Well, it’s that time of the year again – time to make and attempt to stick to New Year’s Resolutions. It goes without saying that we overindulge at the Thanksgiving and Christmas periods, and we permit ourselves to eat and drink way more than we even imagined was possible. Now the party is over, and you’ve made for yourself this resolution. You want to lose weight, and you want to lose weight fast!
So what do you do? Where do you start? To lose weight fast takes only one thing – the will to do it.
If you have the will, I’m going to give you a big helping hand right now that will help you not only lose weight, but keep it off and maintain your ideal body weight indefinitely.
I would like to give you free of charge, the first chapter of my book How to Lose Weight Fast with No More Diets!
So let’s get started!
The author of this e-book is not a licensed practitioner of medicine; therefore, the techniques, ideas, and opinions here are not intended as a substitute for proper medical advice. The information provided here is solely for informational purposes. If medical advice or other professional assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought.
I would like to congratulate you on your purchase of this e-book. I’m happy for you that you did because it tells me that you’re ready to make some changes in your life that will dramatically affect your health in such a positive way.
As you read this e-book , you’ll need to have a pen and notepad ready, because you’ll be writing down some things later. So please go and get something you can write with so you’ll be prepared.
First of all, I’d just like to give you a little background about myself. I was an overweight kid all through school, and was overweight until I was about 20 years old. I lost a lot of weight then through dieting, but gradually I’d put it back on and wind up overweight again, and for the next 10 or 12 years I struggled with my weight, going from starving to bingeing, losing and gaining weight, and pretty much being at the mercy of my cravings for the foods I loved. I had sort of resigned myself to the fact that that was always the way it would be. I thought I was just doomed to be overweight forever.
But I’ve spent the last 6 or 7 years reading lots of books on diet and optimum health. I’ve tried so many different diets in that time I’ve just lost count at this point. And none of them ever worked long-term. Now I’m not saying that the diets themselves were ineffective – I mean some of them were really healthy eating plans, but I didn’t stick to them. Why? I wanted to know the answer to that question – why wasn’t any of this working for me?
And I believe I’ve finally found the answer. The answer is psychology. What am I talking about? I’m talking about a mindset. I’m talking about how you mentally approach losing weight. I believe all diets will eventually fail simply by virtue of what they are – a diet. I mean, listen to that word – DIET. It sounds awful. It’s DIE with a T on the end! But on a more serious note, I’m talking about all the negative connotations that we as individuals have in our minds when we hear that word.
I mean what do you think about when you hear that word? DIET. If you’re like most people, you think of being hungry all the time, giving up all your favorite foods, eating foods you’d rather not eat – things that don’t taste as good to you as chocolate does. Your brain feels as though you’ll be denying yourself on a diet. It doesn’t like that idea. That’s why often times we’ll binge right before and certainly when we come off a diet. This process doesn’t work! It’s like giving up smoking for 6 months and then rewarding yourself with a pack of cigarettes! I mean, you wouldn’t do that, would you?
Well, you know, people do it all the time – not consciously, but on a subconscious level. There’s a gap where you’ve been denying yourself, and your brain wants to fill that gap. And when you come off that diet, it’s going to fill it with your favorite food! It’s happened to me I don’t know how many times. It’s probably happened to you too.
For any healthy eating plan to work long-term, it needs to become a new lifestyle that you’re going to adopt for the rest of your life, not just for 6 weeks or 6 months. That’s what No More Diets! is all about.
I’ve found over the course of years of dieting that long-term willpower doesn’t work – it’s just not effective. If you set it up in your mind so that you continually, consciously or subconsciously believe that you’re denying yourself something you love, you’re going to fail. So the first thing I want you to understand about what you’ll be learning in this e-book is that it is not really a DIET at all. Instead, it’s a long-term healthy attitude toward food. And boy does it work!
Okay, so how do we stop this problem of dieting and bingeing, how do we solve it once and for all? The answer is that we start learning how to use this wonderful computer we have between our ears called our brain. That’s what I’m going to teach you in this e-book . You’re going to learn how you can master your cravings and take control.
Okay, now if you think about it for a moment, what’s the point where a diet fails? You’re on a diet, maybe the Atkins diet, maybe some of you have tried this diet. You’re not allowed to have any sugar on this diet, none at all. If you have any sugar, the diet stops working. Say you’re 3 or 4 days into it, and it’s Saturday night. Maybe you always have a nice dessert after your dinner on Saturday evening. You’ve had your dinner, and now you want something sweet – more than anything else. I mean it’s just driving you crazy – you’ve just GOT to have something sweet! You’re climbing the walls and then something just snaps inside you. This has happened to me so often. And I would just say, “Oh what difference does it make, I’ll have my dessert.” And then you go off and you have it. If you’re on the Atkins diet, you’ve ruined your diet for a few days, and you’ve undone everything you did on the first few days.
