Diet Hints From Experts, Not Movie Stars

Sugar is your # 1 enemy

Eat breads made from rice, spelt, and sprouted grains.---not white, wheat, or whole meal bread/pasta/biscuits

Eat millet & quinoa grains

Eat sweet potatoes with a little butter & cinnamon

Eat fruits & veggies: mix and match: try fruits in your salads, try veggies in a blender puréed fruit drink

Fats ain’t fats. Some fats don’t make you fat. The right kinds of fats make you burn off existing fat from your body.  The right kinds of fats increase your metabolism.

Eat the right kind of fats and you’ll burn fat. Eat the wrong kind of fats and you’ll store fat.

Avoid: Hydrogenated oils, canola and vegetable oils, margarine, substitute fake butter products

Eat these fats: Real butter, eggs, coconut oil, olive oil, avocados, nuts [it’s a misconception that saturated fats are bad for your health. These have no sugars, so they work well with your metabolism, to burn off unwanted, stored fat.

Processed foods are enemy #2

Most processed foods contain a lot of sugar. Most processed foods contain lots of chemicals to make it more tasty, salty, sweet, appealing to our taste buds.  Artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils and processed soy products,

Processed foods contain artificial colouring [inks/dyes] to make the food look more appealing.  Real beef is not bright red. Ask farmer who has butchered his own lifestock.

Processed foods contain ‘anti-caking agents’ to keep things like flour from getting lumpy. Would you put ground up chalk in your porridge just to keep it from getting lumpy? I like lumpy foods.

Manufacturers add preservative chemicals to make it last longer, like embalming fluids… would you buy a head of lettuce/ or a cucumber if it was brown and mushy? NO! 

Read the ingredients label: is there anything you can’t pronounce? Don’t eat it if you can’t pronounce it. If you don’t know what it is, your body won’t know what to do with it either.

Your liver: breaks down fats and filtering our harmful substances.  When your liver is filtering out all the artificial chemicals that your body doesn’t need, can’t use, then your liver is too busy to efficiently break down fats. If you had two big jobs to do each day and spent all your time and energy working on one, what would happen to the other job? It would just pile up.

Simplest hint: only buy, only eat foods that contain only one ingredient.

It’s not the number of calories that matters; it’s the quality fo food you are eating and the metabolic enhancing effect on your body.

Just eliminate[stop ingesting] the bad stuff that your doesn’t need, can’t use and can’t process.

Don’t worry about the calories. Worry about the sugar. Worry about the artificial additives.

If you eat, well, actually WHEN you eat the right foods, you can eat a lot.  Did you ever hear anybody say about a thin person: “He eats like a horse and never gets fat.” Or “That kid must have hollow legs.”

Calorie restriction may lead your body into ‘starvation mode’ where your body thinks you’re having a really big dry spell, so it saves up every bit of fat for emergencies…

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