Ideal Protein

Day 6 on Ideal Protein, 9 lbs lost so far.  The first 3-4 days sucked, but they're finally becoming worth it.  Cheating has become much less of a temptation, and my answer to cravings is reading Paula's Home Cooking recipes and fantisizing about which one's I'll be making once I'm done with the program.  Not that I'm gonna go on an out of control junk food binge (at least not a huge one).  As we all know, every diet tells you you need to "change your lifestyle" to see permanent results.  The thing is, my lifestyle has always been great, so why is my weight such that I need to be on a diet in the first place?  Actually, a lot of people at Ideal Protein shared the same predicament before staring the program.  They've eaten well and exercised (some obsessively, myself included) their entire lives, but have always been overweight.  Whenever I would see people like this on infomercials for overpriced diets and exercise equipment I was the first to call bullshit.  If you're fat, it's your fault, right?  For most people, that's true, but my first week on Idea Protein, in addition to reading about the science behind it, has made me start to believe that this isn't always the case.  For some of us, a shitshow of a pancreas is to blame.  Now, a lot of people have a shitshow of a pancreas because of their shitshow of a diet (hence the type-2 diabetes epidemic in this country).  However, there is a small minority of people who were born this way.  My brother and I recently discovered we were part of this unfortunate group.  Being born with a sluggish pancreas makes it nearly impossible to lose weight without a program such as Ideal Protein, and causes the body to store everything as fat from a young age.  I'm no expert on physiology, but I will say it's known that complications during pregnancy can lead to this problem.  I always knew that 1) I have a weight problem that seemed impossible to correct and 2) my mom DID have complications during her pregnancy with me.  Enter Ideal Protein.  It feels like a miracle, because, for once in the 12 years that I have spent being on some kind of diet, my efforts have finally begun paying off.  Talk about a godsend.