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How to Shed Fat Without Willpower

By Leslie Kasanoff DC

Dr. Leslie KIt’s a new year and once again perhaps you’ve started it determined to rid yourself of your spare tire. Whether or not you’re successful depends to a large degree on your method, NOT your willpower.
Here’s the typical scenario: You’ve started your diet, maybe it’s even called a ‘detox’ and you’ve eliminated everything except lean protein, vegetables & a small amount of fruit. Maybe you’ve added some supplements designed to give you a little additional boost. Maybe they even have some whole food (fruit & vegetable powders) in them. Typically people do great with this program for a while but in the long run, the caloric restriction wreaks havoc both on ‘willpower’ and on your metabolism. Eventually, one of two things happens, either you go off the diet due to the restrictions you can’t maintain long term or you ‘complete’ the program. Either way, sooner or later, you add back some calories and some foods and you gain back some portion or perhaps all of the weight (maybe even more). This happens, NOT because you’ve failed again (and what you make that mean about you as a person), but because you’ve been so successful, you’ve put your body into starvation mode. It has now decreased your metabolic rate so much that you’re gaining weight on a 1,000 calorie diet!
Contrast this with a program that is designed to cleanse your body of toxins, give you more energy and boost your metabolism while keeping your blood sugar levels even so ‘willpower’ isn’t an issue. On this program, you eat sensibly but don’t completely eliminate all grains or healthy starches like yams, peas or beans. You flood your body with the whole food nutrition of 40 fruits & vegetables daily using convenient shakes & supplements made from whole REAL foods rather than isolated nutrients and fiber.  This is the Transform 30 Challenge.
The idea behind the program is not product dependent and is scientifically sound. If you had the time & inclination (and money), you certainly could eat 40 different fruits & vegetables in small amounts daily (say ¼ cup of each for a total of 10 cups a day) for 30 days and you would get similar if not better results. Transform 30 allows you to do this day in & day out for just a few dollars per day using a formula designed to give you enough of the right balance of macro-nutrients (protein, fat & carbos) as well as the tens of thousands of micro-nutrients your body needs to rev up your metabolism, give you more energy, balance your blood sugar levels and lots more. This helps your cardiorespiratory system & your immune system function better, helps skin & gum health and decreases inflammation resulting in diminishing joint pain and helping many other health issues common in our society as well.( All of the preceding list has been proven in people and the results published in medical journals by independent researchers at UCLA, Vanderbilt & more.)
In this new year, regardless of how you do it, I encourage and challenge you to get as many different fruits & vegetables into your body as possible, on a daily basis and watch how your body changes, your metabolism increases and how much better you feel and function. I’d love to hear about your results.

Leslie Kasanoff DC is a chiropractor and nutritionist. She sees chiropractic patients at Community Health Centers in San Luis Obispo and is an independent health educator with the Juice Plus Company. For chiropractic care, she can be reached at CHC at 805-269-1566. For health consulting, you can reach her at 805-235-2712. You can also get additional information at https://drleslie.juiceplus.com, https://Drleslie.transform30.com or  https://facebook.com/drleslie.