Five years ago I had one of those life-changing moments which come along so rarely. I was faced with a decision to act or to do nothing. That same morning, I had stepped on my bathroom scales and found to my horror that I was 80 kilos, the most weight I had ever carried.
I was past sixty, so you might think that at that age, I would have given myself permission to slip into a fat comfortable old age. Well, until that moment I had never even thought about it. What I did think was that I had to find a way to achieve permanent weight loss
I have always been active both in body and spirit. I try to work out with weights every day. If I exclude the last five years, I can look back thirty years, and say that I am honestly unable to remember a time when I was NOT on some kind of diet. It seems like I was always hungry, and I was always in the middle of a diet to either lose weight, or to stop regaining the weight I had lost from the previous diet.
I had to make a decision and I could have chosen to go either way. The easy way was to give up and accept old and fat. The hard way was to spend my remaining years always a little hungry and always battling those awful cravings. Neither option appealed to me or offered a very good quality of life. The choice was made even more complicated because I suffered a thyroid condition and I had dietary type2 diabetes.
So I gave it a lot of thought. I’m well read, I have many years experience in weight loss and I have tried just about every diet ever invented. I also have a really good knowledge of history. What struck me suddenly was an awesome inspiration, followed by an even more incredible realization.
At that moment, I knew, in theory, that I had discovered the answer to why everybody seems to be gaining weight. Why obesity is running rampant, and why type2 diabetes has become the greatest threat to health in the 21st century.
If I proved to be right, I had discovered what the world has not dared even hope for; ‘a simple way to lose all excess weight, and a way to keep the weight off permanently’.
I knew of course, that nobody would believe a theory from someone without a medical or a science degree, let alone any connection to at least one of the ‘pseudo’ voodoo sciences prevailing today. But frankly, I didn’t care. I just wanted to cure myself. I had discovered a third option which, if it worked, would enable me lose all the weight I wanted to lose and stop me from ever putting it back on again. That would mean I never had to feel hungry again and the cravings would be gone. Obviously, that is the choice I opted to take and I followed it until now…for five years.
I’m sure you are curious to learn how it turned out? Well, within about ten weeks, I found myself back to 65kilos, and I have hovered between 64 and 65 kilo for five years. But what really shocked me was that I stopped experiencing any of the type2 diabetes symptoms, which had plagued me for years.
I must confess that during the five years I expected someone, more qualified to publish a paper or something about the same discovery. To this day, I am amazed no one ever did. I have thought about why? Perhaps, on reflection, a cure for obesity is not what the world is looking for right now, at least not in the world inhabited by the food industry and the diet professions, who would probably be asked to fund the research.
I did realize though, that five years of continues practice on myself, represented a history of success, so I decided to risk damnation and publish a book to explain how I discovered a way to permanent weight loss, how it works, why it works and why no one ever has to be called ‘fat’ again.
The result is a book called; My Own Plan. It will be published on the internet in the next few days.
The book is in pre launch. You can visit the blog for the latest update and you are welcome to email me to get on my pre-launch notification list.
Kirsten Plotkin
Author
My Own Plan website: http://www.my-own-plan.com
Email: kirstenplotkin@my-own-plan.com