This is about an easy diet plan which is not even a diet, at least not if a diet means that you have to count calories.  Even better, this is not only about losing weight, this is about learning a method to keep that weight off permanently.  At the end of your easy diet plan, you will be able to put the book away and get on with your life without having to worry about your weight ever again.

As most people do when they first decide to go on a diet,  I tried every easy diet plan I could find and many not so easy.  After losing the weight it would always return and I would always be heavier than when I began.  It is fair to say I tried everything.  You see, to a degree, I was driven by anger.  I had some minor surgery which damaged my thyroid.  Till that happened, I had never had a weight problem.

Getting a sudden weight problem seemed very unjust.  I simply had to find  a solution that I could adopt as a way of life.  I wanted to reach a place where I would never again have to think about my weight, my appearance or my choices of food.

The discovery I made five years ago, gave me exactly what I had hoped for. From the time I began My own Plan, I lost all the weight and to this day, I have never again had to worry about my weight.  This truly is  the elusive permanent weight loss I had hoped for for so long.  I was recently encouraged to make my information public.

My easy diet plan is a completely new way to deal with weight problems.  All I have needed to do is make a small adjustment to my lifestyle.  I do not cut down on the amount of food I eat, I do not count my calories and I do not worry about my lack of exercise.  In fact, because I no longe have cravings, I do not think about food till close to meal times when my body reminds me that I am hungry.

When I first started to look for the right way to diet, I quickly discovered that every hard earned weight loss comes with a price tag.  You see, the weight you have lost always comes back and when it does, it turns out to be more than you started with.  Each time we diet, our  metabolism becomes more confused and unreliable. That was partly the reason I wanted to find a better way to handle my weight problem  permanently.  I also hoped it would lead me to a way to reverse the damage already caused by so many reckless diets.

I had managed to live for forty years without a weight problem.  In all that time I paid no attention to my weight.  I did not need to.  My diet was varied and included sweets and often the convenience of fast food.  I can point to just one major difference between the forty years prior to my thyroid problem, till the time five years ago when I made my discovery.  I can sum it up in one word: Cravings!  That was something completely new to me.

In my youth, people took their metabolism for granted. Few people would have given it a thought.  Then, some thirty years ago, Nutritionists appeared, with  new pseudo science and they preached about what they called diet and nutrition.  No one seemed to care that these new ideas conflicted with the food our metabolism had always been accustomed to.

Suddenly it became un-cool to eat like our grandparents did. Instead we were expected to eat only ‘healthy’ food, a description which seemed to ignore the food we were accustomed to.

Nothing is more seductive to young people, than new ways to replace old things.  Unfortunately, that came to include our diet. Now we can look around and witness  what has already been describe as a serious epidemic. More than sixty percent of people are now overweight.  Sadly, that now includes children. This would have been thought unbelievable a few decades ago.

There were always some people who would become overweight in every decade.  But that was a very small minority.   Often their weight problem was caused by diabetes or other medical conditions.

Today we have something called type2 diabetes.  That too is growing in epidemic proportions,  and that was also never heard of till fairly recently.

I have noticed that lately,  using the word Permanent  has become common in many inappropriate instances.   I want to be sure my own use of that term is fully understood: When I say ‘permanent weight loss,’ I mean you will not need to diet again.

I know my easy diet plan will help many families, as well as individuals to get a permanent healthy weight loss. If you are over weight, I hope you will be one of them.

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Kirsten Plotkin

Author of My Own Plan

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Thirty years ago the majority of people were slim. It was a time when diet cravings were rare. People would handle their own weight problems, if and when they put on a few pounds. They would simply exercise more and cut down on snacks for a few weeks. Today the majority of people are overweight. Chances are they are either on a diet, about to go on a diet or they have just finishes a diet. In thirty years, diets have gone from being almost ignored to being a way of life.

Back when Nutritionist first arrived on the scene they had some serious news about cholesterol.  Tests had shown that just about everybody had very high cholesterol.  The way to correct that was to follow a diet they had designed for that purpose.

Nobody had thought much about diets and even less about nutritionists, but what they heard was a little scary. So a large number of people, most of them not even overweight, went on the diet to avoid what they were told would be a heart attack or a strokes.

What they did not know, and perhaps the Nutritionists did not know either, was that to correctly measure cholesterol, there are two separate readings. One is for the healthy cholesterol, and the other for the bad. The correct reading is when you deduct the count of the bad cholesterol from the good.  The labs did not do that. They added the two counts together. This is how suddenly just about everybody needed a diet to reduce their cholesterol.

Because nutritionists grabbed the opportunity to report on cholesterol, they became identified as having discovered it.  That gave their mostly ignored profession a lot of undue credibility.

When they launched their first major diet, it was to promote cholesterol and it’s evils.  People who were slim and had never dieted in their life rushed to use a diet that would lower what was termed a dangerous level of cholesterol.

It has only recently become general knowledge that the reading for cholesterol had been incorrectly performed for almost thirty years. Even today you will find a few labs and institutions that continue to cling to the old way.

The diet was launched with a poster depicting a Pyramid. The base of the pyramid was filled with grains, cereals pasta and pulses.  It filled more than two thirds of the pyramid.

Then there was a layer of greens; fruits and vegetables. This was followed by small amounts of meat and fish. This diet, we were told, was a direct response to the newly discovered cholesterol problem caused by the bad diets in the past.  In reality, the diet laid the foundation for the food addiction we see today.

