BETTER SLEEP FOR WEIGHT LOSS:
HOW I LOST 143 LBS IN 16 WEEKS
Perhaps like you, I have struggled to both sleep well and lose weight as long as I can remember, virtually my whole life, in fact…
It’s a struggle that if I’m honest, I was not sure I would ever solve for good.
Thankfully this story has a happy ending, because finally, after years of trying everything I could think of, my luck was about to change and soon I would meet someone with answers who I’ll tell you more about in a moment, but first I want to give you some backstory…
Hi, My name is Deb, and this is my story of how I got my life back. I live in Montana with my husband, and our 13 grandkids.
Through a series of fateful events that would change my health and life path, I responded to a job posting one day.
It was a Sunday and I sat there looking at job postings and clicked on something I saw from a company called Upgraded Formulas inviting me to apply for a position.
The job posting was sent to me by an old friend, stood out as different and I had a very good feeling about it.
It was very personable, and before I knew it I was interviewing my way through multiple rounds with several people.
Luckily, I was hired to help with customer service and during my final interview I met Barton, the founder who talked with me about the culture at the company and who would begin to change my life with his recommendations.
What I’ve learned since has changed my life many times over, so I felt compelled to offer to share my story because in many of the literally thousands of conversations I’ve had with customers in the years since I have joined the company, I’ve realized that it really helps people when I share my story and how I felt before things began to change, so now I want to share it publicly for the first time with you right now with that same wish.
Three (3) main things ultimately helped me with both sleeping better and losing all the weight I needed to lose that I want to share with you today because I WISH someone, anyone, could have told me about these 3 things years ago!
All the life I would’ve enjoyed more…It’s a lot to think about, so let’s get started with 3 easy, life-changing tips you can apply today to notice fast improvements yourself:
#1. Intermittent fasting based on the sun. Most people, 71% in fact, struggle with being diabetic or prediabetic, and as a result crave sweets, have a tough time focusing, not feeling moody throughout the day, and have very little willpower to do what matters as a result.
But here’s the truth, we have been taught, programmed even, for years through the media that we need to eat 3 meals or more per day, when the real truth is that is not how we evolved as humans.
See, what actually is we commonly eat when others are eating –even if we are not actually hungry.
Plus this fact: The more we get away from fasting and grazing all day that our ancestors did, the
more ill we become.
So what did I do? Took the advice Barton, who by now you probably know is the founder of the company I went to work for several years ago told me - he said “I fasted for 11 days, documented all of it and I have put out videos on our youtube channel that will inspire you with bits of modern science to try fasting or at least intermittent fasting. Go and watch them, and let me know how it goes!”
The result? I started sleeping better because my body was healing and detoxing and not just digesting food all night. What a concept, I know, but it was powerful.
This began to really reset my metabolism, but I was still around 150 lbs overweight.
Another thing I learned that was important from listening to a bunch of his podcasts is that timing was key. So most days I would stop eating by sunset each day and not eat again until noon the next day. This was a big help with weight loss and detoxing my body but still took quite a bit of effort.
Let me add that before all of this I was trying to eat well for YEARS, attempted to walk and exercise, followed the doctor’s advice to a T and even tried sleep and weight loss supplements!
And here I was:
Severely overweight.
Stressed and burned out.
And struggling with joint pain, hormone issues and fatigue.
“What were the actual causes behind all my health issues?”
#2 The next step was far more simple, and it answered my burning question of what is it that is the actual cause behind all my health issues and thank goodness, it was easy.
It was all of 5 minutes to do an at-home hair analysis that the company offers to discover if my minerals and heavy metals levels were causing the issues.
What was wonderful about this is that it was truly the first time I had been listened to, like really listened to about my health in the consultation which was surprisingly fun because of all the “lightbulb moments” it gave me.
The best thing is I had a great plan: It gave me the insights of what to do next, of what needed to be worked on, and it was easily explained by our Upgraded Formulas team that does this all day for people around the world.
#3 Proving it was possible to fix the problems.
