It is amazing how easy it is to keep to a diet plan when everyone else says it will never work!
It has been fifteen days and i must say i did at least 80% of what i promised myself. The other 20%? well ... no one's perfect so im not going to get upset about that. As long as i am true to the plan i know i am making progress. The changes i feel include a lighter body, better sleep, no craving for sweets, no hunger pangs and best of all i've got back the sprint in my step! This is not the point to weigh myself as it may backfire my objectives. Most importantly my objective is not the numbers but how healthy i feel, how good my bp and blood sugar reads.
It was years ago when i stumbled upon Harvey and Marilyn Diamond's Fit For Life, that for once dieting information made a lot of sense. After reading a few pages of this book, i could not agree more that calori counting, checking food portions, or even binging on one food type !! which was all just sort of a hokey-pokey thing! Eating this way is nonsensical because one tend to get bored and slide and go back to their regular way of binging on food, which is why all diets don't work. There has got to be some sense in it all. Harvey Diamond's Fit For Life made a lot of sense to me because he applied the correct way of eating, the choice of keeping the body in an alkaline state by choosing from a variety of food choices that are alkaline in nature and never ever having to worry about counting calories because the body does not deal with numbers. The body's only purpose is to deal with compatible foods that bring about ease on the organs to do its job.
For example, we are taught to eat a carbohydrate (starch) which is alkaline with something of acid state like beef steak and a tiny portion of vegetables on the side which doesn't get any attention! In the stomach, imagine how these two alkaline and acidic items have to deal with each other! The body's own hydrochloric acid in the stomach has his job to do too that is to digest this foodstuff in any way it could. It activates the enzymes so that the protein could be removed from the peptides in order for the food to be processed further to be absorbed into the blood stream. Don't worry, this is the only point where it is as scientific as it gets! The nature of this hydrochloric acid or HCI is highly corrosive and is able to dissolve all the food that we eat! It's job is also to fight off all kinds of infection, kill pathogens, or any disease causing organisms! (Subhanallah - Glory be to God) If not for the stomach lining, the acid would have digested your stomach!
Now, after all that time of having to work to break down this two food type without success .. the food is passed on to the bigger intestines (which by now would be foul smelling in the stomach as it acid state neutralizes the alkaline) to do their work ... as if to say, Here you take if from here, we can't do much about it!!!! And you end up with a heaviness in your insides and letting out a lot of gas! hehe
Okay, i am not going technical or scientific any further, but that made a lot of sense to me! I am thinking why do i do this to my body (some people call it Temple)! I am ruining my own body! That is when all the diseases start taking over your body!
However, Life can be very sneaky! It takes you away from your main concerns. Life throws dreams at you. Life makes you believe that it is fashionable to eat at fancy restaurants because only the RICH, Important, High Class people dine at fancy, expensive and luxury eateries. Okay, not everyone could always eat at these fancy places .. you say.. they brought in the burger place, the pizza place, the bigger the better and the cheaper it gets to compete with one another. They made luxury .. affordable.. they put the divide between those who are IN and those who are out ... those who are cool and those who are centuries behind. It makes you covet for the unattainable ...
Then they came up with super delicious spiked drinks that keep a hold on your taste buds better than any drug cartel could ever handle.. soda. It's tasty, very sweet but it keeps you addicted and it is portrayed as the drink of youths.. So, again we are being tricked into being a Global Citizen .. eat this coz its cool, drink this coz its cool, wear this to look like us coz we're cool .. and the messages go on and on....
Do you ever wonder then why we are all so ill with diseases from our own ignorance and doing?
Let's get back to my original point.. Fit for Life is the exactly what it says .. if you are Fit then you are alive and can live a good life! Simple as ABC isn't it? It doesn't need a scientist to figure that out!
Just like the adage "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"... when did we last hear that???
I can get more tech than that .. so if you really want to know more, get Harvey Diamond's book.
Let me tell you this ... I was once a whopping 200 pounder woman good enough to qualify contending in WWF!!! hehehe yea funny now, but not then! It was madness. Even i could not see myself in the mirror! How did i get there .. fertility drugs, life's pressure to have children and sadness.
But Fit For Life made sense to me and just after 2.5 months my weight dropped to 140 lbs!
This was achieved with consistent proper nutrition keeping the body alkaline, sensible eating style and cardio vascular workouts to exercise the heart and burn off the fats! There was so many awesome exercises to choose from so i chose the easiest which i cld do anytime i liked! jumping on the trampoline! (with so many broken springs) This time round , i will have to do things slightly differently albeit gently as the body need tendre love and care.
Fit for Life teaches us to eat properly and we can eat anything we want through Food Combining Method. e.g. eat starches and carboh with vegetables , eat meat or seafood with vegetables only to keep the alkalinity so that the stomach can deal with the food the best possible way.
If you love beef, chicken ,lamb - have it with fresh raw green vegetables. Why raw - because HEAT kills the vitamins and minerals. If you can't eat them raw, then juice them up or lightly sautee them. BEST is raw all the time.
If you want to eat potatoes, rice, bread .. omit the meat instead eat them with any raw green vegetables for the best result.
Have as much fruit and vegetable juices as you like.
No more messy kitchens and time cooking .. you just need a Juicer and possibly a steamer or grill for your vegetables. Lite cooking using the steamer and grill for some of the hardier vegetables is not a problem.
I don't know what you think of this, but i have made the mark and reached the result i wanted in the past. I still think it is fullproof and a workable solution for me to gain back my health and a svelt silhoutte that i dream of! Go for it Irena.. got nothing to lose but everything to gain! hehehe. (i have a side plate with a half bitten tomato on it!) bon appeteett!
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