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If you have tried a few diets and you are wary of the next shiny promise, you are exactly who this review is for. I am going to tell you what The Trimmer Method is, what is inside, what it costs, who I think it suits and where it falls short, using what the program's own pages say rather than hype.

What is The Trimmer Method?

The Trimmer Method is a digital weight-loss program by Tracey Trimmer, sold with the tagline "Secrets to Easy and Permanent Weight Loss". Tracey describes it as "Your Diet-Free Weight Loss Solution For Life", and that phrase tells you most of what you need to know about its approach.

It comes in two versions, one written for men and one written for women. The core ideas are the same, but the examples, the language and the focus are different for each.

Who is Tracey Trimmer?

Tracey is open about where she started. She says she was once clinically obese and that her life "revolved around the next meal". She also says she still loves her food, which is a big part of why her program never asks you to give up the things you enjoy.

Tracey says she lost sixty pounds with this program and has kept it off for years. That is her own story, and it is worth saying clearly that everyone's results are different.

The main ideas behind it

Here is the method in a nutshell, as the program describes it:

• No calorie counting. Tracey believes that restricting calories puts your body into what she calls "panic mode", where it holds on to fat.
• Eat more, not less. Her plan talks about six meals a day, and she wants you to feel full rather than hungry.
• No forbidden foods. This is not a "cheat day" plan. She says you can eat whatever you want, and she means it.
• Carbs are allowed. Bread and potatoes are on the menu. In her words, "bread is actually your FRIEND", and part of the program is working out which carbs suit your own body.
• The psychological side matters. The program takes your appetite and your emotions into account, not only the food on your plate.
• No dieting, no extreme workouts, no supplements. There are no pills, shakes or special foods to buy.

A large part of the sales letter is a section called the 5 "Fat-Making" Lies, where Tracey takes on five common beliefs: that you must eat fewer calories, eat low-fat food, go low-carb, take fat-burning supplements, and eat "diet foods". If those rules have never worked for you, this section alone is worth reading.

What's inside

When you order, you get:

• The Trimmer Method program itself, a digital guide you can read on screen or print. The men's version also includes more than 20 step-by-step weight loss videos.
• Bonus 1: Fasting For Weight Loss & Detox, a 28-page report.
• Bonus 2: Food Addiction: Breaking The Habit, a 28-page report on how to stop emotional eating.
• Bonus 3: Speed Up Your Weight Loss: Sculpt A Physique In Just 20 Minutes, a 47-page ebook about short, moderate workouts.

The bonuses are listed as worth over $85 together. Everything is delivered digitally, so you can start straight after you order. There is nothing to wait for in the post.

Price and guarantee

The Trimmer Method normally lists at $49.95 and is currently offered for $37 as a one-time payment, with no monthly fees on the standard version.

It is covered by what Tracey calls her 60 Day Ironclad Weight Loss Guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied, you can get a full refund by emailing The Trimmer Method Support Team within 60 days. That gives you two full months to read it, try it and decide.

What I like about it

• It is kind. So many diets start from the idea that you have failed. Tracey's message is that you were never at fault, and that a lot of popular diet advice works against you.
• It fits real life. Because no food is banned, you are not "on" or "off" a diet. Birthdays, holidays and busy weeks do not have to derail you.
• The emotional eating bonus. Plenty of people know what to eat but still find themselves at the fridge at 10pm. The Food Addiction report tackles why that happens.
• One payment. No memberships, no weigh-in centres, no meal deliveries to keep paying for.

Where it falls short

No program suits everyone, so here are the honest limitations:

• It is a digital program. If you want a person to check in with you every week, this is a guide you follow yourself.
• The sales letter is very enthusiastic. Tracey writes with a lot of energy and capital letters. Read it for the ideas, and judge the program on whether those ideas make sense to you.
• It challenges popular advice. If you are happy on a low-carb or calorie-counting plan that works for you, this program will ask you to think differently.
• Results vary. How much weight anyone loses depends on the person. If you have a medical condition or take medication, talk to your doctor before you change the way you eat.

The verdict

If you love food, you are tired of diets that leave you hungry, and you suspect the usual rules have been working against you, The Trimmer Method is worth a look. It is low-cost, it is a one-time payment, and the 60-day guarantee means you can try it without much risk.

If you would rather see the ideas for yourself first, Tracey explains them in a free presentation on the official site.

Click here to see The Trimmer Method on the official site and decide for yourself whether it suits you.

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Thirty-seven dollars is not a lot of money. But if you have already paid for a gym you stopped using, a shelf of diet books and a few months of a programme with fees on top of fees, you have every right to ask what you are getting this time before you spend another cent.

So this is not a review of whether Tracey Trimmer's ideas are right. It is a plain look at what you actually get for your $37, what is not included, how the guarantee works, and who I think should buy it or skip it.

