Health Secrets

Day 1 of a new diet:

7 am on Day 1 of my new, last diet I’ll ever need! Wait! Where is my 326 page diet book I feel asleep while reading last night? There it is - under the bed! Okay, let me check to make sure I have everything I need. I bought a food scale to weigh my food; a journal to track my results; a 64 ounce water bottle to make sure I’m drinking enough, a calculator to figure out calories, carbs, and fat grams; a separate recipe book that is the companion to the diet book; ordered the special vitamins I’m supposed to take while on the diet; and I took the week one food list in the book to the store last night and bought everything on it (I had to buy 2 pounds of Swiss Chard and I hate Swiss Chard! How am I going to force myself to eat it?).

10 am. I’m starving. I’m still reading the introduction to the diet (wish I wouldn’t have fallen asleep before finishing it last night and maybe I wouldn’t have if it wasn’t so boring) so I haven’t had breakfast yet. I still have 50 pages to read before I actually get to the food part.

11:30 am. I’m finally ready to make my breakfast! It’s a smoothie. That should be pretty easy except I have to find my blender and wash and cut up my fruit. It’s okay. I can do this. Crap! I’m out of ice cubes and I need a cup of them for my smoothie. Oh well. I’ll just use water instead.

12:00 pm. My watery smoothie is gone. I’m still hungry. But, hey, it’s lunchtime!

1:00 pm. Who knew it could take so long to cut up vegetables and make salad dressing for a salad?

2:00 pm. I ate my salad and have the kitchen cleaned up. It’s a good thing I started this diet on a weekend. All I’ve done so far is make food. Oh crap! I forgot to write everything I ate in my journal.

2:30 pm. Consulted my checklist for the day. Does a salad count as 1 or 2 servings of vegetables? Let me see if my 326 page diet book tells me that.

3:30 pm. The salad was 2 servings of vegetables. Next item on my checklist: drink 8 glasses of water. Oh crap! I forgot to start drinking water.

4:00 pm. My stomach hurts. I shouldn’t have drank those 3 glasses of water so fast. I’m hungry too. My snack is 20 almonds. Maybe if I eat them really slow…….

4:02 pm. The almonds are gone. I think I’ll start dinner.

6:00 pm. I found all the dinner recipes in my diet cookbook and have my dinner ready! It looks okay except for the darn Swiss Chard I don’t like.

6:05 pm. Dinner stunk. Maybe I can eat my evening snack early. Oh goody. I get to have 6 stinking crackers and 1 ounce of cheese. Do I look like a mouse?

6:15 pm. I ate all my food for the day but I still have lots of water to drink. And I forgot to take my special vitamin this morning. I’ll take that now. Maybe it will fill me up.

6:30 pm. I want food! No, I’m going to do this. I’ll keep myself busy by trying to figure out how that food calculator I bought works.

7:00 pm. Did you know that a 3.52 ounce Toblerone chocolate bar has 510 calories, 30 grams of fat, and 60 grams of carbs? I’m going to check the bar I hid from myself (yes I remember where it is) to see if the calculator is correct.

7:10 pm. It is. Now I’m figuring out how many calories, fat, and carbs in 1 piece of it because I was really hungry and figured 1 piece would be okay.

7:15 pm. Just one more piece of the bar won’t hurt, right?

7:30 pm. Hey! I just realized I missed my mid-morning snack because I was so busy making breakfast and lunch.

7:35 pm. A small container of light yogurt! That’s all I got for my mid-morning snack? I’m eating it.

7:36 pm. My yogurt is gone. Now what should I do. I guess I could read some more of my diet book. I’m supposed to read another 40 pages before I start day 2 of my diet.

8:00 pm. Did you know that if you rip the pages of a diet book out one by one they work great to start a fire in the fireplace so that you can roast some marshmallows for s’mores?

Okay, you may think I went a little overboard with that description but I have literally spent entire days reading about food, prepping food, and cooking food while I was on a diet. And I have spent literally spent thousands of dollars on diet programs, diet tools, and diet books that just didn’t work.

Maybe losing weight doesn’t have to be so complicated or expensive.

That’s why Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat program caught my eye although after reading through the sales pages it started to sound too good to be true because Brad claims that using his program:

- You don’t have to worry about food all day (is that because I won’t be eating?)

- Your metabolism will not slow down and you will not go into starvation mode (even though I’ll be fasting????)

- You will save money (I’ve never been on a diet that saved me money)

- You will have great workouts (I never have good workouts if I don’t eat something a few hours before I go)

Then I did some further investigation and found that Brad’s claims of

-“ You don’t have to worry about food all day” didn’t mean I would be starving myself. It just meant a combination of intermittent fasting with normal eating which translates into 1 or 2 days a week of fasting and eating normally (not being a piggy who is eating 2 bags of Cheetos at one sitting) the other days of the week. There’s no counting calories or fat grams or carbs or the number of croutons you put on your salad.

- Your metabolism will not slow down and you will not go into starvation mode” because you only fast for 24 hours and experts say starvation mode doesn’t kick in until about 72 hours after calorie reduction.

