The Ultimate Weight Lost Solution…I knew it.
endorphin August 31st, 2009
I am never a supporter of “on diet” to loose weight. What people do not understand is when one goes into cutting meals, the body will kick in to conserving mode and therefore the result is one won’t loose weight, infact, one may even gain weight.
Nowadays, there are many “meal replacements” drinks out there. And I must say they are expensive. I know of a specific brand, it cost RM500/mth. This can be at least my 1/2 month nutritious meals money.
Among the people I know, some have good results. However, my question to them is, “Can you totally go off your replacement meal and back on your usual eating habit or lifestyle and still maintain your new weight ?” So far, I have never had a yes. Of course not. That is what the companies out to get you for. You can’t get off the replacement program thus their streams of revenue ! In other words, they are making you to be their income provider and they your dependent ! A dependent which you do not have tax deduction.
Let put things in perspective. So, what if you loose weight with it ? Let me ask you this :
- Does it solve your cardiovascular problem ?
- Is your lungs stronger ?
- Does it solve you diabetic, cholesterol, hypertension,…..etc etc problem ?
- Does it strengthen your joints ?
- Does it make your muscles fuctionally stronger to response to more demanding need, eg. to carry a 15L water drum in your office ?
- Does it make your heart fitter to climb several flight of stairs without panting ?
I can go on asking you a long chain of questions but it is not necessary because the answer is most certainly NO. Achieveing weight lost is only addressing a very surface issue. It never address the root, it never nip the issue at the bud.
Looking for the Ultimate Weight Lost Solution ? Here you go, check it out :
A teacher who only learned to swim front crawl 18 months ago has been selected to represent Great Britain - in the World Triathlon Championships.
Not content with simply running on a treadmill, super-fit Melanie Ryding, 37, was inspired to lose weight when she realised she could no longer fit into her size 16 jeans.
Although she hated sports at school, 5ft 10ins Melanie took up running and lost four stone in four months.
Before 
After 
Road to fitness: Melanie Ryding got fed up with her size 16 figure (left), started triathlon training and has since lost four stone (right)
She went on to lose over a quarter of her body weight and started looking for something ‘more interesting’ to challenge her.
Melanie joined a triathlon club and started learning front crawl from scratch at a nearby swimming pool, before moving on to practice in the freezing cold waters of local lakes.
She laughed in disbelief when her coach suggested she try out for the world championships - but has now secured a place in the 35-39 age group.
Now she is training hard to compete against thousands of other triathletes in the Gold Coast World Triathlon Championships in Australia in September.
Melanie, from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, said she was ‘flabbergasted’ when she qualified for the event.
She said: ‘When I qualified it felt amazing. I’ve come from Mrs Jo Normal, completely unhealthy, to where I am now.
‘I was a beanpole teenager but unfortunately after puberty I didn’t stay that way. Eventually I just wasn’t prepared to be a size 16 anymore.
‘I hated PE and PE hated me. I was the forlorn-looking one stuck in the hockey goal because I wasn’t interested in doing anything else.
‘So if you’d have said to me then that I would be doing something like this now I would have thought that was completely ludicrous.’
(Don’t you think she looks so much prettier, happier and alive here then the before pic above ?)
Although she could not swim before embarking on her exercise regime, Melanie will now compete in the Gold Coast World Triathlon Championships in Australia
In preparation for the event in September, Melanie trains for 14 hours a week, often getting up 5am to fit in cycling and running sessions before work.
Her coach Steve Casson, from Wellingborough and District Athletics Club and Northants Triathlon Club, has been masterminding her schedule throughout.
Melanie said her greatest inspiration was the cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson CBE who raised £1.5million for charity through running and cycling challenges despite suffering from the disease.
Tomlinson completed the London Marathon three times, the London Triathlon twice, the New York Marathon once, and cycled across Europe, America and Africa, all within six years. She died aged 43 in 2007.
Melanie said: ‘When I read she had managed to do an Iron Man triathlon while she was on chemotherapy I thought “Good grief, if she can do that then I’m sure I can put a triathlon together”.
‘There are times when it can be exhausting, especially considering I have a full-time job too, but I am good at self discipline and me and my coach work well together.
‘I get some funny looks from my neighbours when they see me cycling up and down and a little while later running up and down the same stretch of road.’
Melanie also said her husband Mark, 45, had been a huge motivator.
She said: ‘Mark is really proud of me, he’s my number one superstar. Without him I couldn’t be where I am now.
Jodie Bayes, general manager of Bannatyne’s Health Club in Wellingborough where Melanie learned to swim, said they were all very proud of her.
She said: ‘It has been a pleasure to work with Melanie and the progress she made from being a novice swimmer into an international athlete is amazing and testament to her hard work.
‘Mel is a real inspiration and since joining she has made a massive lifestyle change, not only in her sporting exploits, but to her overall wellbeing.
Just as we about to move, the drama King who had his saddle broken during ICR, crank came off during Sun Fun Ride, now has a puncture. 
