Almost six years ago I resolved to never again pay attention to a diet ‘expert’.  Instead I started to do my own study to reveal a method to lose weight that could genuinely be called permanent.  I simply refused to ever embark on a diet again.

I have always felt that unless a weight loss is to be ever lasting, what is the point of tolerating  the hunger, the cravings and the utter agony of being deprived of calories when you know that all too soon all the weight will be back, usually with a bonus of even more weight?

On reflection you might think: that -’Yes, this is true but – it was my own fault.  Because of my failure to stick to the diet the weight came back.  In other words; you began to eat normal meals again’.  We are becoming trained to believe that putting weight on will always be our own fault.  That is entirely false.  To eat ‘norma’l is what we ought to do all of the time.  It is what we always did in the past without worrying about a weight gain. it is also what nature designed us to do.

I remember a time not THAT long ago, when weight gains only occurred when you ate food that was NOT normal.  This maybe ironic, but it is a reality that should force us to ask ourselves: What changed,  in the last couple of decades to cause just about everyone get so fat?  The quick answer is Dieting.  It is never a normal thing to diet.  Our body was not ever intended to diet.

Before we take action we must  understand the cause of the weight problems and obesity we see today:  We have turned our everyday diet, on its head.  The plethora of press, magazines, advertising and diet ‘experts’ have meant that we now take dietary advice from people who do not have the qualifications to give it.  These are people who have no right to offer expert advice.  It pays to remember that the diet business as a whole, have a strong self interest in growing a fat society for the future.

The trouble is, we have been led into  a bog of quicksand called food addiction and we cannot get out out.  Well, at the very least we do not wish to pull ourselves out.  Our addiction causes us to believe that a life of fat is better than having to sacrifice the foods we think we cannot do without.

The people who keep us addicted are everywhere and they are very resourceful. Quite recently we saw a rare revalation of just how powerful the tobacco business can be. People  with a vested interest in what we eat will stop at nothing to keep us addicted.   Billions are spent in advertising to that end.  The diet industry can be expected to  reject that food addiction exists.  Sounds very familiar don’t you think?

If you imagine your body as a kind of engine, which is pretty much what it is, you can imagine that  the food you eat is the fuel that propels it to  go.  Your body was created many eons ago to operate on a specific mix of fuel.  Over thousands of years, it has grown used to numerous very slow  insignificant changes.  Because the changes were small the body had centuries to adapt.

We have learned that large scale human intervention to nature’s laws can prove very risky, if not outright dangerous.  We are an element of nature and we have permitted intervention to the natural function of our body.  The obesity epidemic is a sign of what we can expect as punishment.  In the past few decades we have stood by and watched our diet get flipped upside down without a murmur of protest from either the scientific or medical professions.  Nobody has raised even a hint of concern. This is despite the growing number of people with weight problems, not to mention; a raging obesity epidemic in both adults and children.

Barely noticeable signs of this trend began to loom in the sixties. That is when colorful packaged foods began to make an appearance on  the shelves in grocery shops.  The trend was driven harder in the seventies when international foods came into vogue.  By the eighties There was no doubt that more people were overweight but not ever on the level we see today. Folks could still delude themselves that weight problems most commonly happeden to people who suffered with diabetes or a thyroid condition.

As ever more people became exited about every new fashionable diet which appeared, it would seem nobody notice that our body, the ‘engine’, was just not working as efficiently as we once took for granted.  More and more of us seemed to suffer digestive and intestinal problems.  The pharmacy shelves told the story. It was to be expected that one day there would be a price to pay.

The thing that sealed our fate was cholesterol.  Sadly, ‘experts’ discovered the word ‘cholesterol’ long before they had any understanding of what it meant.  naturally that was not going to stop them. Only the medical profession would have had a chance to step in but even they got caught up in  the inundation of people who wanted a cholesterol test. People in their legions were driven mostly by the press and untrained amateurs, to have a botched cholesterol test.

