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How You ' ll Succeed
Whether you are an old hand at the weight loss game, or have, at the very least, been on a diet before, the following scenario may sound all too familiar.
Determined to succeed, you vowed to go about slimming down the " right " way. You stopped eating red meat, cooked egg-white-only omelettes with no shortening in a Teflon pan, removed the skin from chicken, ate your baked potato without butter or sour cream and consumed lots of pasta. Frozen yogurt, fruit and sherbet served as dessert. Your breakfast consisted of oatmeal and skim milk or else granola and a banana. A typical lunch was white-meat turkey on a roll and a generous salad, hold the dressing.
And you stuck with your low-fat regimen. You knew it was the right diet because your friends and family congratulated you on your healthy habits. Yet somehow it never felt quite right for you. Nor did it ever work the way you thought it would. You found that you weren ' t quite satisfied eating this way: You were often hungry and low in energy andworst of all-permanent, significant weight loss proved elusive. You never actually achieved the goals that motivated you to go on a diet in the first place.
Here ' s the good news: Most of you will now find that your frustrations are about to end. I have helped tens of thousands of people who have come to me needing to lose weight and improve their health. And I promise I will help you, too.
Diets come and go, but what people hope to get from them remains fairly constant. What would you like from a weight loss program? Let your fancy run free. Would you like to:
• be freed from hunger much of the day?
• eat until you are pleasantly satisfied and full?
• enjoy foods so rich that you ' ve never seen them on any other diet?
• reduce your appetite via a perfectly natural metabolic function of the body?
• never have to count calories again?
• eliminate addictive food patterns?
• experience steady weight loss, even if you have had dramatic failures or weight regain in the past?
• learn a way of eating that will keep any lost weight from coming back?
• enjoy enhanced energy?
• feel better than you have in years?
• be more attractive?
• bolster your self-confidence?
• improve health problems that have accompanied your excess weight?
• minimize your risk factors for certain diseases?
• slow the aging process?
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