But what’s even more critical is that moment when you gave in. That moment when you just had to have the dessert. That moment when your cravings mastered you instead of the other way around. That’s the moment when any diet fails, or rather when you fail the diet.
That moment is when you’ve reached the point in your mind when you’ve given into your urge for whatever it is. That’s what keeps you hooked, that urge, that craving that you can’t control. But why does it happen?
Why do you eat a candy bar, or smoke a cigarette or drink a drink? There’s only one reason – because that thing, whatever it is, chocolate, cigarettes or alcohol, it changes the way you feel inside. You get that fleeting burst of pleasure from the chocolate, or it gives you that momentary feel-good factor when you’re down. It’s just the same with cigarettes. You get stressed out, a cigarette calms you down. You may get stressed in your job when you have to talk on the phone. I know this was a problem for me in a job I used to have. If I had to get on the phone, I’d reach for a cigarette. Pretty soon I found myself reaching for a cigarette out of habit or conditioning EVERY time I talked on the phone. And it didn’t matter who I was talking to – I didn’t even have to be at work.
And it’s the same with alcohol. You’ve had a rough day at work, you relax at home in the evening with a few drinks. After a few years, you find yourself drinking every night out of habit or conditioning, and this is where the danger is. It’s insidious – you don’t see it creeping up on you until one day you realise that you’ve got a problem.
The bottom line is with all these pleasures, distractions, vices, call them whatever you want, and the same goes for hard drugs – you take it to change the way you feel inside. It makes you feel better, so you take it. You don’t think about the long-term consequences; the liver disease, heart disease or cancer 20 or 30 years down the road. That’s nowhere near as real to you as the immediate pleasure you’ll get from having the thing right now. That’s why people take cocaine and heroin despite the fact that it ruins their lives.
And I want to tell you right now – you might not like to hear it, but it’s true – if you’re drinking every night, if you’re smoking every day, if you’re eating junk foods every day, you’re slowly committing suicide. That’s not a judgment of people who do these things, it’s a fact. And I’ve been guilty of all that stuff myself in the past. But I’ve turned it all around, and the great news is that you can too – you can be cured of these destructive habits easily and relatively quickly.
I remember I went to my doctor for a checkup when I was about 19. He asked me if I was a smoker, which I was at the time. So I said yes, and he just kind of smiled at me and told me that I wouldn’t have to worry about it for another 20 years or so, but then I would most likely have a problem. I didn’t care though. I was 19. What did I care what was coming in 20 years? The point is this: the long-term consequences he was mentioning to me were not real enough to me to make me even consider quitting.
I used to be a person who did all these things I’ve been talking about. I was a fairly heavy smoker, and a big over-eater. And I cured myself of these things using the techniques I’m going to teach you in this e-book.
Now I want you to understand that you won’t lose a ton of weight overnight. You didn’t gain all the excess weight you have now in a short period of time; so it’s not just going to drop off in a week or so. Sustained weight loss takes time. The good news is that the techniques you’ll be learning can be integrated into your life pretty quickly, and they’ll give you everything you need to keep on the straight and narrow long-term.
What these techniques do is they make the future consequences of your actions far more real to you. I have a few interesting ways to do this. They’re extremely powerful, simple and effective.
The first thing I’d like you to understand is that everything you do, and I mean every action that you take, every decision you make, you do for one of two reasons: you’re either trying to avoid pain or gain pleasure. This is something called the pain/pleasure principle, and it’s part of our inbuilt survival mechanism. Your mind makes decisions based on how it perceives in the moment how you might get away from pain or move towards pleasure. It’s very simple. The worst thing about this principle is that if you don’t know about it and understand it, it rules your life, and you don’t even have a clue. The great news though is that if you’re aware of it and understand it, you can make really effective use of it.
You’ve been trying for years to lose weight. You try this, that and the other diet; you lose weight, maybe even reach your target weight. Then you go off the diet, go back to your old habits and gain all the weight back again and then some. This is how the cycle works, and anyone with a weight problem will know exactly what I’m talking about because you’ve been there. I’ve been there myself. Your old habits take control of you again and you’re back to where you started from – maybe even slightly heavier than you were before.
Why can’t you control those cravings?