The short answer

For $37, paid once, you get The Trimmer Method program in the version written for you (women or men), three bonus reports, and 60 days to ask for your money back if it does not suit you. There is no monthly fee on the standard version, no food to buy and nothing to post. Whether it is worth it depends on one thing: whether you want a diet-free approach you follow on your own.

What is in the program

The Trimmer Method is a digital guide by Tracey Trimmer, sold as "Your Diet-Free Weight Loss Solution For Life". Its main ideas are simple to state:

• No calorie counting. Tracey says cutting calories hard puts your body into "panic mode", where it holds on to fat.
• Eat more, not less. The program talks about six meals a day.
• No forbidden foods. Bread and potatoes stay on the menu. In her words, "bread is actually your FRIEND".
• The emotional side counts. It takes your appetite and your feelings into account as well as the food on your plate.
• No extreme workouts and no supplements.

The guide includes recipes built around the fats Tracey recommends, and you can read it on screen or print it out as many times as you like.

The women's version and the men's version

There are two versions. The core method is the same, but the examples and the focus differ. The men's version also includes more than 20 step-by-step weight loss videos, which is worth knowing if you would rather watch than read. In the men's letter Tracey says the program has worked on seventy year olds, so age is not treated as a barrier.

The three bonuses

Three bonus reports come with every order, listed as worth over $85 together:

1. Fasting For Weight Loss & Detox, a 28-page report (listed at $27).
2. Food Addiction: Breaking The Habit, also called How To Stop Emotional Eating, a 28-page report (listed at $27). If you are someone who ends up at the fridge late at night without being hungry, this is the one to read first.
3. Speed Up Your Weight Loss: Sculpt A Physique In Just 20 Minutes, a 47-page ebook on short workouts (listed at $34).

Everything is digital, so the program and the bonuses are ready straight after you order.

The price, and the one thing to check at the checkout

The program is listed at $49.95 and is currently offered for $37, a saving of $12.95. On the standard version that is one payment, and that is the end of it.

There is also an order option that adds an Amazing Self membership. On that option the first month of the membership is free, and after that it is billed at $37 a month. Neither option is hidden, but they are different, so check which one you pick before you pay. If you only want the program, choose the one-payment version.

What it does not include

Being clear about this saves disappointment later:

• No meal deliveries and no special food to buy. There are recipes, but you cook them yourself with ordinary food.
• No personal coaching or weekly check-ins. This is a guide you follow on your own, at your own pace.
• No supplements. Tracey calls fat-burning supplements "USELESS", so there are no pills, powders or shakes to keep buying.

For some people that is the whole appeal. For others, the lack of a person to answer to is a real gap. Be honest with yourself about which one you are.

How the 60-day guarantee works

The program is covered by what Tracey calls her 60 Day Ironclad Weight Loss Guarantee. If you are not completely satisfied, you email The Trimmer Method Support Team within 60 days of your order and ask for a full refund. Tracey says she does not want you to feel any shame or guilt in asking.

In practice that means two months to read the guide, cook from it and see whether this way of eating fits your life. The only thing you need to do is keep a note of the date you ordered.

Who it is worth it for

• People who love their food and are tired of diets that leave them hungry.
• Anyone who has lost weight on calorie counting or low-carb plans and watched it come back once the plan stopped.
• Emotional eaters, who will get a lot from the Food Addiction report alone.
• Men who would rather follow along with videos than read a long guide.
• Anyone who wants to pay once rather than keep paying every month.

Who should skip it

• If you are happy on a plan that already works for you, there is no reason to switch.
• If you want someone to weigh you, check in every week and keep you accountable, this will not give you that.
• If you have a medical condition or take medication, talk to your doctor before you change the way you eat. That goes for any plan, this one included.

So, is it worth it?

Tracey says she lost sixty pounds with this program and has kept it off for years. That is her own story, and everyone's results are different, so do not buy it expecting a set number on the scales. Buy it if the idea of eating real meals, bread included, without counting or banning anything sounds like something you could keep doing for good.

At $37 once, with three bonuses and 60 days to change your mind, the risk is small. The bigger cost is usually another year of diets you do not enjoy. If you would like to hear the ideas first, Tracey explains them in a free presentation on the official site.

Click here to see what you get with The Trimmer Method and decide for yourself whether it is worth it for you.

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Most of us have tried at least two of these. You count calories for a few weeks, give up, try cutting carbs, give up, then buy a tub of shakes because a friend swears by them. Each one promises to be the answer, and each one asks something different of you.

This article puts the main ways people try to lose weight side by side, so you can see what each one asks of you every day and how you pay for it. Then I will explain where Tracey Trimmer's diet-free approach fits in, and what she says about the others. I am not naming brands, and I am not going to tell you one plan is right for everybody, because it is not.

The approaches at a glance

Now a closer look at each one.

Calorie counting

The idea is simple: eat fewer calories than you burn, and you will lose weight. Day to day, it means weighing portions, reading labels and keeping a running total, either in an app or in your head.

