I Can Make You Thin

Paul McKenna, PhD, is described as the “Dr. Phil” of the United Kingdom. He is the UK’s best-selling non-fiction author, having sold three million books in the last three years. He has worked with Hollywood movie stars, Olympic gold medalists, rock stars, top business leaders, and royalty. The Times of London recently named McKenna one of the world’s most important modern self-help gurus. For years, McKenna has helped millions of people successfully quit smoking, lose weight, overcome insomnia, eliminate stress, and increase self-confidence.

In the spring of 2008, he had a hit TV series on TLC called I Can Make You Thin. This unique interactive program has already been a massive success in the UK and McKenna’s system has changed the way millions of people lose weight in Europe. Now he’s coming to America!

# 76 pages
# Publisher: Sterling; Book and CD edition (December 30, 2008)

At the risk of making this book seem too simple, here are Paul McKenna’s 4 golden rules…

1. When you are hungry, eat.
2. Eat what you want (not what you think you “should”.)
3. Eat consciously and enjoy every mouthful.
4. When you are full stop.

Review comments:

“Most people can go the book & CD, discover the Aha moments, and get started on transforming their relationship with food and their weight straight away.”

“I have lost 60 pounds since mid-July using this system. I can’t say it’s always been easy; changing habits of a lifetime never is. I CAN say I’ve never felt deprived, starved or desperate like I have on diets. I’m a “real” mom who doesn’t have anything to gain or lose by recommending this product. It works.”

“Hypnotist Paul McKenna uses neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to teach readers how to slowly become thin using the power of the mind. The author purports that people become overweight because they eat when they are not hungry and continue to eat when they are full. Interestingly many of us were forced to eat all the food on our plates before we could leave the table or eat dessert, so this notion of stopping eating with food on your plate must be unlearned. (Personally, I believe pushing back from the table is more difficult than not taking the first bite.)”

“Rule #3 is hard. It says: when you eat, do nothing else but eat. I’m used to eating at the computer, in front of the t.v. and while I’m on the phone. BUT if YOU follow his rules to the letter, YOU WILL LOSE THE WEIGHT.”

“This book is for the emotional eater. I love how Paul McKenna explains that the only reason people aren’t skinny is because they eat when they are not hungry and they keep eating even though they are full. Its amazing how some of these habits were never taught to me. I was taught to eat everything on my plate even though I was full. And that is where my weight gain started. Its like everything in the book is the common sense that no one ever taught you, and people are puzzled as to why they are overweight. This book will teach you everything. It is really easy to read and I read it in about 2 hours.

What really helped though was listening to the CD every day. His hypnosis CD really works… I have been looking for ways to change my habits for years but this really gets to you on a subconcious level. Its not dangerous at all. In fact, its life changing for the better. I have been reading about dieting for years and nothing has worked except for this. It brings your self esteem up, changes your eating habits and cravings, and really helps you loose weight.

This book has really changed my life and I’m so happy that I have found it. If you do the CD everyday after reading the whole book, you’ll know what I mean.”

If you want to turn to hypnosis for weight loss and can’t spend a lot of money, consider giving I Can Make You Thin a try today.

By Michelle Dixon

You may have decided that using a diet meal replacement plan or diet food plan would be the easiest way for you to lose weight. However, there are so many plans available; you may not know which program would work the best for you. In this article I will compare two very popular diet food, meal replacement plans Nutrisystem and MediFast. These diet plans may seem similar, although once you read about each plan, you will find they are very different.

Nutrisystem Overview:

Nutrisystem offers prepackaged, pre-portioned diet meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks. You are advised to add fresh vegetables, fruits, salads to lunch, and dinner meals. The meals are low calorie, yet nutritionally sound with the added fresh fruit and vegetables. The diet meals are based on low glycemic, good carbs, with the right amount of protein and fiber that your body needs for increased fat and calorie burning.

The Nutrisystem program also offers a free weight loss community website where you can get free diet counseling, weight loss tips and community support in your weight loss endeavors.

Nutrisystem advises if you eat their prepackaged diet meals and follow their plan, you can potentially lose 1 to 3 pounds a week.

MediFast Overview:

MediFast offers prepackaged diet meal replacement foods including shakes, soups, bars, pudding, drinks and cereals. Their name basically sums up how their plan works; you are “fasting” most of the day. Their most popular program is the 5 and 1 diet program where you eat 5 MediFast meals a day and 1 low calorie, low fat meal you cook and prepare yourself. Their plan is designed to be calorie deficient (between 800 – 1000 calories a day), thereby allowing your body to use fat for energy.

