I read through all the messages and I find some other tidbits of information I'd like to share. Just for the record, I've been doing the program for almost a year. I started it with my friend from work. I learned about it from my doctor. I'm on 200mg of Topamax. I followed the program to the letter from the very first day I began. I listened like a maniac to the Hypnosis CD's in the beginning (the Subliminal ones played in my car and in my kitchen constantly), the Sleep ones by my bed in a boom box, and Clearing by the schedule I had in the book. I still listen occasionally to Hypnosis (track#2). It's fast and I love it! To Mary: I also worried about falling asleep sometimes, but I emailed the web site early on with that question. The answer I got was that if I could hear the count down (20, 19, 18, etc.), then I was NOT asleep, but hypnotised. To Deborah: At 3 weeks on Topamax, I don't remember if I had experienced weight loss, but I'm sure that at 5 weeks, I had! Oh Ya!!! And I knew that I couldn't go up to the 300mg that my co-worker was on. She had lost I think 18lbs which she loved, plus her overdrinking habits had totally stopped. (We used to get smashed every happy hour I'm embarrassed to say.) But, at 200mg for me, I experienced all the benefits of the program too and 10lbs weight loss was enough as I was already a thin person. So, my doctor suggested I not go higher even though I know most people should go to 300mg (literature says this from what I read). I also still take Kudzu (2 pills a day) by the way. I highly suggest no one leaves that out! I found mine at Super Supplements. That and the hypnosis probably had the biggest impact on my ability to change my drinking addiction. Not sure how it works, but I know it does!

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Shawna