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Once again we are sad to report to the masses that another group of people are getting ripped off in an earnest effort to lose weight.  We personally know of a close friend that came to us asking if we knew what she could do because LA Weight Loss ripped her off for $1,600.00.  They told her she needed to pay for everything up front and it would save her money.  She paid for all of her visits and her bars and everything else they asked her to pay.  She showed up at the building yesterday and the doors were locked tight and not one word was ever told to her about what to do.

After a quick search and a few phone calls it was quickly learned that L.A. Weight Loss is one company that will not be around much longer.  Franchises are going bankrupt all over the place and just keeping the money collected from would be dieters.  If you are thinking of dropping some money into them in your effort to lose weight we want to warn you loud and clear to avoid them at all costs.  You will have better results flushing your money down the toilet.

If you desire to lose weight and have a few bucks to spend we recommend two great things you can do for yourself.  The first is eDiets, which is an online organization that supplies a ton of information and advice.  eDiets is a sound organization and they will not be going away anytime soon.  Also if you want a great tool for your weight loss that you can use without any outside help we recommend a device from The Biggest Loserfame.  If you are looking for BodyBugg to chart your course to health then the information link is the red box just below.  This device is one great weight loss tool that is from the financially sound company called 24 Hour Fitness.

We just wanted to tell you that if you are looking into LA Weight Loss you are wasting your money.  Even if your local office tells you all is alright they are not telling you the entire truth.  In one year it is doubtful that the organization will even exist.  The only part of LA Weight Loss will be in the court system fending off all of the lawsuits from people who had their money ripped off.

Updated 27 Feb 2010: Being an original user of FullBar, we first reviewed the product when it first hit the market and there were numerous issues with customer service.  Since that early time it appears as if they have gotten their act together. For a more up to date review please refer to http: fullbarinfo.com. 

I love to try some of the products of weight loss. Heck I even went to a gastric bypass seminar night to gather more factual information. Being the good webmaster I was very interested to learn about FullBar and wanted to try out the product because I like to have first hand knowledge before we will allow the product to make it on our pages.  I watched the video and even called the phone number. The problem was right at first. There was no live person to speak to. (Updated 27 Feb 2010: This problem has been eliminated) I was informed, via recording, to leave all my order information on voice mail and they would send me the product. Being the typical suspicious person that I am I did not feel comfortable leaving credit card information on a recorder. So I hung up and thought about it and my spouse called the next day. She decided to place an order because the recording said you could get a free month. The recording asks for the credit card up front and after you supplied the needed numbers you are informed that to get your free month you had to buy a month. At that point you were locked into the order and there was nobody to dispute the issue as it was a voice mail.


We called the next day and after searching we found a not too easy to find live person, customer service phone number. At the end of that conversation we were informed the order was canceled and we would not see a bill. About one month later we received an email that said the order was no longer on back order and it shipped and our credit card was now charged. We called customer service and were treated as if we were lying and we could get our money back after the product was received and we sent it back. Well, we eventually did refuse the product and back it went. After it was returned we got our money back.

It has been awhile since the day we received lousy service and there have been improvements to the website and since we never actually tried the product it is possible the customer service has improved. (Updated 27 Feb 2010 Customer service has improved and it is like a new company)  If the price were reduced, then it would be alright and worth the money, but not at the current price.  For most people the daily cost is too high and when a protein bar is available, and healthier, why not get the protein bar? (The price has dropped dramatically and the best price IS on their website.)

Click Here To Visit Official FullBar Website

FREE is always good and since FitDay (online) is FREE, that makes FitDay great!  While the online version is FREE there is another version that gives so much more to the user.  While some will benefit from the free version others will benefit more from purchasing the upgraded version.   Overall FitDay is a new tool that you can use online or at home.  It is a great way to help you achieve your nutrition, weight loss, diet and fitness goals.   With FitDay you will be able to track your diet achievements as well as your diet failures.  Using FitDay will allow you to chart your way to a new and healthier you.  With this tool you will be able to input as much or as little information as you desire.  Imagine a food journal, calorie counter, exercise log, weight loss tracker, and nutrition facts book all rolled into one. Combine that with powerful analysis and graphical reporting. Now make it free, easy, personalized, and accessible anywhere using the web. That’s FitDay!