It costs little, and it teaches you a lot about what is in your food. The hard part is living with it. Counting every bite is tiring, and many people find they are hungry most of the day.

Tracey is firmly against it. She says that restricting calories puts your body into "panic mode", where it holds on to fat, and that much of the weight lost on a crash diet is water and muscle rather than fat. Her answer is the opposite: eat more, not less.

Low-fat

Low-fat eating means choosing the low-fat version of everything you can, from yoghurt to salad dressing. It does not cost more than normal shopping, and it does not need much planning.

Tracey says low-fat advice has done more harm than good. In her view the human body needs fat, and the right fats are part of losing weight and keeping it off. Her guide includes recipes built around the fats she recommends.

Low-carb

Low-carb plans ask you to cut out or sharply reduce bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. Some people like how simple the rule is. Others find it hard to keep up at family meals, at restaurants and on holiday, because so much ordinary food is off the table.

Tracey says low-carb diets cannot help you lose weight over the long haul, and that going without carbohydrates can leave you tired and miserable. Her line on this is one of the most quoted in her program: "bread is actually your FRIEND". The point, as she explains it, is learning which carbs work best for your own body.

Meal-replacement shakes and supplements

This is the most convenient option on the list. You swap a meal for a shake, or take a pill that promises to burn fat, and you do not have to think much about food. The catch is that you keep paying for as long as you use them, and the moment you stop, you are back to working out what to eat.

Tracey is at her most blunt here. She calls supplements and fat-burning substitutes "USELESS", and says they can do more harm than good. Her program does not involve a single pill, powder or shake.

Paid programmes with weekly weigh-ins or meal deliveries

These give you something the others do not: structure and other people. You get a plan, a regular weigh-in or a box of meals at the door, and someone keeping an eye on you. For some people that accountability is exactly what they need.

The cost is ongoing. Memberships, meeting fees and deliveries add up, and when people stop paying, many find the weight creeps back. Tracey's view is uncomfortable but worth hearing: a company that helps you lose weight for good loses a paying customer, so it suits a lot of businesses to help you lose a little and keep you coming back.

The diet-free approach

Tracey Trimmer's program, The Trimmer Method, sits at the other end of the scale. There is no counting, no banned food and no special product. Day to day it asks you to eat real meals, with the program talking about six meals a day, carbs included, and to pay attention to why you eat as well as what you eat. It takes your appetite and your emotions into account, and one of its bonus reports is about emotional eating.

Tracey says she was once clinically obese and that her life "revolved around the next meal", and that she lost sixty pounds with this program and has kept it off for years. That is her own story, and results differ from person to person.

It costs $37 as a one-time payment on the standard version (there is also a checkout option that adds a monthly membership, so check which one you choose). It comes in a version for women and a version for men, and it is covered by a 60-day money-back guarantee.

The honest downside is the same as its strength: you follow it on your own. There is no weigh-in and nobody checking on you each week.

How to choose

Ask yourself three questions before you pick anything:

1. Could I eat this way for the rest of my life? If the honest answer is no, the plan has an end date, and so may the results.
2. Do I want structure from other people, or freedom to do it myself? If you need someone to answer to, a paid programme may suit you better. If you want to stop paying and stop being told what to eat, a diet-free approach makes more sense.
3. What has happened every other time? If you have lost weight by restricting and watched it come back, doing the same thing harder is unlikely to end differently.

Whichever way you go, if you have a medical condition or take medication, talk to your doctor before you change the way you eat.

If the diet-free route sounds like the one you could live with, Tracey explains her thinking in a free presentation on the official site.

Click here to see The Trimmer Method on the official site and decide for yourself whether it suits you.

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If you have been on more than one diet, you have probably noticed something odd. The rules keep changing, yet they all seem to end the same way. You lose a little, you feel hungry and fed up, and the weight comes back.

Tracey Trimmer, the author of The Trimmer Method, believes that is not a failure of willpower. She thinks it comes down to five pieces of diet advice that most of us have heard so many times we never question them. She calls them the 5 "Fat-Making" Lies.

Here they are, along with what she says about each one. As always, everybody is different, so if you have a medical condition, talk to your doctor before you change the way you eat.

Lie 1: "You must eat fewer calories if you want to lose weight"

This is the rule almost every diet starts with, and it seems to make sense. Eat less, weigh less.

Tracey disagrees. She says restrictive diets that cut calories send your body into what she calls "panic mode". You may lose weight in the short term, but in her view much of that weight is water and muscle rather than fat. And because muscle is the tissue that helps you burn energy, losing it can make it easier to put weight back on once the diet ends.

Her alternative is the opposite of what you might expect: eat more, not less. The Trimmer Method talks about six meals a day, and the aim is to feel satisfied rather than hungry an hour after you eat.

Lie 2: "You must eat low-fat food to lose weight"

Walk down any supermarket aisle and you will see "low-fat" on labels everywhere. On paper, it sounds sensible.

