Reducing Diet Tip#10:

Avoid Pitfalls!

Here are five common pitfalls to avoid:

1. You must not eat any fruit, bread, grains, starchy vegetables or dairy products other than cheese, cream or butter.

2. Stay away from diet products unless they specifically state "no carbohydrates." Most such foods are for low-fat diets, not controlled carbohydrate plans.

3. The words sugarless, sugar free or no sugar added are not sufficient. The label must state the carbohydrate content; that's what you must go by.

4. Many products you do not normally think of as foods, such as chewing gum, breath mints, cough syrups and cough drops, are filled with sugar or other caloric sweeteners. They must be avoided.

5. Be wary of prepared salads at salad bars or deli counters. For example, cole slaw or even tuna fish salad may have been prepared with sugar.

Reducing Diet Tip#9:

"Just this one taste won't hurt" rationalization is the kiss of failure.

In Bisaya, “Tilaw raman ni, dili pa sab ni maka tambok”. If you do this attitude often, then are you aware if how often you said once? Can you count the number of times you said “just this time only”? Or worse you rationalized, why would I deprive my self of eating this food? The answer is very simple, no one does! But, for how long you overfed yourself that you deserve to be fed more?  Perhaps think about it!

Reducing Diet Tip#8:

Learning to say “NO”!

In my experience one of the things that hinder weight loss is the failure to say “NO”. Saying “no” when foods wave their mesmerizing charm to you, saying no when friends temps you to indulge with them the luscious chocolates, or the inviting prowess of a creamy sundae especially if it’s on the top of a Halo Halo, saying NO when friends treat you to an “eat-all-you-can” buffet, saying no when a friend offers you a cake you always dream of – saying no to the things that might impede your weigh loss. I didn’t say, say “NO” to parties and gimmicks, you can! but choose what you eat and drink! Say no when it is necessary to say it. Sometimes friends tease you to measure how though you are in withstanding the temptation of eating the food you wanted to engulf. Remember don’t wait for the time to come that you no longer had the liberty of choosing and eating the foods that you wanted to.

At some point, think of it this way, if I eat these do I still have the liberty to wear my favourite out-fit flaunting my body without compromising my appearance? Or what if instead, my hideous flabs are at large? Self discipline Folks!  Save yourself by saying NO! Loss some to gain some!

Rationale for Reducing Diet Tip#7 to its corresponding number:

1. Eating three regular sizes will keep you full for the rest of the day. As I had said on previous post, skipping a meal especially breakfast won’t help.

2.       Because according to Dr. Atkins eating this combination of foods forces our body to use its stored fats for its energy consumption in that certain period and not carbohydrates especially the simple one coz it impedes the FAT MELTDOWN.

3.       Related to rationale number two. This is to switch on the body’s “Liposis” or the fat meltdown.

4.       Fruits and pastas are simple sugar as posted on my previous posts, it do more harm than it looks.

5.       Download acceptable food list here.

6.       Don’t starve yourself, as some people thought what diet is all about. Control and measure the right amount of food you wanted to eat.

7.       As always, please do read all the labels of the food before eating or drinking it. I’ll post next time on how to read and interpret the nutrition facts.

8.       This is to prevent starvation in which in turn, surprisingly, makes you fatter than you thought. As the body receives below 1000kcal a day, it automatically switch to starvation mode or energy saving mode – meaning it saves all the glucose for future usage thus making you feel tired for the rest of the day. As you eat more the next meal or day/days then, the glucose you engulf in turn will be converted into more adipose deposits or Bilbil again.

9.       As I had said, Aspartame damages the kidney because its by-product is Formaldehyde or the Formalin.

10.   Coffee and tea has ample amount of caffeine which makes you crave more sugar or sweets.

11.   For hydration and to avoid constipation.

12.   Constipation happens when you eat lesser fibrous foods or drink less water so avoid these, reverse the process or add psyllium husks if it happens.

I hope this helps a lot. If you find difficulty in downloading these materials mentioned in ”Reducing diet tip#7” you can email me at wingburz@gmail.com so I can forward the files straight to you. 

Reducing Diet Tip#7:

Do you want to loss weight up to 16 pounds or more for in just two weeks without any Drug or “Slimming Beverages”? All natural, safe and proven effective (this is the Diet regimen I followed) then follow these steps.

1.       Eat either three regular-size meals a day.

2.       Eat liberally of combinations of fat and protein.

3.       Eat no more than 20 grams a day of carbohydrate most of which must come in the form of salad greens and other vegetables. NO RICE ALLOWED!

4.       Eat absolutely no fruit, bread, pasta, grains, starchy vegetables or dairy products other than cheese, cream or butter. No MILK allowed – both even low fat and whole milk.

5.       Eat nothing that is not on the acceptable foods list.

6.       Adjust the quantity you eat to suit your appetite, especially as it decreases.

7.       Don't assume any food is low in carbohydrate-instead read labels! Check the carb count!

8.       Eat out as often as you wish but be on guard for hidden carbs in gravies, sauces and dressings.

9.       Avoid foods or drinks sweetened with aspartame.

10.   Avoid coffee, tea and soft drinks that contain caffeine.

11.   Drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water each day to hydrate your body, avoid constipation and flush out the by-products of burning fat.

12.   If you are constipated, mix a tablespoon or more of psyllium husks in a cup or more of water and drink daily.
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Reducing Diet Tip#6:

Conjure a positive image that you wanted to be!

Rationale:

1. Mind setting! Through conjuring positive imagery your mind will be set to follow what your desired looks! According to several quantum physicists, positive aura begets positives result in all things. Positive imagery is like picturing out who you wanted to. It’s like a blue print before making a building. Remember “A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there”- H. Stanley Judd. 
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Reducing Diet Tip#5:

Eat liberally of combinations of fat and protein in the form of poultry, fish, shellfish, eggs and red meat, as well as of pure, natural fat in the form of butter, mayonnaise, olive oil, safflower, sunflower and other vegetable oils.

Rationale:

1.       Surprisingly, most of the several studies done in the past “theorize” that eating fatty foods i.e. pork, chicken skin, usage of lard, butter and the like causes the vascular diseases.  But the true demure CULPRIT reveals its own identity – THE SIMPLE CARBOHYDRATES not the FATTY FOODS.

2.       In my experience of trying several diets, only ATKINS diet made me successful – I could now confidently say that. At first I was very reluctant of following eating liberally of fats and protein but abstaining from carbs – I thought this idea too is some kind of a joke because even in our profession we were taught that  eating fatty foods can contribute to cardiovascular disease i.e. high blood pressure and etc. So I tried it my self, I ate HUMBA (a pork belly or fatty parts cooked on its own oil with  soy sauce) one week straight but not eating either rice, bread, sweet products and pastas –recording my BP everyday. And the result: my bp had gone down from 130 to 120. Intriguing, right?

3.  According to Dr. Atkins, if an adipose tissue made from glucose was metabolized, it turns into bad cholesterol while the FATTY one turns into HDL or good cholesterol. For further explanation read Atkins Diet Revolution.