The Easy Diet - My Weight Loss Story

Why do you think people are attracted to popular fad diets, such as the "Cabbage Soup Diet," "The Hollywood Diet" or an "easy" zero-carb 7 or 10 Day Diet?

The reason is quite obvious when you think about it.  

Fast faddy-type diets often work. Everyone knows of at least one person who has lost weight on an easy fad diet.

Also everyone who has a weight problem knows that following conventional diet advice such as "Eat smaller portions, Eat low-fat, Eat Less calories"...

Just simply doesn't work.

You've tried it. I tried it.

It doesn't work. Period. 

But you have probably also tried fad type diets that work for a while - maybe a week or two... and then they too just seem to stop working. Everyone has run into the "plateau"...and few seem to manage to get off it, so we just give up.

I'm Debbie, and I'd like to talk about what I discovered about losing weight on my journey. As you read on, you'll probably find my story and your own to be somewhat similar.

After years of being obese and messing around with fad diets, I have finally gone from being very obese to healthy. I did this without an exercise routine and without going hungry. 

I was extremely overweight and I have not finished my weight loss journey, but every week I continue to lose between 3 and 5 lbs.

There is quite a lot of information for you read here, but you are not going to regret continuing, as what I am going to tell you about is the solution you need to become slim and healthy.

However I do want to tell you where I was at, because I think it is important in the event you are thinking you are too far gone.

My Prior Health Situation

I was pretty far gone too. I was 220 pounds. I had a huge overhanging belly. I was only 32 but had dreadful joint pains. My health in general sucked. There is no other word to describe it. I was a fat, unhealthy mess.

I couldn't do a low-carb diet because my doctor said I had a fatty liver, and a low-carb diet would worsen the condition. She couldn't give me any solutions - she just told me eliminating carbs and eating fatty foods wouldn't do my liver any favors, and to eat less. The problem was I wasn't really eating that much to start with.

I had wanted to try a low-carb diet such as the Atkins diet because I had a few friends who said it was the best diet plan and that it worked. However, it seemed after a time they too were failing - lots of weight loss plans seem to work at first. 

Calorie Counting Misery

I had to do something so in desperation I started a calorie counting diet. But, I was miserable. I was always feeling hungry and weak. I had chest pains and my blood sugars levels seemed to be fluctuating wildly because I was desperately craving sweets. I also had a permanant headache.

Lots of dieters have been there. Starvation diets might work for awhile, but they are hell.

Exercising works a little too, but for me it was not fun - it's no wonder when you think how heavy I was. After months of misery, I got down to 205 pounds. I couldn't see much difference. I did feel a bit lighter - but I also felt very ill.

I realized calorie counting was not the solution so I began researching all I could about weight loss.

There was so much conflicting information ... or so it appeared at the time.

Some said "Low Fat" was the ideal way to go. Because a gram of fat has nine calories whereas a gram of protein or carbohydrates has only four calories.

Some said "Low Protein" was better. Western civilizations eat too much protein ,they claimed. Our diets were meant to be mostly vegetarian with only a few ounces of protein needed.

Some said "Low Carb" was the way to go. The Atkins plan is one of these diets. I knew people it had worked for... at least for the first few weeks.

Others stated we had 20-60 lbs of mucous plaque in our colons and we needed to clean the colon to get rid of it and then we could lose weight regardless of what we ate.

Others said that we had killed all off fhe good bacteria in the colon by using antibiotics and over the counter medications and that was why we were fat.

Some claimed obesity is caused  by the poisons in the environment and food that we eat. They said our bodies were helping to protect us from these poisons by surrounding them in fat and storing them as fat cells in our bodies.

Some talked about eating organic food. Others about the evils of pasteurized and homogenized dairy products.

Some talked about yeast infections. Or about hormone imbalances caused by injecting the meat supply with hormones.

Others talked about leptin and insulin resistance. Others recommended fasting.

The amount of information out there is truly mindblowing...and there is probably truth in most of it, but I did not know what way to turn.

