Your Weight Loss Goal

Why Should You Listen To Me?

Because I know what you need to do to reach your weight loss goal. I really can help you.

Let me tell you a story. Growing up I was always the fat kid in school. I was teased. My clothes didn't fit. I overate on junk food. I lost weight at times but it always came back.

I had to find what works

I tried lots of different things. Some worked. Some didn't. And after awhile I was able to separate what worked and what didn't.

I lost some of the weight I needed to lose. I had figured out a few of the basics. So part of what I know about weight loss I got from my own experience.

I studied chemistry and biology and physics in college. Then in medical school at the University of Washington I took all the usual classes like anatomy, but we also had an excellent course in nutrition. It was one of the first nutrition courses taught in a medical school in the United States.

So I learned from the formal study of nutrition, and I learned from all the other courses that taught how the cells work, how the hormones work, how muscle is made, how fat is stored and all the rest. So that was the formal training part.

But I still didn't quite have everything I needed to reach my weight loss goal and stay there. I still had some trouble with my weight, but it was better.

Separating the good from the bad

I was raised in a culture where the majority of the people are overweight--which is the United States of America right now. And in that culture it is hard to find out what it true and what is not true.

By then I was practicing medicine. So I started to research. I read every medical journal I could find that had to do with weight loss and I applied what I learned in my practice.

I found hundreds of articles, some excellent and some not so good. Even in medical journals you can find things that make no sense. So I continued to sift out the good from the bad.

I finally reached my weight loss goal and I stayed there

That research went on for 20 years until finally it all fell into place. I finally understood what made me gain weight and lose weight, what foods were good and which were bad, how much to eat, when to eat, how much exercise was needed and what kind of exercise was best, and many other things.

I reached my goal weight and stayed there. That was a number of years ago.

But not only did I figure it out for myself, I figured out what other people need to do to reach their weight loss goal as well. What one person does to lose weight will not work for everyone else.

What will work for you?

There are some basic principles of course. But those principles have to be applied on an individual basis. Because what one person can do another person cannot do.

A 60-year-old woman can't do the same exercise as a 20-year-old man. And some people won't exercise at all, but they can still lose weight.

And what one person will do another person will not do. Someone raised in Italy is not going to give up pasta, no matter what the experts say about carbohydrates and weight loss.

So finally after many years of research and practice I put together everything that I had learned. And I wrote a book called Dr. Dan's Super Weight Loss Plan.

There is no "quick fix" for weight problems

I was given a lot of advice about the book. The marketing people said I needed to put in a gimmick. A quick fix. Something that would sell to desperate people. They said I could make a million dollars. But I couldn't do that.

I remember what my mother went through when I was growing up. She always had trouble with her weight. It was a very big problem for her. She worried about it. She worked at it.

She went to the meetings and she did the weigh-ins and she would lose weight--for a while. I remember she was so proud when she reached her weight loss goal and she became a "permanent" member of Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS.)

But then her weight crept back up. So she went on to the next thing. She ate little diet candies. She underwent hypnosis.

She used machines with vibrating belts to jiggle the fat away. And she used machines with rollers to roll the fat away.

Now, I know what my mother went through. And I hope that the people that sold my mother the jiggling and the rolling and the little diet candies actually thought they were going to help. I hate to think that they just wanted her money.

But it didn't help. And it never could have helped, because those things don't work for weight loss.

I can show you what works. And what doesn't.

So I know what works for weight loss. I am sharing it with you. I would like to see you succeed. I believe that you can.

I can't promise you that it will be easy. I have never seen "easy weight loss" or "fast weight loss" lead to anything but temporary results and permanent misery.

To me there is only one thing that matters. It is not if you lose 10 pounds this weekend or 20 pounds in a month or even 50 pounds on the latest fad diet. In my mind all that matters is what happens next year and the year after that. Did you reach your weight loss goal?

Did you stay at your goal weight? Are you happy with the way you look? Are you fit and healthy? Did you lose the weight and keep if off? That is what matters to me. And I would like to help you to reach that goal.

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