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"Why the Best Weight Loss Programs
Fail so Many People, and How You Can Fight the Odds."

from the author of "Weight Loss: How to Keep Your Commitment," A discussion of the relationship between food addiction and other types of addiction, and a method for overcoming food issues!

Even the best weight loss programs and diets fail most people. Here's why:

1. Huge international corporations are making billions of dollars getting us and our kids hooked on sugar, white flour and other fattening foods.

2. We aren't taught the skills needed to get ourselves "un-hooked." There are plenty of great weight loss programs out there, but what the world lacks is how to stay committed to them. It isn't enough to know that fattening food is bad for us, and why. We need to know exactly how to kick the habits that make us fat.

The good news: Almost everyone who becomes addicted to drugs is able to let go of the habit without joining a group or going to a treatment center. If you know how they do it, you can use the same techniques to kick the fattening food habit. You can do it. I did it, so I know it works.

Just for a second, I'd like you to consider this little scenario. A variation happens to all of us.

It's your mid-morning break, and you're standing in front of the candy machine in the break room. You've been on a diet for 15 days, and none of the candy bars in the machine are listed on your diet. Neither are those cookies in the plastic wrap, or the salted peanuts. Even the gum down on the bottom row has sugar in it, and you know you aren't supposed to have any.

Right now, at this moment, what is it that will help you
turn away from that candy machine and go back to your desk? Is it the the diet book that's sitting on your coffee table at home? Is it the lunch you packed, along with healthy snacks, still sitting in the lunchroom fridge? Is it the group you've joined, that meets next Thursday?

Right now, while you're looking at that candy bar, what is it that you need? Before your diet started you bought one specific kind of candy bar every single day. Sometimes you bought two of them. Or three. Your fingers know the vending machine's code for that particular candy bar, and you could punch in the numbers blindfolded. You want one now. What do you need?

You need self control, don't you? You need to make the decision that you already know you should make. You need to be able to move your feet away from the machine, without feeling like you've just left your best friend behind. You need to be able to make good, conscious choices, without being tricked or overwhelmed by your previous habits or cravings.

You need to be able to do what the recovering alcoholic does when she's offered a drink at the party. You need to be able to say "No, thanks," with a smile.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could do that easily? Without an internal struggle - and without obsessing about that candy bar after you get back to your desk?

That's why I wrote my new book, Weight Loss: How to Keep Your Commitment.

Here's what those big food corporations don't want you to think about:

Over 50% of Americans are overweight, including over 8 million children. Obesity has become a world-wide epidemic. The World Health Organization has listed obesity as one of the top 10 causes of preventable death and disease. The known cause of all this disease and human misery is the food on our supermarket shelves.

But when you look in the mirror, you don't see a world-wide problem - you see a personal problem. If you get angry, it is at yourself.

Why? You don't like the way you look, and the health statistics have you worried. You try one diet after another, and they all work - for a while. Then you wake up one morning and find out you weigh more than you did last year. It's understandable if you get angry at yourself. But it doesn't help.

I'm just an ordinary person, like you, who struggled with my weight for years. I have an extra advantage because I addictions in college, and I have read extensively through medical journals and research papers. I used this information to create a program for myself that helped me overcome my cravings for sugar and fat. I lost 37 pounds in a little under 4 months.

I personally think that there are two things that need to happen in this country, and they need to happen soon:

We need to get angry about the real cause of obesity - the poor quality of our food supply.

There are some very promising moves towards politicizing this issue. For instance, Finland has passed laws that keep unhealthy, fattening food out of the nation's schools, and The World Health Organization is working with national leaders and international food corporations to try to negotiate voluntary controls that would make our food healthier and less fattening.

We need to support those efforts whenever we can.

We also need to stop getting angry at ourselves.

You probably have a self-judge living inside your head (we all do, don't we?) and that voice has given you plenty of lectures already. Has it helped you lose weight? Probably not. In fact, your own negative self-judgment can prevent you from seeing the real cause of your obesity, and that can keep you from taking effective steps towards change.

In order to regain your confidence and compassion for yourself, while also developing the skills you need in order to lose weight, you need to know that your cravings for fattening foods are perfectly natural. It isn't healthy, but it's natural.

Why do you crave the kinds of foods that make you fat?

You know that fattening foods damage your health. You know that being fat can lead to diabetes, heart disease, and some kinds of cancer - in addition to ruining your appearance and your self-esteem. But you (all of us) crave these foods anyway. Why? It's an addiction.

All addictions happen in much the same way. Take heroin, for instance. This drug is a highly refined substance that isolates certain chemicals from the poppy plant. This plant, by a quirk of nature, contains a chemical that mimics a substance that is naturally found in the human brain. Heroin makes people feel very good (for a while) because the brain is already built to react that way to that particular chemical.

