Jane M. won 1st place in the SENSA Community Blog Contest.  She purchased her first month of SENSA at Costco and has never looked back.  

Here is her story:

A month ago, if you had told me I would make a New Year’s Resolution that incorporated Sensa, I would have politely smiled and thought you were nuts. As of this morning, I have used SENSA for exactly 1 week, as has my husband.

I have a lot to lose while he has struggled for a year with the last 10 to 15 pounds right around his mid-section. Please understand, I could practically write a thesis on weight-loss techniques and theories. We’ve tried all the mainstream ones. When I analyzed my own issues, I had to be honest and say that portion-size was the biggest hold-up. I enjoy carrots and fresh blueberries but, trust me, you can over-eat those, too!! Being brutally honest and properly determining a portion size of a dessert, just didn’t happen in all those social situations. The result…..it all adds up!

As we’ve worked harder and harder to find something that would fit our lifestyle – crazy and hectic – and assist us to take off the weight – our relationship with food seemed to swing between “good as gold” and “guilty as all get out.” We’ve wanted balance – not more complexity. That’s probably what pushed me over the edge to have us begin Sensa. According to all the hoopla, SENSA was going to do that for me while only asking me to use one tool – a shaker. That journey began 1 week ago this morning. When my husband stepped on the scale today, he had dropped 2.3 pounds! For those of us with a lot to lose, that might not seem much but when you are down to the last few pounds, that is a huge amount in one week!!! Sensa did no less for me. I dropped 10.3 pounds! In fact, I stepped on our fancy electronic scale 3 times to see if it could be wrong!

Best of all, this has not been a week of denial. Our first day on it, I took my husband out to a tapas restaurant, I’ve baked home-made bread, casseroles, beef stew, breaded oven-fried fish, apple strudel!! We were at 3 different social events where we had no control over the food. You might say, I put Sensa to the acid test. I used to be a great cook but kept eliminating more and more in an effort to keep weight under control. I brought it back this week. We did what you said, though. Absolutely nothing went in our mouths without Sensa on it first. And, it worked. We both were shocked by how fast we felt full!

We are going forward with a firm resolution to use Sensa consistently during the coming year. We’re excited by how easy it is and how easy life has become in only a week. I know I can’t expect to drop 10 pounds every week but what a joy it was to see the scale move downward while eating good food that opened up a world of variety in our home again! Now, I only have 2 problems. Thanks to Sensa, our brains have kicked portion size into high gear. The freezer needed to be re-organized to store the left-overs into appropriate sized meals from this week’s cooking spree. The other problem is that the holidays are over and I go back to work next Tuesday. That’s 5 more days on Sensa. I needed dress pants and took advantage of the sales to grab several pairs last Monday. I’m leaving the tags on until next Monday when I will try them on and see if they all need to go back to the store because they’ve gotten too loose!!! May all my problems in the coming year be in these categories!!