How to Lose Weight the Healthy Way

By Jac Visser

What this ebook on how to lose weight the healthy way is not, is a quick fix, fad diet book. It is an honest book based on the author’s own journey back to health, and weight loss, giving advice and information derived from years of self help through research and observation. It is a starting point from which to start your efforts at weight loss and wellness.
It is for you if you want to start living healthy and want to know how to lose weight permanently. It is also for you if you want help and information on an ongoing basis because the journey is continued on the author’s website. This is for you if your problem is emotional because the author’s own point of reference is from being abused as a child, and all the baggage he had to overcome.
How to lose weight the healthy way is based on a really easy diet plan and exercise routine which worked well for the author, and is continuing to do so. It is also based on simple lifestyle changes you can implement to improve your quality of life. It is simply a book with doable, easy methods to lose weight and live a healthy life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jac Visser
• Release date: Feb 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9780620528788

Jac Visser

I was born in Namibia and grew up on a farm. I joined the Military after leaving school and became a career soldier. I later left the military and went into automotive engineering. I was interested in health, fitness and nutrition from an early age so that when I lost my job at age 55, I decided to learn more about my interest, and start doing something about it on the internet. This fits in nicely with my lifelong ambition to help people especially neglected children and the elderly in my part of Africa.

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How to Lose Weight the Healthy Way

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Copyright 2012 JH Visser

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Disclaimer

This publication contains the opinions and ideas of the author. It is intended to provide informative material on the subjects addressed in the publication. It is sold with the understanding that the authors and publishers are not engaged in rendering medical, health, psychological, or any other kind of personal professional services. If the reader requires personal medical health or other advice/assistance, a competent professional should be consulted.

The author and publisher specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, that is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book.

This book and everything I do is dedicated to all the children and adults anywhere in the world who is suffering, or suffered abuse, slavery, and neglect.

May God be with you

Contents:

Introduction

Part One: Stuff to Know

Let’s Start with the Basics

Why Do Diets Fail?

Why Not to Buy Into Every New Fad Diet

Why is Dieting Never Any Fun?

Part Two: Answers and Actions

Where Do You Start? A Little Motivation

What is the Answer?

What is a Lifestyle Change?

Action Steps

You’ll Have to Become More Active

Action Steps

Stop Treating Food Like a Lifeline

Action Steps

Following a Sensible Diet

Action Steps

The Simplest Diet Plan You can Imagine

The Plan

Putting it Together

The Idea

Example of a strategic plan

Part Three: The Real Secrets

Cortisol the Stress Hormone and Weight Loss

How to Fight Stress and Relax

Conclusion

Introduction

Who is this book for?

It is for you if you can see, feel, and realize the ill effects of obesity and overweight on your body, life, and health, and want to do something about it.

It is for those of you who felt the pain of failure to lose weight and of rejection by a society shaped by the media hype of the perfect body.

It is for you who cannot find decent fitting clothes in shops due to the fashion industry’s following of the media hype about the perfect body.

It is also for all of you who are sick and tired of the empty promises of fad diets and the weight loss industry.

Who it is not for is those who are looking for a quick fix. Nothing of value in life is a quick fix.

What you’ll find

You’ll find some background information which is useful if you do not know how your body functions and why you store fat.

It may not be essential to lose weight but if you’re in for the long term then I do think a little knowledge won’t harm you, it may just help.

You’ll also find some motivational stuff which is essential to anything you take on in life as weight loss is more about mind over matter than all the biological and physiological facts you can learn in your life.

There is the basic stuff you can take action on, and ways to do it, and then there is the reason why we are where we are in this moment such as stress and the effects it has on our bodies and our lives.

What you won’t find

What you won’t find is fancy ideas about cutting certain foods completely from your diet, and plans including exotic foods which will make you look young, and drop weight like melting butter off your butt.

There is no promise of fast weight loss.

I’m simply writing this book to help you realize what it takes to lose weight and to help you make the decision to live a healthier life. I’d rather make it short and sweet and write more books on the subject later on, instead of overwhelming you with facts you’re not interested in now

Is it another weight loss book...?

I can already hear you say, Not again...

Nope, it’s not the same, definitely not. Much more to it than that...

Well, the thing is. After thirty six years of intense interest, observation, studying, and participating in exercise and all things healthy, I’m so fed up with all the fad diets and confusing so called information on diets out there that I decided to write about it.

Just remember that this is purely my opinion and in no way intended to be condescending, or in any way trying to belittle any person or specific product. I’m just saying it as I see and experience/d it.

To add as some sort of disclaimer:

There is also no way anybody out there can expect the same results as any other person because we’re all individual with very definite, different physical, and psychological characteristics.

Because we are unique is exactly the reason why you and I need more help and real information to really see long term healthy results in any weight loss endeavor.

That said... Please...! Get a physical check-up and the okay from your physician or health care practitioner before embarking on any diet plan and exercise routine.

My story

Okay... I don’t think I’m some kind of literary genius but then, I only want to help people, and that does not require me to be anything I’m not. So this book is written in a sort of conversational style.

The real motivation started in 2000 when stress caught up with me because my skills were fast becoming redundant as a result of my age and the fact that I was earning too much.

I had to go into a whole new field of engineering and the company I was working for at the time really wanted to get rid of me.

I was working on some synthetic material and all of a sudden I started experiencing what seemed to be some allergic reaction to the material.

It started with hives and fast progressed to angioedema or swelling of the neck and facial tissue.

Sometimes I could not even open my eyes. They were swollen shut.

Then I had an experience diagnosed as anaphylactic shock and landed in