Heroin was first created for good reasons - it is a wonderful pain reliever, and its inventors believed it would not be as addictive as morphine, another substance derived from the poppy plant. Of course, it has proven to be highly addictive, and heroin dealers make so much money that some nations are able to finance their wars by growing poppies.

Cocaine and methamphetamines are also highly refined chemicals that originated from natural plants. They also mimic chemicals that naturally exist in the human brain. They make people feel good (for a while).

What does this all mean to you if you are caught up in cravings for sugar, white flour, and fat?

For one thing, it means that it is very important to learn about nutrition. The food supply really isn't healthy, so it is vital that you learn to recognize what is real food, and what is poison. And that you teach those things to your kids.

After you choose a healthy diet you need to have a way to stick with it. You'll be working against your own instinctual rules. That means that you need to use techniques that are used by addicts who successfully give up their dangerous habits.

You have to fight on two fronts: You have your own instinctual cravings begging for that candy bar, and you're convinced you don't have time to fix a healthy meal every night. I can't help you find more time, but I can help you fight your cravings.

In order to help you understand the cause of your instinctual cravings, and to learn the skills necessary for overcoming them, I have written an ebook that gives a step-by-step program that changes the way you think about food.

The book calls on methods used successfully by the addicts who manage to kick their habits without joining groups or entering treatment centers.

The centerpiece of the program is a powerful technique borrowed from Tibet, called "walking meditation," which will help you overcome those thoughts that tell you that you "need" fattening foods. I used these techniques myself, and they helped me lose 37 pounds in a little under 4 months. I have not regained the weight for over a year, because I continue to use the program on a daily basis.

Have my cravings gone away? No. There are still times when I want one of the foods that made me fat. Cinnamon rolls were one of my big downfalls. Sometimes I can still "taste" a cinnamon roll in my imagination, and still find myself wishing I could have one. But it isn't the obsessive kind of thought that would have put me in the kitchen two years ago, baking up a batch of rolls - and then eating the entire pan all by myself.

The cravings don't go away, because they are built into the human brain. But they lose their power, if you practice the program in Weight Loss: How to Keep Your Commitment.

The most powerful technique in the book only takes 15 minutes a day, and can be practiced while you drive to work in the morning. It will put you in control of your thoughts, help reduce your stress, and change the way you think about food.

Will this program work for everyone? Of course not. You're surrounded by mountains of unhealthy, fattening food. You're also surrounded by friends and family who eat all that stuff, and who think they are being nice when they offer it to you. That in itself makes any attempt at losing weight difficult.

In fact, the failure rate of diets is 95%, while the failure rate of treatment centers that care for the most difficult cases of alcoholism and drug addiction is only 85%. No book that promises 100% success in weight loss is being honest. If you're an alcoholic, you can get away from alcohol. But you can't get away from fattening food.

That's why every diet book author admits that diets alone don't work. Overcoming the instinctual cravings (addictions) to fattening foods takes skills that aren't taught in schools, and they aren't part of most weight loss programs. You have the strength to take control, but you don't know where to find it. That's what this book is for.

For this program to work, you must be truly committed to losing weight and staying with a healthy diet. You must find a weight loss program that gives you the nutrients you need, while eliminating the dangerous chemicals of sugar, white flour, and many kinds of fat. This means you may need to do some reading, and talk to your doctor. I'm not going to promise it's easy, or that there's any magic in it. It may feel like magic, the first time you walk by that candy machine and don't feel the compulsive urge to buy one - but it's not.

You will also need to be willing to practice the methods I describe in my book. Just reading the book won't make you lose weight. However, even if you don't use the techniques in the book, you will still gain a much stronger understanding of the nature of your instinctual cravings, and you should become more compassionate and loving towards your own body. This, in itself, can actually improve your health.

The ebook is available for instant download, and costs just $12.95

I'm a "real" book lover myself, and know that many people are uncomfortable about buying a book that they can't see and hold. Because of that, I offer a 100% money-back guarantee. If you order the book and find that it isn't what you had expected - or have any reason whatsoever for wanting your money back, simply send me an email. I will then request my credit card processor to credit your account.

Take a chance at changing your life. Read Weight Loss: How to Keep Your Commitment today, and get the skills you need to let go of your cravings and take control of your health. You will learn the secrets that help drug addicts give up their dangerous habits. You will learn what "naturally thin" people know, but what the rest of us need to learn. And you can learn, with this easy, step-by-step program.

Click here to order Weight Loss: How to Keep Your Commitment for only $12.95.

Weight Loss: How to Keep Your Commitment
© 2002 Jonni Good

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