Why botched?  Well, it may astonish you to hear that till quite recently, every single test was done completely wrong.  To put it simply, there are two types of cholesterol measures one for good cholesterol and one for bad.  When a test is done correctly, the good cholesterol cancels out the bad.  For close to three decades laboratories across the world just added the numbers together. This meant that just about everyone who had a pulse also had a high cholesterol reading.  Cholesterol had made a grande entrance and a lot of people got scared into starting a diet that nobody should ever have ever been persuaded to take on.  By doing it and sticking with it, they became saddled with a permanent weight problem which went on to affect their children and grandchildren.  It has also made a lot of professionals and amateurs a lot wealthier.

Even today,You will still find the odd laboratory who will cling to the old test.  I am sure even a medical practioner can be found who will have missed an update or will prefer to cling to the past.  A year ago, an Australian government promoted a no cost cholesterol tests for every adult.  Every test was done using the old incorrect method. No one wants to see a light focused on their past mistakes, not least a government.  Still shouldn’t they be first in line to know better.

This incredible mistake has meant that for around thirty years, the millions of people who were scared into a cholesterol test, would have shown a dangerously high reading.  They were told to change their diet immediately.  The diet which was recommended by every professional and non-professional alike,  emphasised carbohydrate and minimized the need for protein.  it ignored the fact that for centuries, protein had represented the greatest share of our daily diet.

This travesty was aggravated by the arrival of an innovative occupation named Nutrition.  Although they were unqualified, these people had created a very high carbohydrate diet which was promoted to be  the very last word on the meaning of a healthy diet.  Since then, nutritionists have seen their diets discredited time and again, yet they continue to cling to the notion that ‘complexed carbohydrates’ and cereals are a necessary element in a healthy diet.

The discovery of cholesterol was heavily covered by the media.  It was a scoop meant to greatly alarm most people and it succeeded.  The ‘discovery’ was accompanied by the diet invented by the newly formed nutritionists, which promised to cure it.  The media was delerious and nutritionists, who do not require any science or medical qualifications, were suddenly entertained as celebrities.  Most folks who went on that diet just wanted to cure their cholesterol. Most did not even have a weight problem.

We tend to imagine that big mishaps connected to our health, like incorrect and hazardous diets simply cannot happen today.  It only goes to prove that it is not that difficult to get it wrong.  Shock is not enough. We have been taken aback by the raging obesity epidemic  It starts with each one of us. We must cease dieting. Just stop it and let’s get our family to do the same.  There truly is a simple way to do that and to attain a diet free weight loss.  Once you do you will never have to add up your calories again.

Kirsten Plotkin

Author of My own Plan

You probably wonder what I mean by diet free weight loss. I mean you will be free of having to diets again. I would not suggest to anyone that they should diet. I have learned the hard way that diets will never work long term.  You see, they can’t your own body will not allow it.  You need to understand the reasons for this so you can adapt your life to suit your own body, rather than a prevailing trend.

During the past five years, I have become an expert on diet free weight loss. I happened to discover the main cause for the epidemic of weight problems we see today. I now know that our body will always resist a diet that cuts down on your daily calories.  Your brain perceives an extended shortage of food as a famine. When that happens, it will signal your metabolism to respond, to slow down, and to store up on reserves. That means fat.

The more often you put your body through the ordeal of a diet, the more weight you will gain between dieting.  Dieting is a no win situation.  You will always land right back where you started, with more fat than when you began.  If we do not do something to turn this trend around, at least in our own family, there will be very few people left who are still slim.  This is not the way human beings were destined to end up.

If we do not act to start to make some changes to what we eat, our fate is only a matter of time. We will all become fat.  Sixty percent of us are already there.  If you gauge the frequency by which you see overweight people today, you will realize it is not going to take very long for the rest of us to get there.

The only way to achieve what I describe as a diet free weight loss is to never embark on a diet at all.  I have spent five years practicing what I preach and I am living proof that it works.  Think about it:  If it works for me it will work for you too. I am not unique.  In fact, for me to lose weight has been far more difficult than it would be for most people. You see, I have what is called a thyroid condition which causes my metabolism to slow to a crawl.

Although I am medicated, I am still much less likely to hold a long term weight loss than most people. Yet I have done it, persistently, using my diet free weight loss plan for more than five years. Clearly I must be doing something right.

So what led me to discover a diet free weight loss plan?  When I was in in my early 40′s, I was diagnosed as a borderline diabetic. That was a little scary and I set out to diligently follow the advice of my doctor.  I quickly agreed to consult a dietician to learn the correct diet to prevent full blown diabetes.

