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LA Weight Loss Rips You Off As They Close Their Doors
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 Loser
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.
FullBar Review: It Left A Bad Taste In My Mouth
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.)
Tags: What Is FitDay.com all About?
FREE is always good and since FitDay (FREE Version) is FREE, that makes FitDay great! While the online version is FREE there is another version that
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.
L-Carnitine Supplementation
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.
Acai Berry Review: Why You Need To Skip This Fresh Fruit
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
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 berry
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.
Sensa Review; Does It Help Weight Loss?
An interesting thing happened the last few weeks of using Sensa. I learned more about myself than Iever thought I could learn ordering Sensa. I ordered the Sensa Sprinkles Weight Loss System and what I did not realize is that I would finally learn why I suffer from obesity. I now know that the reason I weigh 85 pounds more than I should is because I have an emotional eating issue that I have not dealt with before. What Sensa has done for me is made me aware of the fact that I cannot, or will not stop eating when I feel full.
I will not argue the effectiveness of Sensa. I used it every time I ate and the key to Sensa working is that you will stop eating sooner. It has these things called Tastants in it that stimulate your pituitary gland to secrete the hormone your body uses to tell you it is time to stop eating. By starting the signaling process sooner, it is suppose to help a person not eat as much at meal time.
What I have learned is that I have a problem with listening to that signal that tells me to stop eating. Using Sensa has made me aware of the fact that I am full and I should stop shoveling the food into my mouth. For some unknown reason that puzzles me is that I still WANT to eat past the point of being full.
As I sit here and write this review of Sensa I have learned that the product may work. If Sensa does what it says it does, I still have trouble doing what I want to do. The big question really should be is if I really want to lose weight. I feel as if there is a battle going on inside that says “eat more”, while my brain is saying “stop”. I know I do not need to eat that last slice of pizza but yet I want to shove it down my throat and then feel bad about eating it in the first place.
We here give Sensa a casual nod in the fact that it does make you more aware of being full sooner. We do not dispute the fact that Sensa helps a person eat less and feel full faster. The problem is the part about listening to those feelings. What Sensa has done is made me aware of the fact that I (we) have an issue with food. Sure, you may say “DUH!”, but the point is that Sensa has made me aware of the fact that I like to over eat and binge eat every so often. I do not know if Sensa really works because of the reasons they say it works, Sensa may be just a placebo? I do know that because of Sensa I have discovered that I have a problem being able to stop eating when I am full. If it were not for Sensa, I may have never realized that nugget of a fact.
Despite my poor eating habits I have lost almost five pounds in two weeks. The big question I have for myself is how good I would do if I actually cooperated with myself.
Program Yourself Thin
It is pretty much an established fact that diets really do not work. Just look at yourself and all of your friends that have tried to lose weight. Off the top of your head you can list all of the diets or weight loss programs you have tried. Each and every time you get all motivated and start down the weight loss journey to lose weight and the weight starts to come off, for awhile. After you deprive yourself for awhile and do what you consider really well it happens again. When it was the Atkin’s diet you got tired of not being able to eat bread. It was diet after diet that you tried and the end result was that you ended up weighing more than when you began the diet! After awhile you started to feel as if you were a failure because diet after diet ended and you still were overweight. Maybe the truth is that the diet failed you and you were just there for the ride.
An interesting concept has emerged in the way a person can lose some weight fairly fast. It is a known fact that true weight loss does not start in your mouth or at the table. For a person to experience true and complete, long term weight loss it has to begin in the mind. The entire ability or lack of ability to lose weight starts with the manifestation of a thought. The thought process is what allows a person to make the decisions that are needed to achieve weight loss. Let’s face it; you know what you need to do to be able to lose weight. You are more intelligent than many people because you are attempting to educate yourself and use that education to shed some of that excess weight you have been caring around.
As you know, the way to lose weight is to eat healthier and to eat less and also you should be performing some sort of exercise. It does not matter whether you are a contestant on The Biggest Loser, or Bob Harper flashing his tattoos while he helps his people lose weight. What does not matter is how much you know or how smart you think you have become. You still have the problem that somewhere between your common sense and your mouth too much food gets past your lips. For some reason you cannot even answer for yourself why you are incapable of taking your weight loss knowledge and making weight loss happen in your own life.
The way you need to start a weight loss program starts with the birth of a thought. That thought then manifests into either weight loss or weight gain. Why not learn to stack those thought in reserve and be able to hold on long enough to be able to lose weight. Why not start your next diet in your mind first?
Jim Katsoulis has created an excellent program to help you program your mind and program your thoughts that will help your weight loss attempt last long because with his tools you should be able to achieve your weight loss goals. The difference with his approach is that the plan starts and continues in your thought process. This thought process is where all diets start and either succeed or fail. The thought process is what can carry you past the threshold of completing a diet plan instead of just giving up as a failure. Give Jim a look and see how much he has to offer.
NutriSystem Review: Does It Work?
Everybody is coming out with diet plans and weight loss information and then there are those that even have meal plans thrown in there for good measure. One system that needs to be mentioned and discussed is NutriSystem. Although NutriSystem has been around for many years, they are still one of the most popular diet/meal plans that are available today. One unique aspect of their weight loss plan is that they promise results in as little as 28 days.
