Cut the Foods that Make you Fat

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Cut the Foods that Make you Fat

Once and for all, calories don't count! I call this the, 'Black Forest Cake Syndrome.' Here is how it works. If you were to eat 1,200 calories per day in meat, fish, vegetables and your best friend ate 1,200 calories in Black Forest Cake everyday and nothing else, which person would get fat? The Black Forest Cake Girl of course because a calorie is not just a calorie. In fact calories don't make you fat, forget about them and lets get on to what matters when you are trying to loose body fat.

All food nutrients (protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, minerals, sugar, alcohol) will illicit a response in your body to dictate how you use each 'calorie' of Black Forest Cake or protein, fat, and fiber. The response to 1,200 calories of sugary cake is totally different to a balanced meal even though they have the same caloric value. The hormonal response is what will make you fat not the calories!

Sugar, fruit sugar (fructose), milk sugar (lactose), high fructose corn syrup when eaten will immediately cause the pancreas to release insulin. Insulin shuttles the sugars out of your blood stream into cells where they are used for energy in the metabolic processes or made into storage forms of carbohydrates (glycogen), or storage forms of fat (triglycerides). Any way you eat sugar, if you eat more than your body needs you will store it. Once insulin is elevated no fat burning can take place! Even if you cycled ten miles into work you wouldn't burn fat for fuel if you got to the office and had an itty bitty muffin. Sugar will shut down your fat burning engine.

Think of insulin as an A-Type personality that only wants its' sugars to be metabolized before anything else. Insulin will push its' way around the system until all fat (stored fat and dietary fat) is dormant and stored and not circulating.

If you regulate insulin you will regulate fat burning. Here is a one day diet to kick start you into fat burning.

Hormone Response Meal Plan:

Breakfast:

Delay breakfast after your workout for up to one hour.
2 poached eggs, 3 strips of bacon or sausage, 1 sliced tomato with salt, pepper and olive oil
1-2 cups coffee with cream (not milk or half and half)

Lunch 12-1:30pm

1tin tuna fish or salmon with 1tbsp mayonnaise mixed on 2-3 cups green leafy vegetables, cucumber, tomato, avacado with garlic, salt, pepper, oil of choice (no vinegar)

Dinner 6pm - 7:30pm

6-8oz steak
6 spears asparagus with butter
mixed salad with pine nuts
1- 3oz glass of wine

Go to bed early. Note how you feel in the morning. If you feel as if you lost water and have less distention in your lower belly (digestion of oligosaccharides) this might be a plan for you. Try it for another day. If you need more starch add green vegetables.

Please let me know how it works for you.
Keep up the good work.

The FAMOUS ROTATION DIET

Metabolism is an intricate dance between glands,(pineal, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, pancreas, gonads), fluids that are intracellular and extracellular, muscle activity, and the liver and kidneys. Rotation diets are an easy way to integrate essential nutrients that support the glands (endocrine system) and fluids help to rinse the by-product of metabolism from the body. It is my experience that rotation diets help to recalibrate food cravings, improve digestion, release stored food energy and make it easier to adhere to clean eating pattern after the two days is finished.

I encourage you to try one of the rotation diets and experience for yourself how different you will feel in just two days. Post your comments and spread the word. Do a rotation diet for two days only, one time per week. Men typically lose 4-6lbs and women 2lbs and everyone says they feel great and never feel hungry.

Try it, you are going to love it!!

ROTATION DIET (1)

AM: 1/4 cup full fat yogurt, 1/2 cup plain full-fat kefir, 1full tablespoon of each of the following, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, flaxseeds, raisins, 1/2 cup of blueberries.

No snacking between meals, drink 500ml to 1litre water, clear tea

LUNCH: 1/2 tin to 1 full tin of tuna mixed with mayonaisse and green onion and celery
on a bed of mixed green salad dressed in olive oil, lemon, garlic and sea salt and pepper.
1 fruit of your choice either a pear or apple. 1 cup of tea with 1tsp raw honey

No snacking between meals, drink 500ml to 1 litre water, clear tea

DINNER: 6-8oz steak, 6-8 asparagus drizzled with butter and garlic, 1/4cup brown rice with almonds and tamari sauce (no soy sauce)
1/4 cup berries with 2tbsp creme frachaise
3oz red wine

No snacking after this meal. Walk outside if you feel you want to nibble.
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ROTATION DIET (2)

AM: 2 poached eggs, top the eggs when hot with 2 slices of old sharp cheese like cheddar or asiago, and 1/2 cup steamed spinach (you can prepare the spinach the day before) If you can't do the spinach have a whole sliced tomatoe and buffula mozorrella with olive oil and salt and pepper.

No snacking drink your water or tea

LUNCH: 1.5-2cups lentil stew topped with 1tbsp sour cream
1 apple or pear with a 3oz serving of Asiago - tea with 1tsp of honey if you need sweet

No snacking, drink your water or tea

DINNER: 6-8oz of fish (any fish white or orange like salmon or artic char)
2 cups mixed vegetables of carrots, broccoli, cauliflower dressed in butter
3oz wine (probably white)

Go to bed. No snacking. wake up hungry and do a 10minute cardio. dance, run the stairs, march on the spot, just get out of breath.