Over this past Christmas vacation I spent a number of hours surfing the web looking for new weight loss products in the hope of finding something that I could order to kick start my new year’s resolution to lose more weight. Needless to say there are so many weight loss products out there now. There seems to be a pill or dietary supplement that can treat any type of physical ailment and weight loss is one of the biggest markets.

While searching through all the new fad weight loss products I stumbled upon two products that I felt deserved an honorary mention in my blog. By no means do I promote these products, in fact quite the opposite. I don’t think either one will help you lose weight, but you will burn calories laughing at the advertising for these crazy weight loss products.

Kenko Diet Plum

I don’t even remember how I stumbled across Kenko Diet Plum, but here it is at the top of my new weight loss products to avoid list. From the official website the advertising reads, “Constipation cause big tummy and over weight”. The whole premise behind Kenko Diet Plums is that they will help you to become regular and by doing that you will lose all the weight in feces that your body has inside. My goodness, I don’t need to tell you how ridiculous this is. Weight loss is about losing fat not feces, but who knows…if you’re really backed up you may lose a few pounds right away.

What are Kenko Diet Plums? They are just dried golden plums aren’t they? Well, when I read the official ingredients list I was amazed. According to the official website, Kenko Diet Plums also contain Ashitaba, Garcinia Cambogia and a few other ingredients. What on earth! How did these other ingredients, that are not related to the golden plum at all, find their way into these plums? Weird science, or perhaps a strange genetic cross, who knows. My guess would be that these other ingredients aren’t present at all in Kenko Diet Plums, but...

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Now here’s a weight loss plan that sounds easy peasy; just have your jaw wired shut so that you can’t eat any solid foods. With the guarantee of dropping weight from an enforced liquid diet how can you possibly lose? Very easily apparently, as the success rate of Orthodontic Jaw Wiring (OJW) as a method of weight loss is very, very low.

Orthodontic jaw wiring is a non surgical, supposedly painless procedure done in a dentist’s chair in under an hour. It is only ever used as a weight loss tool for the obese and compulsive eater in order to lose about 60lbs over 6 months. The wires in the mouth make speech difficult and may be quite uncomfortable because of restricted jaw movement. Then once the target weight has been reached, the wires are removed and the patient returns to eating normally.

And therein lays the problem. Even in clinical trials where patients received diet and nutritional counseling, exercise workouts and psychotherapy, as soon as the wiring was removed most patients returned to their old unhealthy eating habits and all weight loss efforts were lost.

Although more popular back in the ‘70’s and 80’s, orthodontic jaw wiring has never been a mainstream approach to treating obesity, largely due to the low success rate. Nowadays it has been mostly replaced by the much more modern practice of gastric bypass surgeries. There are, however, still some orthodontists out there who will gladly wire your mouth shut and take your money. Do yourself a favor, avoid this weight loss pitfall.

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I wrote a post in the weight loss forum about taking phentramin-d and I realized afterwards that I hadn't blogged about it yet, so here goes.

I have tried diet pills in the past. The one I had the best success with was Phentermine, but that was years ago. I would have bought it again, but you just can't find it anywhere, so I decided to try Phentramin-d because it is supposed to be just like Phentermine.

I ordered a one month supply of Phentramin-d (I received my order in three days which was great ) from Weight Loss Center. Here's the link if you want to order some yourself http://www.weight-loss-center.net/phentramin-d.html .

I started taking the pills the next morning. I took the first one 20 minutes before breakfast. By lunch time the change was noticeable, I had more energy than usual and I wasn't very hungry. I took the second pill about 20 mintues before my scheduled lunch break. I had a small lunch even though I wasn't very hungry and then happily went to the gym after work for a good workout because my body was pulsing with energy. (Pulsing with energy is a funny way to describe it, but that's exactly what it felt like. Not the jitters like what caffeine does to you.)

At dinner time my appetite was better than lunch time, but no where near how it usually is. I had a modest, healthy dinner and avoided post-dinner snacking with little effort. I slept very well, probably because of the great workout I got.

I thought the first day was a fluke, but all the days following have been the same. I'm really careful not to take Phentramin-d too late in the day (e.g. past 2pm) so that it doesn't disrupt my sleep because it does give me a jolt of energy. Other than that, I have had no side-effects after two weeks and can't see a reason to stop taking this pill. So far I've lost 13 pounds . For me, that is an impressive result.

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The best superfoods for weight loss come from some surprising places...

We all know that eating less junk food and eating healthier foods, like fruits and vegetables, is what we need to do to lose weight. But there are some foods out there that help you lose weight more than others. Some of these foods are suprisingly common and would often be overlooked at the grocery store, until now. Check out these fat busting foods.

Sardines - Sardines are small fish, typically canned, that many people only eat at special occassions. Their fishy taste is pretty powerful, but so is their ability to help with weight loss. To begin with, Sardines contain high amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids. This type of fat has been found not only to reduce cholesterol and high blood pressure, but also to increase fat metabolism by reducing insulin levels, which results in weight loss. Sardines are also high in protein, which helps to stimulate metabolism and stabilize blood sugar levels. Finally, sardines are a good food to add to your diet because they are relatively cheap and contain much lower levels of mercury than other fish, such as tuna.

Bison Meat - Bison meat, also known as Buffalo meat, is very low in fat and calories compared to regular beef. The best cut of beef still contains almost 4 times as much fat than a cut of bison meat. In addition to being low fat, bison meat is also free of hormones, drugs and chemicals that are commonly found in beef. The reason for this is because Bison are very large animals and are difficult to handle so they spend their lives turned out to pasture. Bison meat is more expensive than regular beef, but is about equitable in price to finer cuts of beef and organic beef. Bison can also be purchased ground and can be substitute into any beef recipe. Bison meat tastes almost identical to beef, but is much better for you.

Pumpkin - Not many people realize that their favorite Thanksgiving and Halloween...

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In the body, carbohydrates help to burn fats efficiently. During exercise, carbohydrates are broken down and one of the products of this is oxaloacetic acid. The importance of oxaloacetic acid is that it is used to breakdown stored fats into fuel, which is then used by the body for energy. In situations when you haven’t consumed enough carbohydrates, the level of oxaloacetic acid in the body is greatly reduced, making it more difficult for the body to use stored fat for energy.

Oxaloacetic acid isn’t the only method your body had for breaking down stored fat for energy, but it is the most efficient. People who consume diets low in carbohydrates will fatigue much faster and burn less fat during periods of exercise than people who consume some carbohydrates in their daily diet.

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