WARNING: If you truly believe that "miracle diet pills" or "fad diets" will
fix your weight problem permanently, then YOU ARE DELUDING YOURSELF and
THROWING YOUR MONEY, HAPPINESS, and HEALTH DOWN THE DRAIN!!

Dear "Weight-Challenged" Friend,

I'm Dr. Nicole Gullick, an allopathic physician practicing holistic weight-loss medicine in Tucson, Arizona, and I have a confession to make . . .

I absolutely punished my body by eating the wrong foods at the wrong times in the wrong portions, and I treated physical activity as if it were "The Plague." Looking back, I guess the stress I felt from my studies "allowed me" to justify my junk food habit and sedentary lifestyle. I rationalized my behavior with thoughts like, "I'm way too busy with my school work - I don't have time to cook 'healthy' meals!"

Well, after a couple years of this lifestyle, you can guess what happened to me.

I felt terrible, I didn't have any energy at all, and my grades began to drop like a stone. I just couldn't stay awake at night to study like I needed to! Worse still, I was depressed beyond belief! All I could do was look in the mirror and cry about what I had done to myself.

Then, after about my 50th little "pity party" - crying and moaning about my woeful condition - I finally decided to get a grip and DO SOMETHING about my weight problem.

So, what did I do?

When it came right down to it, I really wanted to believe that there was a "miracle cure" for my weight problem. Why? Well, I guess I didn't want to give up all the "good stuff" that came with my unhealthy lifestyle. Know what I mean?

I really wish I had known better, but sadly, I was so embarrassed about my weight issues that I didn't ask any of my friends or family if they knew of any valid, medically-proven ways to lose weight the healthy way.

So I bought into "The Lie" about these "magic" little diet pills, and I spent SO much money on them it was ridiculous!! You see, I was bound and determined to lose that weight, and I didn't care how much it cost (as long as I didn't have to change any of my unhealthy behaviors!)

And boy, did I ever lose the weight! Yes sir, you bet I did!! In the first 2 months of taking those diet pills, I lost about 20 pounds!! And I thought, "WOW! These pills really are magic! I'm going to lose my 40 pounds of fat in no time!!"

As you may know, most of those diet pills are just stimulants of one sort or another, and they act to suppress your appetite, which of course makes you less hungry, so of course you eat less.

But once I started eating less, something else happened: my metabolism ground to a halt. And when that happened, the amount of fat my body burned slowed way down. In fact, it just stopped. Long story short, I didn't lose any more weight, and I capped out at about 20 pounds of lost blubber. Problem was, I had easily another 20 pounds to go before I reached my goal weight, and IT WOULD NOT COME OFF!

I'll bet you can guess what happened next. That's right: I stopped taking those diet pills. They weren't working anyway, and man, were they ever expensive. Instead, I started eating my regular diet of junk food again, and . . .

AND, to make matters worse, I gained an extra 5 pounds on top of that. Now I was 45 pounds overweight, and I became even more depressed than before.

I felt like an idiot, too, because I had been raised by my parents to believe that "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Here I had gone and spent all this money on diet pills (money that I didn't have to lose), and while I did lose some weight at first, that all stopped after about 60 days. Then I fell right back into my old junk food habits.

"Well," I thought, "I guess I'll just have to give up my junk food and go on a diet."

I was so impressed with myself for finally realizing that I had to make some changes to what I was eating. And seeing as everyone around me was on some sort of restricted diet, I figured that was the way to go.

The first diet I tried was "The Salad Diet." Just about every skinny person I knew ate salads all the time, so for about a month the only thing I ate was salad. And I lost about 15 pounds that first month on The Salad Diet . . .

I felt like I was going to LOSE MY LUNCH if I had to eat another salad! Good grief, I hated salads after that month!!

So, now what? You guessed it! I said, "To heck with this Salad Diet stuff. I'm going to give myself a well-deserved break and eat a little comfort food for a while."

Now, I could go on and bore you with stories of how I tried one diet after another - and how I spent TONS OF MONEY on one ineffectual "diet plan" after another - including Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers.

But I'm willing to bet that if you're still reading this page, you've probably been on one or more of those diets. And I can pretty much guess what your experience was like when you tried them.

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1.) They fail because they don't incorporate important tenets of biological science,

2.) They fail because they don't incorporate important tenets of behavioral science, and

3.) They fail because they don't incorporate important tenets of psychological science.

