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A better way to lose weight
without chemical products, or unhealthy eating habits, must be
found. Many products and methods have flooded the market for
decades. All kinds of drugs, creams, pills and wacky fad diets
have been marketed, none of which are good for you.
The best way to lose weight
is naturally. You must eat proper healthy foods if you
want to stay healthy and I know of a way that enables you to
eat the foods you enjoy and lose weight at the same time!
For most folks, losing weight is a constant battle. You can
now win that battle.
Ah! Yes the lateral growth factor, putting on weight, it catches
up with most of us at some time or another. The actions many
of us take in our attempts to halt the process are, in a word,
PURGATORY!
In fact being overweight, feeling unfit and unattractive has
become a long-standing stressful issue in the lives of many people.
And who in this world needs that?
It's all right agonising over the fact that you feel you really
must do something about your increasing size. It's not all right
if it means a trip to hell and back in the process.
And then, even after a trip to hell and back, the worst part
is when you find that in less time than it takes to button your
shirt or blouse, the buttons start popping all over again!
It takes courage to repeat that cycle time after time. If you
follow my simple regime, that will never happen to you again.
Why? because there is a way of stabilising your size and weight
that isn't purgatory, in fact it's ENJOYABLE?
This is no spoof. I have shared my knowledge with several of
my family and friends, it's worked for every one of them without
exception. It's worked for around 15 years for me personally,
therefore, I'd never hesitate to recommend it to any person on
this planet, or any other planet for that matter...well you never
do know!
The process I am now going to share with you comes in two parts.
Part One.
Resizing yourself
Part Two. Maintaining your size.
Part one, resizing yourself, the way I am going to share with
you is a process that you really CAN enjoy. What I recommend
is that you get down to your ideal size and then go on to part
two. Part two will not only help you to maintain your size, you
will also find it to be a real healthy way of eating and living.
This part one part two process, as already mentioned, is something
that I have lived with, very happily and healthily, for more
than 15 years. And what's more, members of my family and several
of my friends have lived with it for almost as long. Personally,
I work on the premise that if my clothes appear to be slowly
shrinking, that I had better shrink myself too. In other words
that's my signal to return to part one of the process. I then
remain on it until I am the same size as my clothes. After this
I return to part two.
Just bear in mind though, this kind of signal doesn't work to
well if you wear really loose clothing, in which case you will
need to buy yourself a trusty tape measure. Trust me, it won't
let you down, just be sure to use it at two-week intervals. You
have to stay in control.
I must emphasise that you only go down to the size that is 'ideal'
for you, AND NO LOWER. You can, of course, go on until you resemble
a coat hanger draped in clothing if you like. THAT IS NOT HEALTHY
and besides, who in the world wants to resemble a coat hanger?
By now, it's almost common knowledge that in the long run counting
calories doesn't work. And it doesn't work for the simple reason
that your body has enough smarts to adapt itself to a lower intake
of calories. Of course, it works in the beginning, but over time
it's effectiveness peters out.
Eventually you end up on a near starvation diet only to discover
those unwanted pounds or kilo's keep finding their way back into
your clothes! Pesky little critters, aren't they?
What about those shakes that fill you up with 'filler', and those
cookies that do the same thing. But that's not good healthy food.
Wouldn't you rather sit down to a big juicy steak, a great lasagne,
amazing crepes filled with incredible edibles and much much more?
Of course you would. And I'm here to tell you, that you CAN actually
eat that way and still maintain your ideal size in life.
It's now time for all to be revealed!
Part One:
The resizing process.
The first step here is for you to fully understand what's going
on in your body during the process of resizing yourself. If you
follow the instructions I am going to give to you faithfully,
it has to work. This is because your body will be forced to go
directly to those extra pounds and kilo's for sustenance. It
will no longer be able to feed itself on the food you are consuming.
In other words, your system will bypass the food you are eating
and feed itself on your stored up pounds and kilos.
The key to part one is that you go onto a low carbohydrate
intake. Now notice, I didn't say no carbohydrate, I said LOW
carbohydrate.