It turned out that nearly all supplements you buy anywhere do not absorb well enough reverse the deficiencies I was experiencing and here is where the real genius of the company shines, Barton is a Biochemist who is both a Chemical figured and Nutritionist and who figured out how to make it possible to reverse the deficiencies I saw on my hair test.
We have all heard of expensive pee at this point and this is what the company solves for. In my case it turned out that I was, like 8 out of 10 people, very low in an incredibly important mineral, one that Upgraded Formulas had created a new new delivery system so that the mineral, magnesium in this case, can skip or bypass your digestion and reach your bloodstream very quickly to help with sleep issues, anxiety, muscle cramps and around 50 other symptoms.
So let me tell you a bit about this amazing man that has helped me and so many, Barton is the founder also the CEO behind the mission of Upgraded Formulas, which has now helped over 110,000 men & women with sleep issues, weight loss, constipation, joint pain, fatigue, skin and hair issues, thyroid and adrenal issues.
And since he had already helped so many people get clean bills of health, he could see the tell-tale signs.
My weight - a sign of inflammation and poor detox ability.
My eyes - a sign of liver toxicity.
My brittle hair - a sign of thyroid issues.
My skin issues- a sign of all of the above.
So we got to talking and Barton said he had the perfect solution for me.
Next he gave me a chart to fill out, which looked like this:
Fatigue and Weakness: Do you often feel tired or lack energy, even after a good night's sleep?
Yes
No
Numbness and Tingling: Do you feel numbness or tingling in your hands or feet?
Yes
No
Anxiety and Irritability: Do you find yourself feeling anxious, stressed, or irritable without a clear cause?
Yes
No
Difficulty Sleeping: Do you struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep, leading to restless nights?
Yes
No
Headaches and Migraines: Do you suffer from frequent headaches or migraines without an obvious trigger?
Yes
No
Knee and Back Pain: Do you suffer from joint pain or muscle spasms?
Yes
No
Digestive Issues: Do you experience digestive problems, such as constipation, bloating, or cramps often?
Yes
No
Fatigue and Weakness: Do you often feel tired or lack energy, even after a good night's sleep?
___YES ___NO
Anxiety and Irritability: Do you find yourself feeling unusually anxious, stressed, or irritable without a clear cause?
___YES ___NO
Difficulty Sleeping: Do you struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep, leading to restless nights?
___YES ___NO
Headaches and Migraines: Do you suffer from frequent headaches or migraines without an obvious trigger?
___YES ___NO
Numbness and Tingling: Do you feel numbness or tingling in your hands or feet?
___YES ___NO
Knee and Back Pain: Do you suffer from severe joint pain and even muscle spasms?
___YES ___NO
Digestive Issues: Do you frequently experience digestive problems, such as constipation, bloating, or cramps?
___YES ___NO
When he saw I answered YES to 5 out of the 6 questions, Barton looked at me and said:
If you answered “YES” to only 3 or more of the 6 questions, you are likely Magnesium Deficient .
Magnesium is known as the master mineral, he told me.
It controls over 3,500 enzymatic systems in your body, including sleep by creating the hormone melatonin, energy in every cell , and mood by creating dopamine and serotonin , reducing stored body fat by controlling blood sugar, not to mention skin health, hair growth, and more!
So as you can imagine, if you’re magnesium deficient, you’ll always struggle to have a clean bill of health, and face many issues like:
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Chronic fatigue
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Poor sleep
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Feeling unrested upon waking
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Resulting weight gain
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Sugar cravings
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Muscle cramps and spasms
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Anxiety and depression
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Insomnia and sleep disturbances
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Heart palpitations
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Low Thyroid function
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High blood pressure
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Stiff joints
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Frequent headaches
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Digestive problems like constipation causing the body to reabsorb toxins all day long from feces
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Hormonal imbalances
When Barton told me this, everything started to click.
This is why I couldn’t fall asleep easily… and why I would wake up 1-2 times per night, why I was struggling to lose weight.
I looked older. My joints ached. My nails were brittle.