MediFast also offers a free weight loss community website where you can get diet support, weight loss tips, diet recipes and more.

MediFast advises if you follow their 5 in 1 diet program and use their diet meal replacements you can potentially lose up to 20 pounds in a month.

The Cost:

Nutrisystem costs about $11 a day, $77 a week and $308 a month plus shipping, although if you choose their auto-ship program, you will get a discount and a free week of diet meals and free shipping.

MediFast costs about $10 a day, $70 a week or $275 a month if you order one of their 4-week variety packages.

Both Nutrisystem and MediFast offer a money back guarantee minus shipping if you choose to return unopened packages of the diet meals within 30 days.

The Difficulty:

Nutrisystem: Using the Nutrisystem diet meals for weight loss should be an easy transition since you will be eating regular meals and snacks. You may find the calorie reduction in the meals leave you hungry or not satisfied. The convenience of the prepackaged, very little preparation of the diet meals should make the program easier to follow. Staying on the diet for a long term may become difficult because of the lower calorie intake makes you feel unsatisfied. The taste of the foods (which will be discussed next) may also be hard to enjoy.

MediFast: Transitioning to the MediFast meal replacement plan may be difficult at first since you will be replacing most of your meals with a meal replacement shake, soup or bar. Sometimes a drastic change in your eating habits can be a bonus because it may give you a greater feeling of dieting control. Staying on the diet for a long term may be very difficult because of the monotony of replacing 5 meals a day with the MediFast foods and the taste of the foods.

The Taste:

Nutrisystem: There are reports and reviews throughout the internet regarding the taste of Nutrisystem’s diet meals. Some people rave about the taste (although these “raves” may be biased if the person is promoting the program), and many people absolutely hate the taste of the diet meals. On average, many Nutrisystem dieters report they have favorite diet meals, while some suffer through the taste of the meals because of the convenience of the program and the weight loss achieved. Recently, Nutrisystem listened to their customers and introduced many new “better tasting” diet meals that may be more palatable.

MediFast: There are also mixed reviews on the taste of MediFast meal replacements. On average, many MediFast dieters report that the tastes of the meal replacement foods are “okay,” not overly tasty, yet good enough to stay on the diet program to achieve weight loss goals.

Conclusion:

Nutrisystem diet meal plan is a convenient, diet food program that offers a membership site with diet counseling and diet tips. The transition to using their diet foods should not be too difficult since it is recommended to eat 5 diet meals a day supplemented with fresh fruit and vegetables. Since the diet meals should be less calories than you normally eat, and designed to increase your body’s ability to burn fat, you can expect to lose 1 to 3 pounds a week. The diet plan may work best for people who may need a support group for weight loss, yet are too busy to shop for and prepare diet meals, and don’t have time to continually analyze food calories and fat grams.

MediFast diet meal replacement program is also a convenient weight loss program that offers a community forum, diet support and tips. The transition to using their diet meal replacements 5 times a day may be difficult. Yet, it may also help many dieters resolve to stay on the diet plan since the results may be realized fast with up to 20 pounds lost in the first month. The diet program may work best for people who need to lose a significant amount of weight. In addition, it can also work well for those who desire convenient meal replacements, yet also wish to prepare a fresh meal once a day.

Have you noticed how much fatter people have gotten since more “weight loss” and “diet” foods have been put out on the market? Well, I assure you it’s no coincidence. Processed Foods can truly be considered “Non Foods” since they resemble more of a science experiment than they do real food.

1.To make differentiating between healthy natural food vs. non foods, just stay away from anything that contains ingredients on a label that you can’t pronounce. If the ingredients list to your favourite cereal is more complicated than your college organic chemistry final, chances are you should stay away from it at all costs. These chemicals are all toxins to your body (just as artificial sweeteners are) and your liver becomes extremely overwhelmed trying to rid your body of these harmful toxins. Why is this important in your efforts to lose fat? Well, the other job of your liver is to burn body fat and if it is too busy ridding you of toxic overload, it has no time (or energy) to get rid of your unwanted fat.

2.Are you Training for Sumo Wrestling? Sumo wrestlers make a concerted effort to get fat for their sport. So if your number one goal was to GET FAT this is exactly what you could do: – Skip breakfast and eat very little all day long – Eat the bulk of your caloric intake in a large heavy meal, filled with complex carbohydrates in the evening – Go to bed after eating this heavy meal. That’s it. This strategy has been working for sumo wrestlers for years. And you know who else it is working for? The 130 million people who are overweight or obese. You must develop the habit of eating frequent meals all day long to develop the kind of warp speed metabolism that is going to allow you to get lean and stay lean (no sense in getting there without being able to maintain it right?) Eat 5-7 well portioned meals each day and you will see your body burn fat faster than you can say “sumo wrestler.”