Tracey's view is that it has done more harm than good. She says the human body needs fat, and that the right fats are part of losing weight and keeping it off. Her program includes recipes built around the fats she recommends, so you are not left guessing what to cook.

Lie 3: "You must eat a low-carb diet if you want to lose weight quickly"

Low-carb plans have been popular for years, and plenty of people have tried cutting out bread and potatoes completely.

Tracey says low-carb diets cannot help you lose weight over the long haul. She argues that you need carbohydrates for energy, and that going without them can leave you tired and miserable. In her words, "bread is actually your FRIEND".

The key, as she explains it, is knowing which carbs work best for your own body, and that is something her program helps you work out.

Lie 4: "If you really want to lose weight, you have to take fat-burning supplements"

This is the lie Tracey is most blunt about. She calls supplements and fat-burning substitutes "USELESS", and says they can do more harm than good. The diet industry makes a great deal of money from them, but in her view you do not need a single pill, powder or shake.

The Trimmer Method does not involve any supplements at all. Everything it asks of you happens in your own kitchen, with real food.

Lie 5: "You must eat diet foods if you are serious about losing weight"

Have you ever eaten something labelled "healthy" or "diet-friendly", and then found yourself craving more of it an hour later, even though you were not really hungry?

Tracey says that is no coincidence. She points to ingredients in many diet foods, such as high-fructose corn syrup, MSG and sugar alcohols, and says they can set off strong cravings, both physical and psychological. So the very foods sold to help you lose weight can keep you coming back for more.

Her answer is to stop buying special diet products and eat real food you enjoy, in proper portions.

Why these lies keep going

If these rules do not work, why do we keep hearing them? Tracey's answer is a little uncomfortable. A company that helps you lose weight for good loses a paying customer. It suits a lot of businesses to help you lose a little, then keep you coming back for more meal plans, more memberships and more products.

That is also why so many people end up blaming themselves. They are told that losing weight is simple, so when it does not last, they assume the problem must be them. Tracey's message is the opposite: you are not at fault.

A different way to think about food

The thread running through all five lies is the same. Diets built on restriction, special products and long lists of banned foods are hard to live with, and what is hard to live with rarely lasts.

The Trimmer Method takes the other road. No calorie counting. No forbidden foods. No extreme workouts. Real meals, carbs included, and attention to the emotional side of eating as well as the physical side. It comes in a version for women and a version for men, and includes three bonus reports on fasting, emotional eating and short workouts.

It costs $37 as a one-time payment and comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee, so you can read it and try it without much risk. Results vary from person to person, and Tracey's own sixty-pound story is hers alone, but if these five rules have never worked for you, her ideas are worth hearing.

You can read the full section on the five lies in Tracey's letter, written for women or written for men.

Click here to watch Tracey's free presentation on the official site and see the rest of the method for yourself.

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It is late, the house is quiet, and you are standing in front of the fridge. You are not hungry, not really. You ate dinner a couple of hours ago. But something pulls you there anyway, and before long you are eating without even tasting it.

If that sounds familiar, you are far from alone. Emotional eating is one of the most common reasons people struggle with their weight, and it is one of the least talked about.

The good news is that once you understand what is going on, you can start to change it. Here is a simple, practical way to begin.

What emotional eating really is

Emotional eating goes by a few names: compulsive eating, food abuse, bingeing. Whatever you call it, it is eating for a reason that has nothing to do with physical hunger.

Tracey Trimmer, the author of The Trimmer Method, puts it in a way that makes a lot of sense. In her report on breaking the habit, she describes emotional eating as a sign that something is missing from your life. Food is not what you need. It is what you reach for as a stop-gap, to "bridge the gap". And because food is not the real need, it never fills the hole.

She lists the kinds of needs that often go unmet: exercise, rest, the company of friends, conversation, laughter, love and fun. When one of those is missing for long enough, food steps in to cover it.

Step 1: Notice the moment

You cannot change something you do not see. For the next week, try to catch the moments when you eat without being hungry.

You do not need to stop yourself yet. Just notice. What time is it? Where are you? What happened just before? Many people find a clear pattern within a few days: the same time of night, the same kind of day, the same feeling.

Step 2: Pause and ask one question

When you catch yourself heading for food without hunger, pause for a moment and ask: "What do I actually need right now?"

Look back at that list of needs. Are you tired and in need of rest? Lonely and in need of company? Bored and in need of some fun? Stressed and in need of a walk or a laugh?

The answer will not always be clear, and that is fine. The pause itself is the start of breaking the habit.

Step 3: Meet the real need, even in a small way

Once you have a guess at what is missing, try to meet it, even in a small way. Ring a friend. Go to bed early. Step outside for ten minutes. Put on music you love.

You are not trying to fix your whole life tonight. You are teaching yourself that there is another way to answer that feeling, one that actually helps.

Step 4: Stop banning foods

This may sound backwards, but strict rules about "good" and "bad" foods often make emotional eating worse. When a food is forbidden, it becomes the thing you think about most, and one bite can turn into "I've blown it now".