FitDay Is a super way to help you in your attempt to lose weight.  It rolls a food diary right into the computer and spews out calculations of how your weight loss is progressing.  With the use of FitDay you will be able to not only calculate, log,report and analyze your daily food consumption, it will also provide graphs and printouts to help you look at and reveal where you are headed in your weight loss journey.  What FitDay does is provide an information overload that you can easily scale back to the level you feel comfortable using.  With the use of FitDay you will have a powerful weight loss tool at your fingertips.

Keeping a food diary can double a person’s weight loss according to a study from Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research. The findings, from one of the largest and longest running weight loss maintenance trials ever conducted, will be published in the August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.  With the use of FitDay you will be able to turn your computer into a powerful tool in your journey of weight loss.  By analyzing what you enter, FitDay generates detailed graphical reports on…

• calories
• fat, carbohydrates, and protein intakes
• nutritional analysis
• exercise and metabolism calorie expenditure
• weight loss progress
• personal goals
• long-term diet & fitness trends
• and much more!

FitDay takes the guesswork out of your daily diet & fitness management. And best of all is that it is quick, easy, and completely free to use the program that is available online.  You can opt to spend a few bucks to down load it to your computer but that is not really necessary.

I Choose Thin received a phone call this past week from a student that was all excited about a tidbit of information she had heard about L-Carnitine Supplementation and the effects on weight loss.  After spending some time on the telephone it has once again been confirmed that there is little hope that this I Carnitine will be the major breakthrough that people are seeking.  Once again the hopes of the obese are dashed to learn that the only valid way to lose weight and be healthy today is to do it the old fashioned way. You have to burn it! You have to tend to the type and quantities of calories you consume.  Once again those seeking weight loss the fast and easy way will be dismayed that if you desire to lose weight you are going to have to eat better, exercise more and  follow a sensible diet or meal plan.  We want you to realize that diet pills that work, do not exist.  The main purpose of ANYdiet pill on the market today is to make the manufacturer of the pill wealthy.  The sooner you understand and accept that diet pills do not work the better off, as a person, you will start to become.

Here at I Choose Thin we would love nothing more than to be able to take a wonder drug or a diet pill and have the fat just fall off.  We know that people struggle with weight loss on a daily basis and the battle is ongoing and constant.  We know that everyday you are faced with choices and that some days the choices you make are better than others.  We know there are days that you wake up with rigid determination that the day will be a good day to lose weight.  We know that there are those nights that when you return to sleep that some food choices were not as good as they should have been. 

Everyday presents an opportunity for you to become the person you have always wanted to be or become.  We know that if you need to lose 100 pounds that you wil not be able to ever do it fast enough.  We know that there are those mornings when yesterday you made the right choices yet the bathroom scale tells you different.  We know that the discouragement of perception is enough to make you want to give up and just remain over weight.  We are here to advise you to not give up because then you are giving up on yourself and the person you have the potential to become.  The potential person that you are is just skin deep and the birth of that person is not born through weight loss.  The birth of that person is born through emerging self esteem and a growing self worth.  We want you to stop trying to lose 100 pounds and just worry about losing one pound.  You just need to wake up tomorrow and do your best to get through that one day.  You just need to try to become that person you desire to become for 16 hours. (You sleep the other 8)  After you awaken and you jump on that scale do not put much weight in the results.  This is because what you did yesterday is done.  What you did earlier is over with and there is nothing you can do to change the reality of what you have chosen to do earlier.  If you made a poor food choice yesterday then plan to make a better one today.  Did you ever stop to understand that you can never undo anything you did even if you did it one second ago.  Once something has been done you cannot undo the decision.  What you can do is stop worrying about what you did and focus on what you are going to do.  Stop worrying about how you got where you are and start to plot out the path that will take you where you want to go on your health and weight loss journey.  Start with the goal of just one pound today and soon you will have enough days behind you that those pounds and those one-half pounds will add up.  Start making better choices here and now and try everyday to become better at those choices.  It is unrealistic to think you can lose 100 pounds today but it is realistic to lose 1.5 pounds in the next nine days.  If you were to lose just 1.5 pounds every nine days you would lose over 50 pounds in one year.  As you can see, losing 1.5 pounds is so much easier to wrap your head around than having to lose 100 pounds.  You may think that an entire year to lose fifty pounds is too long but what will happen if you do not dedicate yourself to making better choices on a moment to moment basis.  If you could lose 50 pounds in a week you would be thrilled so why so sad to have it take one year?