However, you do need to know roughly the maximum grams of carbo
your body is able to intake in order for the system to work for
you as an individual. In other words you need to be able to check
your carbohydrate level in some way. And you need to be able
to do this so that you can see if your system is bypassing the
food you are consuming or whether it's feeding on it. This is
crucial.
(When your system bypasses the food you are consuming and
begins to feed on stored fat this process is known as Ketosis).
Thankfully, there's a perfectly simple way for you to check if
your body is in ketosis (burning off fat). And upon checking
you'll be able to see if you are in fact burning off extra size,
in which case you are reducing. On the other hand, if your body
is going directly to the food you consume you'll either remain
the same size or your size will be increasing!
The way for you to check this out is to go to your local chemist,
drug store or pharmacist and purchase some KETOSTIX. (very inexpensive)
Follow the instructions for the use of your ketostix, if they
go pink or better still purple you're body is in ketosis and
you ARE shrinking. The darker the colour of your ketostix the
faster you are shrinking.
How many carbohydrates you can consume and remain in ketosis
varies from person to person but you will find it is probably
somewhere within the 25 to 40 grams per day range. So it will
be a good idea to start around 25 grams per day. As you gradually
increase your carbohydrate grams your ketostix will go paler
and paler. If you have too many carbo's you won't see a colour,
however, if you are sure that you didn't exceed your limit by
much, allow the ketostix to dry and if it's a bit purplish when
dry then all is not lost. Cut back right away and you will not
have to start over.
If you go on a binge, you WILL have to start over. Starting over
means it will take you around 60-72 hours for your body to get
back into ketosis.
This means that whenever you begin the process, or whenever you
want to resize, your system will take between 60-72 hours to
go into ketosis. So there's no need, at any time, to start using
your ketostix before 60 hours of starting part one.
In the beginning you may want to use the stix every day, but
later on you may only need to check up once a week.
Something important you should be aware of is that your
readings will vary depending on the time of day. If you
bear this in mind you may want to check yourself out a couple
of times a day to determine when your stix are the most colourful.
Then stick to that time day. Once you become familiar with the
carbohydrate content of various foods, you'll rarely feel the
need to check up at all.
Whilst you are resizing you may be able to get hold of a carbohydrate
counting book, they are a bit thin on the ground but don't panic
if you can't get hold of one. You can check out food content
labels on packaged items of food instead. You will need to do
this because there is no way of knowing exactly how many carbo's
are in some pre-packaged foods unless you can get a good book
or, read all the labels.
I will now give you a list of allowable foods, all of which have
zero carbohydrates:
All fresh meats, fish, chicken, eggs, bacon, shellfish, seafood,
yellow cheeses, butter, home made mayonnaise, spareribs but watch
the sauce for carbohydrates. Olive oil and most other cooking
oils are permissible, but check the labels. If you buy sausage
meat or sausages, sometimes they are packed with filler, meaning,
packed with carbohydrates! Also watch burgers, they may have
filler in them too.
Foods that you can combine with the above are, lettuce, cucumber,
tomato, endive, bell peppers, onion, beets, but if pre-packed
check for added sugar. In fact, most salad items are permissible
but you must be careful with the dressings, it could bring you
out of ketosis and ruin the whole process.
Vegetables are fine with the exception of potatoes of every kind,
they are full of carbohydrates and must be avoided whilst in
part one. Sweetcorn and peas are also no no's and you should
avoid them too. Green beans are fine but broad beans, butter
beans, kidney beans and most all other kinds of beans are full
of carbohydrates and you must keep away from them. Spinach, cabbage,
cauliflower, mushrooms, brussels sprouts and all other sprouts
are fine. Broccoli is okay and so are courgettes and aubergines.
Swedes, parsnips, carrots and turnips can also be included. Go
steady on the avocado though, no more than half a medium one
at a time.
All of the above permissible foods do contain some carbohydrates
but if you eat them in moderation you will be okay.
