STEP 2 - Read and learn from other people's mistakes

I red about a lot of diets and I kept all kinds of diets (some crazy). I have lot's of books on this topic. These books usually include tables with food calories - it's good for you to have such a list. It's useful to know how many calories you get if you eat a certain food.

Calorie Calculator – how many calories you burn during various activities
Daily Meal Planner – how to stick to your diet goals by carefully planning your meals.
Recipe Finder – exactly what is says...
Herbs and their healing effects
Vitamins you can use in treating diseases

Before the danish diet, I kept several other diets. I disliked Herbalife (hate is the right word). I lost 5 kg (~10 pounds) in one month, I paid a lot for it (well, I'm not Bill Gates, you know - not even related...), and I gained back those kilos in less than two weeks, and I continued to gain weight... I hated even the taste of it. Don't get me wrong. Maybe it was my fault... but any of my friends that tried it didn't do much better than me.
I tried a high protein diet (a kind of Atkins plan). If I think better, this one was worse (for me) than Herbalife. The diet didn't allow me to eat vegetables and fruits (as I needed), but I could eat unrestricted amounts of meat, fish, shellfish, poultry, eggs, and cheese. Jesus, maybe I've got the wrong diet, but it was terrible... I quitted after several days because I really felt so bad... so "heavy". And I didn't loose weight. NADA! ZIP! ZERO!
I tried the Grepfruit Diet – gee, I got sick of so MUCH grepfruit (3 weeks!), even if I like grepfruit. Plus tea or coffee for dinner?!? I couldn't keep that for more than 3 days...

I even tried that "splendid" diet for persons that have nothing better to do – just eat every two hours! Every morning I went to work with a bag full of stuff to eat (dry prunes, eggs, cheese, apple, whatever...). I was really annoyed that I HAD to eat every two hours. Maybe this was the key, you ended up by being sooooo... desperate of eating...

gee, isn't she fat enough, does she have to eat every two hours? No wonder she's so FAT

I didn't try the diet with cabbage soup. Others were successful (not for long), but when I thought that I have to eat EVERY DAY cabbage soup (along with other stuff) for several days... my nerves cracked! I hate monotony, that's why I prefer now to create my own diets, based on what I've learned so far, (especially Negative Calorie Foods).

an example of this diet: Crazy for Cabbage
another example of that soup, called The catabolic soup, you can find here or here, just to know what I'm talking about.
Mayo Clinic considers that it's possible benefits aren't long-lasting. Once people go off the diet, most quickly regain any lost weight.

I bought the book with Demis Roussos diet (the guy lost a lot of pounds, as you might know). Well, if you have enough money to hire a cook, you can keep this fancy diet. My mom said Honey, I don't have time for those crazy fancy diets of Roussos. Just find a "normal" diet for normal people, and I'll cook for you.
I got a book (in Romanian) on food with negative calories. What this thing means is that such a food consumes more calories to be "digested" than it brings to your body. Usually they contain a lot of water, few proteins & fat (few, few). They are rich in minerals and vitamins. Eating such "selected" food, you can loose weight without starving to death...

I found recently on Internet a company The Equilibria Group that sells a book called Negative Calorie Diet Workbook and Cookbook. Don't get me wrong: I don't encourage you to buy their book (I'm neutral, as we say), but if you have the patience for their page to load, and good eyes to read those fancy fonts they use, you can have an idea how this negative calories work. They also have a Negative Calorie Diet Newsletter that you can subscribe (FREE) for it.
But if you have time to read (you should, if you're reading this) you should read what this guy has to say – it's very close to what I'm trying to say...

I have another book that teaches you how to "associate / dissociate" food. For instance, you should never eat meat with french fries - it's a disaster for your diet. But you can have meat (associate) with green salad, for instance - it's perfect. I'll try to include (please give me time) all "allowed" food combinations in order for you to eat and loose weight in the same time.
About the Mayo Diet: the problem is there is NO Mayo Clinic Diet ! No one knows the origin of the diet myth...
What I didn't do (so far...): surgery (read HERE to see why), hypnosis (who knows what I might found out? That I was Cleopatra? Or a dog?)

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