3. Shriveling up like a prune If you often feel like you are starving all day no matter how much food you’ve consumed, chances are you may be severely dehydrated. Many people actually mistake hunger for dehydration and eat tons more calories than they actually need when all they really needed to do was drink some water! It would be impossible to pick up any diet or weight loss book without it saying somewhere “drink 8-10 cups of water each day.” Even if all health and nutrition gurus don’t agree on all the same principles, they do all agree on one: water is the magic potion to ensure weight loss. When you consider that water helps the body metabolize stored fat, rid the body of waste (as in unwanted fat and toxins), and is a natural diuretic and a natural laxative, no wonder it is an absolute MUST when fat loss is your goal. Drink a minimum of ½ of your bodyweight in ounces of filtered water each day to ensure that your body rids itself of the unwanted fat you are aiming to lose.

4.If you still think that going on the next crash diet is the only way to lose weight than I have some bad news for you: You have a long life of Yo-Yo dieting ahead of you. The only way to reach your ideal weight and stay there is to develop a healthy way of eating that you enjoy and that you can maintain (key word is Maintain!) No unrealistic and unhealthy diet scheme is ever going to get you looking and feeling the way you have been wanting to look and feel for so long. So, if a long life with a lean, healthy and vibrant body is what you are looking for, commit yourself right now to learning exactly how this is possible for you for the long term.

Commit to changing all of the above items and finally take control of your health and your weight once and for all.

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About the Author

I am here to share with you a Secret which I discovered for my self recently. If you ever tried a diet in your lifetime, then you know for sure how difficult to loose weight and how easy to gain it back very quickly. I am one of those thousands women, who tried all possible diets, but never got to the bottom of the problem. Until now, I realized that there is a simple solution – diet is a life style and not just cutting on cakes and sweets. http://lostweightfast.net/

If you watch Oprah Winfrey you may have caught the shows where she talks about how her personal trainer Bob Greenechanged her life and helped her to overcome the yo-yo weight problems she had between diets. She managed to lose a lot of weight but could never keep it off consistently – until she tried it Bob’s way.

Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet program consists of three-phases, that you proceed through at your own pace. It introduces gradual changes to the diet – his book even list’s a typical week of Oprah’s eating regime – then “each phase gradually leads you to an increasingly healthy and slimming diet and encourages you to increase physical activity.”

In each phase, you’ll be asked to reexamine the decisions you make on a daily basis and gradually alter your habits to achieve lasting results. The book also includes easy-to-follow meal plans that make it simple to meet your daily energy and nutrient requirements, whether you are on the run and breakfast means a quick smoothie or you have time to shop for fresh produce and make something special.

When most of us find ourselves eating poorly, or eating in excess, or not exercising consistently, it is because of what is going on in our head, and not in our bodies. Stress and life factors are the reason most of us over eat and gain weight. Bob’s approach is to get you to do a life makeover – not just a diet makeover.

For example:

• Bob Greene explains why what you eat and don’t eat for breakfast can impact the rest of your day as well as your total body weight.
• Why you should give yourself at least 30 minutes a day for exercise and cut out the “white stuff.” Like Bob says, do this and you will see an amazing change in your body shape.
• This is an interactive program tailored to your lifestyle, your caloric needs, and your exercise pace – because everyone is unique.

How much does the Bob Green Best Life Diet program cost?

The Best Life Diet is a subscription diet based on his new book. Subscribers have access to meal plans, workouts, videos, articles, a message board, and more.

Here’s the best part: The Best Life Diet program is one of the most affordable diet membership plans on the market costing less than $4.50 per week for a 3-month subscription plan. You have 10 days to try Bob Greene’s Best Life and if you’re not satisfied for any reason, you can cancel and get a full refund.

Bob Greene Diet and Life Books

Additionally, the information he offers is in his books which can be ordered at his official website, or are available at amazon.com (new and used copies):

The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health

Diets don’t work – not in the long term. This is why it’s easy to get burned out with weight loss. When you’ve been on many diets, you hesitate about starting yet another diet which leads to disappointment.

The Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet is different, because it gives you five keys to a healthy weight loss, and it will be the last diet you never need. You’ll discover that you can eat all you want without putting on weight.

