It turned out not to be another Adkins diet. It was a well thought out, well balanced diet. It is a very healthy diet. It basically eliminates sugar and, as science is now finding out, sugar is not at all good for you. It has become a proven fact. Unfortunately, like most people, I am a sugar addict. So, while I was impressed by the diet, I was disappointed. Learning to get off sugar was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I feel for everyone who has a sweet tooth. When I get home from work I want to eat a huge bowl of ice cream and of course have some chocolate. I am so thankful for sugar free ice cream. I have been able to control this habit by relying on sugar free subsitutes.Unfortunately I cannot use chemical substitues, such as NutraSweet so this is very difficult. I am one of those people that has to have something sweet. And now I can do this. This was the biggest hurdle of diets and now that hurdle has been overcome.
Also, I've found the best way to avoid temptation is to have a huge desirable goal in mind that this sacrifice is dependent on. This is a great motivator. Have a goal that is dependent on your losing weight and work for that goal and it will help you to keep to your diet. Think about it daily and make it a big dream. Visualize yourself as the size you want to be. Speak out something like this, "I am my perfect weight of 130 lbs." This helps implant this thought into your subconcious. See yourself thin.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
The Art of Losing Weight- Lesson 1
I understand heavy people very well and the pain that they endure on a daily basis. I have been heavy since I was 18. I am now 64. It has caused me lots of problems. Health and social problems. I am not a believer in the theory of "accept me as I am" because you can say that about anything. Accept me as I am because I'm a slob and I don't care about myself enough to improve myself.
So I decided after many painful experiences that I would lose weight. Lesson one, I decided to take action. I believe in belief but I also believe in action. You do not get anywhere without both of these components. I started to study. For the next twenty years I was on every diet that had ever been created. I would sometimes lose weight and sometimes not. Sometimes I would become very ill and have to be hospitalized. Two diets did this. The first one was an all fruit diet. You ate fruit for days on end. I lasted 3 days...I passed out at work. The next one was the infamous Adkins diet. I lost weight successfully and very easily. I had to be hospitalized after a few months. I had developed hypoglycemia and the doctor was convinced that it was the diet that did it to me. I still have low blood sugar technically and it is pretty well under control now I have no symptoms.
The diets went on and on. And in this society you can try another diet plan each week. So, I'm going to make it easy for you because I finally found something that works and works consistently.
One day I saw a man on a TV show that I usually watch. He was hawking a new diet book. It was a no sugar diet but the way it was presented that day I thought it was a low carbohydrate diet.
"This is nothing but an Adkins diet," I said. Then I switched the channel.
Months later the man was back on the program. He explained his diet a little more thoroughly this time. It peaked my curiosity and so I bought his book and began my journey of successful weight loss...The book is From Fat to Skinny by Doug Varrieur and I lost over 60 lbs.
So I decided after many painful experiences that I would lose weight. Lesson one, I decided to take action. I believe in belief but I also believe in action. You do not get anywhere without both of these components. I started to study. For the next twenty years I was on every diet that had ever been created. I would sometimes lose weight and sometimes not. Sometimes I would become very ill and have to be hospitalized. Two diets did this. The first one was an all fruit diet. You ate fruit for days on end. I lasted 3 days...I passed out at work. The next one was the infamous Adkins diet. I lost weight successfully and very easily. I had to be hospitalized after a few months. I had developed hypoglycemia and the doctor was convinced that it was the diet that did it to me. I still have low blood sugar technically and it is pretty well under control now I have no symptoms.
The diets went on and on. And in this society you can try another diet plan each week. So, I'm going to make it easy for you because I finally found something that works and works consistently.
One day I saw a man on a TV show that I usually watch. He was hawking a new diet book. It was a no sugar diet but the way it was presented that day I thought it was a low carbohydrate diet.
"This is nothing but an Adkins diet," I said. Then I switched the channel.
Months later the man was back on the program. He explained his diet a little more thoroughly this time. It peaked my curiosity and so I bought his book and began my journey of successful weight loss...The book is From Fat to Skinny by Doug Varrieur and I lost over 60 lbs.
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