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For the first time in my life I have lost weight. I had been trying to lose weight for years and had tried every diet under the sun. I tried Atkins, which was great till I ate a bowl of cereal.  I tried so many different diets that I sort of went through a sort of numb period.  I sort of gave up and my weight hit a whopping 297 pounds and that is when something had to give.  I grew tired of hiding behind all of my clothes and despite the fact my husband said I looked fine, I did not feel fine.  When I almost hit 300 pounds I decided to throw away all of the weight loss nonsense and knew I had to lose weight naturally.

Most websites will tell you there is some magic pill or some simple 12 minute exercise that you could do just 3 times a week…but we know better and we know that none of that is true.  I received my inspiration for natural weight loss by watching The Biggest Loser.  It was on that show that I realized that it was all about calories in, and calories out.  I even received that thing they wear on their arm in The Biggest Loser, which is called The BodyBugg. I have written over 50 articles about The BodyBugg (Click here to see the articles) and it is the greatest thing ever invented for weight loss.  I am not going to write about why, because i am tired of writing about that thing the players wear on The Biggest Loser.  What I do want to discuss is how my weight loss is all attributed to natural weight loss techniques.  I have listed the three not so easy steps below.

• Get enough sleep- Most people do not realize how important getting a good night sleep is to a person trying to lose weight.  Without a decent night of sleep your body just does not perform as well as it should because it just isn’t.  When you are tired you have less “ooommmmfffff” to get out and exercise.  Let desire to spend the time preparing healthy foods and when you are tired you just have less will power to resist all of the goodies that end up in front of your mouth.  If sleeping isn’t a natural way to lose weight…..what is?
• Exercise- When I first started to lose weight going to the health club or taking a long walk was a horrible thing to do.  I hated going, I hated being there and I could not wait until it was time to leave.  Exercise and me was a four letter word.  Somewhere along the way I stopped exercising to lose eight and just started to do it because I realized that it was something that was just overall healthy for me. I no longer go to the health club to lose weight, I go to just help myself be healthy.  My stress is lower, my cholesterol levels plummeted and I am no longer in line to ever have Type – II diabetes.  Exercise is as natural as a person can get when looking for natural weight loss.
• Eat better- Notice I said eat better, I did not say eat like a rabbit.  When I first started my weigh loss journey in the world of dieting, I thought it was all about salad and other forms of rabbit food.  I tried to eat what I thought to be healthy but after just a few weeks I grew bored and gave up.  After each and every weight loss attempt I went right back to the behaviour that got me fat in the first place.  I have learned that the best way to lose weight naturally is well…..to eat.  I have since learned that to lose weight naturally I need to just make beater choices.  I committed myself to understanding why smaller meals every 4 hours was better.  I learned about the power of protein in defeating hunger.  I learned how bad even diet soda is for a person.  I have learned that I never drink my calories.  This subject is too broad so lets just say I educated myself and now I am in a lifetime course because the true weight loss never really ends, it becomes a way of life.

I have learned that losing weight is not rocket science and the best way to lose weight is the natural way.  I try not to lose no more than 1.5 to 2 pounds a week because I have learned that it is a much more natural amount to lose every week.  The small numbers still add up over time and by losing it slowly, it takes longer for me to put it back on if I have a bad day.  My only negative thing I have to say about my natural method of weight loss is that I never did anything to stop all of the skin from sagging.  I did not do anything about all of the nasty cellulite and now although I am thinner, I do not like what I see.  Although the view is not as bad as being obese. I just wish I prepared myself better for the physical aspect of losing weight.  But then I guess that is a matter for another article and it is tired and I think I am going to call it a night. 

In closing, weight loss is not impossible and it can happen.  Once you get your mind on track you will look back and wonder why you made such a big thing about it at all.  Weight loss is something you can do and if you pay attention you will be able to achieve natural weight loss also.  Weight loss is not only possible, it can start right here and right now. You just have to make the first step and our mind will allow your body to do the rest.  All ideas began in the imagination and if you can imagine yourself thin, you will soon learn that you can lose the weight and start your own weight loss journey. 

Good Luck and God Bless! 

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So you want to lose weight and you are planning to exercise and eat better food choices. In your diet journey you may be considering switching what you drink in an attempt to lose weight. Your drink choices include everything from caffeinated soda to decaffeinated coffee to plain old water. If your goal is to lose weight then you need to drink nothing but water because that is pretty much the only drink that contains zero calories. Unfortunately, that is where the whining begins!

