if you introduce yourself or do you want
me to introduce i’ll introduce you so
maria fox yeah um
and you have lost a significant amount
of weight
with the help of lumen that’s right
that’s amazing so we’re gonna get into
all the
little knitty lifestyle things that
you’ve done because
i think one of the big misconceptions i
see with luminous people think they just
breathe into it
like sucks the fire it’s a magical thing
you have to do some work but it’s not
you’ve kind of proved that it’s not that
hard
or at least in your case it’s
consistency because people do different
things
and people are successful different
things but i want to really talk about
what
you’ve been successful thing so if you
could start off with
how much weight you’ve actually lost
with lumen and from what time frame
okay so i started i knew that i needed
to lose weight after my 50th birthday in
september i’d
i’ve been really i’ve lost a lot of
weight at the beginning of my 40s
i’ve done a low-fat low-calorie diet
that was
that did play to a genetic
predisposition that i had around
sensitivities to fats
but it wasn’t really very sustainable
long term because these low-calorie
diets
don’t help with hormone regulation etc
so
um i saw the lumen thing and i’m a big
cyclist
and i i saw that chris froome was almost
some of the marketing actually which was
a bit appealing to me
and i thought that’s really clever that
you can tell you what you’re burning for
fuel
and because at this stage i’d hit that
hormone place in my
life as a female you know a 50 year old
woman
yeah you’re the most difficult yeah fast
group of people
females generally are smaller hormonally
challenged
yeah it tends to be more difficult this
more it is more difficult so
it was becoming very difficult and
anything i tried to do
in that period leading up to being 50.
you know i wanted to actually be
at the weight that i wanted to be by the
time i was 50 but i hit the
perimenopause i had acute systems in
that i had acute stress at work
i ended up in a kind of chronic fatigue
space
um but around that time i’d seen lumen
advertised and i thought i’d like to try
this
um and so i interrupt sorry i’m gonna
interrupt a lot
did you ever think on it
i’ll tell you what i thought i thought
well you got 30 days to send it back
okay okay if it really isn’t you know
doesn’t work
or and i also thought
um it won’t it’s not going to the device
is not going to
make me lose weight the device is going
to be a tool
that’s going to help me get on the right
track to lose weight in a healthy way
and i also knew that the device wasn’t
solely
for weight loss which also appealed to
me because okay
fitness stuff that i like to do anyway
so i thought oh
well it’s worth a try you know you could
pay to go to a swimming club and lots of
those slimming clubs are great but to be
quite honest with you
they’re just calorie deficit they don’t
take into consideration the other
factors
and they aren’t sustainable long term
and what i liked about
lumen was it was looking at overall
health versus just
uh weight loss and it was looking at
metabolic flexibility which i was really
interested in because of the dna tests
i’d done
previously and and the sensitivities i
already knew i had genetically
so you know if i compare me to my
younger brother he’s got the same color
hair
and that’s about it we’ve got the same
color hair but he’s as skinny as a rake
he was the other sporty one in the four
of the four children in the family
really sporty and yet you know
me i’ve always battled with gaining
weight losing weight gaining weight
losing weight and
if i have any periods of inactivity
weight would just pile on me now some of
that was definitely to do with
nutrition and stress related you know
the appetite control and what you end up
eating
yeah but it wasn’t all it wasn’t all
about that at all
so so yeah but i haven’t answered your
question the question you’re asking i
won’t get there how much
how much weight have you lost well i’ve
lost over 42 pounds
with lumen and then i’ve lost 45
so i lost five yeah 45 since september
42 since october landed
so the people are using the metric
system that’s a 20 kilo
weight plate it is it actually you walk
a mile without your hand that’s
serious yeah yeah i took a picture of
all my weights plates the other day and
went
i’ve lost this much weight it’s it’s
just
it’s just insane we’ve got like a
20 kilo weight west and you know you
just do it
two mile walk with that you feel it
it’s you know it tires you out or a nine
mile
climb in majorca on a bike oh
yeah go away that’s that’s too much so i