A maximum of two medium glasses of wine a day is okay but omit
alcohol altogether for the first week if you possibly can. Spirit
is also permissible but watch the mixers they are crammed with
carbohydrates, so stick with the sugar free mixers and stick
to low consumption as well and do try to abstain for the first
week. Alcohol and spirit will slow down the process, so
it really depends how quick you want to resize yourself.
One thing that most folks who know something about low carbo
regimes, do not include is fresh fruit, I can't think why because
it's so healthy. But do stay away from canned fruit, it's deadly.
What I do and I highly recommend you do also, is to have a fresh
fruit day once a week, or maybe a couple of mornings a week instead.
There are however, a couple of things you must know about
the consumption of fresh fruit.
No 1. Only consume fresh fruit on an empty stomach because it
only needs to stay in your stomach for 20 minutes and will putrefy
if it sits on top of other undigested foods. Also, it's a
good idea not to consume anything for 20 mins after fruit.
No. 2. Although fruit contains sugars for some reason unbeknown
to me it doesn't upset the process of ketosis.
No. 3. In part one bananas are taboo.
Definite no no's if you want to keep your body in ketosis are:
Bread, cakes, rice, pasta sugar, milk (it contains milk sugar)
sodas, sweets, ice cream, chocolate, crackers, candies, potato
chips, corn chips, pancakes, muffins, fruit yoghurts, if plain
check the label. All grains and any products containing flour
must be avoided. Check out all sauces and dips. Beans, except
green beans, peas and potatoes are no no's. Be sure to check
out all labels on all pre-packaged foods. Be careful with pickles
too, you'll find sugar in most of them.
You have to be careful with snacks, have a stick of celery a
carrot or a piece of cheese or a bit of egg salad in home made
or low carbo mayonnaise try being a bit creative here. Mushroom
soup and carrot soup are great standby's if you want something
hot and quick. Vegetable cubes, chicken cubes and beef cubes
make a good soup and especially so if you beat up and egg and
whisk it around for a few seconds whilst still on the boil. Have
the egg instead of bread.
Coffee is okay, use a little cream instead of milk it has less
carbo's and if you want it sweet, try a sweetener. Tea is alright,
use a little cream in preference to milk and if you like it sweet
add a sweetener. (keep sweeteners to a minimum, they are not
good)
It's really all a question of counting carbohydrates rather than
the amount of calories or the amount of food that's on your plate.
You can eat really well on this programme and you can enjoy it.
This my friend, is not purgatory, this is good eating. Also you
can dine out and eat well and enjoy it!
Whilst you are resizing yourself, you will reach plateau's now
and again but just keep on keeping one and you will reach
your ideal size. If you find you begin to feel tired and your
stix are a really deep purple, increase your carbo's a few grams
per day and you'll soon have bags of energy again or take a potassium
supplement. If you experience cramps in your legs take calcium
you may want to add potassium as well.
Also if you use diuretics you will find you don't need to whilst
in part one. If you continue you could become dehydrated, so
do please heed this warning. Also if you have a serious illness,
or are in doubt, check with your medical practitioner before
beginning part one of the process. However, you should be aware
that most medical practitioners abhor alternative methods. For
your information it actually was a medical practitioner who came
up with this method more than 12 years ago, he was slated by
the establishment and by some of his fellows. However, he stuck
to his guns and along with many other people I have always stuck
by him and by his findings.
(The practitioner in question is a Dr Atkins. Dr Atkins has
written a whole book on the subject called Dr Atkins Diet Revolution.
Seek out a copy if you can, although it could be out of print
now.)
You can trust this process 100%. If you follow it faithfully
you will resize yourself but don't overdo it. When your body
has burned up all that excess size it will keep on going and
you will begin to loose muscle mass and you MUST STOP and go
to part two which is:
Part Two:
Maintaining your new size.
