Viktor Mitosinka

My name is Victor Mitosinka, and this is my story. Ideal Protein has truly been a blessing in my life. I’m 64 years old and I have been overweight as long as I can remember. Cooking and eating are at the center of all activities and holidays in a Czech family. I was the overweight kid throughout school. I compensated for my inability to do physical activities by working harder than everyone else. I worked all through high school, and after school at a fast food restaurant and moved up to become a manager by the time I was 18. I attended Junior College during the day and worked a factory job at night. My grades were not great, but I moved up to a Line Superintendent at my job through hard work. In 1975, I moved to Texas and was hired as an electrician at $2.75 per hour. I found out later that starting pay was $5.00 per hour! The company was sure the “fat Yankee kid” would never make it. I got my Master Electrician license and became a Division Manager for the company, as I continued to gain weight due to stress. I dieted through it all; I lost, and I gained… always gaining more than I lost. Weight Watchers, hypnotism, Fen-Phen, and various shots of “who knows what.” Whatever the next greatest thing was to lose weight, I was in. I considered surgery, but felt it wasn’t for me.

My office manager joined Ideal Protein a couple years ago and had great success. As I watched her get slimmer and have a new zest for life, I investigated the program. I started with Ideal Protein in May 2016, officially weighing in at 392 pounds. The diet started out seeming restrictive, but as time passed an amazing thing happened. For the first time in my life, I was not hungry. Really, not hungry! I was amazed!! I used to be hungry always. I ate to compensate for stress, or most everything. But, no matter what life threw at me, I wasn’t hungry! In the beginning I lost 5-10 pounds a week. It slowed to 3-5 after a few months, but the weight kept coming off. I have been on the program in Phase 1 for 22 months and I have lost 197 pounds. My doctor set a goal of 19% body fat, instead of a weight goal. At my last weigh-in, I was at 16.8% body fat. My HBA1C went from 6.1 on Metformin to 4.9 without needing a pill. No more high cholesterol or high blood pressure! Ideal Protein works! It truly is a lifestyle change for the better. Working weekly with awesome Nutrition Coaches, you learn what food can and cannot do for you, and to you. You learn that carbohydrates are as addicting as smoking, drugs and alcohol. You learn to eat to live, not live to eat!

I have my own electrical contracting business now, and it is so much easier to do what I do daily without the weight. I have always been physically active, but now, it’s easier to do my day-to-day activities. I am proud of what I have accomplished and proud of Ideal Protein for teaching me how to stay healthy and maintain my weight.