subject: How A Mother Of Two Lost 25 Pounds By Adding Acai To Her Diet [print this page] Leslie Barnum is a single mom of two struggling with running a household, raising two daughters and didn't feel she had time to get in shape.
"My diet was the last thing on my mind. I would eat fast food, take-out or cook microwave meals. I was too busy to think about health."
She wanted to lose weight but didn't know how. She tried various diets and each one failed. Leslie was 150 pounds 6 months ago and had tried "every pill, powder, and drink on the market. "I was fed up," she says.
"For once I decided I needed to address the issue of why I was fat before I could lose the weight. I knew that eating a cheeseburger while popping a diet pill was not the answer, but I didn't know what was."
After a friend's advice, Leslie started researching organic food and came across a plethora of information on natural health.
Leslie learned about the toxins in our food supply and decided to eat the same amount of food, but make sure that everything she put on her plate was organic. "I started losing weight the very first week! I couldn't believe it."
After she lost 13 pounds by eating organic, Leslie's weight leveled off so she decided to find away to kick start her weight-loss so she could keep losing. "My biggest problem was sweets," she says. "But then I read that acai was sweet and good for you so I decided to add it to my diet as a desert substitute."
"It worked! Acai tastes like chocolate so it was the perfect way for me to get my sweet fix and not crave sugar anymore." Leslie made acai a staple in her diet by making yogurt with acai syrup, and acai smoothies and juices.
"Just a few months after I started adding acai I got back to my desired weight which now fluctuates between 128-132 lbs."
Leslie's acai recipes included making acai syrup using acai preserves. Acai preserves are a great way to get the nutrition from the berry because they retain the antioxidants, amino acids and fatty acids of the acai berry which help us lose weight.
Leslie also drank acai juices and smoothies which gave her an energy boost throughout the day and squelched her sugar cravings.
And her kids love acai too. "I make them 'sundaes' with soy yogurt that I put in the freezer ad then drizzle with acai syrup. They love it. And it feels good that not only am I getting healthy, but I'm teaching my kids how to be healthy too so they never end up the way I was."
"I have learned so much in the last few months just from doing my own research on natural health. I can honestly say that eating organic and adding acai to my diet were the 'secrets' of my weight-loss success."
