What is Hoodia Gordonii and how can it help you lose weight?
If you are reading this site there is a good chance you have heard about
Hoodia for weight loss. For those of you who don't know how all they hype
started, in 2004 60 minutes reporter Lesley Stahl did a report on the Hoodia
Gordonii plant that was said to literally take your appetite away. The report
then goes on to basically say that the ingredients in the cactus like plant
tricks the brain into thinking you're full even if you've hardly eaten.
The BBC, the Today Show, and Oprah's O magazine also did stories on how Hoodia Gordonii was found to help suppress our appetites.
Hoodia is a plant that is found mainly in the deserts of South Africa. It was recently discovered that Hoodia is an amazing appetite suppressant. Although the rest of the world is just now learning about the powerful affects Hoodia can have on our appetites, we have now learned that the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in South Africa has been eating it for many generations. They learned that they could decrease their need for food and water for long periods of time which would help them during their hunting trips.
As you can probably expect, when word got out about Hoodia Gordonii, many companies wanted to get their hands on it so they could bottle it up and sell it to consumers wanting to lose weight. So the good news is that Hoodia Gordonii is now available to us. Now companies are packaging the natural appetite suppressing Hoodia Gordonii ingredients and marketing it as an appetite suppressant. We are now able to obtain Hoodia, usually taken in a pill or liquid form.
But the bad news is that most companies offering Hoodia don't have pure Hoodia Gordonii. And most are completely fake products that won't suppress your appetite at all. The only way a company can prove that they have pure Hoodia Gordonii is to show that they have two certified documents. To read more about Hoodia Gordonii certification click here. It is also important to note that there are over 40 different species of the Hoodia plant, but research has shown that only Hoodia Gordonii contains the natural appetite suppressant.
Today we simply eat too much
Today we are much fatter than we were decades ago. There are many possible reasons why we weigh a lot more today. We eat a lot more fast food (which is usually not very healthy). We eat a lot more processed foods and less natural foods, which research has shown to cause weight gain and have a negative affect on our health. We have a lot more stress in our life (which can cause us to gain weight). But in my opinion the biggest reason we weigh a lot more today then we used to is because we simply eat way too much. Many of the reasons above contribute to this. Example, many studies have shown that food portions we eat at restaurants are twice as much as we should be eating. And today we eat out so much as a society that we have gotten used to eating larger portions. Most of us eat too much at every meal. Not only do we eat larger portions, we have also gotten used to snacking. Those extra calories per meal plus those two or three snacks a day add up. And after doing this day after day for years it not only adds up to a lot of extra weight, but it makes it hard to stop eating this way.
To lose weight you need to burn off more calories than you take in each day. But when we get older we don't burn calories like we did when we were younger as our metabolisms slows down. I can tell you first hand that I had been trying to lose weight for years. I worked out 5 or 6 days a week and ate OK, maybe not great, but better than most people I knew. But once I started putting on the pounds I had trouble losing weight no matter how many hours I put in the gym each week. It wasn't until I finally started decreasing my calories, along with continuing my workouts, where I finally was able to lose weight and keep it off.
Decreased Hunger = Easier Weight Loss
OK so I've told you that you if you are over weight you are probably eating more calories than you should. Or you are not burning off more than you are consuming. But eating less is hard to do because you have become accustomed to eating more for so long. And whether you like it or not you probably are somewhat addicted to food. And hunger will keep reminding you to eat. It's not fun to feel hungry. Most of us eat when we are hungry. Problem is, that hungry feeling doesn't go away until we get all those daily calories and snacks we are used to eating.
But if we weren't hungry as much we wouldn't eat as much. If we weren't hungry during the times we normally snack we would snack a lot less. And if we got fuller faster than we wouldn't eat as much. We could say no to those second helpings. Doing this day after day will cause you to lose weight. I know because it worked for me. After taking a product called "Hoodia Gordonii Plus" I started eating a lot less and quickly dropped a lot of weight. It was clear that I was eating too much. I was always searching for a magic diet plan but the truth is I just needed to eat less. The problem is those hunger pains make it hard for us to eat less. Well, taking a pure Hoodia Gordonii pill like Hoodia Gordonii Plus can help make those hunger pains go away.