Dr. Jason Maggio has been working with me to improve my diet for a couple of years now and he offers advice on ways you can make lasting changes to your diet. His plan "Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days" is one of the best ways to begin to make lifelong adjustments to your eating habits.

I started out with the cleanse and then moved to the 30 day plan. It really does work and it is one of the only diets I've found that will help you begin the process of losing weight and keeping it off.

YOU CAN DO IT

You might find it tough to adjust, but once you make the change you will begin to see that you can do it. And the best part is that you won't put the weight back on. It is a little boring at first, but you will get creative and will find ways to make it successful. You will have challenges when you go out to eat, but Dr. Maggio has advice for that too.

DIET PILLS

If you were listening this morning, you heard Dr. Maggio say he does not believe in any of the diet pills on the market today. He says: "they will artificially boost your metabolism, but that cause long term, harmful effects to your heart." Will diet pills ever go away? Dr. Maggio says that's not likely. "It's a multi-billion dollar industry and it will be around for a long time. I would like to see the AMA (American Medical Association) step in to regulate this industry, but that is not likely any time soon." It's up to you to be smart and realize that all of the promises might work in the short term, but eventually, "you will gain all the weight back, plus some."

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