Here are the keys:

1. You Can Eat The Foods You Love

Most diets are restrictive. You spend a lot of time thinking and dreaming about what you can’t eat. Then of course as soon as the diet is over, you eat again – and slowly the weight comes back.  Unfortunately, you tend to put on more weight than you lost, so each diet leaves you worse off than before.

The Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet doesn’t restrict your foods – it switches the foods you eat around, so that your body can’t go into calorie-conserving mode. This means that you can not only eat the foods you love on the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet, but you can also eat more of them.

2. You’re Never Hungry

The Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet shifts your calories. Yes, this sounds weird, and I was skeptical too, but it works. When you shift calories you’re eating a lot more than you usually would, but you’re still on the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet – and you’re never hungry.

3. You Can Eat Carbs

If you’ve ever been on a low-carb diet, you know the feeling of absolutely craving a slice of bread. You’re starved for carbs, and this is especially evident when you’re having a busy day. When you’re using up a lot of energy, your body craves more energy, and carbohydrates are the best source of fast fuel and energy for your body. On the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet, you’re never starved of carbs, so you have energy to burn. (Hint: it’s that energy which burns the fat.)

4. You Can Eat Out

Diets which make it impossible for you to join your family and friends for a meal at a restaurant are cruel. You can eat out whenever you please with the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet.

5. You Get All The Vitamins And Minerals You Need

When you eat highly-processed food, you need to eat a lot to get all the nutrients you need. The Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet ensures that you get your vitamin and mineral needs met. This means that you’ll feel great, as the fat melts away.

You can lose almost a pound a day on the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet – it sounds incredible, but this is one diet which is great for your looks, your vitality, and your health.

For more information, visit the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet Official website

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Diet-to-Go has discovered an important strategy of success that is missing from most weight loss plans. Let someone else prepare meals for you, and the food should taste as good as or better than anything you are eating now.

It’s a proven strategy that has worked for thousands of others. It will work for you, too! It’s easy, it’s delicious …it’s like having your own Personal Chef.

These are freshly prepared, delicious, and nutritionally balanced meals.

With Diet To Go there is no portioning, rationing, counting calories or carbohydrates. We build the perfect meal plan customized for you. You just enjoy the food prepared for you by your personal chef.

Unlike other diets that require expensive supplements or foods. Diet to Go provides all your food delivered right to your door. Even if you are vegetarian, diabetic or food allergic. Just mention your specific needs and the dietarians will prepare your plan according to your personality. Since the foods are following the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association and American Dietetic Association, practically everyone can use their service without any restrictions.

You will save money on expensive consultations and time by reading boring books and watching videos. The dieticians’ team has over 14 years experience in helping people with overweight and eating problems. You can ask them all your questions and you will get fast response. The Diet-To-Go foods are cost effective. On average eating plans you will spend $60-$75 weekly.

The Diets-to-go Weight Loss Way

It’s a proven strategy that has worked for thousands of others. It’s easy, it’s delicious … and you get your own Personal Chef! The difference of Diet To Go from other programs is that they strive to make the food look and taste better than another other diet program’s food you may have tried.

You can chose from plans that are:

• low fat
• low carb
• vegetarian

The strategy is the make sure our food tastes as good or better than anything you are already eating. It’s a proven strategy that has worked for thousands of our clients, and it will work for you, too! Select your favorite foods online, at a time that’s convenient for you. The food is delivered to your door. It’s an ideal low cost and safe way to lose weight.

It’s Easy to Get Started

Still not convinced? Here’s the no-risk catch: You can get started today with a free dinner! Enjoy delicious low carb food without the hassle. We’ll cook the food, you’ll lose the weight. Find out how

Diet To Go has served over 385,000 meals since 1995 to thousands of happy consumers. Give the plan a try and you’ll see how easy it is to change your eating habits.

It’s Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™. That’s right – it’s a cookie diet! You eat cookies, and almost nothing else but cookies, all day long.

All cookies, all the time. Can you really lose weight on this seemingly “fad” diet? The answer is YES!

Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet was created by pioneering diet doctor and author Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., medical director of Siegal Medical Group which operates several South Florida weight loss clinics. The special cookies are high in protein and contain a proprietary blend of amino acids, natural food proteins that suppress hunger.

Actually, you do eat one meal at day – at dinner. Otherwise, the plan is to eat six special cookies throughout the day, and 6 ounces of lean meat and a cup of vegetables for dinner. Daily calorie count: 800 calories.

“It’s a cookie, but it’s a very special cookie. The hunger-suppressing effect is really created by the protein in the cookie,” Siegal told NBC San Diego in an interview in 2003. “Someone who is totally compliant, does everything we tell them to do, and follows an 800-calorie diet, will lose about 15 pounds per month.”