How badly you desire to lose weight will determine how much water you drink and how much other stuff you do not drink. If you want to lose weight but can’t stop drinking beer then beer drinking is more important to you than weight loss. If you desire to lose weight and gave up drinking full sugar soda for diet soda you have made an uneducated choice that will really not help you too much, if weight loss is your goal. Diet soda may have less sugar but it is loaded with sodium and that alone is enough to keep you bloated and lugging around some of those pounds you don’t want.

If you want to drink coffee that is not as bad as other drinks as long as you keep the cream to a minimum and use a sugar substitute. The caffeine is not the greatest thing for you but as far as drinks go….coffee is not too bad if the add-ons are kept to a minimum. One positive trade off with coffee is that it is a natural appetite suppressant and that may help you limit your intake in a fashion that is somewhat similar to purchasing FullBar. FullBar is a product designed to help suppress your appetite.

The bottom line is that if your desire is to lose weight then think twice before you drink your calories. All too often we do not add in the impact of what we drink and that can cause you to mess up your weight loss and discourage you as to your ability. Here is a simple promise. If you stop drinking all but water and drink at least 64 ounces a day for seven days, you WILL see weight loss.

There you go… a free weight loss plan that requires little of your effort. The hard part now is if you are really ready to lose weight and hold yourself accountable for your own actions. If so then give it a try for just seven short days and don’t drink your calories.

The best diet that you can choose is one that works for you and your journey to lose the weight you desire to lose. As you search for the best diet I want you to think of something that is so important to your complete success in your attempt to lose the weight. If you lose 100 pounds you are never really a complete success, you are a recovering obese person. If you drop the pounds you want to shed you are never really done unless you can keep the weight off for the rest of your life. If you lose the weight and then gain it all back you are not a success, you have become a dismal failure in your weight loss journey. As we begin this discussion as to what is the best diet you can choose to lose weight, you must include in your choice your ability to keep the weight off for the rest of your life. If you do not keep the weight off it does not matter how much weight you lost if you gain it all back again.

An excellent example of failed weight loss attempts comes from the Atkin’s Diet. This diet promised so much to so many and it did deliver weight loss to the masses. The problem with the Atkin’s Diet is that most people were/are unable to eat only what is required to maintain Atkin’s. The issue developed that after people lost all of the weight they stumbled back into carbohydrates and then gained more weight than they originally lost.  Those who were a success turned into a failure because they were not able to maintain the weight loss. As you search for the best diet you must take into account that there will be life after the “diet” is over.  A less extreme alternative to Atkin’s is The South Beach Diet.  If you are really attracted to the carb free lifestyle then it is suggested that you bypass Atkins’ and try The South Beach Diet. The South Beach Diet is much easier to continue on after you have lost the weight you want to shed.

Now that you are thinking of what diet is the best for you you really need to check out the website eDiets.  This website shows you all of the diets that are out there for you and how each of them work.  What makes this site unique is that it not only explains how each diet works but has support groups that have people (real life people) just like you experiencing what you are going through on your weight loss journey.  This support group not only gives advice it also helps with meal ideas that keep variety in your meal selections.  How many diets have you tried where the meals became nothing but routine?  Not at eDiets!  With their website you bring all of the information and inspiration you need right into the privacy of your home.

So, to answer your question of what is the best diet you can choose the answer is a resolute “We do not know”.  That is an honest answer because we here at I Choose Thin do not know you personally.  We do know you enough to realize that you are seeking knowledge and help with your weight loss journey.  If you truly wish to learn what is the best diet you must really ask what is the best diet for yourself.  We do not know what is best for you until you answer a few questions that only you can answer.  If you truly want to learn what is the best diet you need to continue you quest for answers at the best website out there for support with your weight loss.  We would love to help you so check back at IChooseThin.com, sign up for our free newsletter but most of all, go check out eDiets and you will be able to get more information and make a better choice as to what is the best diet.

GOOD LUCK!!!





 

It was not too long ago that I was 17 years old and then just the other day I looked in the mirror and I realized I am almost 50.  That may sound strange but that is really a true statement.  I do not know how that person showed up in the mirror but sure enough, every time I look… he is there staring back at me.  It is not to say that I am unhappy it is just that it has all happened so fast that it is hard to fathom that it really has been that long.

