
