Till that time, I had never had a weight problem. Sure, I’d sometimes put on a couple of pounds over Christmas, but like everyone else, all I had to do was to cut out sweets and cakes for a couple of weeks to bring the weight back to normal.  Sadly, that would not work today, but in those days, it was easy to deprive myself of sweets because diet cravings were unheard of.

The diet prescribed by the dietician was deceptively simple.  I was to eat three serves of carbohydrates to each serve of protein.  It was my first diet and it turned my regular eating habits completely upside down.  You see, I was used to eating the way my parents and their parents had brought me up to eat, which had served me well for forty years without causing me a weight problem.

We tend to think that everything new and modern is somehow superior to the old.  I embraced this new diet and stuck to it fervently, for three to four years.  I finally had to accept that my health had not improved, my weight had gradually increased and I had developed a powerful craving for bread.  That’s when I went on a dieting binge. I embarked on every new diet that came along and promised me a weight loss.  By this time, all that mattered to me was to get back to the weight I had before the first diet.

With each diet, I followed the same routine. I would stick to the rules till I lost the weight. I would then return to a normal, quite modest diet.  Then slowly but surely the weight would start to creep back, always with an extra bonus. I also noticed that with each diet it became more difficult and took longer to lose weight than it did with the one before.

My discovery of a diet free weight loss happened almost six years ago.  My weight had reached eighty kilo’s. That was the heaviest I had ever been and it shocked me. I was desperate and I knew I was at a cross road. If I dieted again, I would end up even heavier. If I did not diet I would still end up heavier because my diet cravings were causing me almost continuous feelings of hunger.

Of course, there was always the third option. I could give up and accept my fate. That seemed the worst option of all.  So I decided to forget everything I had ever been told about what foods to eat and what to avoid. Instead I would trust myself, my considerable knowledge of history and my vast experience with just about every diet invented over a period of twenty years. Somehow I would find an acceptable answer to my weight problem.

It took a while, but what I discovered could be called an epiphany: A moment of complete clarity. In that instant I knew I had found the way to achieve a diet free weight loss, one that would become permanent.

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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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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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There seems to be a reluctance to face the growing problem of weight and obesity in the adult population today. But can we continue to ignore American obesity in children? We talk about more activity in the playground and healthier foods at the school cafeteria. But is not the real problem in the home?

I am sure all parents worry about the food they give their children.  They recognize that American obesity in children is caused first and foremost in the home and they do their best to follow the recommendations they get from experts like Nutritionists. The trouble is, those experts are not real experts and they are equipped with the wrong information.

Not a single diet…Ever, that has been promoted by Nutritionists, dieticians and diet guru’s has ever gone through genuine scientific research. No human trials have been conducted to test the validity of the claims. The diets are false and most of them are eventually unmasked as false. But there is always a newer and equally bad diet to take its place.

Bad diets, by pseudo experts have turned perfectly healthy people into victims of food addiction. Children eat what the adults eat. If mom is addicted, chances are the children are also addicted.

It is still possible to get back to where we were, but not until the right people get enough pressure from the everyday people to do something about it.  Until then, we each have to concentrate on fixing our own family.

It you are an overweight Parent of overweight children you should not blame yourself. Instead you should take action. Ignore the diets and make a few adjustments to the family menu. It will not involve calories and there are no restrictions on how much you eat, but you need to change some foods.

I know you find it difficult to think about, but that is your addiction influencing you. Letting go of an addiction is always hard. The hardest part is to acknowledge you have an addiction and decide to conquer it. Once it is gone, so are the cravings.  It is easy to follow a healthy food plan when you no longer constantly think about food. It is then you can look in the mirror and smile back. You will know your best reward will soon be there when you look at your children.

If you choose not to act, the children will grow up and be part of an even greater number of people with weight problems and obesity. By then, maybe the number will be three quarters or more. I dare not think how many children will be affected. If you really want to know where to lay the blame for this catastrophe, then let me tell you how it all began.

The late seventies was a time when a lot of wild theories were flying around, many became facts and were later discredited, but a few became dogma. Dogma is a difficult thing to combat.