I now find myself in a constant battle of what to choose from the the standpoint of what is healthy for me.  In my youth I would eat pretty much whatever I wanted and there were no consequences for poor choices.  Being overweight was never a problem and the fact that something contained alot of calories was not relevant to me all those years ago.  When I was 17 I could eat what I wanted and in whatever amount I felt I desired.  Today if I were to live by those standards it would be safe to assume that I had lost the weight loss battle.  In the life that is on this side of the mirror I have learned that I cannot always have what I desire.  I have learned that weight loss is a constant battle and that in order for me not to explode into a 300 pound person, I need to choose wisely.  In today’s world I know that I need to make food choices based on how that choice will effect my waistline.  I no longer can eat all the pizza and soda I want.  I no longer can eat as much candy or as much cake and chocolate.  If I were to eat the way I used to eat the amount of weight I would gain would be enough to end my life in the not too distant future.

As time has gone by I have learned that I needed to reintroduce myself to that person in the mirror and try to be friends once again with what I see.  As time has gone by I somehow had lost the connection with wellness that once was protected by my youth.  This is not to say that I am not happy with myself, but it is to say that I am not as happy as I could be.  I am not happy with my weight and the only person who has made me this way is the person in that mirror.  As time has gone by that person in the mirror has somehow grown distant from myself.  It is only of recent that I have once again begun to know and love who is in that mirror.  It is only of recent that the relection is not of someone whom I am unhappy with.  It is  only of recent that that person in the mirror is not someone I am dissappointed with seeing.  It is only of recent that I can even look in the mirror and actually not feel anger for what is seen. 

Today when I look in the mirror I see the reflection of someone who needs love and patience.  When I look into the reflection I see the eyes of a person that craves to become the person always wanted.  When I look into the mirror I see the body of a person that is a bit older and has added a few pounds but I also see a person who has not given up.

Everybody who has ever tried a voluntary effort to lose weight has started their journey with the basic desire of wanting it to happen.  If you are now over weight then the chance that you are reading this is no accident.  If you are reading this then you more than likely are here because you want to make a change in your life.  Wanting that change is the first step towards manifesting successful and long term weight loss.  If you have been battling the bulge then you know that wanting the weight loss is more than likely not enough.  If you want to achieve complete and lasting weight loss then you need to carry yourself onto the next step and that step is education.  We do not mean a college degree but what we do mean is basic knowledge of how your mind and body function.  Notice we started off with mind because that is where all weight loss battles are begun, waged and either won or lost.

If you really desire to lose weight and lose 20 pounds or lose 100 pounds, you need to educate yourself in the ways of food calories and exercise and food portioning.  By this stage of your life you may have tried numerous diets and have come to learn that almost all diets can be classified as a fad diet.  Almost all diets help you achieve fast, initial weight loss and then abandon you to the reality that you have to live your life.  Once you realize that you still have a life to live that diet falls into the bin of another failed weight loss attempt.  Once you try to put your life into the fad diet plan your life more often than not beats that diet into submission.  This is where your education becomes the most important step in your weight loss journey.

The education we refer to is spending time reading and learning and absorbing more information while sifting through all of the weight loss hype out there. What you need to do is search around the internet or your actual physical neighborhood and seek out people such as yourself to help support your need for not only weight loss but for knowledge and support.  If you are like many others that have few friends or family then we suggest eDiets as a starting point.  eDiets is a great place to gather not only friends and support but also a great place to start learning about weight loss and dieting.

 

As you travel through your weight loss expedition do not get discouraged because true weight loss is not a dash to the finish line but it needs to be more like a marathon.  You need to start off the journey and just proceed slowly and steady.  Do not get wrapped up into all of the obstacles that trip up millions and millions of diet wannabes.  Start yourself off with a solid foundation and keep gathering knowledge and support.  Through that knowledge you will be capable of making better daily decisions and through the support you will be able to continue those better decisions for the long haul.  Weight loss is all about your choices.  You need just make the choice to start and try your best and that best needs to include knowledge and support.
Weight loss begins in the mind and that process starts with the manifestation of desire.  After that desire bubbles to your emotional surface your knowledge will help keep it afloat and your support system will keep it on course to your destination.  Your destination becomes your life’s journey and that is what your mind must wrap itself around.  Weight loss without knowledge is doomed to fail and that failure will only manifest more failure. 

Break the chain of diet and weight loss failure through education and use some emotional support to make your thoughts a reality.  