The Trimmer Method takes a different approach. No food is forbidden, and you decide for yourself when enough is enough. When nothing is off limits, there is no forbidden fruit to binge on, and food slowly loses some of its power over you.

Step 5: Eat enough during the day

Emotional eating often hits hardest when you are also genuinely underfed. If you have spent the day on small, careful portions, you arrive at the evening tired, hungry and low on willpower.

Tracey's advice is to eat more, not less. Her program talks about six meals a day, so you are never running on empty. It is much easier to listen to your feelings when your body is not shouting at you for food.

Step 6: Be kind to yourself

Many emotional eaters carry a heavy load of guilt and shame. They feel bad about eating, so they eat to make the bad feeling go away, and the cycle continues.

Tracey's message on this is clear: you are not at fault. Much of the popular diet advice out there sets people up to struggle. If you slip, it is not proof that you are weak. It is a sign of a need that has not been met yet, and that is something you can work on.

Going further

These steps are a good start, but emotional eating usually runs deep, and it helps to have a fuller guide.

Tracey's 28-page special report, Food Addiction: Breaking The Habit (also called How To Stop Emotional Eating), goes into much more detail on why we eat for emotional reasons and how to change the way you approach food by addressing your real needs.

The report is one of three bonuses that come with The Trimmer Method, her diet-free weight-loss program. The program itself does away with calorie counting and forbidden foods, allows carbs like bread and potatoes, and takes your appetite and emotions into account along with your body. It comes in a version for women and a version for men, and the other two bonuses cover fasting for weight loss and detox, and short 20-minute workouts.

It costs $37 as a one-time payment, and it is covered by a 60-day money-back guarantee. Everyone's results are different, and if you have a medical condition, or if your eating feels out of control, please talk to your doctor as well.

If you are ready to stop fighting food and start understanding it, you can see The Trimmer Method and its bonuses here.

Click here to see The Trimmer Method and the emotional eating report on the official site.

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You can lose weight on a strict diet and finish heavier than the day you started. Tracey Trimmer, who wrote The Trimmer Method, says that is exactly what cutting calories sets up, and she has a name for what your body does when you try it: panic mode.

Most of us were taught that weight loss is simple arithmetic. Eat less, weigh less. Tracey says the arithmetic leaves out the one thing in the room that has opinions about it, which is your body.

What your body does when the food suddenly shrinks

Tracey explains that when you restrict calories hard, your body goes into panic mode. It reads the smaller portions as a sign that food is running out, so it protects itself. In her words, restricting calories sends your body into panic mode and causes it to store more fat.

That is why a diet can feel so strange from the inside. You are eating less, you are hungry, you are doing everything right, and the body you are trying to change is working against you the whole time.

The pounds that disappear first are the ones you wanted to keep

Here is the part of Tracey's argument that stopped me. Yes, you will lose weight in the short term on a crash diet. She says the weight you lose is mostly water and muscle, and only a little of it is fat.

Why does that matter so much? Because of what muscle does. Tracey says muscle is the tissue that helps you burn calories and fat, while fat tissue does nothing but come along for the ride. Muscle is the weight you want more of, because it works on your fat all day long, even when you are sitting down.

So follow it through. A crash diet strips off water and muscle, and muscle is your fat-burning equipment. When the diet ends, you have less of it than before. Tracey says that is why putting fat back on is easier once you come off a diet, and why the weight comes back.

Why eating more is the way out

If starving the body triggers panic mode, the answer Tracey gives is to do the opposite. She says you need to eat more, not less, and she means it literally. The idea is to eat enough that your metabolism never suspects a thing, so your fat-burning thermostat stays turned up.

For most people, she says, that means eating much more than they are used to eating, without the guilt, the deprivation or the cravings that come with a diet. Her program talks about six meals a day, so there is never a long stretch where your body starts to wonder where the next meal is coming from.

The picture she paints is the reverse of dieting:

• You eat regularly through the day, so you are full and content instead of counting the hours until dinner.
• You feed your muscles, which are the tissue that burns fat for you.
• You stop dreading the next meal, because nothing on your plate is a punishment.

Tracey knows what the other side feels like. She says she was once clinically obese, that her life revolved around the next meal, and that she still loves her food. She says she lost sixty pounds with this program and has kept it off for years, and that is her own story. Results vary from person to person, and if you have a medical condition or take medication, talk to your doctor before you change how you eat.

What this does to the way you think about food

There is a second effect that has nothing to do with metabolism. When you are always cutting back, food becomes the main event of your day. Every small portion leaves you thinking about the next one.

When you eat properly, that noise fades. Tracey says the program takes your appetite and your emotions into account as well as your body, because a plan that leaves you rumbling an hour after you eat is a plan you will drop. No food is forbidden in The Trimmer Method, so there is nothing to sneak and nothing to feel guilty about.

