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Diet advice based on real
world personal experience!
“Meal-Plan
Type Diets
Just Didn’t
Work For Me
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Unfortunately,
They Likely Won’t Work for You Either!”
My "Big Diet
Company" Meal-Plan Experience
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What you’ll
find in this open letter is information that will help you better
understand the Meal-Plan approach to losing weight and my experience
with
it. I wish I had this type of information to consider before I
invested my time & hope and wasted my hard earned money.
It's my sincere
wish
that you find my
experiences and my
recommendation to be of
great value as
you evaluate your weight loss options.
Please note
that I do not mention any Diet Company names on this page due to
threats of legal action. I
hope you can
still get some value from the content regardless.
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Hi.
My name is
Jessica Seymour.
At the time I'm
writing this, I'm 38 years
young and have a
fantastic family of 5 including Craig my handsome hubby, and our 3 boys
- Conner, Alexander, and Trent. That's us below in
a recent picture.
I've been
pretty active and
physically fit for most of my life and didn't really have weight issues
until I gave birth to our first son Trent just over 5 years ago.
A year after giving birth to Trent, I still weighed 173 pounds and I
was so embarrassed about how much I weighed that I knew I had to do
something about it.
The extra
weight made my sleep fitful, my ankles
would swell up, and I would get headaches daily. Unfortunately though,
my body had so many aches and pains that I couldn’t find the energy or
will power to be more physically active, so I had to focus my efforts
on diet.
My first
choice, for no particular reason, was to try one of the
Meal-Plan based programs - but
that proved to be a
short lived, eye opening experiment I’ll just call; “Can Guess what
you’re eating now?” You can read about it further on down this
page.
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I then joined
Jenny
Craig, but
that turned out to be a huge mistake for a number of reasons which you
can read all about here.
About six
months after my Jenny Craig fiasco,
I decided to give dieting another shot and signed up for Weight
Watchers at the urging of a good friend whose father had seen
good
results with it. Learn more about my unsuccessful Weight Watchers
experience here.
The good news
is that at the time of writing this letter, I weigh in at a
healthy
and happy 128 pounds, I've lost my belly and most of my
butt and have maintained this weight within a
couple of pounds for over two years now :-).
This despite
my lack of success with Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and Meal-Plan
based diets.
My weight loss “secret
weapon” that has worked wonders
for me uses a unique approach called Calorie Shifting, But
before we get into what is working for me, please take a few minutes to
read more about my experience with the Meal-Plan based diet that I
joined.
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About Commercial Meal-Plan based
diets…
Generally; the most popular meal-plan based commercial diet programs
promote their products using extensive media advertising.
Many also use paid celebrity endorsements to
validate their products.
The
advertisments tend to focus on convincing potential customers that you
can eat and enjoy all of the delicious foods that you desire and still
lose boat
loads of weight.
They say these
amazing results can be acheived because they will provide you with all
of the delicious, healthy and nutritious food that you need...
in easy to prepare pre-portioned sizes.
Each program
has its own differant spin as to why their product is better than the
next - some focusing on nutritive value, some on taste and others
focusing on price.
Ultimately what
you are buying is convenience through the consumption of their
calorie restricted prepackaged meals (approx. 1200 - 1500 calories per
meal), which are definitely convenient and helpful in
dealing with controlling your portion size.
The downsides
are that many
people do not like the food choices and that getting into the habit of
buying your meals fails to
prepare you "the dieter" for real world healthy food preparation
once the diet ends.
Therefore,
the keys to success with this type of diet program is
to ensure that you can
stomach the food and get through the transitional period where
the dieter goes from prepackaged to regular, prepared meals.
That is
unless you
plan on eating prepackaged indefinitely, which is great if you can
afford it and if that's what
works for you.
My experience
with Meal-Plan based diets…
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My foray into
the diet world started
with a Meal-Plan based diet program. It was short
lived however and little did I know
– the experience would prove to be reflective of the lack of success I
would have over the next couple of years as I moved from this
diet to
Jenny Craig to Weight Watchers.
It all started on January 9th when in a joint
effort to lose some weight together; my husband and I ordered
a month's supply of pre-packaged Meal-Plan foods. The order arrived in
2 days and I was very excited to start losing
weight!
Unfortunately,
when I opened the boxes I was unpleasantly
surprised.
The promotional materials promised...
Not until you
go shopping for your own
proteins, fruits and veggies to add to the meal. The portions are
extremely small and expensive. A 3.42 oz. flatbread pizza costs $5.33,
and you have to spread the sauce and cheese on yourself.
The food was
horrible and so many of the products tasted the same. Many
times my orders were substituted due to a lack of stock. The items that
I had to prepare myself (pudding etc) turned out like school
experiments. There were times when my husband and I couldn’t eat a
particular food item because the smell or taste was so
horrendous.
You have to call to get a return
authorization to return the meals and
it’s very difficult to get through on the phone. I was on hold for 15
minutes and then was cut off, tried again, 30 minutes on hold then got
cut off, third try and I was on hold for 25 minutes and finally got
through.
The results...
My husband and I couldn’t get through
even the first week of food
because we just couldn’t stomach it. We shipped back 3 weeks of food
and did get our money back (less their restocking fee) in 5 weeks.
My husband decided that as much as he wanted to
support me in my
efforts to lose weight, he’d be sticking to a regular diet from now on.
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Key Learning’s…
My personal
recommendation…
Unfortunately I can't recommend the Meal-Plan based type of dieting
approach as the best way (or even a good way) to lose weight.
Sure you may lose some weight if you can stomach the food, but you
could achieve the same results with better taste at much less
cost by simply shopping at your grocery store, reading labels and
picking items that allow you restrict your own diet down to the 1200 -
1500 calorie level.
I don't think that I was asking for too much
by expecting a program that I could live
with, that fit my lifestyle, provided real world advice, good
support
and relevant industry expertise. This company couldn't even
deliver enjoyable food, so I
moved on.
As I mentioned earlier, after some trial
and error I did finally
find a program that I could work with and it's called “Fat
Loss For Idiots”.
As the name
implies, the“Fat
Loss For Idiots” program really
is idiot proof.
- It works
without you needing to
radically change your lifestyle.
- It uses a
unique Calorie Shifting approach to teach you
how and when
to eat in order to turn your body into a fat burning furnace.
- You eat
real food, that tastes great and that you buy at your local grocery
store for reasonable prices.
- You eat 4-6
times per day, and NEVER feel hungry.
I'm
not
suggesting
this is an eat anything you like, as much as you like plan...but it
really is almost effortless, and as I outlined at the top of this
letter, the results have been amazing for me!
You'll
change
your eating habits for life without even really trying.
That,
combined
with a real simple cardio plan worked wonders for me.
Ultimately,
I
guess I never really went on a "diet". I just changed my approach to
eating for the better, which helped me increase my energy and lose a
few pounds quickly, which enabled me to become more physically active.
It worked so
well, that my husband tried the “diet
thing” again and had
even better success than I did! Together, we reached our goal weights
and have been able to maintain it.
It's changed
our
lives...I hope it changes yours.
Best of
luck, and
please be sure to
contact us to let us know about your success!!!
Yours
sincerely,
J.Seymour
Jessica
M. Seymour
Jessica(at)Diet-411.com
www.Diet-411.com
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