Confessions of a recovering “yo-yo” dieter

September 22, 2008

Ever since high school, I have mastered the art of dieting.  When I was young my goal was to achieve a certain look.  I was very thin, but dieting for girls was cool.  As a teenager the starvation diet worked very well for me.  The experts said if you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more.  That is what I did. 

In college aerobics became the rage.  After gaining the freshman 15 I had to do something.  Oh yeah, every time I wanted to lose weight I would still starve myself.  My senior year consisted of diet coke and yogurt.

After college I started to pay more attention to the “experts”.  The answer to my health concerns was OAT BRAN.  I bought everything that had the word oat bran on the box.  I even forced my neice and nephew to eat oat bran donuts for dessert.  They still talk about me for that one. From oat bran I went to shakes, low fat and then low carb.  If it was on Oprah, I did it.

I had great success with 90% of the diets I attempted.  Although I only lasted two weeks on Weight Watchers and one day on Slimfast, for the most part I was a very good dieter.  Then I hit forty and no matter what I did, I could not lose a pound.  There is a reason why diets don’t work and there is a smart way to lose weight and keep it off. 

Healthy regards,

Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC

Weight Management Coach

www.smartweightloss4u.com