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             Before you deal 
              with a weight reduction diet, you have to have the right attitude 
              towards the whole thing. Firstly there is no short cut. There is 
              no magic machine, powder or pill, which will make you thin over 
              night. Neither does crash diets, fasting, skipping meals or starvation 
              at health farms work. People believe that the more they pay towards 
              a weight loss package, the faster and better will be the results. 
            There is only 
              one way to weight reduction or fat removal from your body. Eat normal 
              healthy balanced food and cut out all fatty foods. Please remember 
              this weight reduction is a severe treatment for a short term, three 
              months to lose 10kg. During those three months, you cannot eat fatty 
              foods at all. Tell yourself, I have eaten it for 32 years, now I 
              don't eat it for three months nothing will happen to me. It's similar 
              to breaking your leg. There is only one treatment for a fractured 
              leg. You have to immobilize it. You have to put it in a plaster 
              cast and you cannot dance at all for six to eight weeks.  You 
              have a party at home, every body is having a ball dancing the night 
              away. You love to dance but this time you have to sit out and watch 
              them, You feel terrible but know that in a few months time you will 
              be fine and back on the floor - provided you make sure you don't 
              try any dancing at all till your leg has completely healed.  
            The next problem is the common 
              cry, " I don't have will power." I believe that intelligence 
              may vary from person to person but all of us have been blessed with 
              will power, determination and achiever instinct, only it must be 
              applied now in this area of diet control. Ninety five percent of 
              those who come to me for diet control saying they have no will power 
              are champion athletes, brilliant in studies and at work, excellent 
              house keepers or perfect wives and mothers. What you have to do 
              is take that will power that enabled you to rise to those heights 
              and use it to follow a strict balanced diet. 
            Actually I believe that it's 
              not so much of a will power battle but a right and regular eating 
              battle. If you were driving your car to my house, you would check 
              your petrol gauge to see if you have enough fuel to reach my home. 
              If you saw the needle dipping towards empty you would say, " 
              look for petrol pump." At that point you will not say let me 
              go back towards my house where I get good reliable fuel but you 
              would fill up petrol from any pump, anywhere. This same thing happens 
              with our food. There is a chemical in the brain called seretonin, 
              which checks whether there is enough fuel or energy in your blood. 
              When the energy level drops, seretonin sends a message to the body 
              to look for food. Then you wont say let me look for fruit or salad 
              but you will eat anything and everything available whether it is 
              fatty or not. The big secret is to eat your meals right and make 
              sure you have a regular snack of fruit or a glass of milk between 
              meals to keep you from getting low energy and reaching for the wrong 
              foods. 
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