Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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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Friday, November 11, 2011

Virtual Gastric Lap-band procedure WORKS!

Did you ever hear of the patient that felt terrible for months after surgery?  They went back and the x-ray showed that the doctor had lost his wrist watch during surgery and it was inside the patient.   Sounds like an Urban Myth, but there are countless news articles about sponges, clamps, scalpels left inside. Ewww!  



My virtual gastric lap-band program doesn't involve scalpels, blood, pain, anaesthesia, surgery, band-slippage, or risk of infection!

It's a 6-session program over 6 weeks. First session is about 2 hours, and subsequent sessions go quicker, approximately an hour.
The results start showing up within the first week, and build momentum as you go.

How would you like to have accomplished your New Year's resolution before 31 Dec?  Great way to jump into the New Year!

The investment in yourself is lots less than you think. And you could compare the cost of $10,000-17,000 for to the actual surgical procedure.


Just give me a ring, and we can schedule your first visit! 

~ Michael  0434 351 584