Just the basics

Similiar to the other high-protein, low calorie plans such as Nutrisystem, Optifast and Medifast, the basics behind Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet are to cut back on calories below the daily requirement. Calorie deficit = weight loss. When you eat foods with low sugar content, high fiber, high protein, but low calories and fats, will keep your engine running throughout the day without the “sugar spikes” that junk food will give you.

Since most women can lose weight on a 1000 calorie or 1200 calorie count diet plan, 800 cals obviously seems to be an idea way to drop those few pesky pounds a couple of weeks before the wedding, or going on vacation and not having little bulges in the bathing suit.

AT THE CLINICS: Dr. Siegal’s three Miami, Florida-area clinics will give you a one-on-one consult for a cost of $250 but that also covers supplemental vitamins, an EKG, and medical history review as well as BMI and blood pressure exams.

ONLINE: Your other option is to order a week’s supply directly online: choose from Chocolate, Blueberry, Oatmeal Raisin, Banana & Coconut at www.CookieDietOnline.com.

But is Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet right for you?

The not-so-good: A few people complain about the taste of the cookies (I happen to like them!), and unlike other plans that train you on portion control (Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, et al), Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet trains you with hunger control. (Which you’ll also adapt to on other diets – a little hunger is actually good for you).

The good: Many people love the cookies, and they have reported success with this diet – as well they should; with a daily limit of 800 calories (or 1000 for cheaters), they experience quick weight loss in just the first week or two. Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet has been around since 1975 and has been used by more than 500,000 of Dr. Siegal’s patients so it has a reputation to live up to.

Perhaps if you’ve been successful on another diet programs and have lost 30, 40, or 50 pounds but just can’t seem to lose that last 5 or 10 pounds, you might give Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet a try – provided that you then return to your regular nutrition regime immediately upon reaching your goal.

The Atkins diet hit the diet scene in 1972 when Dr. Atkins published his book, “Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution”. And the Atkins diet was really revolutionary. Most diets of the day focused on counting calories and maintaining a low fat diet. Calories were felt to be the enemy and the fewer you ate, the better off you were. Dr. Atkins paid less attention to calories in his diet and more to reducing the number of carbohydrates in the diet. To followers of his diet, the carbohydrates were the problem. The diet promoted the use of lots of protein and a moderate amount of fat with the idea that your metabolism will cause you to lose weight on this diet.

The Atkins diet was not taken very well by many nutritionists who were promoting diets low in fat and protein. This was about the time that the four food groups turned into the food pyramid. Fruits, vegetables and grains were near the bottom and should be consumed the most. Unfortunately for the Atkins diet, these were things that were to be avoided on the diet. Near the top of the food pyramid are fats and meat proteins. We weren’t supposed to eat many of these types of foods on a healthy diet and yet they were prominent in the Atkins diet.

The Atkins diet included menu plans high in bacon, fried meat and even fried pork rinds. While there were some salad greens on the diet plan, you were allowed to add fatty dressing to the diet plan. The Atkins diet plan really promoted eggs, cheese, meats at every meal and, in some cases, protein bars or protein drinks. This was a time when cholesterol and triglycerides were being better understood and their role in heart disease was made more clear. Experts felt that the Atkins diet plan was too high in cholesterol and other fats, making one’s risk for heart disease greater. Dr. Atkins continued to promote his diet plan, amid a great deal of controversy.

Atkins Diet Foods

The Atkins diet also included some Atkins products, like Atkins hot cereal, Atkins protein shakes and Atkins protein bars. Instead of having regular hot cereal, you would choose the Atkins variety of hot cereal. The company made money off of these specialized products and still does, but to a lesser degree. As long as carbohydrates were counted and Atkins products used, the diet was expected to help you lose weight.

It’s unclear how successful people were in losing weight on the Atkins diet. If dieting is truly based on calories, the Atkins diet certainly weren’t lacking in them. Since the origin of the Atkins diet, more is known about the effects of cholesterol (from meat protein) and triglycerides (from other fats) on things like stroke, peripheral artery disease and heart disease (coronary artery disease). Doctors are more likely to check cholesterol and triglycerides in patients and doctors are active in putting people on medications to lower these fats in the blood. Few doctors would recommend such a high content of cholesterol and fat for patients at risk for heart disease. Few would recommend this kind of diet for even normal people. Still, there are those who still go on the Atkins diet in the hopes of losing weight.

The Atkins diet is gaining in popularity and we want to bring you the most up-to-date information online. Also check out our latest information page at http://www.atkinsinfosite.com.

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