I had no energy. I knew I was in a deep struggle.
And all the roads led back to magnesium deficiency.
And chances are, this is also the case for you
Although you are almost certainly magnesium deficient, it’s not your fault.
Most Americans have a magnesium deficiency that is causing fatigue and poor sleep at least several days of every week because our soil is so deficient from world-wide factory farming practices.
In fact, the soil around the world is so low in nutrients, that all of our vegetables and fruits, (and everything else we eat that relies on healthy soil and grass like cattle) no longer have the nutrients they used to even 40 years ago.
That’s right...Actually. The full picture is even more bleak: More than HALF of the nutrients are gone from our food over the last 80 years. Yes. HALF.
AND IF YOU TAKE SUPPLEMENTS, NEARLY ALL MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTS AREN’T WELL ABSORBED IN THE BODY.
In fact, the American diet barely includes foods that are high in magnesium.
The good news is…
After Barton explained how my magnesium deficiency was causing almost all of my health issues…
He went out to pull a file, which contained a breakthrough discovered from…
“The Only Magnesium with a Clinical Trial”
What Top Industry Professionals Are Saying About Upgraded Magnesium
"This is my favorite magnesium product on the market. I recommend it to all of my clients and I've personally noticed incredible improvements in sleep quality."
Dr. Mindy Pelz.
International Speaker | Best Selling Author
"My deep sleep was the worst it had ever been, and at an all-time low after having Covid. I experienced incredible improvements in my deep sleep with Upgraded Formulas' Upgraded Magnesium and I was already taking high-quality brands I trust and have recommended to patients for years."
Dr. Sachin Patel
The Doctor's Doctor | 2x Best Selling Author
I’m a mom of 4 awesome kids and I have ALWAYS been a highly motivated person but because of my deficiency and magnesium, I was slightly depressed for years and didn’t know it. I’m so much happier and I sleep so much better now.
P.S. And I have been taking Upgraded Magnesium for about 5 years now. NO cramps either!! This stuff is MAGIC!! Trust me, you will love it!!
Tara Garrison
Training | Nutrition | Mindset | Biohacking | Coach
"This is my favorite magnesium product on the market. I recommend it to all of my clients and I've personally noticed incredible improvements in sleep quality."
Dr. Mindy Pelz.
International Speaker | Best Selling Author
"My deep sleep was the worst it had ever been, and at an all-time low after having Covid. I experienced incredible improvements in my deep sleep with Upgraded Formulas' Upgraded Magnesium and I was already taking high-quality brands I trust and have recommended to patients for years."
Dr. Sachin Patel
The Doctor's Doctor | 2x Best Selling Author
I’m a mom of 4 awesome kids and I have ALWAYS been a highly motivated person but because of my deficiency and magnesium, I was slightly depressed for years and didn’t know it. I’m so much happier and I sleep so much better now.
P.S. And I have been taking Upgraded Magnesium for about 5 years now. NO cramps either!! This stuff is MAGIC!! Trust me, you will love it!!
Tara Garrison
Training | Nutrition | Mindset | Coach
The backstory behind the study:
The study was conducted by a third-party lab that has no affiliation with any company whose products are tested. Here’s what the finding were:
They took men & women struggling with sleep, fatigue, mood swings, and other health issues…and they gave them 2 magnesium supplements: Upgraded Magnesium and a common placebo supplement.
The end result?
See for yourself:
And get this…
The participants improved REM sleep by up to 160%, which helped them enjoy deep, quality sleep by 250%.
And since your body needs sleep to recover, I’m sure you can only imagine all the health benefits that followed.
They felt more energized.
Their moods were uplifted.
All aches & pain were washed away, allowing them to move with the same freedom they had in their teens.
>> In fact, this is what I used to restore my sleep, energy and health in 14 days (...and believe or not, lose weight)
This is unlike any other Magnesium in the marketplace.
No other magnesium has a clinical trial and no other sleep product has shown these results in a clinical trial.
THE PROBLEM WITH REGULAR MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTS
The problem is that magnesium is poorly absorbed in the body.
