I thought I should give you an overview of my situation with regard to my experiences with weight loss and a little background about who I am.
My name is Ian Bracken ridge and I started writing about my experiences back in late 2008 in an effort to help those looking for ways to improve their own weight loss success. In short, I was a failed dieter, but eventually became a successful slimmer and moved on to become a successful maintainer for the last five years.
Having gained weight from around 1999, by living a typical British male life style of too many takeaways and TV dinners, too much boozing with the boys, little activity and a stressful occupation, I decided that it was time to address the increasing weight trouble in 2001.
A pitiful effort at dieting with the low carb diet approach combined with the shopping channel gym equipment (too embarrassed to go to the gym!) and the now apparently compulsory diet pills and left me disillusioned and frustrated at my failings.
I hadn't been accustomed to failure up to this point.
My background as a researcher in academia, followed by a career in the pharma industry had given me the requisite experience in interpreting scientific literature and so I decided to begin exploring for myself how to go about winning in this now problematic game.
I studied the primary literature and followed the ongoing battle of the day between the low carb vs low calorie diets which was raging in the media, although I recognized there was something lacking in all of this debate.
I tried the gym equipment, as I had trained with weights back in my late teens and early twenties, but I just couldn't find the motivation to hang in with this approach.
I finally began to discover successful strategies I could apply around late 2002 and chose to carry on learning while my weight dropped from roughly the 180lb mark down to around the 150lb (~80Kg to 68.5Kg).
I recognized at this time how serious a matter weight maintenance was to those who had slimmed down. I had read about the issue and had witnessed the troubles in other people with my own eyes, but I had never had to face up to this problem before.
Fortunately and I confess rather by chance, I had carried out strategies in a manner that allowed me to beat the yo-yo weight problem that overcomes so many dieters.
At this point, after my success, I stopped reading the primary literature and turned my attention to subjects elsewhere.
After a couple of years of taking on the challenging threat of weight yoyo-ing, I started to realise that the methods that had worked so successfully for me could be useful to other wannabee slimmers, and so I came back to look at the area only to discover the web weight loss arena utterly awash with marketing trash and what I can only describe as a raging community littering the bulletin boards with rather bitter postings!
[If you are trying to slim down nowadays you have my deepest sympathy. Browsing the internet, trying to separate the wheat from the huge amount of chaff, the tripe and the acrimonious ravings from the decent and real help is just about impossible].
I admit freely that at this time I did consider this as an opportunity.
I decided that my accomplishments could serve the community well, so I had to put together a web site to offer my knowledge and more significantly, my experience of weight loss and maintenance.
It's that experience that became the basis for what you are reading today.
I came across some quite amazing facts. The medical community may publically still push slimming down by dieting as a necessary evil if you like, but if you study their ‘trade magazines’, you will discover that there's little belief in weight loss plans (see for example: here ... this is a report penned by medics for medics, not actually for the likes of us, quote: 'When defined as sustained weight loss over a 5-year follow-up period, the success of even the best medical weight-loss programs is next to nil'). Even the medical community have no faith!
Admittedly, I'm a failed dieter too. I agree that dieting does not work typically, but remedying your own diet does work. I can show you how to do this and a lot more too.
The strategies I have developed are all founded on my own success. You'll discover this for yourself as you learn what I have learned. Study what I have studied over the years. Put into practice the techniques I put in place in 2002 and still use now.
The best thing from your position is that you'll be able to short-cut this process, if you choose to learn my techniques.
Nevertheless, that choice is completely your own.
Once more, thank you - for taking the time to read this. Your patience in reading my biog/blog will serve you well in your future success.
I hope you'll stay with me and acquire the strategies of success practised by so many successful slimmers, either following me here or at Slimmer Secrets, although no matter what you do, I wish you Good Luck in your weight loss effort.
I hope this has been of some use to you,
Best Wishes,
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