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Slim Shots

The natural appetite suppressant

You’ve seen the commercials on TV telling you about the newest and best appetite suppressant cutely named Slim Shots.  They look like those little coffee creamer containers, are small enough to take with you to the office, on a trip or wherever you want to go.

Slim Shots have been around for several years but have only been introduced to the U.S. recently.  There has been an aggressive marketing campaign recently as you can tell with the TV hype.  Now available in vanilla flavor only but Slim Shots has said it will be coming out with a chocolate flavored version sometime in March.

Slim Shots act as a natural appetite suppressant by triggering you body’s appetite control mechanism thereby making you feel full quicker and longer.  Clinical studies have proven that Slim Shots can effectively reduce your appetite by 12 to 30 percent which makes you to eat less food without giving up some of the foods that you really enjoy.

Slim Shots are made with natural oat, palm oil, vanilla flavoring and an artificial sweetener.  (I guess their claim of all natural needs to be looked at, anything artificial is not natural).  Slim Shots contain no sugar of caffeine and so do not give you the jitters, they are not habit forming, and since they contain no animal products is user friendly for vegetarians and vegans.

It is recommended that you start out by taking one shot at breakfast and one shot at lunch time the first week. No dummy, a Slim shot, not the other kind.  After the first week you wean yourself to one Slim Shot per day in the morning.  Slim Shots contain only 20 calories per shot can be mixed in your favorite beverage of food if you don’t want your shot straight.

Of course a sensible healthy diet is the best way to lose weight or maintain your girlish figure, but if you think this might help you to curb your appetite, it probably would be worth a try.  A thirty shot package is affordably priced at $29.99 with discounts available if you purchase in bulk quantities.

If you want to try this out, mouse over to the Amazon Health Products button in the sidebar to order today.  If you are taking any medications consult your doctor before trying this or any other supplements.

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The Infamous Diet Plateau

Well we’re three weeks into the New Year, we’ve sworn in a new president, the outlook is rosy, and everything is good.

Or is it?  The good intentions of our resolutions to lose weight this year and the shedding of pounds we have experienced in the first three weeks have simultaneously come to a screeching halt.

We have arrived at the infamous diet plateau.  Our bodies have figured out that we are trying to deceive it and it has systematically adjusted itself to counteract our deception.  It is not anything you are doing wrong.

Our bodies are very complex machines that adjust accordingly to what we try and make it do and no matter how good our intentions may be, you simply cannot fake it out.  This is the precise reason most diets will not work, this is the reason most people become discouraged and quit a diet and then re-gain the weight lost.

It really doesn’t matter what type of diet you decided to try, the results are always the same.

Low Fat – Low Calorie – High fiber Diets

As discussed last, these diets don’t work for the long term weight loss program.  The Pritikin Diet, Dr Barbara Rolls’ Volumetric Program, or any of the numerous other low fat, low calorie, high fiber diets are all doomed to fail.

The reason behind this failure is really very simple.  First of all your body needs a certain amount of fat in order to survive.  Every cell in our body needs a little fat to keep that cell healthy.

Secondly, you cannot lose weight by starving yourself and that is precisely what you are doing by cutting fat and calories from your diet.  When you deprive the body of necessary fat and calories, the body automatically adjusts your metabolism accordingly.

Your body will detect the major drop in caloric intake and lower your metabolism as a defense.  If you are accustom to a 2500 to 3000 per day calorie diet, your body is accustom to burning approximately the same amount of calories per day.  If you lower your fat and calorie intake to 1200 calories per day, your body will slow your metabolism to burn fewer calories.  You can’t win this fight no matter how hard you try.

Low Carb Diets

Low carb diets are only marginally better for weight loss than low calorie, low fat diets.  Some of the more famous Low Carbohydrate Diets are of course the Atkin’s Diet, The Sonoma Diet, and The South Beach Diet.  All of these trigger a faster weight loss initially than other diet programs. 

This initial weight loss is achieved because when you limit the bodies intake of carbohydrates, the body starts to burn its store of glycogen.  Glycogen contains large amounts of water and by burning the glycogen in your body instead of carbohydrates, you naturally lose weight by the reduction of water in your body.

The body’s adaptation to you removing carbs can be very dangerous to you in the log term.  By switching from burning carbs to burning fat at first will leave your body with less energy and you feeling weaker.  The longer term problems with the reduction of carbohydrates are that your body defensively adjusts you metabolism to a state of ketosis i.e. burning fat not glucose for energy.

The state of ketosis can, in the long run, cause your organs to start failing, increase your risk of cancer, heart disease and bone loss.  It just ain’t worth it.

Another important reason not to take on a low carb diet is that it deprives your body of many minerals, vitamins, fiber, and anti-oxidants you need to maintain a healthy life and body.

Now don’t get discouraged, there are eating/diet programs that can safely help you lose weight with out the drastic measures of the aforementioned plans.  If you change your eating habits to a varied intake program, you can and will lose weight without the problems or unhealthy consequences.

For a healthier and less intrusive plan for you and your body, go to my sister site http://fat2phatt.net for an in depth preview.

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