The question arises, when it comes to diets, can you still lose weight and keep it off while still being properly nourished?
I guess the secret to losing weight, which is no secret at all, stop eating so much and you’ll lose weight. Simple huh?
The problem is, what do you do when you start feeling hunger pangs when it’s 3 hours from your next portion of crumbs and water?
This is the issue with most diets and the reason why they fail. The snacks in between, which carry almost as much if not more calories than the diet food you eat. It’s also why the pounds started packing on in the first place.
If you have a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 25, your in the 70% bracket. Yup, 70% of the US is overweight. I was at the golf course, hacking my way from hole to hole, when I noticed way too many folks looked like they graze at the local burger mick heaven regularly. Some were walking and some riding in carts.
You might consider yourself overweight if you suck in those abs and you still hang over the belt.
did you know… The vitamins you get at the grocery store are manufactured to “Food Grade Quality”, this is to say, if your vitamin from the grocery store says it contains 100 mg of Vitamin C, it only needs to contain 30mg of Vitamin C. That’s food grade quality.
Lately I’ve noticed a ton of “eat our food and lose weight” commercials, so there must be a huge market for these type of products. Yet, with 70% of the country still overweight, they must not be working. Kirsty Allie has been losing weight, but we still got a way to go there. Recently Valerie Bertinelli turned up as a porker in training (who knew from the early sitcom days there would be an explosion there).
Then there are the grandmothers that are now sporting bikinis because they ate some other food, not to mention the football players who lost a couple of thousand pounds. Gotta stay away from those guys, they just might eat you for a snack.
Some folks can do these diets and keep the weight off, while most of us tend to put the weight right back on. Stories of losing 5 pounds here or there, then the back slide, then the loss of those same 5 pounds again abound.
So is starving the answer? Those folks in the third world are pretty thin. Is all protein the answer? Some doctors say, you miss out on some valuable nutrients.
So what’s the trick?
Apparently the truth is take in less than you burn off. This for most of us means no snacking either.
I wouldn’t go for a stomach staple, I also wouldn’t want to expose a couple of nerves in my teeth either.
Eating less in a lot of cases just means less nutrients. Not good.
In steps Herbalife. This company has been around for about 27 years and is sold in 64 countries around the world and is the largest weight loss company in the world. Haven’t heard of them? You can see some information at Nutrition For The Family. There have been more weight loss success stories from people using their products, partly because they have been around for years and do billions of dollars in business every year, and sticking to the plan, you will lose the weight and more importantly, keep it off!
I wasn’t what you call fat, but I had about 10 pounds extra. My wife on the other hand has been trying to lose weight for years and it was the same old story of down and up, down and up. About 8 weeks ago, she tried the Herbalife plan, and so far has dropped about 15 pound and about 11 inches about her body.
According to her, this is the most she has lost without putting up with the occasional re-gain of weight. It’s been a steady decline.
Taking the shakes and the supplements that accelerate the burning of fat do the trick. If you feel hungry, they have a protein bar that is covered in chocolate and only has 160 calories as well as other low fat snacks.
The products take care of 2 major components of weight loss. 1) Less intake of calories while still giving you all the nutrition your body needs; 2) Low calorie, yet filling snacks to hold you till the next meal.
Just 2 shakes a day and your regular meal at dinner, along with the fat burning accelerators and vitamins do the trick for her.
Before you say, “I can get vitamins at the grocery store and do the same thing”, just remember; the vitamins at the store are made to food grade specifications and may only contain 30% of their stated values. The Herbalife products on the other hand are manufactured at “Pharmaceutical Grade Specifications” which means they must contain 90% of the stated values in their contents.
…they must contain at least 90% of the stated amounts on the label. So in that same example, our product would contain a minimum of 90mg of vitamin C. This is another key reason so many people feel such a dramatic difference on Herbalife.
Also, you will spend less on food, which makes the products a wash, and several things happen. You lose weight, feel great, and have more energy!
There is also a deal, if you join the Wholesale Club, you save 25% on all the products and you don’t have to become a distributor and sell the products. (People just want to lose the weight).
…You can save between 25-42% off the price of the products with NO SELLING INVOLVED! That’s Right! NO SELLING! Your savings is based on the volume of your purchase. Just by joining our Wholesale Club, you can start saving 25% right away!
So in my opinion, this program appears to work. It’s working for my wife and the products I take are giving me more energy as well as a BMI of 25.
My wife has said this is the most weight she has lost in such a short time. I just hope it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for new clothes.
Hey if it helps me stay out of the socialized medicine merry-go-round, all the better!
Best of luck
