“I'd recommend this a thousand times over.”

Before I started, I just felt unhealthy. Overweight. I had joint pain. I'd go play tennis or pickleball and I'd be winded easily — I just didn't feel great.

So when I heard the numbers — like a pound of weight loss a day — I thought, God, could that even be real?

And then within a week, I figured it out. I started seeing results. I wasn't hungry the way I'd been on other programs I'd tried — and I'd tried plenty, the kind where you have some success and then gain it all back. The up and down was so frustrating. I know a lot of people feel that way.

But this one was easy to stick with, because the weight actually came off — a half pound to a pound a day for me — and I felt better and better, with more and more energy. Honestly, it was easier than I thought it would be. I used to dread starting a diet. Not this time.