We have heard about many diets and now we have learned about a new diet craze from Japan.    When you first hear about the system you say to yourself that it is just another craze to make someone a zillion bucks.  We have all seen fad diets come and go and despite the fact that this plan has some craziness to it there are some sound facts and healthy points that the Banana Diet has to offer.  We here at IChooseThin have been sounding the value of not only fruit but bananas for a few years now.    Whatever you decide, we would like to spend a few moments to bring The Morning Banana Diet into perspective.

What we do know is that The Banana Diet will more than likely fizzle out fairly fast because there is not going to be much marketing hype to push it into the ultra-mainstream.  The little fact is that bananas are available so widespread that there is no single company that can produce it and market it and then turn a huge profit from its sale.  That little fact alone makes us take a second look at the product and the plan and the method that is described to lose weight. 

The basic theory behind the Banana plan is to eat as many bananas with room temperature water as you desire for breakfast.  There is no limit as to how many you can or should eat, bananas are essentially a free food, as far as calories are concerned.  Eat only raw bananas and those that have never been frozen.  If you are stil hungry 15 – 20 minutes after your breakfast you can eat some other food with a caloric value of around 200 calories.  The lunch meal should be normal and pretty much whatever you choose.  Dinner must be eaten by 8 PM at the latest and preferably by 6PM.  There is no limit to the food you can eat for dinner and this plan is designed to avoid strict, traditional diet rules and the onset of the feeling of deprivation that is often associated with a diet or meal plan.

At all meals you should eat till your full, but never till you are stuffed.  You should ONLY drink water and that water needs to be room temperature.  The water should be drank in sips and not gulps.  There is no limit to the amount of water a person can drink with the meals.  Outside of meals non-caloric drinks are frowned upon and should be avoided. You may eat a snack about 3PM if desired but again you need to stay away from the donut or chips.  Popcorn is a great idea and fruit is an excellent alternative.

In Closing

The Morning Banana Diet will never make it to a major main stream  American concept because there is no money to be made outside of the banana industry, therefore it will fade from the scene.  The plan has sound ideas behind it such as drinking water, eating bananas and alot of other fruit.  The concept of not drinking your calories is not anywhere close to being new and loading up early in the day with healthy high fiber food is also an age old concept.  The plan helps you gain a conscious thought of the food you are eating and helps stop the mindless snacking.  It helps a person take notice of the times they eat and this is always a plus.

The ‘Banana For Breakfast Diet” may at first seem silly but do not be surprised if it actually works for you.

My wife and I have been trying to lose weight for quite some time and have realized that the best way to drop the pounds is not by counting calories but by healthy eating choices combined with sensible portions and some moderate exercise. During the same time we were trying to lose weight we discovered the Law of Attraction. This all happened long before the Oprah show made the idea popular. We have listened to Wayne Dyer and Ester Hicks and Louise Hay and have become avid believers in the possibility that the Law of Attraction is more than a fad. We have learned that it fits into every decision you make in your life and even when you do not make a decision, it is still there. We have learned that the Law of Attraction has the untapped potential to help you lose weight and make healthy choices in your life.

We go to sleep at night often listening to the teachings about the Law of Attraction and it helps us to stay focused on the big picture. We have learned that by working with the Law of Attraction we have been able to incorporate the belief that weight loss is more about health than it is about dieting. All too often the superficial belief is that if I think I will be rich it will happen. All too often people try to believe that the Law of Attraction is just thinking something into existence. We are here to tell you that thinking your way to thinness is something that can happen, but it is not that simple. To be able to use the Law of Attraction to lose weight you must learn to master the thought process of the Law and that always must start with the basic belief that you love yourself.

If you want the Law of Attraction to work in your life with weight loss then you must start off by not dragging yourself down by your negative thoughts. You must be able to look in the mirror and not be disgusted with your naked body. You must not hate yourself by being overweight. If you desire the Law of Attraction to work in your life you need to start manifesting things through positive thoughts about yourself and your ability to make healthy choices. If you think this is out to lunch then you need to step in front of a mirror while you are naked. Do you have the ability to see your reflection and love what you see? Do you have the capability to see your naked reflection and not criticize areas of your body with negative vibrations?

Until you can learn to love yourself for what you are right this very moment you will have trouble becoming the person you want to be. If you want to change your body you must start with your mind first. To help you lose weight you need to learn to apply the principles that are taught with The Law of Attraction.