What you get if you want to see the whole method

The Trimmer Method is Tracey's diet-free program, in a version for women and a version for men. It costs $37 as one payment, down from $49.95. Three bonuses come with it, worth over $85 together: a report on fasting for weight loss and detox, a report on how to stop emotional eating, and an ebook on building a physique with workouts of about 20 minutes.

It is covered by the 60 Day Ironclad Weight Loss Guarantee. If you are not happy, you email The Trimmer Method Support Team within 60 days and you get a full refund.

If panic mode explains a few of your past diets, you can hear Tracey explain the rest of it in her free presentation on the official site.

Click here to see The Trimmer Method and what it asks you to eat instead, and find out how many meals a day Tracey really wants you to have.

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Somewhere along the way, bread became the villain. People cut it first, before anything else, as if the whole problem lived in the bread bin. Tracey Trimmer, who wrote The Trimmer Method, says the opposite, and she says it in capital letters: bread is actually your FRIEND.

That sentence sounds like permission to ignore everything you have been told, so it is worth hearing how she gets there, and what she says you should do about carbs instead.

What Tracey says happens when you cut carbs

Tracey says low-carb diets cannot help you lose weight over the long haul. She says you need carbohydrates to be healthy, and that without them you can expect low energy, headaches and constipation. She also points out that the human brain needs carbohydrates to function.

That matches what a lot of people say about low-carb in real life. The first few weeks feel strict but doable, then a family dinner or a holiday arrives and the plan falls apart. Tracey's view is that the plan has failed you, and the fault is not yours. When you are told you are not allowed bread, potatoes or pasta, you end up thinking about them more than you ever did before.

Why she calls the low-carb rule a lie

In her letter, Tracey lists five pieces of diet advice she calls the 5 "Fat-Making" Lies. The belief that you must eat a low-carb diet to lose weight quickly is Lie number three. Her answer to it is short. Carbs are on her side, and she wants you eating them.

In The Trimmer Method you are allowed to eat carbs like bread and potatoes whenever you want. Nothing is banned and nothing is a cheat day, because there is no diet to cheat on.

The carbs that suit your own body

If bread is your friend, why isn't every carb treated the same? Because Tracey says your body is individual, and the carbs that work best for you are not necessarily the ones that work best for the person next to you.

She says that when you know which carbs work best for your own body, you get healthy energy, your muscles grow stronger and your body gets on with burning fat. Her program helps you find out which ones those are, and she says they are extra yummy.

That is a very different job from the one a low-carb diet gives you. A diet hands you a list of things to avoid. Tracey asks you to find the foods that work for you and eat more of them.

Here is how that looks day to day:

• You eat bread, potatoes and other carbs openly, at the table, with everyone else.
• You pay attention to which carbs leave you with energy and which ones leave you flat.
• You build your meals around the ones that suit you, and the program shows you how.

Why having no forbidden foods makes it easier to stick with

Think about the last food you told yourself you could never have again. It probably became the thing you wanted most. Tracey's program is built on the idea that you should never deprive yourself, which is why it says no food is forbidden.

That freedom is also why she says you can decide for yourself how much is enough and what full really feels like. The program takes your own tastes, your hunger levels and your portions into account, instead of handing you a rulebook written for nobody in particular. She also wants you to eat more rather than less, with six meals a day, so you are not arriving at dinner starving and ready to eat the whole loaf.

Tracey says she was once clinically obese and that her life revolved around the next meal. She says she lost sixty pounds with this program and has kept it off for years. That is her own story. Results vary, and if you have a medical condition or take medication, talk to your doctor before you change how you eat.

What is in the program

The Trimmer Method comes in a version for women and a version for men, and it costs $37 as one payment (it was $49.95). You also get three bonuses worth over $85 together, covering fasting for weight loss and detox, emotional eating, and quick 20-minute workouts. The 60 Day Ironclad Weight Loss Guarantee means you can email The Trimmer Method Support Team within 60 days for a full refund.

If you have spent years believing bread had to go, Tracey's free presentation on the official site shows you what she puts in its place.

Click here to see The Trimmer Method and find the carbs that suit your body, and keep the bread.

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Think about the last time a diet ended. Most of us can say the date, the occasion and the exact food that finished it off, and then we spent the next week blaming ourselves. Tracey Trimmer, who wrote The Trimmer Method, says you were never the problem, and she has a lot to say about who benefits when you think you are.

What the diet industry gets from your next attempt

Tracey's view of the diet industry is blunt. She says weight-loss companies have built products and services that help you lose a couple of pounds, but that make you keep needing them to hold on to the loss.

You may know how that goes. You join a popular service and lose some weight. Then the fees start to feel like too much, you quit, and almost as soon as you stop paying, the weight creeps back on. Tracey says the worst part is that most people decide the failure was their own fault. She says plainly that you are not at fault.

How diet foods can set off the cravings they promise to cure

Have you ever eaten something sold as healthy or diet-friendly, and found an hour later that you could not stop thinking about more of it, even though you were not hungry?

