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Why Try
Our
Forever
Slim
Diet?
(My
Personal
Story)
by David
Olsen
Continued....
I remained at my portly weight for a few more years
till I
made the
big
decision
once
again
that it
was time
to go on
a diet.
Same
scenario.
Restrict
your
eating.
Lose
weight
quickly.
Look and
feel
great.
Crave
more
food.
Slowly
give in.
Begin
putting
weight
back on.
Give up
completely.
Get back
up to
portly
weight.
Only this time, something even worse happened. I ended
up
weighing
eight
pounds
more
than
when I
started
my
second
diet.
Very
depressing!
Very
unhealthy!
I gradually learned to live with my new portly-plus
self.
But I
didn’t
like how
I felt.
I wanted
to look
slim
like I
did in
my 20s.
So I
decided
to go on
my third
diet. I
told
myself I
would
not
suffer
through
another
frustrating
bout of
yo-yo
dieting.
This
time I
was
going to
lose
weight
and keep
it off.
I decided I needed a plan. Instead of impulsively
starting
on
another
diet, I
would
lay out
a
routine
for
myself
that
could
make me
successful
at
losing
weight
and
permanently
keeping
it off.
At that point in my engineering career, I had solved
many
complicated
problems.
I told
myself
that I
had a
personal
problem
that
needed
solving.
My
problem
of
course
was that
I could
lose
weight
but I
couldn’t
keep it
off.
I decided I’d approach this personal dilemma just like
I
approached
engineering
problems.
So I sat
down and
did a
detailed
analysis
of my
problem.
Fortunately,
I had
two
experiences
of yo-yo
dieting
that
helped
me come
up with
a
solution.
The conclusion I reached after thoroughly analyzing my
problem
was that
I had
tried to
change
my
eating
habits
too
quickly.
My mind
and my
body
couldn’t
adapt to
the
rapid
change
in my
lifestyle.
I fell
into a
trap
when I
quickly
lost
weight.
By
restricting
my
eating,
I lost
weight
in a
hurry.
But my
body
couldn’t
adjust.
I concluded that in order to lose weight and permanently
keep it
off, I
would
have to
make
small,
simple
changes
a little
at a
time and
then
practice
them
until
they
became a
part of
my life.
I sat down and laid out a systematic plan to solve my
problem.
And I’m
here to
tell you
that it
worked.
I lost
weight,
got down
to what
I
weighed
in my
20s and
have
stayed
there
for more
than 10
years.
I’ve decided to share my plan with you in what I call
the
Forever
Slim
diet.
I outlined my plan in the form of a workbook to guide
dieters
along
the path
of
losing
weight
and
permanently
keeping
it off.
After I
completed
the
workbook,
I asked
several
dieticians
and
nutritionists
to
critique
my new
plan.
One of
those
dieticians,
Kelly
Strigenz,
suggested
so many
excellent
ideas
that I
asked
her to
co-author
You
Forever
Slim
with me.
And so, an engineer and a registered dietician are
offering
you a
simple,
easy
plan to
lose
weight
and keep
it off
for the
rest of
your
life.
You’ve
probably
heard
that
before
(a
simple,
easy
plan to
lose
weight).
But this
diet is
unlike
any
other.
It’s
based on
sound
systematic
planning
(by an
engineer)
and on
sound
dieting
and
nutrition
(by a
dietician).
And it
sure
worked
for me.
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