Will Power!!
So, the two-banana diet didn’t work out too well. After the fourth day, the hunger was whittling away at my will power. And snacking, and larger evening meals nullified my banana breakfast and lunch monkey food.
I’m motivated to find a better way for easy weight loss.
The Alternative!
Grab your energy! Do your meal planning, your physical therapy now! Watch your weight. Check your thyroid function!
The Wild Method:
So I did some research and found some successful studies that were done on a few different areas and added the following winners of the weight loss fad diets to my regimen – and I hope that they serve you as well as they are serving me:
- Raspberry Ketones help burn / change visceral brown fat and the only side effects are raspberry burps in the morning. (BTW – I just learned that there’s a P in Raspberry – heh!) (Truth – it’s just in rodents so far – but more studies need to be completed- and I might be weird – but I like raspberry burps – hehe!)
- The green coffee bean extract would give me more energy and increase my metabolism and showed promising results in one study. Taken in the morning. No caffeine buzz! This replaces my morning cup of coffee.
- The Glucomannan Fiber pills help fill up your stomach and keep Ghrelin at bay which helps my willpower. I take it (three pills) in the morning and before I start to drag around 3 pm with a full glass of water. I’d say, twice a day – morning (about 30 minutes after they other supplements because I think they bind / wrap things up. and either 30 minutes before a late lunch or before dinner with a full glass of water.
- The Hydroxy Cut Platinum. I’m not sure why I did this or which study it was, but I was glad to have found it – I feel that it boosts my metabolism when I take only this. I was concerned, as was my fiance about blood pressure, but this is not like the ephedrin of the 70’s and 80’s – read Ephedra – which is now banned by the FDA. Feels like I get about a 20% energy boost from this – taken twice a day – about $35 for a months supply. But supplement warnings can be traced to the early days of Hydroxy Cut – Read about it on WebMD. And this can be a warning to you to research everything you ingest.
- I take a B-Complex vitamin in the morning also, this gives my energy and turns my urine bright orange so I feel like it’s having some effect. And I tell myself the I have to Be Complex when I’m taking it! 🙂
Supplements That Didn’t Make The Cut:
There was Meritrim – which hs been shown to impact blood pressure so I did not want to engage with this – yet. It is related to the ephedrin of yesteryear.
I started taking Yogi Detox tea, but only one day, then I left it at work over the weekend, and then I was flying to St. Louis. I didn’t have any crazy effects the first day I had the detox tea, but I didn’t want to risk entering too many airport bathrooms then need-be. Am-I-Right? heh!
My energy level increased, kick boxing Thursday, Friday and Sunday. A 2.5 mile run saturday and 2.5 hours of hedge trimming Sunday in the sun. (There was a lot of sweat and there were a lot of breaks)
On the above regimen, I’ve seen my weight plummet from 223 lbs to 218 lbs in a few days.
We’ll see how this business trip goes with the hotel gym, jogging, and Arianna Grande’s one hour daily workout…. I think it’s all legs and butt!
But I’ll still be trying to help us get healthier and so that we can all be 100 years old. But, hopefully that happens now before the government catches on and raises the retirement age yet again!