I’ve always had a battle with my weight. I’ve been able to keep slim only by watching the fat content of everything I eat. I’ve always been the one my friends ask when they want to know the fat content of any food they’re eating and it became a joke that I was the “fat calculator”. However, I feel nature has been a little unfair on me because I seem to stay well covered no matter how little I eat. Only by starving myself in the past have I actually lost loads of weight. But that sort of diet seems to take most of the pleasure out of life. They also leave me feeling lethargic, irritable and unbelievably hungry and I’ve always slipped back into my bad dietary habits.
I’ve tried a couple of fad diets, such as the Atkins diet, but it made my breath smell and you can’t eat any convenience foods, such as pasta, bread and potato. It also costs a fortune as my shopping basket was literally emptying a zoo each week.
However, this Christmas I really did ignore the fat content of all foods. I just thought “well I put on weight no matter what I eat so why spoil the festive season by making it the famine season”.
But the problem is that as soon as I loosened my grip on my fat control it all went a bit out of control. It all came home to roost after I was given my Christmas presents. I was given some clothes for Christmas and they were size 16 and I announced to my family that they had got the wrong size and that I was actually a comfortable 14. They insisted I tried them on and to my embarrassment they were quite tight. I hadn’t actually been shopping for a while because I had started to find it depressing that I did not fit into the dress size I wanted. There was only so many times I could say the shop was sizing small. That really persuaded me to diet seriously. As it wasn’t just friends who were having a laugh at my weight but my family as well.
On the 1st January I went back on my low fat diet and found it as hard as usual. A work colleague, who has a similar metabolism, had been losing weight and I noticed her spraying from a tube into her mouth several times a day. I asked her what she was doing. We’ve always been quite competitive, especially over dieting, so I was intrigued to see if she was using a new aid. She explained that it was a spray of vitamins and minerals formulated to remove cravings, make you feel fuller and give you the vitamins you usually miss when dieting. I thought it looks a bit of fun I might as well give it a go.
The greatest benefit of the spray is that it stops cravings. Every time I want a snack, like a pack of crisps or really need a sugar hit from coke or chocolate, I spray into my mouth, and it removes the craving. I have started being able to go between most meals without snacking and without the usual pain. I also spray before meals as it contains ingredients which make the meal’s effects last longer. I lost weight immediately from using it. Not because it makes me slimmer but it has helped me keep to my diet. I’ve lost weight pretty steadily since it arrived in early January and I’m keeping it off. The only problem is that I thought the spray was quite expensive at 29.95 but it was a month’s supply and has been more than worth it to me so far.
Last updated: 02 June 2006
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