Instead Barton’s Upgraded Magnesium is more absorbable than other types, such as magnesium threonate, glycinate, malate, and every other form.
How? Because it has a totally different delivery system - something Barton developed as a biochemist after losing his mom in his early twenties to Myasthenia Gravis and having Crohn’s, Brain fog, and lots of other health issues...
Even more…
He said: “Think about it…
When we get magnesium from our food, is our body asking for it in a specific form like glycinate, citrate, malate, etc, is it? No. Never. Of course not.
AND it also doesn’t help much if you include “all 7 forms of magnesium” either, which has been the most recent attempt at a solution.
Why? Because it’s not naturally how our body does it with food. And when you think about it, for success in absorbing supplements to our diets shouldn’t we try and do it the way we do it with the food in our diet?
This IS how we have evolved through the centuries to this modern day. We should respect that shouldn’t we.
Rather, it's just breaking it down and utilizing it accordingly. KEY IDEA: That ONLY WORKS if your gut isn’t inflamed and leaky like 95% or more of people walking around today.
Yet, even then, the body he said, “Is inefficient so you only get around 25-30% absorption at best - even from your food , and we typically see less in our lab from most supplements. "
The reason for this is because the body requires the particle size of that mineral to be smaller than the red blood cells it has to enter to be absorbed properly, and therefore it has to be DIGESTED TO BE ABSORBED.
By now I’m sure you see the problem?
Read that part again if necessary, because I know that is new information because what we are talking about here is a new
patent-pending invention with a better method of delivering nutrients to the cell but here’s the other thing:
The problem Barton figured out is what to do about having these mineral particles
actually absorb and be put to use.
He calls the approach BIOHARMONY because it comes from listening. Listening to what the body needs. It is a process that takes understanding of how the body absorbs nutrients from food and applies it to supplements to help them well enough to actually reverse deficiencies.
He realized that in other supplements that people have been supplementing for a few decades now - even if the magnesium has "all the forms" - that were just frustratingly ineffective at reversing deficiencies according to before and after tests.
Which is why Barton’s unique Nano Particle Technology (NPT) is so groundbreaking! It breaks down the magnesium small enough for your cells to absorb, without needing to digest it.
It is called Upgraded Magnesium and it supports deep sleep, boundless energy and better memory, mood and focus within the first 1-2 nights of using it - though it can be taken during the day for even more energy.
Unlike pharmaceuticals, which are all too often glorified chemical cocktails, Upgraded Magnesium contains just 1 simple, natural and incredibly safe ingredient: Nano-Particle Magnesium Chloride.
Again, do understand that this is nothing similar to regular ole magnesium chloride.
This, as Barton explained, is made “with a patent-pending process he developed in 2016 using advanced nano-technology equipment to turn pure magnesium safely into a “creamy plasma” that your cells immediately recognize as food.”
Simply take 4 capsules 30 minutes before bed and you’ll sleep deeper and wake up more
refreshed than you have in years!
If you're like me, you'll want to know exactly what you're going to feel with Upgraded Magnesium.
So I began to log my experience with Upgraded Magnesium over the course of 14 days.
Day 1.
I started trying Upgraded Magnesium to address my lack of sleep, low energy, mood, and began to see immediate improvements. I'll admit I was really skeptical at first, given how many other things I had gone through that didn’t work, I was willing to give it a try.
About 30 minutes after taking it before bed, I felt the effects kick in. It was as though my monkey brain thoughts evaporated. The anxiety and stress I'd been carrying around vanished too. For the first time, in what felt like years, I fell asleep easily, and slept through the whole night.
It reminded me of my younger days, where I could hit the pillow and sleep so deep. Best of all, and for the first time in a long time, I woke up feeling refreshed and energetic!
>> This is the Upgraded Magnesium I was taking.
Day 7.
I've tried other supplements before that were good at the start but then died off after around a week, so I was a bit concerned that Upgraded Magnesium would be the same. This was not the case here. I felt calmer, less anxious and had more energy every day.