You have a nightly ritual of wandering into the kitchen and opening and closing cabinets looking for a snack even though you just finished eating a large meal. You know you do not have to eat but your mind is telling you to go and find that snack. You have your old favorites which range from peanut butter and bread to plain old chocolate cake. The actual snack is irrelevant because you are on a quest to satisfy the overpowering desire to just eat. As you settle back into your living room throne with your food bounty you wonder why you do this to yourself. Your mind tells you this is a bad habit and yet you just keep on doing it and cannot understand why.   You can relax because you are normal in the fact that you want to eat these snacks and gorge yourself because you are just succumbing to your evolutionary history.  You have just not yet learned that you are a normal person who needs to break free from their evolutionary history of food and learn to curb their appetite.

If you were to have lived a mere 80,000 years ago your life would have been much different. You would not be able to visit the golden arches because if you wanted to eat you would have to go on a hunt. You would have to go days on end expending calories traveling around in search for your next meal. Your body was, and still is built for combating the fact that starvation can begin as early as tomorrow.   Our instincts are humming and they are telling us that we need to eat well beyond the point of being satisfied.  Our instincts are telling us to stuff ourselves because the next meal may be days away.  This may even be why we crave calorie heavy foods such as fats and sugars.  These are the foods that were scarce and prized in obtaining during those days so long ago.  We rarely crave salads because even during those early human years plants were abundant and provided minimal caloric intake.  This is why we need gym equipment to stay in shape since we rarely make trips through the mountains in search for our next meal.

 

We receive so many emails from young and old alike wanting to lose weight and then being upset that they do not know how to lose weight.  Since we are trying to help the masses, we must tell you the usual disclaimer that if you want to start a weight loss program you should go visit your doctor before starting any sort of program because there may be some hidden risks or ailments.  Now that we have said the required, let us say what really needs to be said.  If you are tired of being overweight, then do something about it.  Get educated, read books, search the web and for heavens sake, stop blaming the world for your demise!  If a person wants to lose weight they will do what is needed to make it happen.  If a person desires to lose the weight that has taken years to put on, then it must be realized that it will takes quite some time to take that same weight off.  A person needs to make this decision them self and this decision cannot be forced upon them for any reason, unless the individual wants it to happen.

If you are a person that wants to lose weight and have made it to this point, then listen to what we have to say.  Figure out how many pounds you want to lose and then divide it by 1.5.  (ie: 100 pounds divided by 1.5 results with an answer of 66)  So in this example you want to lose 100 pounds and when you divide that by 1.5 pounds a week, you must understand that comes out to 66 weeks of effort….. 66 weeks of effort!!  Let’s repeat that again…….if you want to lose 100 pounds a good goal is that it will take you 66 weeks of effort.  Sure, if you were to be on The Biggest Loseryou would lose it faster, but chances are you are not going to appear on the show.

Realistic weight loss goals are essential to weight loss and 1.5 pounds a week is a fantastic and a realistic goal.  The first week you should lose weight faster, but when the body adjusts to the new lifestyle, 1.5 pounds each week is realistic. 

Now that you have a great goal set, you need to understand that your motivation needs to be there for the long run.  You must understand that all of the choices that you make over the next 66 weeks are your choices.  If you choose to start some silly weight loss fad diet that is not what you can do for the rest of your life, the failure will be all yours.  You will own that failure.  If you decide to start say…the cabbage soup diet, expect failure.  If you decide to do anything but a plan that you can stick to for the rest of your life, then it is an exercise in futility that will only end with a feeling of another weight loss failure.  You need to not start a diet, you need to start a new way of life.  In that life you will be confronted with food and exercise decisions on a daily basis.

If you go to work and eat three donuts from the break room, that is okay.  The reason it is okay is because the choice, the decision and the weight gain are owned by you.  If you can’t keep away from certain foods in an effort to shed weight, then your motivation to lose weight is not as strong as you may think.  We will not and sit and coddle you about past decisions and events in your life that led you to become fat, that is for Jillian Michaelsand Bob Harperto deal with, so read the books they have written.  We are not saying you don’t have an over-riding emotional issue that causes you to eat too much.  We just want you realize and understand that your past weight loss failures are like ice cream on the side walk.  There is nothing you can do about them and if you want to make a change for the future…..you can.  If you try to make that change and keep failing, maybe you do not really want to make that change. Maybe you feel safe being fat.  Maybe this and maybe that….bla bla bla!!!