To elaborate a little, most diet programs fail because they focus on short-term gimmicks instead of long-term solutions. They trick you into using "easy" techniques that will help you lose a few easy pounds (mostly water, not fat), but they do nothing to help you enact and maintain a long-term, permanent, "healthy living" lifestyle that is based on sound principles of biological, behavioral, and psychological science.

In short, most weight loss programs are based on a "Deprivation Model" that expects you to severely decrease your food intake AND to exponentially increase your level of physical activity at the same time. While you may think that seems like the right thing to do, it simply is not sustainable over long periods of time. You can't keep it up!

So, what happens is you end up stuck in a cycle of "Yo-Yo Dieting." Yo-Yo Dieting is when you gain some initial success at losing weight, but you aren't able to maintain that success over the long-term, and you gain the weight right back. Then you seek out a different "restrictive" diet plan in order to lose that weight you regained, and the same cycle starts all over again.

You see, when you deprive your body of the nutrition it needs - while at the same time imposing strenuous physical activity upon it - it's true that you will lose some weight at first. But in a very short period of time, your body will go into something called "Starvation Mode," which means your metabolism will shut down completely.

Now, when your metabolism shuts down, your body can't burn enough calories to lose fat. In fact, it does the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you want it to do: it hoards all its fat stores in order to "ride out" what it perceives as a famine. This is a defense mechanism for survival that has been conditioned into our bodies over many generations of time, and the end result is that you stop losing fat.

This is where the psychological and behavioral aspects of weight loss come into play. If you aren't learning the psychological and behavioral techniques required to develop and sustain long-term, healthy-living habits, then you have no chance of keeping your weight off permanently.

The problem is, no matter how much you want to, you just can't sustain the willpower to stay on a severely restricted diet for an "endless" amount of time. So, you either quit the diet because it stops producing the results you saw initially OR because it becomes impossible to keep consuming whatever restrictive food the diet calls for (salad, or whatever).

The end result is that you revert back to your old eating habits and behaviors "for just a little while." But before you know it, you are right back where you started from. Just like a yo-yo.

My 12-Step Healthy Weight Loss program works for five very simple reasons:

1.) You get essential training, tools, resources, encouragement, and support directly from me - a Physician specializing in Weight Loss Medicine.

2.) You learn the medical science required to work with your body instead of against it.

3.) You get a massive amount of control over the foods that you eat.

4.) You have constant access to me via email; I will counsel and support you personally when you need it most.

5.) You have constant access to everyone else in my program via the 12-Step Community Forum. (You are not alone!)

In a nutshell, my 12-Step Healthy Weight Loss Program works because I tell you the truth (whether you want to hear it or not), and then I show you how to accept the truth and lose weight anyway!

First, I teach you step-by-step how biology, behavior, and psychology dictate how your body gains or loses weight. You learn the exact medical reasons for why long-term, permanent, healthy weight loss DOES NOT EMANATE from some tiny little pill filled with caffeine or other stimulants, nor does it come from the latest "Diet of the Week" that puts your body into "Starvation Mode."

Furthermore, I engage you psychologically and behaviorally so that you can maintain the habits you need to lose weight and keep it off over the long run. You must be immersed in a comprehensive experience that teaches you both the Why's and the How's - the knowledge and the skills required to enact healthy lifestyle changes.

And, I teach you how to alter your Mind-Body-Spirit connection to accelerate and maintain the lasting behavioral modifications that will result in healthy, long-term, permanent weight loss instead of more Yo-Yo Dieting.

The bottom line is if you become truly aware of how your body works, and if you are sufficiently motivated and supported to incorporate the biological, behavioral, and psychological knowledge that I have spent my entire adult life (and a lot of money) learning, then you can't do anything BUT lose weight. The Laws of Nature dictate it!

My program will provide you with all the weapons you need to combat any negative, self-defeating behaviors and attitudes that you're living with now. You might not even know what those attitudes and behaviors are. In fact, even if you are aware of some of them, I guarantee you don't know all of them! And without serious weapons to fight these seriously unhealthy behaviors, you are doomed to weight-loss failure time and time again.

Now . . .

And that's a fair question to ask. In fact, with seemingly everyone on the planet claiming to be a "Weight Loss Guru," you'd be foolish not to ask about my qualifications.

Let me go back to my "sob story" from college for a second. I continued to struggle with my weight issues right up until the time I entered medical school. But as I studied biology, psychology, and the behavioral sciences in medical school, I developed a keen understanding of exactly how I could shed my excess pounds and keep them off forever.