The bonus is my mood is so much better - even after long, stressful work days at the office! And every night I was sleeping deep, without waking up. I'm 53 years old! I almost always used to wake up 1-2 times or more per night. This supplement has improved my energy, mood and sleep, and I hadn’t changed my diet yet, exercise, or taken up meditation. As far as I'm aware, these results were only from Upgraded Magnesium.
As a result of sleeping well I was waking up fresh, in a great mood and motivated. And then it SNOWBALLED!
Whenever I felt more energetic and well rested, I was able to exercise.
Feeling calmer, happier, more in control because I exercised, I could fast and stick to my diet plan.
This is when things completely changed for me.
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Day 11. I’m shocked because I’m losing weight.
Even after nearly 2 weeks, I'm still feeling the effects of Upgraded Magnesium improving each night. Previously, I slept poorly and then needed constant naps no matter how much coffee I drank.
Upgraded Magnesium restored my energy and brain power, and motivation. My brain fog disappeared and I’m laser-focused on the things on my to-do list. And I'm actually getting stuff completely finished before moving on to the next thing. I've noticed my stress levels going down, and I'm controlling my emotions much better without losing focus. I’m feeling great, fasting regularly, keeping to the goals and promises I’m making to myself.
I expected the results to diminish this far in, but my energy levels haven't dipped at all. I now remain focused and alert throughout the day, and it seems to be getting better by the day.
The biggest change...I CAN FEEL THE WEIGHT COMING OFF!
Day 14 : I’m wishing I found this stuff sooner!
I fall asleep easily, and stay asleep throughout the night. My brain fog and low energy are completely gone. Heck even my crazy muscle and joint aches have gone away!
It’s just unbelievable how much taking Upgraded Magnesium, and some guided fasting had changed my life in 14 days…I found it hard to believe and so did everyone else around me.
I’m so much happier and healthier and have lost 4 lbs just from sleeping better and not snacking between meals! My friends keep asking me my secret, and I tell them: Just 4 small capsules before bed of Upgraded Magnesium! :)
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In Conclusion
Over that 14 day period, I’d fallen asleep easily and stayed asleep throughout the night. I found myself bouncing out of bed, sometimes before my alarm went off because I couldn't wait to tackle the day.
Things that used to throw off my momentum in the morning were no longer an issue.
I hardly got stressed and when I did, I was able to face my issue and remain calm because I had plenty of mental energy in my tank to deal with whatever it was!
As a result, I've enjoyed my work so much more, and my mood has greatly improved. I work as a senior customer service manager with a very large team under me, and they have been asking me why I'm so chipper and what's my secret to staying positive. They’ve been shocked by my weight loss transformation, given how many other supplements I've tried, but this is by far the best thing I've used for feeling "more like myself."
So where am I at now? Well 16 weeks later, 143 lbs lighter, I’m stunned by the results. This all came from having the best sleep I’ve ever had in my life, and guided fasting.
Don't just take my word for it, this Upgraded Magnesium has a huge number of 5 star reviews and counting (and I finally know why!
FAQs.
Q: How do I take Upgraded Magnesium (with Stabilized Nano Minerals)?
A: We recommend drinking 8-16 oz. of water when taking our Upgraded Magnesium capsules. If you feel any discomfort, you can take it prior to a meal. Our Clinically Studied Upgraded Magnesium Chloride with our (NPT) Nano Particle Technology, is engineered for absorption WITHOUT the need of digestion.
The particles are so small they bypassed digestion completely to be completely completely absorbed.
Q: What is Upgraded Magnesium Chloride (with Stabilized Nano Minerals)?
A: Our Upgraded Magnesium chloride, is a highly bioavailable form of the mineral. It is more absorbable than other types, such as magnesium threonate, oxide, and citrate. Upgraded Magnesium chloride is in nano-particle form enabling maximum bioavailability and measurable absorption.*
Q: Can I take this supplement on an empty stomach?
A: YES. Our capsule product should be taken with a full glass of water per capsule an hour before bed or whenever you need help relaxing or feel overwhelmed.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.