I was unemployed at the time, and was able to devote many hours a day for weeks reading it all. I still do, in fact, although I have now began to work as a receptionist - in a men's health club of all places!

Now that I can fit a lot of the pieces of the puzzle together, it no longer seems quite so overwhelming.

I want to help you get to that point immediately, without you having to spend hours a day for months or years reading about all of the different theories out there and sorting through what is true and what is chaff.

What I Discovered

Somewhere down the line, I came across some information that lit a little light bulb in my head. It was an article on a health website, written by a doctor, and it could have been written for me personally.  It described my dieting problems to a tee. This doctor seemed to understand that some of us fatties have worked our butts off to try to lose weight, the problem does not stem from us being lazy. The doctor said he had encountered many patients who had tried and failed to lose weight - some only needed to lose 10 lbs, there but they couldn't do it either.

After giving birth, his wife also found her weight ballooned and inspite following the usual advice given by nutritionists she could not not shift the pounds. This led Dr. Allen to perform extensive research into the obesity problem until he found a solution that worked for his patients and his wife.

Forty Pounds Down and Counting!

I used the methods Dr. Allen recommends and have lost almost 40 pounds. I am not yet at my ideal weight, but continue to lose steadily. I restored my ideal blood pressure, I no longer get chest pains and my blood sugar levels seem to be very steady, as I never crave sweet foods or experience energy crashes. My last liver test came back as completely normal.

After those first miserable weeks on my low-calorie diet, when I forced myself to try to exercise, I have never exercised for weight loss again. However, I am far more active now, and because I find moving much easier, I walk because I actually get pleasure out of it.

Since starting the new plan, I have never went hungry. You do NOT need to ever be hungry when using Dr. Allen's weight loss method. As long as stick to the three easy rules, you can eat as much as you want.

Additionally, there is no food that is completely banned. Knowing what I know now, I will never ever ban myself from eating a particular type of food again.

If I am at a restaurant and chocolate eclairs are on the menu, I will have some.

I know know it's nonense trying to kid myself that I can stop eating a food for the rest of my life. It isn't going to work.

Neither does "eating less" work.

In reflection, the advice given to me by my own doctor to "eat less" was pretty daft. Even when I was at my fattest, I did not eat more than my slim friends. Besides, eating is necessary for survival just like breathing or going to the bathroom.

Can you imagine if a doctor told you to breathe less? You would laugh.

How about if a doctor told you to go to the bathroom less? Same thing.

But how many people nod in agreement when a doctor tells them that to lose weight they need to eat less. I know I did - I sat there like a huge big lemon feeling acute embarrassment and shame.

But it is stupid. It's possible. At least for a while. Like it's possible to hold your breath or to hold your urine when you need to go.

But everyone knows that if you have held your breath for awhile... you are then going to have to let it out and then take a bunch of very deep breaths to make up for the lack of oxygen.

The same goes for holding your urine. You can hold it in for awhile, but you finally have to go... and you are going to go far more than if you hadn't held it in.

In the end, you breathe just as much when you hold your breath as when you don't. In the end, you will urinate just as much if you hold it as when you don't.

They are basic bodily functions. That's just the way it is.

The same goes for eating. You can abstain from eating for a time, but eventually, you will have to binge. Your body will think you are starving and will force you to permanantly think of food until you feed it.

In addition, it will go into action to protect itself in case you begin to starve again. It will store fat for the next time.

Is that what you want?

Of course it isn't.

So forget about eating less. Forget about starving yourself. Forget about your promises to never ever eat cake or cookies ever again in your life.  I now know as long as the main part of my diet consists of  the "right foods" I can maintain weight loss.

Take Action Today

I was in the same boat as you. And the people telling me to eat less or exercise more didn't really have a clue. It didn't work for me, and it won't work for you.

I hope you too want to discover how so far I have lost 40 pounds and regained good health without starving and without madly trying to exercise.

Are you ready for that?

Good. To get started, click on the link below and watch the presentation by Dr. Allen.

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