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The Fat Smash Diet: The Last Diet You'll Ever Need

Ian K. Smith

I am on a quest to lose weight. Not just to lose weight, but to change my lifestyle. After having children, my body has changed drastically. As a former athlete and all around active person, I have gained a considerable amount of weight, in my opinion.

I want to lose weight for many reasons, but the main reason is for my overall health. Also to look like I used to look BC (before children)...lol..the main reason!! Having two boys I believe I need to be more active for them, and I am not as active as I want to be. Now I do walk…I am a walker. I walked throughout my whole second pregnancy that helped so much with the weight gain and with the delivery. So I am still trying to lose weight from the first pregnancy.

It has been 7 years that I have been this size. I am not as big as I was when I first had my oldest child, but nevertheless I am still big for my 5’7” frame.

So I have decided to start changing the way that I eat. My husband is a vegetarian, but he still doesn’t eat as healthy as he should. So we have started this lifestyle change together. I used to think why do I have to change the way I eat? I ate whatever I wanted in High School and College and didn’t gain weight. But with age and children the body definitely changes. I have to change with it.

My husband and I, both have family members with heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments attributed to eating habits and living a sedentary lifestyle. I’ve seen people as young as 31 years of age, having heart attacks and strokes, because of the way they eat.

I think it’s time for a change. We want to live a long time and to age gracefully, still remaining active in our later years.  We also have a responsibility to our children to take care of ourselves, which makes us much better parents and better equipped to take care of them. So we have started on our trek to a healthy, more physically active lifestyle. Where we eat to live and not live to eat.

I have been researching different types of diets and programs, which we could ultimately incorporate into our new and improved way of life. I found many that were popular of course, weight watchers (I did that right after having the baby….and lost some weight), South Beach Diet, and some other ones. I'm sure these diets helped a lot of people, but I didn’t want to do those diets.  I wanted something that was going to make me eat exactly the way that I need to eat.

I found this diet called the Fat Smash Diet by Dr. Ian Smith. I first heard about this diet on the Celeb reality show VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club. I didn’t think anything of it, when I saw the show. When I started researching diets, I went to his website. And I read all of the testimonials and everybody was getting results from this diet (I hate calling it a diet!) So I decided to buy the book. I'm not the one to buy diet books, I will borrow them from someone, but not buy them. So I knew it sparked my interest, if I had to buy it.

So I bought it and read in within an hour and I knew this was it. So my husband and I started day 1 of the Fat Smash diet yesterday. The first phase of the diet is a “detox” phase and you only eat certain foods. So it is working well, I am not as tempted to eat bread or sweets as I thought I would be. You can eat as many fruits and vegetables as you want. So whenever I feel like I need to eat something sweet I grab some fruit.

Plus I just bought (or my husband just bought me a stationary bike) a month ago. I have been riding it everyday for an hour or more before I even started this new way of eating. So I am ready for the change. I just want to see the difference. I already have people telling me I lost weight since I got the bike, but I want to see it for myself.

So we took pics of ourselves so we can see the changes in our bodies for each phase of the diet. So we will see. I think that we are off to a good start. I am going to use this blog as a way of venting when I need to and to track my progress during this change in my life.

*Day 1 complete