Kick the Dieting Habit

Fat Loss Quickie and guest Traci Knoppe

Yesterday I was listening to Scott Tousignant’s interview with Traci Knoppe …

I came across Traci (@TraciKnoppe) in Lynn Terry’s Elite mastermind group (and indeed she’s been a great source of help to me) I met Scott there too.   Scott’s specialty is The Fat Loss Quickie – cheekily named … where his main objective is to get people moving and he provides motivational coaching to get us off our bums (so to speak) encouraging us to simply get on with it (moving that is!).

Scott began by asking Traci about how she came to be online, of itself a pioneering story … But Traci had been invited along primarily to talk about an entirely different subject, that of her experience in undergoing Gastric Bypass Surgery …

Fern Speaks Out

To digress for a moment, this topic was highlighted here, when the speculation grew about the (then) This Morning co-presenter Fern Britton’s weight loss.  She spoke out in June 2008, when she was outed by the press.

I guess the 2-year lapse, before it was revealed, gave her time to adjust.  She held her dignity, made no apologies and didn’t lose face.  Philip Schofield and fellow co-host, stated to the Sun newspaper; “Its no one else’s business that she had a gastric band fitted, despite the public back-lash against her”.  Some defended her right to privacy, such as Observer columnist Barbara Ellen.

I think if we consider the artificiality of those who’ve bought into a Dorian Gray-esque reality where every captured moment has a price tag, I respect Fern Britton all the more.  It can’t have been an easy situation to manage.  What she did say was that she was happy with her procedure but didn’t want to influence others.

In Marked Contrast

Fern Britton comes across as someone with a sunny disposition, she and Philip Schofield often got into fits of the giggles while presenting  their morning show, and this endeared them to the nation.  She also displayed great depth and sensitivity when faced with emotionally charged subjects or interviewees with harrowing stories.

However, Traci Knoppe’s revelations give a stark contrast on what the Gastric Bypass Surgery does comprise …

Traci has a down-to-earth, genuine, mother earth personality.  She has 3-young children (still at home) and another 3 grown with children of their own.  Her husband turned house-dad and Traci (they home school their kids) have recently swapped roles as Traci’s business has really begun to soar in the world of Internet Marketing .. with her Beginner to Blogger package (available as an eCourse and just recently released on DVD) …

Her experience since her surgery, over the last 5-yrs, has been anything but a celebrity-like transformation.

Bottom line

Traci talks candidly about her history with weight from childhood and what led her to take this step. She tells Scott (@FatLossQuickie) about the physiological transformation that takes place when the gut is changed this way … the length of intestine reduced, the pre and post operation experience and the long adjustment period, including the ongoing monitoring, checkups, and inherent challenges.

Fast forward to now and Traci’s physiology has not delivered the ‘normality’ she’d set out to achieve.  And although she can now eat regularly, instead of the 1/meal/day/1600 calories (in order not to gain more weight) that was her pre-op reality, she concludes that she swapped one set of problems for a whole new ball-game.

I urge you to listen to the interview …

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Tried the diets, patches, pills and potions!

Is there a flaw with what we might call ‘the usual suspects’ … There’s plenty of scientific information out there to show why they don’t work for us.  In the main … its physiological … when we deprive the body it goes into starvation mode and stores extra fat for when we resume ‘normal’ eating habits and when this happens we can end up larger than we were before we dieted (over time 2-5-years is the estimated time-scale).

Which is all very well!  But what if you’re like me and you love food …   And how can we get away from it … unlike other substances that people stop abusing themselves with, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, we have to eat to live … Dilemma!  And one of the most frustrating aspects of dieting is the time, energy, money and deprivation we invest in it:

• Finding a weight loss program we can live with
• The anticipation that this time will be The One
  
• Having that first weigh-in

Then the hard work commences – where we:

• Struggle to adapt, and convince ourselves its worthwhile while simultaneously telling everyone around us how great it is
• Accommodating the rest of the family on both the taste and budget fronts
  
• Living with the system of counting sins, points, calories etc
• Attending weekly weigh-in’s with their attendant high’s and low’s
• Stretching the will-power to its limit
• And if we’ve managed that miracle we might just achieve TARGET
• And big high five there
• Deal with the overwhelming urge to just EAT – after all – we’ve earned it haven’t we?

And this is where the journey really begins although there is little attention paid to it … yet isn’t a bit like learning to drive a car … Once you pass your test … the learning really begins …  and I was probably worse than most … but now I’m an excellent driver ….  And most of it comes down to trial and error and a steep learning … No longer being able to rely on the instructor telling us what to do next … we have to make the decisions, when we come to the crossroads, one-way systems, new towns and motorways.  Its not that dissimilar … in that we have to learn to navigate our way through the challenges that present themselves and we learn new habits.

However there is some Good News … All along

ITS NOT BEEN YOU!

No seriously … The problem with dieting systems is that they were trying to make changes on a conscious level, and although habit can certainly be changed that way … it takes longer and requires you to consciously engage … so having a dieting plan and trying to cheat it by using the daily points/sins on sweet-tooth goodies (for example) ultimately won’t work …

What I’m going to share are some wonderful quick-change techniques that enable change at the deeper level of the subconscious mind that will enable both parts of the mind to work in unison without having to rely on willpower …

And a solution is at hand …

Get in touch for more information … I’m excited to share these techniques that will get all parts of your mind on-board to fulfill the ambition you’ve craved for so long …  and its going to be a fun day …

You’ll meet other like-minded people who want to make the same impact on their eating …

From one ‘foodie’ to another … and you WON”T HAVE to change your LOVE of FOOD just the way its been treating you!

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Kick the Dieting Habit

So to one of my favorite topics … Food …

But this site isn’t necessarily about recipes, or diets.  Instead I want to talk about How to Change Your Relationship with Food and still be able to love it.

Isn’t it that we just got into bad habits.  We became reliant on diets, patches, pills and potions (and drinks) to save us from ourselves.

Question

What is it about the people that have been successful with any ‘dieting’ products found on the market.  Why did they work for them and not for me?

What is that they did that I couldn’t … There seems to be ONE answer and that was they approached it as a long-term plan.  They didn’t just see the ‘diet’ as a quick-fix, where they would manage to reach their target weight, and then go back to their old regime.  The evidence strongly suggests that the people that diets work for (around 5%) instead change their lifestyle.

• Would you like to change your body shape?
• Are you willing to change your mindset?
• Would you like to say goodbye to all diets, patches, potions and pills?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then read on … this site has more information to unveil!

But does change need to involve great sacrifice?  Or is it just about the way we frame it …

Can you think of any other area of life … where you want to make improvements, get ahead and be your best self, i.e. relationships, career, finances, friendship, where you simply expect a short term struggle in exchange for a long-term solution.  Is it that we want the result without putting in the work?

So why do we try to trick ourselves into believing its different with weight or more importantly our relationship with food?

Jane