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Acomplia is better than fad diets

A few years ago, there used to be places called bookshops. They were full of shelves, groaning under the weight of strange collections of paper bound together and called books. That was all before the kindle and other e-book readers came along. They made carrying the weight of all those books only a distant memory. Now we can stay home, surf the net and download the latest digital bestseller without ever having to trouble a Main Street store like Barnes & Noble or Borders. In fact, you’re likely to see these stores holding clearance sales before closing up. Which, if you’re into weight loss, is actually a good time to be hunting the shelves for cheap books on safe dieting.

Ah, controversy is never far away, is it. Here comes the usual attack on fad diet books. How can there be anything new to say on this? Well, a group of surgeons who try to pick up the pieces when weight gain gets out of control, have recently been hitting the campaign trail. Not to sell their bariatric surgery, but to attack the success of fad diet books. So, now you’re asking yourself, “If these diet books are so bad, how come they sell millions of copies?” Well, it’s all down to the usual marketing tricks. If in doubt, the sales pitch is “easy and fast”. No matter how much people want to resist, there’s hope burning eternal to lead you astray. We all know there’s no such thing as a free lunch - one of the most appropriate idioms ever devised for this context. No matter what anyone tells you, there’s a price to pay for everything. Yet we are there with every new strategy, hoping this one is real. The result? We end up frustrated and not a little confused with our weight going up and down like a yoyo. Except, a lot of the time, our weight seems to slowly creep higher after every failed diet. And, when we look around, we’re seriously overweight and real health problems are starting to make themselves felt.

Yet here we come to a big paradox. The more overweight people become, the more unsuccessful people are when they try to diet. That’s why the queue for bariatric surgery is growing longer every year. So why this lack of success? In part, it’s a lack of motivation, but it’s also because people fail to understand the need to eat a healthy diet while trying to lose weight. If you’re already at risk because you’re overweight, cutting down on essential nutrients is not the safest plan. So, if you want to avoid lap-band or one of the other surgical procedures, go for the simple old-fashioned approach. Count the calories and work out a safe target for daily consumption. The sit down with a nutritionist to work out menus to ensure you get all you need to stay healthy. Adding Acomplia into the mix is also good because it suppresses appetite and makes it easier to keep the motivation up. Clinical trials confirm people using Acomplia lose an average of 10% of their body weight - better than the fad diets.