Tracey says that is no accident. She points to ingredients found in many diet foods, such as high-fructose corn syrup, MSG and sugar alcohols, and says they create strong cravings for more of the same, both physical and psychological. So the packet that was meant to help you lose weight keeps you reaching for the next one.

Her answer is to leave diet products on the shelf and eat real food you actually like.

Why willpower is the wrong thing to blame

Tracey says her method takes the psychological side of weight loss into account as well as the physical side. In her words, your appetite and your emotions need to be satisfied, as well as your body.

That changes how you read your own history. If you have ever eaten when you were not hungry, Tracey says emotional eating is your body's way of telling you something is missing from your life. It might be rest, exercise, the company of friends, conversation, laughter, love or fun. She says that when you eat for emotional reasons you never fill the hole, because food is what you reach for as a stop-gap and never what you needed.

A diet cannot fix that. A diet only adds rules on top of it, and the rules make you hungrier and more tired than before.

Living on a diet and falling off it

Notice the language we use. You are "on" a diet, or you are "off" it. Being off means you have failed, and being on means you are waiting for the day it ends.

Tracey says there is not a single diet that will help you lose weight quickly and keep it off for good, whether it is low-carb, low-fat or low-calorie. What works, she says, is a new way of living that is completely different from the diets and exercise plans you have tried. With that, there is no on and no off. There is just the way you eat.

What a diet-free way of living looks like on the plate

• You eat more, not less, with six meals a day, so you are never running on empty.
• No food is forbidden, and bread and potatoes stay on the menu.
• There are no supplements, shakes or special products to buy.
• You decide for yourself how much is enough and what full feels like.

Tracey says she was once clinically obese, that her life revolved around the next meal, and that she still loves her food. She says she lost sixty pounds with this program and has kept it off for years. That is her own story. Results vary from person to person, and anyone with a medical condition or on medication should talk to their doctor before changing how they eat.

The program behind the idea

The Trimmer Method comes in a version for women and a version for men. It costs $37 as one payment, down from $49.95, and it includes three bonuses worth over $85 together. One of them is a report on breaking the habit of emotional eating, which speaks to the question at the heart of this article. The 60 Day Ironclad Weight Loss Guarantee gives you 60 days to email The Trimmer Method Support Team for a full refund.

If the next diet is one you are not sure you want to start, watch Tracey's free presentation on the official site first.

Click here to see The Trimmer Method and step out of the on-and-off cycle.

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A weight-loss plan that tells you to eat six meals a day also comes with a 28-page report on fasting. That sounds like a contradiction, and I want to show you why it is not one.

Fasting for weight loss and detox is a topic people either swear by or run from. The word alone makes a lot of us think of an empty stomach, a pounding headache and a week of misery. Tracey Trimmer, the author of The Trimmer Method, teaches the opposite on almost every page of her main program, and yet Bonus 1 in the package is called Fasting For Weight Loss & Detox. Here is how those two things sit side by side.

Why a program built on eating more includes a fasting report

Tracey's main message is that you should never count calories. She says restricting calories sends your body into what she calls "panic mode", where it stores more fat, and that the weight lost on a crash diet is mostly water and muscle. Her answer is to eat more, not less, with six meals a day and no forbidden foods.

So the fasting report does not replace any of that. It arrives as a bonus, worth $27 on its own, and it sits beside the main program as something you can read and think about. The main plan never asks you to go hungry, and the report is there for the person who is curious about fasting and wants to understand it before trying anything.

What the report says it covers

The report is 28 pages long. Tracey describes fasting in her letter as a simple, natural way of losing weight that people have used for a very long time, and she says it is a way of resetting your body's cravings and food compulsions. She also describes fasting and detoxing as a fabulous way to rest your body and kick off your weight loss.

The letter says the report teaches you what you need to know to do it safely, including how to cleanse your body of toxins. The letter gives no schedule or numbers, so I am not offering any here. What the report gives you is Tracey's own explanation of the subject, written by the same person who built the rest of the program.

If cravings are your biggest problem, that second claim is the one to notice. Plenty of people know exactly what to eat and still find the pull of food stronger than their plan. Tracey's view is that a fast can reset that pull, and she puts it in the same package as her report on emotional eating, Bonus 2.

Who should talk to a doctor before reading a word of it

Fasting is not for everyone, and I would be doing you no favours if I skipped past that. If you are pregnant, if you have diabetes, if you have any medical condition or if you take medication, speak to your doctor before you try any kind of fast. That goes for a short fast and a long one, and it goes for any plan in this article or in the report.

Results vary from person to person, and nothing here is medical advice. A report is information. Your doctor is the person who knows your body, and one conversation with them costs nothing.

How the fasting report fits a plan that never starves you

This is where the contradiction at the start of the article gets settled. The Trimmer Method is built so that you are happy, full and energised. Tracey says "going hungry" is not part of it. A fasting report in that setting is an extra for people who want it, and the program works without it.