Some myths have been exposed over the years, but at least one remains.  That is the notion that in order to be a healthy human being, you need to follow a well balanced diet, preferably one devised by a nutritionist or dietician.

If that was really true, humankind would not have survived for all the many eons till today.  Even with plagues and famines people survived.  We are almost indestructible. Had we not been healthy, most of that time, our specie would have become extinct. Instead, human beings thrived, mostly in good health, at least till the seventies.

That’s when Nutritionists found their market niche by pretending they had discovered cholesterol.  Suddenly they had a cure for everyone, including people who had never needed a diet.  They created the Pyramid diet. That’s the diet with more than two thirds carbohydrate. Since then there has been numerous other diets and theories. The one thing they all have in common is “They Don’t Work”.  People simply get fatter with each diet.

It seems the time has come for the chickens to come home to roost. We are threatened from without with climate change and economic voodoo. At the same time we are also threatened from within by the very food we are encouraged to eat.  We eat way more food than our body needs, it is more than our metabolism was meant to process.

In addition, we diet erratically. This confuses our brain which sends messages to our metabolism to start converting the carbohydrate to fat and store it for the famine. What does the body do in a famine? Instead of processing the carbohydrates you eat into glucose to give you energy to burn, it turns it into fat to be stored on your body.

And you wonder why you get fat when you finish a diet? A big step to overcoming an addiction is to acknowledge it exists. Once you do, the last thing you will want is pass it on to your children. Curing american obesity in children starts in your kitchen, therefore it starts with you.

Cure yourselves and you will cure your children.  The alternative is to force your children to face the same decision with your grandchildren and that may be too late.

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The Big Lie About Diets:

I am not sure precisely when I first wondered; when did america get so fat?  Like most people I was slow to notice. But unlike most people, I do remember when and how it began.

When self proclaimed experts try to create a truth out of false statements, all they have to do is repeat it often enough, to enough people to make it a fact. That is unless somebody speaks up and proves otherwise.  Sometimes, by then it can be too late.

If no one intervenes these same false statements move from facts to dogma.  Usually that means nobody dares to challenge it.  By that time, there is often no one left who can remember how the dogma came to be or, who started the myth in the first place.

The only thing that will expose false dogma is the courage to shine a bright light on it and demand the proof. Even then, that may not be enough. You see, such a challenge is usually up against overwhelming vested interests.

To give you an example: About eight years ago the CSIRO, the most respected science research facility in Australia, decided to do the first ever, serious, scientific study of diets and dieting.

Three years later, they published a paper which, amongst other things, made the excessive use of cereals and grains the reason why diets were making people fatter instead of slimmer. They said if you eat correctly, as people once did, by instinct, few people would need to diet. There was an immediate outcry of abuse from nutritionist.  It was supported by the cereal and diet food manufacturers.

The CSIRO retaliated by publishing their own diet book on how to get slim and to stay that way.  The nutritionists, who already had regular spots on TV and columns in newspapers, went on a massive publicity campaign to vilify the CSIRO and their evil, misguided results.  They claimed their own research proved that a healthy balance diet, as developed by their own research proved theirs was the only way for people to lose weight and become healthy.

It seems the CSIRO had finally had enough. A spokesman appeared to make a brief statement. I do not remember the words he used but it went something like this: We are a highly respected, scientific research facility. We have done three years intensive study on diets and dieting and our findings have been published in the appropriate journals.  If anyone has reason to dispute our findings and can show evidence, I suggest they publish their own findings.

This was a big reality check for nutritionists because they would have suddenly realized that the dogma on which they base their philosophy does not have a leg to stand on.  For thirty years, they have not had their diets put through a single scientific test nor has any diet ever been subjected to human trials. So the Nutritionists retreated and things calmed down.

At this point you may think that the public would prefer to accept the science instead of the hype, and that we had seen the last of the diet industry, but that is not how it went down.  Sure the entire diet industry was silenced for a while and the CSIRO sold a lot of books. But it didn’t take long for the diet industry to recover and regroup.

Nutritionists announced that they had been in intense study and had discovered that the true cause of the ever growing weight problems were due to fat. If you eat fat you get fat. To lose weight, all you have to do is to remove most of the fat from your diet. Fortunately they already had a diet ready for us.

