Pumpkin Diet? This Woman Has Lost 300 Pounds So Far

The diet industry is a multi-billion dollar a year money making machine. Every week it seems that some Dr. has found a new berry or root that will take away the pounds while you continue to down greasy burgers and fries.

Well here is one that you may have never heard of... The Pumpkin Diet!

In January of 2008, 47-year-old Dawn Chadwick of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England weighted about 520 pounds.  She tried dieting, but it didn't work, and she didn't want to have gastric bypass surgery.  So she came up with her own plan.

Dawn managed to drop about 300 of her 520 by eating almost nothing but pumpkin!

She says, quote,

"I love pumpkin, I could eat it all day.  If I get hungry, I will pick up a piece of cooked pumpkin instead of the snacks I used to eat.  I just love the taste of it.  It's so low in calories and fat that I can eat as much as I want."

One cup of cooked pumpkin which is a lot of pumpkin has 49 calories and a trace amount of fat. Now that she's down to about 220 pounds, she says she's happy and her husband doesn't want her to lose much more.

 "He likes me big and doesn't want me to get skinny.  I don't want him to leave me, so I won't go under 180 pounds."

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