Maintaining your
new size with maximum benefit to your body, your health and your
general wellbeing, has to be one of the greatest pleasures in
life
The top and bottom of it is that in part two you can eat all
food groups but not at one sitting. In part two of the process
you are following a regime based on the proper combination of
food. This is the most sensible way, bar none, to eat and to
live and I cannot emphasise this enough.
Again, I know this to be true not only from my own experience
but from the experience of others around me who properly combine
their food at the majority of meals they eat, each and every
day of their lives.
If you stick with part two you will have no problem whatsoever
in maintaining your desired size. However, if you like me weaken
a bit now and again, you'll need to start counting carbo's again.
Well I like to go crazy sometimes, even if I have to pay for
it later with an upset tum. Anyhow, I look at it this way, counting
carbo's is a painless process so why not indulge now and again?
Whoops sorry, I shouldn't be encouraging you to be bad
should I?
The object of proper food combining is not to eat Proteins and
Starches at the same sitting. That means you can't eat meat and
potatoes together. You can't eat meat sandwiches which is protein
and starch and you can't eat stuff like spaghetti bolognaise
cos that's pasta and meat. Neither can you have soup with bread
rolls followed by chicken, the bread and chicken don't combine.
Let me first explain why starches and proteins cannot be properly
digested at the same time, it's because proteins call for a digestive
juice that is acidic in nature whilst starches call for an alkaline
digestive juice. A digestive juice is an aid to the digestive
process, but an acidic digestive juice and an alkaline digestive
juice in the stomach at the same time, cancel each other out!
Your food is in your stomach for the purpose of digestion but
with these two digestive juices neutralising each other out,
the digestive process becomes totally inefficient.
Food is only intended to be in the stomach for about three hours
but when you have the digestive juices cancelling each other
out the food remains in the stomach for an indefinite period.
Undigested starch ferments and undigested protein putrefies.
Most if not all of us have experienced, indigestion, heartburn,
flatulence and many stomach upsets as a result of the wrong combination
of foods.
When you combine protein, which is all meats, chicken, fish,
in fact any animal product, dairy foods included, oh yes and
NUTS, with starches which means potatoes, grains, breads, cereals,
pasta, cookies etc your digestive process is in for a long bumpy
ride.
But, if you do combine food properly, your body will have plenty
of time to go into the cleansing process. It will do this instead
of being involved for indefinite periods digesting ill combined
foods.
The cleansing of the body is very necessary if you want to have
a fit healthy and agile body. This is something very few
people are aware of. Nevertheless, your body does need to be
cleansed on a regular basis. If it is not cleansed, toxins will
and do build up. This weakens your immune system and leaves you
vulnerable to illness and disease. Also you may experience stiff
joints, muscle pains and lots of unaccountable headaches and
nuisance ailments.
Also refer back to part 1 where I mentioned the proper consumption
of fruit, this is a must at all times. It is a crime of gigantic
proportions to serve fruit after any meal, even a properly combined
one.
Vegetables and salads can be safely combined with either proteins
or starches.
Oh yes! Before I forget, most of us know that tomatoes are alkaline
in nature but did you know they are acidic when cooked. Personally
my stomach is so well educated, it absolutely hates cooked tomatoes
and gives me gyp if I indulge. This could be something that affects
you too, so be on the lookout if you have any dish with cooked
tomatoes and feel out of sorts afterwards, you will know the
cause. If you are Italian or like Italian food, I'm sorry but
you'll just have to be more creative!
In future, if you get sick or diseased or have been in the past,
realise it's your body's attempts at cleansing itself of built
up toxins.
One thing that is not related to the proper food combination
but has everything to do with toxins, is that, you should be
aware that stress also causes toxins in your body. And there's
a great way to prevent the build up of toxins, however caused,
is to go to our Supercharge Yourself
with Dynamic Energy page
and you'll find a solution there.
That's it folks, now what you must do is to press edit, copy
this page and then open up your word processing programme and
new file and press paste. Save it and remember where you saved
it so you can print it out later on.
Resize yourself
Maintain your size
Look good
Eat healthy
Feel good
BE HAPPY.
Best Regards
Maggie Monro
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