Stop putting your faith into things like L-Carnitine Supplementation and start putting faith into yourself.  Start off with your choices that are made today and those days will add up into a better tomorrow.  Healthy weight loss is what long term weight loss is all about.  Here at I Choose Thin we are rooting for you and not some diet product that only has been tested on rats and animals.  We want you to choose health and that choice is yours to make which will lead your tomorrow.  That tomorrow holds the promise of a thinner and healthier person you want to see in that mirror.  What you do not see there today is only skin deep and the choices you make on a moment to moment basis will reveal that person is awaiting your embrace. 

Choose well and you will embrace health first and thinness will follow.

We, at IChooseThin.com, are cheap and we pretty much like to pick apart all of latest diet fads.  We looked and looked for reasons why the acai berry was going to turn out to be just another flash in the pan gimmick and weight loss fad diet thing-a-magig.  After minimal research we quickly discovered why that unless you are a person living in a select geographical portion of South America, you can’t get the Acai Berry. The reason why we do not recommend the fresh Acai Berry is that it is not available to you in the first place.  What a cruel twist in the world for those seeking wellness and health and trying to utilize the natural power of fruit.  A virtually perfect fruit, and you can’t have any, it almost sounds Biblical! Although there are many websites that praise Acai for weight loss that is not really one of the many benefits of Acai.   Acai is a wonderful product that has been tagged to weight loss and many overlook the wonderful health benefits the fruit reall does have to offer.

The health claims of the acai berry are numerous and almost seem mystical when combined with the fact that the berry is only available in the South American rain forest. The benefits included in the acai berry are too numerous for this mere blog entry and for a full easy to read, in depth review, we suggest the full report at IChooseThin.com. 

After much searching we must report that if you want to include Acai berry in your diet you will not be able to get the fresh fruit and this is what turned out to be the goodnews.  The reason for turning this gloom and doom report into a positive one is because acai berry is unusable after only about 24 hours from the time it is harvested.  Since the fresh stuff perishes so quickly the producers have mass produced the fruit in freeze dried Acai berry alternative.  We do not advocate freeze dried fruit as a normal alternative but the health power of acai berry makes this an attractive alternative on those days that you can’t get to the store for fresh fruit.

We love to eat bananas and strawberries and much other fruit but we must admit that there are those days when work dominates and the fridge only contains old apples and soggy grapes.  On those days when life got in the way it dawned on us to have some of the acai berry around, in the powdered form, or the capsule form.  We knew that on those hurried days a coffee was not enough so out came the donuts.  The whole cycle of diet, life, donuts, exercise gets frustrating when the fruit is not around to offset the pace of the day. When fruit is not available the freeze dried Acai can be available and the nutrition it will provide will be more than a donut could ever provide. If you have a lifestyle that does not allow you to get the amazing benefits of fruit on a daily basis then acai berry in the fried dried form, or the capsule is for you!

Deviating from the initial, save your money review, we are now reversing earlier reports and suggest you stock up on the freeze dried acai berry and have it around when needed.  On the days when the morning is rushed you can just mix some in your juice, water or milk or smoothie.  The taste has proven complimentary and the health benefits are astounding.  In fact, the benefits of the berry in the freeze dried form outweigh almost all of the other fruits out there!  Acai berry has proven to be the amazing king of all the fruits even in the freeze dried form.  Acai berryliterally holds the title of the world’s superfruit.

If you are like most people in the world your life is not perfect.  You struggle to get the time to exercise and eat right.  Like most people the fruit store is one trip that that does not always happen.  The freeze dried Acai berry can, and is your solution to getting the health you need from fruit, even when you do not have the time.