"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie

How many of you can remember the diets you have tried over the years;  Slimming, Slimmer UK, Weight Watchers (three times, currently using them now), Adifax (or something like that).  That was the anti-suppressant that looked like coco pops, placed under the tongue and a cup of water drunk to make them swell, swallowed to fill that empty stomach.  The Cambridge Diet (those horrible bars with no flavour urghh), Slender, Slim Fast (I got to the stage that I used the latter as a milkshake drink with my evening meal), Body Plan (I still have the shaker), The Grapefruit Diet, The Cabbage Soup Diet, The British Heart Foundation Diet (earlier version), The protein diet, the carbohydrate diet, the low fat diet, The Egg Diet, The infamous F-Plan, The BBC Diet, the ITV Fatbusters Diet (This Morning), Fighting Fit, Fighting Fat (BBC Plan) and most recently the Why Weight Plan which was shown on Channel 4 in 1999.  The latest drug I've been offered is Xenical, which works on 30% of the fat going into the body.  The idea is to maintain a low fat diet and the higher the intake of fat into the body, the worse the side effects become (and you really don't want to know what they are, believe me).  I am sure you could add other diets to this list. 

  I haven’t even begun to mention the accompaniments  I’ve bought over the years too.  Such as ,books, magazines, audio cassettes and videos covering the diets mentioned above, as well as accompanying recipe books.  We have all done the food diary, journal, chart, exercise planner, calorie counting, spreadsheet/database design, anything that is easy for us to maintain our healthy eating plan.  

So why hasn't any of this worked?  For me, I believe that what goes on in the mind, controls the physical being.  As soon as I decide to focus on a healthy food plan, my body reacts by "going on a metabolic go slow"; it shuts down.  This means that I should work my body to boost its metabolic rate to enable the body to carry on burning, but physically and mentally I am exhausted.  Don't forget, I've been on this healthy eating plan for years and its taken its toll on me.  The older you get, the harder it gets.  But I'm not giving up!!!

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