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If you want to lose weight, keep in mind that you’re not going to be able to do it with a fad. However, many “new and popular” diets on the market are just that - fads. Most of these diets work for just a very short period of time because they’re not realistic. They only work for a small number of people and those who lose weight often regain it very quickly, perhaps more than they lost to begin with.

Only a very few weight loss diets work for wide array of people, and these are the diets that don’t try to impose some overly restrictive, and usually unsustainable system on people. They work because they appreciate and respect the way the body really was meant to work and they teach people how to succeed in the long-term.

The truth of the matter is that people really do love to eat. A major part of the joy of eating is the taste and the smell of the food. This creates the total experience. It just so happens that people sometimes really love to go for food that is basically “bad” for them. Many of these foods have smell and taste characteristics that are just too hard to resist for too many people.

It can be very difficult to maintain your distance from these foods so that you can stay away from them. This, in turn, means that a lot of diets simply don’t work. If you include the fact that many people have established bad eating habits and have therefore become overweight, this eventually results in failure.

Also, we are all individuals. We differ from one another and so does our metabolism. Different people have different triggers that make them eat or, more importantly, turn to rich fattening foods.

While some people struggle to be trim and slender, others have to struggle to gain weight. Some people should be avoiding high GI carbohydrates more than others because their bodies cannot cope with the sugar load. Others have problems with fat and cholesterol metabolism. How can any fad weight loss diet promise to apply to everyone when we are not all the same?

However, one new weight loss method is not a fad. It doesn’t make empty promises and in fact is not a diet at all. Instead, it relies on a holistic method that has been put to the test and proven to work. It respects how your body really works, and involves the taste and scent inherent in appetite and in eating. In other words, “The nose knows.”

Dr. Leon Massage of the Body Metabolism Institute is the Medical Director and founder of a respected and highly successful weight loss program in Melbourne, Australia. He was searching for a natural and non-drug way of helping his patients control their appetite and avoid the binges. During his investigations he came across some research that was done by the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. This research was performed on a group of 108 overweight volunteers with an average age of 48, average weight of 197 pounds (89.5 Kg.), and average Body Mass Index (BMI) of 31 (any BMI over 30 is considered “obese”).

Over the course of six months, the group was given two different types of different flavored crystals every month, and they were asked to sprinkle these crystals on their food at every meal. Otherwise, they were asked to continue their normal eating and exercise patterns, if applicable. At the end of six months, 92 of the volunteers had finished the study, or 85.1%. The group lost an average of 33.6 pounds, or 5.6 pounds per month.

The study concluded that specific smells and tastes could induce a feeling of satiety, or of being full. This occurs even if you eat the same foods you always do and even if you don’t exercise beyond normal limits. Because you’re naturally full, you have no desire to overeat or to eat in a way that’s out of balance with your own personal body chemistry. This means that you’ll naturally begin to lose weight and will get to your own personal ideal weight range or BMI. You don’t need to force behavioral changes that are often painful in order to lose weight.

Dr. Massage of the Body Metabolism Institute has gone a step further and created the BMI Weight Loss Wristband. In this wristband, he infused special scents that suppress hunger. The wristband is worn during the day and the person wearing it can simply sniff it whenever he or she wishes to eat more than is appropriate. When the wearer has the wristband on, hunger is curbed via neuro-association with the message and the smells so that he or she does not overeat.

This means that losing weight doesn’t have to be a painful process. With Dr. Massage’s wristband, weight loss can be painless, natural, effortless and permanent. The results denote visible success.

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