If you want to lose weight then realize you and only you can make it happen.  Stop the sodas, all of it, diet soda included.  Stop the candy, slow down on the salt, keep track of the calories you eat (FitDay is a great online tool) and for your own sake, get out and do some exercise four or five times a week by joining a health club.  If you slip and slide during your weight loss journey it is alright because you are not in competition with anyone.  If you slip, pick yourself up and keep moving and keep trying.  The past is history and the future has not yet happened.

Whatever you decide to do, the decision will be owned by you.  If you want to be 100 pounds lighter, then in 66 weeks it could be a reality, but only if you put forth the effort and maintain a sense of sustained motivation.

Good Luck!!  You can do it, anybody can!  Your future has not been written yet, but one day soon, your future will be your past and that day is coming whether you want it to or do not want it to.  66 weeks from this moment will occur one way or the other.

If you are trying to lose weight and have reached a point where no matter what you do those last few pounds will not come off, you are not alone.   You wake up everyday and you go through your familiar routine of weight loss efforts to no avail.  You exercise and you watch what you eat and it seems that no mater what you attempt to do you are making no headway on losing those last twenty pounds.  You have reached a point in your weight loss attempt that you are starting to feel as if you will not be able to lose anymore weight.  You are starting to think that maybe your body has settled into what is the weight you need to be even though it is not the weight that you want to become.  If you have been trying to lose those last 20 pounds and have tried and tried to shed them
with little success there actually is a fairly simple and a somewhat radical solution.  That solution is to stop the diet plan for a week or so and eat the choices that you have been avoiding.

You have been doing all in your power to lose those last few pounds and have hit the proverbial wall.  The method here is rather sound even though some may consider it a radical idea.  You have reached what some call a plateau and the frustration level is not only manifested in your body but also in your thinking.  What has happened is that your body has become accustomed to the daily exercises and the daily consumption of specific and routine foods.  Your body is built to withstand many dire circumstances and the physiology of the human is designed to fight off starvation as long as possible.  As you try to lose weight your body “believes” it is fending off total starvation and fights to keep each and every ounce of fat that it has stored.  A rather simple and effective solution which is also enjoyable is to indulge in a few days of diet vacation.

Take a week or so and stop exercising and start to eat a few of the items that you have deprived yourself from enjoying.  Eat some chocolate or wash that pizza down with a Pepsi and take a few extra pieces of bread, have a chunk of cheese. A good example of this would be to do what you do on a cruise. This”diet vacation” will trick your body into thinking that the famine is over and we have survived another day.  Your body will quickly adjust itself and your metabolism will begin to shift and adjust also with the addition of more food and less exercise.  After a few days of enjoyment, which does not need to exceed seven, you can then jump right back into your familiar routine.  You will be shocked at how easy it is to gain weight back but do not dwell on this fact.  The very fact that your body gains weight so easily just points to more validity of the statement that your body is trying to prevent what it perceives as starvation.   At the conclusion of your “vacation” you then go back to your exercise routine  and your food choices that will carry you to that desired weight.  After the initial shock of the weight gain you will be able to drop weight fairly quickly and soon you will have pushed through that plateau.

There is a hidden danger to this approach and that is that you will be unable to pull yourself out of the weight gain mode.  The fear is that you will become so embedded into the mind set of eating that your attempt to lose those last 20 pounds will be forgotten.  This concept of eating to lose weight really needs to only be attempted after you have tried and tried to lose those last few pounds and your frustration level has started to endanger your weight loss motivation.  It would be a complete shame of effort and self esteem to be chugging along for a year trying to lose weight only to give up and start eating and then never complete the weight loss journey.  The only way for this plateau buster idea to work is if you get right back on the diet bandwagon. After you go on your week of metabolism altering journey you will not only cause your metabolism to shift, you will also see a shift in your emotions.  You may even learn that the foods you once enjoyed were not as much of an enjoyment anymore.  You may learn that all that fried food causes acid reflux and the soda leaves you with an unsettled tummy.   You may not like the feeling of overeating as much as you thought you
once did.  As you travel through your week of eating you may realize that you no longer like what you thought you were missing.  At the end of this little experiment you may not only realize that you were able to lose those last 20 pounds but you may also be shocked that you do not miss the soda and water is what you now really enjoy.  You may not only be able to break through that plateau by churning up your metabolism but you may also realize that you have become a healthier minded person.  You may realize that you missed those daily walks or that you really no longer missed those bowls of ice cream.  You may realize that you have grown out of the old you and the new you has taken hold.  You may have learned that not only could you lose those last 20 pounds but somewhere along the way you were no longer on a diet but were now actually on a “live-it”.