Using my newfound knowledge, I developed and incorporated a set of weight loss techniques and behaviors into my life. And following these principles like a new religion, I began to lose weight on a consistent and sustainable basis. The more I stuck with those principles and behaviors, the more weight I lost. And the weight stayed off my frame like nothing I had ever tried before.

I decided right then that one day, as a doctor, I would make weight loss my primary mission in medical practice. Over the years, I have continued to add to my catalog of healthy weight loss principles until those principles have culminated in my 12-Step Healthy Weight Loss Program.

And now . . .

After I received my medical degree from the University of Southern California, I practiced medicine in a variety of clinical settings, including primary care, urgent care, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, intensive care, and physical rehabilitation.

During this time, I strengthened my belief in the power of preventive medicine, and I counseled all my patients to modify their unhealthy consumption behaviors, as well as to make lifestyle changes that almost instantly resulted in dramatic weight loss.

Then, a number of years ago, I was finally able to turn my complete attention to opening a medical practice designed to help patients suffering from overweight and obesity - both of which are extremely detrimental risk factors in a vast number of diseases.

I began offering intensive coaching for weight loss and physical fitness, empowering those under my care to take charge of their health by adopting my powerful weight loss strategies into their everyday lives.

Through my membership in The North American Association for the Study of Obesity, I stay up-to-date on the latest research into obesity, nutrition, and exercise. With so much conflicting information - and even outright lies on the Internet and in the media - it's no wonder obesity rates continue to rise!

That's why I have made it my life's mission to increase public knowledge with TRUE MEDICAL INFORMATION regarding nutrition, fitness, behavior modification, and other areas of preventive health in order to drastically improve the lives of all the people I counsel.

Here are just a few of the people who have experienced amazing results with my program:

After following Dr. Gullick's weight loss program for just 3 months, I lost 34 pounds and went from a size 11 to a size 5! With the 12-Step Healthy Weight Loss Program, I learned how to control what, when, and how I eat without depriving myself. And I also learned that there is a lot more to how our bodies lose weight than I ever thought there was. I had no idea how I was continually sabotaging my own weight loss efforts! And whenever I feel like I'm starting to regress a little, I just email Dr. Gullick, and she gives me advice and encouragement that puts me right back on track. Most importantly, I'm ecstatic that now - 9 months later - I have been able to maintain my weight loss! Dr. Gullick, thank you SO much!! Yajaira Pelayo

Having been through most of the popular diet programs out there, I can tell you that Dr. Gullick's program is far superior to any of them! The weight I've lost is staying off, and your personal approach to nutrition training is just phenomenal! I've learned more in the last 6 weeks about nutrition than all the years of "dieting" ever taught me. I would also like to thank you for the support structure you've created. It really helps to share our success stories. It keeps us motivated and has really helped all of us to become the men and women we've wanted to be for so long. Warmest regards, Charley Akins

I've lost a total of 34 pounds since I started the program, and I am right on track to reach my goal weight. For the first time in 10 years, I KNOW I can do it! Dr Gullick and her program have truly changed my life. Even my husband has been inspired by my weight loss, and he's lost weight, too. My children are eating more fruits and vegetables than they ever have, AND THEY LIKE IT. Who knew that eating healthy could be so tasty and easy! I'm having so much fun wearing cute outfits that I would NEVER have been able to fit into before. I highly recommend Dr. Gullick and her 12-Step Program to anyone who needs to lose weight - whether that's 10 pounds or much more. I KNOW her plan will work for you just like it's worked for me. Alma Cordova

I was 5'10" tall and weighed 325 pounds. If left unaltered, my morbid obesity and out-of-control lifestyle would kill me within a few years, I was sure of it. But with Dr. Gullick's 12-Step program, and the TINY (nearly unnoticeable) modifications to my relationship with food, I've lost a total of 60 pounds! I've got a lot more to lose, but none of this would have been possible without Dr. Gullick's 12-Step Program and her constant encouragement. So thank you, Dr. Gullick, for your commitment and passion in helping people like me get their lives under control. Sincerely, Bob Funk

My mission in life is to help you take control of the lifestyle that has led you to an overweight or obese condition.

I guarantee that my "online-only" 12-Step Healthy Weight Loss Program will provide you all the knowledge, tools, resources, and support you will ever need to lose your extra weight and change your life forever!