- “You will save money” meant I would really would save money because his program doesn’t involve buying expensive supplements, calorie counting gadgets, special foods, or expensive diet literature. His program is $29.95 and that’s not per month. It’s a one time fee.

-“You will have great workouts” means (and I like this one the best) you don’t have to work out hours every day for his program to be successful. A couple of weight training/strength training sessions are enough.

The program really isn’t complicated or expensive. Plus, Brad has the credentials that most of us want to see to back up his claims. He’s a nutrition professional with an honors degree in nutrition. He worked in the mainstream weight loss industry for several years, and he’s a an athlete who wouldn’t promote something that doesn’t work and would cause people to lose muscle instead of fat.

Plus, if you buy the program for $29.95 (which I personally know is less than the one month cost for meetings and consultations at well known weight loss companies) and you decide it’s not worth the money Brad will give you a 100% refund.

There truly is nothing to lose except the time it takes to read Brad’s e-book, time that you may just find was very well spent.

As Brad says, with Eat Stop Eat you will “discover why the most effective tool for weight loss can never be put into a pill.”

Learn more about the Eat Stop Eat Program by clicking here.

Don’t buy Master Cleanse Secrets! (until you read this)

I just want you to have as much information as possible before you make your buying decision about Master Cleanse Secrets. (also called the Lemonade Diet or Lemonade Cleanse)

After all, you work hard for your money and don’t want to throw it away on a useless product, right?

Plus you want the truth and not some sugar-coated version of it, right?

I thought so, so I’m am going to start with three important things that you should know about the Master Cleanse (also called the lemonade diet) and Master Cleanse Secrets Review.

First of all, Master Cleanse Secrets, in not - as the author says - “a magic bullet.”

Secondly, it is not meant to be on for long continuous periods of time. Ten days is the recommended length although it can be done for up to 40 days if needed.

Third – I’ll be completely honest with you. It’s not “simple and easy” to do. Most people who try it don’t make it through even 1 day.

But, like a lot of other things in life, it’s worth the effort.

* Going to the dentist isn’t fun but we do it because we like our teeth and want to take care of ourselves (and if you love going to the dentist…….let me say you are definitely in the minority).

* I hate cleaning my house but I do it because I don’t want to live in a pigsty; and I’m always happy when I’m finished and can see the end results.

* Although I enjoy what I do for a living it is really to get up and go to work some days; especially when I’m not feeling my best or the weather is particularly nice and I want to play hooky. But I go to work anyway because I like getting a paycheck and take pride in being reliable.

* And I really hate going to the doctor for my yearly checkup. Getting poked with a needle for blood work and having to get undressed for an exam and having a doctor poke around on me will never be my idea of fun but I go because I want to stay healthy.

So, is giving the lemonade diet 10 days to rid your body of toxins and mucus and other gross stuff that has been building up in it for years worth the effort? Do you want to lose weight, feel better, get rid of those aches and pains, have clearer and better looking skin, and have the effects of the 10 day lemonade diet be long lasting?

People who have done the lemonade diet have reported they have gone on to lose excess weight they have been struggling to get rid of for years without success. How can a 10 day lemonade diet have long lasting effects?

* people report no longer struggling with willpower to stay away from sugary and unhealthy foods because after being on the lemonade diet they no longer crave it.

* Plus, people report that because they have rid their bodies of the junk that was slowing it down, it became much easier to lose weight because their bodies started to work better without the garbage inside it that was slowing their metabolism down and clogging them up.

The best part of Master Cleanse Secrets is that is a companion to the original Master Cleanse lemonade diet that has been around for more than 50 years. The difference is that Raylen Sterling, the author of Master Cleanse Secrets has found ways to make the Master Cleanse easier to do so people can stick with it.

A few of Raylen’s secrets include:

* tips to help people get through the first 3 days; which are the hardest part. After that a person’s body adjusts and it gets easier.

* “cheat” foods to help with hunger that won’t interfere with the program

* Steps to reduce the discomfort as a person’s body rids itself of junk

* 3 weight loss secrets that will be learned on the first 3 days of the Master Cleanse

* The type of water to drink while doing the Master Cleanse to make it effective and not a waste of time

Plus, Raylen includes several bonus items with Master Cleanse Secrets including:

* Master Cleanse Success Journal (a $15 journal for keeping track of progress for free!)

* “Poison Water” (a report on the truth about the chemicals and bacteria found in many waters and how to protect yourself – a $15 report that is a free bonus)

* “Optimizing Your 4 Purification Systems” (includes a simple method to rid the body of more toxins in 15 minutes than the liver typically does in 24 hours – another $15 report that is included with Master Cleanse Secrets absolutely free)

Do you truly have anything to lose but fat, toxins, and gross buildup in your body? You really don’t because Master Cleanse Secrets is risk free. Raylen believes in it so much that you get 8 whole weeks to decide if it is worth the $27 it costs (yes, just $27). If within 8 weeks you want your money back, you get it back without any hassle. So that means you could try it and see how if it works, and still have plenty of time to request a refund if you find that product didn’t deliver.

Learn more about Master Cleanse Secrets by clicking here.