Sensible Weight Loss
April 16th, 2007
A lot of people ask me what I think they should do to lose weight or what I think of some diet plan or other. Is white bread worse than sugar? Is it ok to eat olive oil? What about fruit like bananas and papayas? It seems everyone wants to know some special trick or validate what they’ve heard about some exotic supplement or diet plan. There’s the grapefruit diet, Hootia, guarana supplements…the list goes on and on. One person I spoke to was convinced that she should avoid all white foods.
The fact is, there’s nothing so secretive about losing weight. You don’t need special pills or supplements, weird diets or starvation fasts. It’s actually much less exciting, much more sensible, and a lot more boring than all that. Sorry, no magic pills or formulas. Want the keys?
- Cut out all dairy products (milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, etc.)
- Cut out all processed meats like deli and luncheon meats
- Cut out all soft drinks, beer, and distilled liquor (red wine is ok)
- Cut out all processed cookies, crackers and chips
- Minimize wheat products like bread and pasta
- Minimize sugar
- Minimize fried foods
Most important, get lots and lots of good nutrition by taking a superfood supplement before every meal. This could be a few leaves of fresh kale, a good green drink, bee pollen, olive leaf extract, or Spirulina and Chlorella supplements.
Now here’s the part that most people can’t handle: Keep up the above recommendations, without any major alterations, fasts, or modifications for as long as you want to look good. This is not a diet. This is your new healthy eating lifestyle and it works as long as you stick to it and stay balanced and sensible about it.
Want to add a half a grapefruit after every meal? Go ahead. Just don’t go nuts and make grapefruit your only food. Don’t fast. Don’t over do it on Hootia, guarana, or cat’s claw supplements. Don’t deviate too much. The desire to try something radical is very possibly a deep-seated internal mechanism that wants you to fail and go back to your old ways.
It’s sensible, but not necessarily easy. Thankfully, it works. My brother-in-law has lost fifteen pounds in three weeks using this technique with no exercise! He often wants to add something else to step up the program and I continue to advise him to stick to the same thing without change. If you want to step it up at some point, then add some exercise, but don’t change the diet.
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