Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet: A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body

Introduction One of the more underserved segments of our society is the over 90 million individuals who are constantly fighting the battle of the bulge. Our misconceptions and biases overflow when they concern people who are overweight. Over the years I've counseled thousands of people who are trying to lose weight and I've seen that, contrary to popular myth, overweight people are anything but lazy. They go to great lengths to try to get themselves trimmer, making every honest effort to follow the advice of diet books and weight-loss "experts." The fan that they usually don't succeed is due not to lack of will or work but rather to the quality of advice they're following. Well, the advice here is going to be a little different from what you're used to. You probably purchased this book with the hope that this is the last diet you'll ever have to use. That's certainly my intention too. But at the outset, I would ask you to understand the difference between this book on weight control and all the other diet books out there--namely that this isn't really a diet book! There is no diet here, at least not in sense of a traditional deprivation-oriented regimen. Instead, this is an altogether new way of helping you understand why it's not your fault you're fat and of getting you on the road to never being fat again. I'm confident that if you simply approach this with an open mind and a sense of determination, you'll soon be seeing positive results. First, let's get an overview of the problem. More American adults are overweight than ever before--about 97 million. This constitutes over half the adult population, up from 43 percent in 1960. We spend about $33 billion a year in efforts to slim down, but obviously all that money isn't doing the trick. Many overweight people have been grappling with the problem for years and have been on just about every diet there is. They have gone on high-protein diets, on calorie-counting diets, and on fat-free diets. With each attempt there is a belief that "This time I'll succeed," but in the end they ultimately fail. Nobody wants to be overweight, although sometimes our society implies they do. We blame people for being chronically lazy and suggest that it's their fault that they're fat. But I don't believe that they are necessarily to blame. There are so many factors that influence a person's level of fitness--and fatness--and if we're not aware of how these factors affect us, we can end up battling extra pounds for an entire lifetime and never understanding what's going on or why we are losing the battle. The physical factors include food sensitivities and allergic reactions, carbohydrate intolerance, and hormonal imbalances. Also, misunderstandings about what constitutes proper eating--for instance, isn't a fat-free diet ideal for a fat individual?--can perpetuate a weight problem. We'll be looking at all of these factors in this book as well as at how to overcome them. But factors that go beyond the physical are even more important in determining whether you conquer your problems with your weight. What I'm referring to are some basic misconceptions that you may have. First, have you, like many Americans, bought into the idea that there's a magic-bullet solution to all physical problems? If so, not only will you probably not lose weight, but you may ultimately gain weight as you become disillusioned with each "miracle" weight-loss supplement or approach you try. We'll be discussing some of these illusory approaches here and why they fail. Second, if you believe that losing weight involves feeling deprived and unhappy, you're not going to succeed. You'll sabotage yourself first, out of fear of feeling awful. The good news is that the truth is just the opposite--after a short period of adjustment, the healthy lifestyle you adopt in order to lose weight the right way will make you feel more energetic, fulfilled, anNull, Gary is the author of 'Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet: A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body' with ISBN 9780767904735 and ISBN 0767904737.