The big question that needs to be answered about whether or not you can lose weight on this plan can only be answered if a person were to be able to lose weight and then be able to keep that weight off for the long haul of life. Sure there are celebrities that promote this plan and swear on national TV that it works but then nobody ever said those same celebrities were just not being paid to push that product.
If one were to look into the details of the NutriSystem plan it would be quickly noticed that it is broken down into 28 day meal plans and you pick the one that suits you the best. There is the Woman’s Plan, the Men’s Plan, and the Silver for Woman Plan, the Silver for Men Plan, Type II Diabetic Plan and also the Vegetarian plan. Whatever plan you decide to use you simply have the entire 28 days mailed to your home and there will be a meal planner included that you just follow along with on a daily basis. You can always still add in some fresh favorites like fruits or vegetables but the main goal of the plan is to limit your intake of “bad” carbs while supplying you with “good” carbs.
Whether this system would work for you really depends on not only your personality, but also your lifestyle. As with all diets or meal plans the end result will be a direct correlation that needs to tap directly into your motivation level. The more motivated you are the better the plan will work. The longer that motivation to lose weight is sustained, the longer you will be able to shed those unwanted pounds.
There are calorie plans that are built right into the program and through the use of the prepackaged meals; a person will be able to keep their calories under control on a daily basis. The calorie plans include 1000, 1200 and also 1500 calories which helps those with a busy schedule save time by not needing to prepare portions. Many people have been able to lose weight using the NutriSystem but the real question is if that weight will be able to be kept off for the rest of forever.
We all see Marie Osmond and her thin and smiling face on the ads proclaiming all the weight she lost but can we really believe that to be true? First off it can be easily stated that she has alot more money than you do, yet she is not paying for her meals because she is getting paid to eat them. Also, it can be surmised that she also has a personal trainer that runs her through her paces on a daily basis. Do you have a personal trainer? I for one would not buy the product because some familiar face that does not even know I exist says that it works.
We do know real, everyday people that did use the product and one were named Bill L. He too was able to lose weight and had really good results that lasted for almost the entire 56 days he was on the plan. He ran into trouble as he grew tired of those little prepackaged portions and tended to get hungry often. Once he ended the shipments he just gained all of the weight back again.
In conclusion, the NutriSystem is like all other diets and meal plans by the fact that it does work and yet it does not work. It works in the fact that you will lose weight. It does not work in the fact that the day will arrive when you want to live a normal life again and on that day you will grow bored with nothing but NutriSystem to eat. When you leave the NutriSystem meal plan you will then gain back all of the weight that you were able to lose.
So if we had to render a final opinion we would have to say that if you were on a meal plan that you were not able to live on forever then it really does not work. If you were in need of losing weight for a wedding or a vacation and only had three months to make it happen, then NutriSystem may be for you.
Diet Soda Makes People Fat?
We at I choose thin have been learning and trying to lose weight for many years now. Over time we have learned that weight loss is more of a journey than a destination. We have learned that weight loss is a very misunderstood event in most people’s life. We have learned that almost all products on the weight loss market are not what they are cracked up to be portrayed. Having been raised on Pepsi I have long been a fan of carbonated drinks. Pepsi and Coke were in my mouth more than water during the days of my youth. As I grew older I started to gain weight and the moment arrived that I needed to stop drinking so much soda. In an effort to not give up my soda I decided that I needed to switch to a diet soda. The rationalization is that by skipping all of the sugar I would be helping the cause of my weight loss. The one thing I had not planned on was that by drinking diet soda I was adding artificial sweeteners into my body and that they were worse for me than sugar. Aspartame and Splenda arrived on the scene and I was thrilled to be able to not give up my passion for soda.
As I journeyed through my life I started to hear about all of the horror stories about how the sweeteners were bad for you and how they really were harmful to my body. As time went by I started to hear more and more stories of how if it was not natural, it was bad and that artificial sweeteners were bad for my body. As time bounced along I have come to realize that corporations are greedy and the only things out there creating the stuff were corporations.
I have come to realize, through education that I need to avoid diet soda as much as possible. If you doubt this there is an entire assortment of reading out there that drives home this point. The knowledge of how this stuff can kill you is published; one just needs to stop ignoring the facts and pay attention. If you are still not convinced that diet soda is one thing you need to avoid then chances are you are having difficulty with your attempts at weight loss. Most people do not realize that there is a sizeable amount of sodium added to diet soda. This salt hampers your weight loss and chnces are you ignore this fact.
If you are serious about losing when then you need to be serious about cutting out diet soda because the diet soda may not only make you fat, it can make you dead.
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Lose Weight Now
You want to lose weight now and that is great! If you really want to lose the weight then your weight loss desires must last longer than just this moment. The problem with your previous weight loss attempts was that your desire to lose weight did not last long enough to actually make a lasting impact. Most people only last three or four weeks before they give up on their diet and just gain all their weight back. The sad part is that each and every time you yo-yo diet, you become so much closer to being a weight loss failure and this does not have to happen to you.
There is a great book written by Linda Spangle that is entitled 100 Days of Weight Loss: The Secret to Being Successful on ANY Diet Plan.