I Was Determined to Lose Weight Quickly and Safely.
This is my story.
I was a chubby infant and a fat child. I put myself on my first diet at age 14. I lost about 40 pounds through a very low calorie diet. I consider myself lucky that I didn't become anorexic.
The weight came back. For more years than I want to remember, I struggled with my weight -- losing it, gaining it back, then losing it again.
The Fad Diet Stage
I tried every fad diet going. The Scarsdale Diet. The Cabbage Soup Diet. The Atkins Diet. You name it, I tried it. On one particular diet, I ate so few calories that I fainted during my yoga class.
At one point in my twenties, I toyed briefly with bulimia. I abandoned the practice after two attempts because I scalded my throat with stomach acid. It's a good thing that this happened. Otherwise, I would have developed this eating disorder.
The Healthy Lifestyle Stage
Eventually, I realized the foolishness of the fad diets. I then tried losing weight with programs that advocate healthy eating combined with regular exercise -- programs like Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem. On one occasion, I used a food plan that a nutritionist developed for me combined with an exercise regime customized by a fitness consultant. I tried Overeaters Anonymous. I tried hypnosis. I visited a naturopath. I saw a therapist for over a year.
I did everything right.
And these approaches all worked. Temporarily. I usually reached my goal weight. And then, as if my brain had an on button and an off button, I would lose control of my eating and regain all the weight. I can easily regain five pounds a week, so the weight gain was dramatic.
Some might say I have no discipline. I don't think so. When I was losing weight, I could stick to my eating pattern for a year or more at a stretch, with seldom a mishap. I went to the gym five or six times a week, rain or shine, even over Christmas week. That's not the sign of somebody with no self discipline.
The Turning Point
Then one day in mid 2006, I found what turned out to be the solution. It started with a temper tantrum. I was listening to the radio when I heard yet another smug talk show host discussing obesity and the drain that obese people put on the medical system with their selfish, inconsiderate weight problems.
All we needed to do, apparently, was get off our fat asses and get a bit of exercise and we wouldn't be in this condition.
Usually, when I heard comments like that, I just cringed and silently agreed that the speaker must be right. This time, I erupted in a blaze of anger. I screamed at the radio:
"Do you think we WANT to be obese? Do you think we would be this way if we had a real choice? If you think its that easy, why the hell do you think so many of us are overweight? And get this, genius --- if MEDICAL SCIENCE had any real answers, there wouldn't be any obese people! And they wouldn't be spending a gazillion research dollars a year looking for answers if they already had the answer!"
After I cooled down, I realized that if there was any real help for me, I would have to look outside the traditional approaches. I realized that yes, maintaining the healthy lifestyle is imperative -- but for some unknown reason, I simply was not able to do that. And goodness knows, I had tried.
I realized that the problem lay within my mind -- somewhere -- and that the key to success would mean reaching into my unconscious mind and "changing" whatever was creating my problem.
How to Lose Weight Quickly and Safely and Keep it Off
I went hunting for alternative therapies, and by trial and error, I found an approach that works. I did some experimenting, and developed a remarkably effective program for myself that combines two alternative health approaches: The Silva Method and Emotional Freedom Technique (otherwise known as EFT tapping).
I offer this information here in the hopes that other people will find help. And believe me when I tell you that this is real help -- it's not the kind of help that sets you up to fail.
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