at home weight lose

For the past five years, I can honestly say that an at home weight lose, has changed my life forever.  Prior to that, I can look back on two decades of hundreds of hours spent working out in some gym somewhere.  There were several thousand dollars spent on gym memberships and in all fairness, if I were to add it all up, more than fifty pounds of weight maybe more were lost.  The fact is it doesn’t matter what I lost, because every pound was returned always with that bit extra.  That is not to say the money was wasted. I enjoy workouts, or at least I used to, it made me feel good, it tightened my body and I felt more energetic.  But if my sole aim was to lose weight, my workouts were a waste of time.

I’m sure you wonder, what about diets.  Let’s be real, you do not lose amounts of weight which, over time, adds up to more than fifty pounds by exercise alone. So yes; there were diets, plenty of them.  I became an expert on almost every diet launched from the mid eighties till early 2004.  A couple in particular proved very influential in my life. There was the 66% carbohydrate diet, known as the pyramid.  The rule was simple; three serves of carbohydrates to one serve of protein.  That was my first diet ever and it was the diet that sealed my fate. I was put on that diet by a dietician.  She was recommended to me by my doctor who was concerned about my sudden weight gain. The weight gain was the result of some damage to my thyroid gland, during surgery that had gone wrong.

Much later, I was introduced to the low fat diet which seduced me and most other people into believing that the fat we consume is the same fat that sticks to our body.  Although I knew that was not true, I was dazzled by the simplicity of the pseudo science that said if you stop eating fat you stop getting fat.  Like everyone else, I went along for the ride.  Like most people with a weight problem, I clung to the hope that this diet was the one that would work permanently.  Of course no one really says that word out loud because deep down where logic seems to reside, we know diets never work.

If just one single diet, out of the hundreds of diets recommended during the past twenty to thirty years, had ever proved to work there should be no demand for any other diet.  A diet that works means, at least to me, that it has proved to produce a permanent weight loss.  Why would there then be a need for any other diet?  I mean, once we have a permanent weight loss diets become redundant right?

So let me run this past you: To date no diet has ever existed that has been able to produce a permanent weight loss.  The hard efforts you put into dieting will always fail. That is because the weight always returns. It is not just the weight you lost.  You get additional weight you did not have before you started the diet.  That is your body saying it has protected your metabolism against your next diet experiment with extra insulation to guard against the famine.

Are you beginning to wonder what happened five years ago?  Well, I had a flash of inspiration.  I have always had a great interest and knowledge of history, mostly about the subject of human history. With that background and my vast knowledge and experience with diets, I took a long hard look at my own circumstances and I had what you may call a moment of clarity.  I devised an eating plan, not a diet because a diet would have meant cutting down on food and counting calories, which my body would respond to as a famine.

I decided to forget everything I knew about diets. Instead I drew on what I knew of the past, what I had learned in the present and what I feared for the future. Clearly, something very significant, and very bad, had happened.  It was something which had caused us to change from a majority of slim healthy people, to a majority of fat, unhealthy people in just a few decades.  It had the hallmark of human intervention.

So a little over five years ago, I implemented my own plan.  It was meant just for me because no one else in my family suffers from weight problems and I did not want anyone else to take part in what was then just an experiment.  In a very short time, using an at home weight lose, I went from a little over 80kilos, the biggest I had ever been, to 64 kilos which had been my regular weight before my thyroid problem.  I have hovered between 64 and 65 kilos ever since.  Someone suggested I write down exactly how it happened, what I did, and how I have stayed slim ever since.  If you want to benefit from my experience, or you just want to learn more, all you have to do is follow my link.

http://www.my-own-plan.com/cap/index4.html

Kirsten Plotkin

Author of My Own Plan