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How My Need To Lose Weight Fast Resulted In Finding My True Self

By Louise Drygala

As a child I loved sugar. I had sugary cereals, toast with caramel on it, freshly squeezed artificial fruit punch. I don’t blame my mother. It was what all mothers fed their kids. No one knew the possible side effect of a nutrient deficient diet. As a matter of fact, I think that many people still, to this day, do not understand. All we want is that magic diet pill to satisfy our need to lose weight fast.

We are motivated to lose weight, each time we decide to get on the diet band wagon. But what happens, we fall off the wagon and we get more and more discouraged each time. We don’t even notice other “symptoms” of excess weight. We are not taught what necessary nutrients our bodies need to survive. We are given/taught the daily food guide, but not much beyond that. And who follows that anyway? And because we are a fast society we believe that to lose weight fast is going to be a no brainer.

Let me paint you a picture. You get a brand new car. You love the way it drives. It is so smooth you barely hear the engine. Have any of you ever tried to restart a new car because you didn’t think it was on? I did. I had my first car close to 10 years. And to keep it in top shape I serviced it regularly. I learned that I had to change the oil, I needed to get the spark plugs changed, and I serviced my breaks regularly for security. As the car got older, it didn’t run as smooth as it used to and a bit of rust started showing up on the exterior.

A friend of mine that had the same car, yet hers worked a bit better, lasted a bit longer. The reason: her husband was a car buff and knew a bit more (ok lots more) about cars than I did. He was an amateur mechanic, not by trade but as a passion.

You may wonder what this story has to do with weight loss? Not much actually. However, what I want to illustrate to you is that the more we know about the “mechanics” of something, the longer that something will last. And the better it will run. That also goes for our body.

Everyone knows that when you go for an oil change the mechanic first drains the old oil. And how many times have you seen ads for motor oil that tell you that using a premium oil in your vehicle will extend the life of that vehicle? Or the benefits of using premium versus regular gasoline? Our bodies, including our brain, are the same. Weight loss should not come in the form of a magic diet pill, but rather as a side effect of proper maintenance and premium fuel we give it.

Let’s go back to my childhood… Eating loads of sugar, empty carbohydrates, and chemically enhanced or engineered protein is not considered premium fuel. Actually, it’s empty food, containing no nutrients. The food guide says a balanced diet consists of 4 food groups. But your typical honey nut cereals are not a source of grains. French fries are not really a vegetable and milk with strawberry or chocolate syrup will not help you grow healthy bones.

What eating these foods will do is prevent your body from functioning at its best. And one day, we find ourselves looking for that magic diet pill for easy weight loss.

In my case I was in my forties, with 3 kids, and feeling “Forty, Fat and Frumpy”. What happened to me? Is this what getting old feels like? Will I be a couch potato for the rest of my life? I don’t think so….I want to live until am over 80 and that is a long time of flipping channels looking for something to motivate me. I wanted to lose weight fast but did not have the energy to do anything about it. I had cut out the junk food before; I had tried to eat well balanced meals. Why was nothing working for me?

I remember the day my life changed. I met a lady who introduced me to a program that would nourish my body and remove the impurities. It wasn’t designed to lose weight fast but to help the my body regain balance by feeding it the rich nutrients it had been lacking and also remove all the impurities, at a cellular level. To my surprise, I began to lose weight fast.

Impurities come from many sources, not only the food we eat, the water we drink, but think about the air we breathe, the chemicals we use to soften this and color that and plump up whatever. Sure we can limit the impurities, but we can’t stop them all together. Somewhere, somehow we get exposed to pollution and it affects the way we feel and look.

Life does not end at forty. Not only did I lose weight fast and safe but I found myself again. I feel better physically and emotionally. All pistons are firing! I am a smooth running machine.