I am so tired of misinformation and often complete nonsense when it comes to diets and genuine, permanent weight loss.  Every Diet Expert is self proclaimed and I have yet to see a diet which has been founded on scientific research with evidence of properly conducted human trials.

It’s as if we suspend our common sense when we respond to advice about any product remotely linked to our vanity.  Beauty products and weight loss products are probably the greatest examples.  We want to believe they work, we kid ourselves that they work and we blame ourselves when we realize they haven’t worked.

In the case of diets there is the added dimension of risk to our health.  Each time we trustingly embark on some new ‘cannot fail and it’s so good for us’ diet we take a risk.  Most times, all that happens is that within a month, sometimes a year, we find ourselves back to where we started, not just with the weight we had before, we now have extra weight.  Have you ever stopped to wonder why?

Everything has at least one reason.  Thirty to Forty years ago weight problems and particularly obesity were very rare.  People with medical conditions like an underactive thyroid or diabetes were practicably the only people who were permanently overweight, and type2 diabetes was unheard of.

What happened forty years ago, was the birth of the diet food industry and the new professions of nutritionist and dietician.  All these groups will tell you that over time, they have made an enormous contribution to the health and weight of us all.  I think it’s time we analyze that contribution.  How?  By taking a good look at the people we pass in the mall.  Are you seeing an increase in slim people? I don’t think so!

Forty years ago, we still relied on our body’s mechanism to control our weight as we had done for centuries.  An obesity Epidemic would have been a ridicules notion.  We knew by instinct what was good and what was bad for us to eat.  The percentage of overweight people was very small and obesity was almost unheard of.  When present, it was usually a medical condition not a food problem.

Unlike now, there was no need to seek a way to get permanent weight loss, we already had it and practiced it daily.

Today, sixty percent of our population is overweight, and the numbers are growing daily.  Many of these people are, or will go on to become obese.  Yet, never before, were there so many experts or products available to assist us to lose weight and to ‘get healthy’.  The diet industry is one of the biggest most lucrative industries on the planet and the most amazing thing about that?  The fact they virtually didn’t exist until forty years ago.

What is the second most amazing thing?  Not one of the diets so aggressively promoted for the past thirty years, have had to undergo scientific scrutiny.  No genuine data has been published and no trials have been conducted with human participants. Not for a single diet.

Like me, you might now realize that the growth of the diet industry originates at the same time and has kept well in step with the growth of the human body.  A coincidence?  I don’t think so!

Human beings were not designed to be overweight, nor were they designed to diet.  Nature had its own way to deal with the food we used to eat.  But like so often, we had to go one better than nature.  The price we have paid is to lose touch with our time worn instincts and our body’s ability to deal with the food we eat.  we have simply forgotten the rules about how and what to eat.  What is worse, we have caused damage to our body.

My Own Plan was written specifically to reverse the damage before it is too late and to get back to permanent weight loss…Forever!

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Kirsten Plotkin

Author of My Own Plan.

This blog is meant to help the followers of my book, My-Own-Plan.  I hope you’ll use it to post questions to me and to exchange ideas with other readers of the book.  This will help everyone who follows  My-Own-Plan.  I will check in at least once a day to answer your questions.

I know the claims I make in the book will be new and controversial.  l can only repeat that they are an account of my personal experience, gained over a period of five years.  They have stood the test of time.  But I must point out that my discovery has not been approved by any scientific authority.

If I prove to have a body with a physiology unique to humankind, then this information will work only for me.  But if as I suspect, I’m no different to anyone else, then My-Own-Plan will very likely work for you too.

There is no doubt this book should have been written in the form of a research paper, by a doctor or a scientist.  I waited 5 years to see that happen.  When it didn’t, I recognized that I had a responsibility to make my discovery known to as many people as possible.   That’s how, five years too late, I finally wrote My-Own-Plan.  Now, my greatest hope is that it will reach enough people to make a difference.

I consider myself a victim of ’bad science’. You too may be a victim. I reacted, as is my right, by publishing my discovery. It is based on thirty years of personal experience, solid logic and good old fashion common sense.  As a victim of bad science, I reserve the right to speak out and share what I have discovered.

One important fact I need to point out is that although I was diagnosed as having type2 diabetes, I was never perscribed insulin. Nor did I ever take any other form of medication for that condition.

PS. I just want to mention that although the manuscript is completed the website is not yet ready. As soon as it is, the book will be published. Until that happens, this blog is not expected to get many views.  Should you happen to wander in here I’m sure your question will be when will the site be published? If you would like an early notification, all you have to do is contact me on the email below and I’ll be happy to give you an update.

http://www. my-own-plan.com