It was a very seductive notion which made people throw away their old diet books for the new shiny fat free diet. Very soon, the carbohydrates were back to replace all that missing fat. The butchers trimmed their meat till it was almost tasteless and the diet food manufacturers launched a whole new range of fat free products.

The CSIRO did not bother to make an appearance to explain that the fat we eat is easily turned into glucose by the body and it is burned for energy, while carbohydrate has to be processed, with some difficulty, by our metabolism which tends to turn it into body fat.

I am sure you know the kind of fat I’m talking about? It sticks to your body and refuses to budge. That is to protect you against the famine. What famine you ask?  Each time you reduce your calorie intake for a diet your brain will alert your metabolism to guard against yet another famine.

Your brain does not know that you choose to deprive your body of food. It senses only a threat and it begins to convert all the carbohydrate you eat into body fat. That is precisely why diet do not work…Ever!

So next time you ask yourself when did america get so fat. Have another read of this article, or find even more information below.

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Just about everybody these days seem to be on a diet. Of course, nobody can stay on a diet forever.  Your health will suffer and the weight will still creep back on as soon as you stop the diet. I have been lucky to have had my own plan.  It has taught me why diets–do-not-work…Ever!

The moment you start a diet which requires you to lower your calories to below what your body accepts as normal, you have started down the road towards obesity. With each diet that follows, you get a little further down that road. Obesity is just a small step away from type2 diabetes and you definitely do not want to go there.  For five years, my own plan has kept my weight balanced.

Before that I was as guilty of dieting as anyone else.  I kept deluding myself that I could keep the weight off with the right mix of balanced food. In my defense, In the early eighties, I was referred to a dietician by a medical specialist because I had suddenly become 10 pounds overweight. He said I needed expert help.

Normally I could have taken care of that myself, without an aggressive diet. But these were new, modern times, in the beginning of the eighties, when a dietician was a new kind of expert who could help us learn the right foods to eat and how to regulate our weight correctly.

So I was put on my very first diet ever. It was the two third carbohydrate diet also known as the Pyramid. It was the very latest in food technology. Like millions of other people, I never lost a pound.  Instead I gradually realized, with horror, that I had become addicted to bread.

I have learned that when you deprive your body of food, by dieting, your brain sends a message to your metabolism to slow down your energy and begin to prepare for famine. That is so it can turn all the carbohydrates you eat into fat to be stored on your body, and used only to sustain you through the famine. That is why, the moment you stop dieting, the weight is back so quickly. It is all about preservation, your preservation. Your body is never going to know that you cause the famines yourself.

There is an even more unwelcomed dimension to this problem.  You see, between your diets, as your body begins to put the weight back on, your metabolism will begin to adjust what it accepts as your normal weight.  After a diet this will be a higher weight than previously because your unpredictable food shortages have alerted your brain to the likely threat of future famine.

Now when you diet again, you will not be satisfied with the new normal. You will want your weight back down to what it used to be. That will require a much more strenuous effort than ever before.  Even after such an incredible effort, you will still put the weight back on and you will still get that extra bonus weight that comes after each diet. In addition, there is a good chance that after such a prolonged period of dieting, your metabolism will be forced to raise the bar again with a further adjustment to your ‘normal’ weight.

Do you begin to see that if you keep dieting, obesity is inevitable?  Once you understand that, you will realize how important it is to step in with the right method to reverse this horrible cycle of endless failed diets. Personally, I was close to giving up when I decided to go my own way. I decided to trust myself. I forgot what the ‘experts’ had to say. I had met several of them and I knew they were not that smart.

So I did my own research. I then drew on my own knowledge and experience and I found my solution. What I developed is not like anyone else’s idea of a diet, in fact it is a ‘no diet’ diet and I have called it my own plan.

I do not count calories I eat as much as I want. I never feel bloated and my weight has not varied in five years. What you may also like to hear is that during the same period, I have been more energetic than ever before.

I have this great wish that everyone who has a weight problem will get the facts and take the right steps. Start by vowing never to reduce your calories below what is normal to your body.  Then learn from my own plan, how a small change in lifestyle will reset your metabolism, stop your food cravings. It will get your weight back to what it should be.

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Kirsten Plotkin Author

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.