Summary: Heather placed third in the Venus Index Transformation Contest. She lost pounds of fat and toned her body and now she is very closed to her ideal proportions. Check out her picture: Due to various experience and some personal tragedies in her life, Heather ended up overeating at the age of 14. Before the Venus Index Contest she tried everything. Therapy, all sorts of diets and fat loss programs. One expert told her that the flavored and processed food is the devil, so she stopped eating everything that was highly processed or flavored. After that she heard that sugar is not that bad, but eggs can cause a heart attack and are the root of obesity. So, she stopped eating eggs completely. All of this often times conflicting advice lead her to trying different diets like Atkins and she ultimately ended up being a vegetarian. After being a vegetarian for a while she decided to be a vegan in order to be "really healthy". This new eating style was causing a lot of trouble to her relationships especially to her marriage. Her husband was really struggling with her diet preferences, even though he never said anything it was obvious that he had idea how to help her. Heather wasn't eating with him and their families on holidays like a normal person, she always had her special meals. She wouldn't eat with the family, because it just wasn't part of the rules she acquired. Now when she looks back it just wasn't fair to him, but at that time it seemed like the only option for her. The reason for doing all those crazy things was the fact that she just couldn't stand her weight anymore and wanted to make a change. The thing is, you can't put foods on a 'never have it again' list, because when you label some food as bad you will tend to binge on it even more. The truth is that you can eat pretty much anything you like, the important piece of advice many experts don't know and don't tell is that the key is the volume. The secret is in controlling the amount not limiting the choices. There is really no reason to make it complicated and make a devil of saturated fat or processed food. If you had no education in biology or chemistry and never been influenced by marketing and advertising, what would be your answer to "What is the best way to lose fat?" What do you think a kid would say? ...just eat less. This is the only way to lose fat, create a deficit, so your body will have to use stored bodyfat. Yes, you can create a bigger deficit with cardio and some other physical activities, but the foundation is in the diet, because you can't out train a bad diet. However, in the current conventional fitness community, the approach is quite different. It's not only different, but it's a complete scam made only to increase sales and not help people, no surprise being in shape seems like a fairytale. One day carbs are labeled as bad for you, the next day fat is the evil. And when you try to go on such a diet for a longer period of time that's when things get ugly and you get really frustrated by not seeing any results. The longer it's drilled in your head, the bigger the threat of eating that cake and burger is. And ultimately you will end up overeating big time. For Heather it was happening over and over again. And she just couldn't live like that. She would follow some crazy dietary advice and then after a while crack and overeat massively. This is the pitfall of labeling some food as bad, once you tell someone it's forbidden, the desire to have it is even bigger. Plus it's forbidden for no good reason, because no food is actually bad for you. It's like seduction, if there is an attractive man and he is just not returning calls, always takes days before replying to a message and generally just seems not interested at all, you will feel even more desire to have him. It's a pretty basic law of nature. This is exactly the same.
