DIETS MAKE YOU FAT - Lisa Clark

Part one...

Having tried pretty much every diet available, and while I most definitely work the curves I’ve got, I know that to be a healthier, happier me, I need to lose at least four stone.

Saying it out loud is scary and daunting and almost instantly has me reaching for the family sized bar of chocolate, which is why I am completely ready to try anything that promises a ‘new approach to weight loss.’

The blurb:This programme is aimed at helping people who are ready for a completely new approach, people that have very likely tried everything else, don’t know where to turn, desperate for help. People that are prepared to work at it in a very different way to the traditional and negative diet pattern.

What do you get? You get a manual which works on changing how you feel about yourself. You also get 10 CD’s that work on helping to achieve the different stages in the programme. You also get email support – if you are struggling with an aspect of the programme, you can email Ann and she will give you the support, advice and insight that you need at that time. The CD’s use a deep relaxation, which is in fact hypnosis in order to help re-programme your mind so that you can lose weight - forever.

I was super-keen to get started on the programme, so when it arrived, I listened to all the CDs once through, and am now listening to one each morning.

Shall I tell you what I like already? That the programme doesn’t try to patronise me.

It doesn’t tell you to eat healthily, to cut out processed foods or to take more exercise, because if you, like me, have tried to lose weight before, chances are you know all those things anyway, right?

This programme addresses why you can’t do what you already know.

The 10 parts of the programme are:

    * The Power of the Imagination
    * Have a Goal Each Day
    * Belief
    * Think Success, get that Winning Feeling
    * Win the Battle on Negative Thinking
    * Acceptance – Be Yourself
    * Relaxation
    * Lose Your Dread of Failure
    * The Value of Mistakes
    * Confidence is a State of Happiness

According to Ann, all of these things are the reasons we have been unable to lose the weight for any lasting amount of time before.

This is a step-by-step process to change the way your mind works, forever, which is why, when Ann told me to dump the scales, well, I didn’t need telling twice, this may prove difficult in updating you in actual weight-loss stats, but then that isn’t what the programme is about.

Instead, I’ll let you know how practical this programme actually is when faced with eating out and being tempted to order the biggest dessert on the menu, or when you want to reach for the biscuit tin for comfort. Will I really be able to control my eating forever? Can re-programming my mind really help me to lose weight?

…So far, so good.

I am so not an exercise kind of girl and am more than able to talk myself out of any physical activity with relative ease. So imagine my surprise when I woke up yesterday morning and actually wanted to go walking!

I’m doing a 13 mile sponsored Walk New York in November for the charity The Children’s Society – www.justgiving.com/pinklisaclark - and I’ve been meaning to start training since I signed up in April, but like I say, I didn’t.

Using the CDs has made me actually focus on the goals – ‘I don’t want to be skinny, I just want to wear a size 14 and not a size 20, I love who I am so why do I keep putting trashy food in my body?’ It feels good!...