I’m living proof that lying around the house can help you lose weight. Yup, if I hadn’t been doing my couch potato impression, I never would have seen the daytime talk show that gave me the idea for my weight loss plan that helped me budge the stubborn weight I’ve been carrying around since my last child was born. (Okay, she’s in middle school, but still.)
I admit it, I’ve tried every diet under the sun and even came up with a couple that consisted of living on foods I hated and giving up everything I love to eat. It didn’t work, and I wasn’t much fun to live with. Ask my husband and kids. They begged me to start eating again about two days into the low-carb diet I went on. And about a week after I went low fat, they were spooning ice cream into my mouth and calling for pizza. They told me they’d rather have a cranky mommy even if she was fat. This didn’t make me feel as wonderful as they seemed to think it should.
So, I tried another approach. Exercise. Right. That worked about as well as dieting did, which was great for a couple of days, but then not at all. I found all kinds of excuses not to go to the gym. Exercise DVD’s? Well, it was like this, the cat scratched them so I couldn’t use them. Honest. Those bungee cords you pull on? I gave up on those the first time I snapped one and it almost took off my nose. Those things are dangerous to klutzes like me.
I tried all the weight loss supplements and probably put a few telemarketer’s kids through college, but still I kept putting on pounds. I was desperate, so desperate that I even started surfing the net, looking for sites about weight loss. But all the diets were the same old “starve and exercise” deal that hadn’t worked for me before. I finally realized that, as a researcher, I’d just have to do the research and figure out something that would work for me to lose the weight. It took weeks, but I finally did it. I’ve come up with a weight loss plan that isn’t a starvation diet, doesn’t make you cut out all the foods you love, doesn’t even call for strenuous exercises that could be dangerous for overweight folks like us.
What struck me right away was how different my plan was from every other diet plan I’d tried. It was so simple and easy, I didn’t see how it could possibly work, but I started following it the very next day. At the end of the first week, I was astounded at how much weight I had lost. I actually got off the scale and back on again to make sure it was working correctly. It was. I had lost almost a pound a day – 5 lbs in one week.
What’s even better is what happened in the following weeks as the weight just melted off until I found myself a whopping 20 lbs lighter at the end of the first 6 weeks. I couldn’t believe it. Now, I have to tell you, I’m a lousy dieter. I’ve never lasted on any weight loss plan for more than a week. But with this one, I had no trouble sticking to it and didn’t even get cranky or miss my favorite foods.
If you’ve bombed out on all the diets and have a treadmill that’s turned into a clothes rack, you need to see for yourself what this weight loss plan can do for you. Give it a try and see how a radically new approach to permanent weight loss can change your body – and your life. The only bad thing I can say about this weight loss plan is that I didn’t come come up with it soon enough.
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