Healthy Weight Loss- Kris Dugans Way

Here is my easy low carbohydrate diet plan in a few short points:

1. When you start a low carbohydrate diet you should increase the amount of proteins that you eat, that way you won’t damage your muscle tissue. It is better to choose natural sources for your protein such as beef, chicken, fish, eggs etc. You can also add some protein powder Y to your menu.
2. If you experience a drop in your energy levels (especially if you are an athlete) try to minimize the amount of your physical training until your body will adjust.
3. Don’t get extreme and stop eating any carbohydrates, you just should avoid carbohydrates at night, increase the amount of fruits and vegetables and after physical activity you can eat simple carbohydrates like white bread, potatoes or an energy drink. Eat less than 4 carbohydrates for each pound of your body.
4. If you will eat many protein meals a day you won’t feel hungry.
5. Don’t eat more fat – the fat you eat should stand for 30%-40% of your daily calories limit. Just choose between whole eggs, beef, salmon, smoked fish or avocado. If you want more fat than that and you wont choose saturated fat then you won’t gain more cholesterol.

I want to start my story in the present and from there I’ll go back and I’ll see where I’ll end it. Sometimes it’s hard to be an ex fat woman but I think it is much harder to be fat. The endless war against your fat, the low self esteem, the lack of self confidence, the huge encyclopaedia in your head about each food and how much calories it has. Many people think that if you loss 20-30 pounds then life are prettier. They are much prettier but it doesn’t end there – you still need to keep the thin lifestyle that you chose.

 Since I was a little girl I was always “full”. I always had this belly and those big thighs but it never disturbed me until I was 14 or so. Then I started to feel guilty about my body, I started to dislike it. One night I woke up at 2 AM and started crying. I didn’t understand why was I fat, I never wanted to be fat. At that night I took a pen and paper and wrote down a promise to do everything I can to loss weight.

 Since then it was a never ending war, I read so much about the topic, I tried so many diet plans, weight loss programs, weight loss pills – you name it. I went on killer diets – lost 30 pounds just to gain them again. Hurt my health more than once. I have done it all and tried it all.

 It’s been over 10 years now that I don’t pass my 120 pounds limit but only in the last 5 years I stopped being fat inside. Because losing weight isn’t only about burning that fat and living a healthy lifestyle, it is also about changing you self esteem and you perception of yourself. It is about walking into a store and not going straight to the big things section, or thinking a minute before deciding on the size of the new jeans that you want to try on.

 Well I guess I’ll stop now and maybe add more stuff to this post in the future or write a post on why I decided to make helping other loss weight my profession.

If you want to share your story – feel free.

What Is The Hoodia Plant on CNBC?

I like this H57 Hoodia story from CNBC:

It covers up some great questions like:

1. What is Hoodia?(its a plant) What Is The Hoodia Plant? (its an African cactus)
   
2. Why so many people say it’s the real deal?
3. The risk & reward of weight loss.
4. Interview with H57 Hoodia CEO – the Hoodia guy.
5. And much more cool stuff.

Matthew McGarry from ABC News writes about the Hoodia plant and he repeats more or the less the same things that were mentioned on BBC News –

1. There are no known side effects – your brain just makes your body believe that you are full.
2. The Hoodia is an ugly Cactus from the Kalahari desert and it takes years to mature
3. The Bushmens are a tribe that has been eating Hoodia for years.
4. The license was sold to Phytopharm who sold it to Prifzer.
5. If the Hoodia becomes a success then the Bushmans will become millionares.

 Read the full story on ABC News

Hoodia gordonii is a leafless spiny cactus that grows naturally in South Africa and Namibia. The meat of the Hoodia gordonii plant helps to suppress appetite. That is why the Hoodia gordonii diet pills are considered one of the best natural weight loss pills.

Tom Mangold from BBC News ignites his readers mind with the “organic pill that kills the appetite and attacks obesity”

Tom mentions in his article about Hoodia that:

There are no known side effects – your brain just makes your body believe that you are full.

1. The Hoodia is an ugly Cactus from the Kalahari desert and it takes years to mature (I personally know that in Israel they are making these cactuses grow up much faster)
2. The Bushmens are a tribe that has been eating Hoodia for years.
3. The license was sold to Phytopharm who sold it to Prifzer.
4. If the Hoodia becomes a success then the Bushmans will become millionares.

But is the hoodia diet safe? Well if you are not a pregnant woman or suffer from any disease then yes - it is safe for you to use it. Read the full story on NBC News

Janet Shamlian from NBC Today made a story about Hoodia – She started by asking if a cactus plant can solve the weight loss problem and she went on talking about the magic diet pill which is produced from the south African cactus – Hoodia.

You just need to strip off the skin and the spines and consume the cactus.

Janet also mentions the variety of Hoodia products that causes people to get confused between the dried types and the regular tpes of Hoodia.

 Some say that this magical diet pill only sells hope, but other from their experience actually talk about how they lost weight with this product.

 Read the full story on NBC Today.