What is so puzzling in hindsight, is that nobody, not even scientists or doctors, ever asked how a diet people had followed for eons, without much change,  had suddenly begun to increase our cholesterol to such dangerous levels.

Thirty years ago the vast majority of people still had their normal weight. Think of the hundreds of diets people have used since then. Yet today, the average person is grossly overweight. If just one of those diets had proved to work, we would all know about it, we would all have used it, and nobody would be fat today.  As it stands, we would be far better off today, had we used no diets at all.

What has changed between the average person thirty years ago and the average person today? The average weight has changed massively. But what is just as amazing is that today’s diet is almost opposite to the diet we ate in the past.

In fact, if you turn the content of the Pyramid upside down you will have something fairly close to the diet people ate for centuries. The food we eat today is not the food that made us who we are. Our metabolism appears to have difficulty adjusting to the new reality.

Before you think it, let me point out that thirty years ago people had just as much available food on offer than they do today and that includes fast food. The shops had plenty of produce and nobody went hungry. The only thing that has changed is that people have become obsessed with diets.

Obesity is now at epidemic levels. It has become clear that people with obesity, tend to lapse into type2 diabetes.  This is a life threatening condition. Food addiction is proving to be as overlooked or ignored as tobacco addiction used to be. It is every bit as dangerous, possibly more so. That is because despite the efforts of cigarette makers, they were never going to turn everybody into a smoker.

Food addiction on the other hand is different. We all eat food, every day. Most of us are addicted to it. We eat too much, we eat too often and we eat the wrong food. We eat food the body was never designed to process. If we continue on our present path, we will all end up obese, we will see our children grow up obese and soon our children’s children may be born obese. We have already seen it happen. It would seem diet cravings are a sign of addiction.

Our long term survival may no longer be all that certain, and not just because of climate change.

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Kirsten Plotkin Author

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The Big Diet Fraud That Started Obesity

This was the age of broad experimentation, a lot of it non-scientific. A lot of it was centered around food and eating. There had never been a need for either medicine or science to look at changing a food regime which people had followed pretty much unchanged for centuries.

The medical profession seemed quite content to let unqualified people cut themselves a niche in a market they named Nutrition.  They did not see that area as medicine. So unqualified people went ahead to design what type of diet might improve people’s health.

They examined the foods that looked healthy and tasted good. The old adage: An apple a day, clearly encouraged lots of fruit. They looked at calories and decided precisely how many a person should eat daily. They looked at grains and pulses and decided it screamed health and energy. At that point, had they attempted to launch a diet it would have been a dismal failure. But you know what they say: Timing is everything.

So what happened to so radically change the average human body in a mere thirty years?

At that time, few people would have seriously considered a diet just to improve their health.  Those who cared already felt healthy, many exercised and jogging was popular. Type2 diabetes had yet to appear. Health was simply not an issue.

The magic Bullet for Nutritionists, which gave them almost instant recognition and credibility, was the word cholesterol. Nutritionists were the people who brought it to public attention. It appeared as if they had made the discovery. People actually thought this was a new science.

Nutritionists achieved even more credibility when they revealed that just about everybody’s cholesterol was dangerously high. Everyone with high cholesterol were in danger of heart attacks and strokes. No one thought to ask why there had not been an epidemic of those two serious conditions till then, given that the diet had never changed much for eons. You could say people were panicked into action.

It was in this climate that the nutritionists revealed their new diet, The Pyramid. Many will remember the poster. It was the diet you had to have to cure your cholesterol problem. It contained well over two thirds carbohydrate and it laid the foundation for food addiction and digestive and intestinal problems for all the years to come.  People with perfectly normal weight began to diet. After all, this was science…Right?

Even doctors jumped on the bandwagon. They sent their patients for cholesterol tests and when the test came back too high they usually referred them to a Nutritionist or Dietician.  Honestly! It makes you want to cry!

You see the Nutritionists and lab technicians were too excited about their windfall to get all the facts. They had no clue that cholesterol requires two readings, one for the good cholesterol and one for the bad. The reading for the bad cholesterol is supposed to be deducted from the good cholesterol. That is how you get a correct reading. Instead the two readings were taken as one, in other words, added together.

Had science been in charge, the tests would have been done correctly from the start. Then the majority of people would have been found to have a normal cholesterol count. Nutritionists would have had nothing to take credit for. We would not have been bombarded with a massive publicity campaign about the evils of cholesterol and the benefits of the Pyramid diet so cleverly devised by Nutritionists would never have raised public interest.

Without cholesterol, Nutritionists would have had a hard time to convince people with perfectly normal weight to go on a diet. Chances are, Nutrition would have gone the way of most other pseudo sciences and simply disappeared.

It took many years to discredit that diet. It took just about as many years for the labs to learn how to test for cholesterol. By then it had ruined many people’s lives. Make no mistake it still does to this day. Just look at your shelves in the food mart. The Pyramid did not go in a blaze of publicity, it snug away with a whimper.

It was not long before the Nutritionist were ready with a brand new, fat free diet. It preached that the fats you eat are the fats that stick to the body. Thankfully, that diet has also recently been discredited.  This time many food manufacturers have chosen to ignore the facts.

There is no doubt that the majority of people would be better off had the old system of weight loss with no diet remained the norm. It would also be a very different world today if the discovery of cholesterol had not fallen into the grateful lap of Nutritionists.

Chances are we would be a much slimmer and healthier nation today.

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Kirsten Plotkin Author

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