You could read the main guide first, start eating the Trimmer way, and open Bonus 1 later when you feel ready. You could also skip it entirely and still have a complete plan. Nobody is told that a fast is the price of admission, and I like that, because a plan that only works if you suffer is a plan most of us quit.

What else comes in the package

The fasting report is one of three bonuses, which Tracey lists as worth over $85 together. The second is Food Addiction: Breaking The Habit, a 28-page report on how to stop emotional eating. The third is Speed Up Your Weight Loss: Sculpt A Physique In Just 20 Minutes, a 47-page ebook on moderate workouts that she says do not have to be hardcore.

The program comes in a version for men and a version for women. It costs $37 as a single payment, down from $49.95, and it is covered by Tracey's 60 Day Ironclad Weight Loss Guarantee. If it is not for you, you email The Trimmer Method Support Team within 60 days and you get a full refund.

If fasting has always interested you but frightened you too, this is a calm way to read about it, with a plan around it that keeps you fed. You can see the full Trimmer Method presentation on the official site and read Tracey's own explanation of the bonuses.

Click here to see The Trimmer Method and its three bonuses and decide for yourself whether it suits you.

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Tracey Trimmer says in her letter to men that her program "has worked on seventy year olds". If you are over 50 and you have quietly decided that your belly is just what happens now, that sentence deserves a second look.

Weight loss for men over 50 gets sold as hard graft. You are told to count every calorie, live on salad and train like a twenty-five-year-old. Plenty of men try it, feel hungry and worn out within a month, and drift back to where they started. The Trimmer Method takes a different route, and the reasons it gives are worth knowing even if you never buy anything.

Why eating less can leave you with more belly

Tracey tells men never to waste time counting calories. She says that restricting calories sends your body into "panic mode", and that the body then stores more fat. She also says that the weight you lose on a crash diet is mostly water and muscle, with only a little of it fat.

This is the part I would underline for any man in his fifties or beyond. Tracey says muscle is the tissue that helps you burn calories and fat, while fat tissue does nothing but come along for the ride. When a diet strips away muscle, it is easier to put fat back on once the diet ends. So the beer belly and the love handles can return faster than they left, and you end up with less of the very tissue that was working for you.

What she suggests instead

Her answer is to eat more, and to eat the right things. She says you should feed your appetite, fuel your muscles and lose fat weight, without tiny portions that leave your stomach rumbling an hour later. The program talks about six meals a day, and no food is forbidden.

Bread is on the menu too. In her words, "bread is actually your FRIEND", and she says the key is finding out which carbs work best for your own body, which her book helps you do. There are no pills, powders or shakes in the plan, and she calls fat-burning supplements "USELESS".

The program does not involve dieting or extreme workouts. If your knees, back or common sense tell you that a punishing routine is a bad idea, that is a relief to hear.

The 20-minute workout book that comes with it

Bonus 3 is called Speed Up Your Weight Loss: Sculpt A Physique In Just 20 Minutes. It is a 47-page ebook, listed at $34 on its own. Tracey says it shows you why working out does not have to be hardcore, and that when it is done right and in moderation it will speed up your weight loss and build muscle.

That fits the whole logic of the program. If muscle is the tissue that burns fat, then looking after it with sensible, short sessions makes more sense for a man over 50 than months of punishing exercise. You can read the book on your own schedule and start at the level that suits you today.

Videos for men who would rather watch than read

The men's version of the program includes over 20 step-by-step weight loss videos. A lot of men find a video easier to follow than a long guide, and these can be streamed and downloaded to your computer. There is also a comprehensive guide, so you get both ways of learning.

The other two bonuses are Fasting For Weight Loss & Detox, a 28-page report, and Food Addiction: Breaking The Habit, a 28-page report on emotional eating. Together the three bonuses are listed at over $85. If you have a medical condition or you take medication, which becomes more common after 50, talk to your doctor before you change the way you eat or start exercising, and know that results vary from man to man.

The woman behind the method

Tracey says she was once clinically obese, that her life revolved around the next meal and that she lost sixty pounds with this program and has kept it off for years. That is her story, told in her own words, and it gives her letter its tone. She says she sure does love her food, and she writes for people who feel the same way.

She also says it does not matter how old you are or how much weight you have to lose, and that this method works. I would never promise you a result, but I will say that a plan written by someone who has lived on the wrong side of a plate is more believable to me than one written by a person who has never struggled.

What it costs and what happens if it is not for you

The Trimmer Method costs $37 as one payment, down from $49.95. It comes with Tracey's 60 Day Ironclad Weight Loss Guarantee, which means you can email The Trimmer Method Support Team within 60 days for a full refund. You get two months to read it, watch the videos, try the way of eating and see how you feel.

If you are a man over 50 who has had enough of hunger, calorie counts and gym routines you cannot keep up, you can read Tracey's full letter to men on the official site and see exactly what she says before you spend anything.

Click here to read Tracey's letter written for men and see whether this is the plan you can stick with.