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How to Lose Weight |
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Weight Loss II |
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Chemical
energy is stored in chemical bonds, and there are a lot of chemical bonds in
fat. So, if you are overweight, you contain a lot of stored energy. Now is the time to use
it! 1. The only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you take in. This means either eat fewer
calories, or exercise more. Preferably both. This is not a particularly popular truth . . .
but it is still the truth, whether we happen to like it or not. Yes, it is true that some foods are clearly better than others. But that is a tweak, not a principle.
The calorie intake still has to go down.
2. It is not
how much you eat that puts on the pounds, but what you eat a lot of. You
cannot get fat on a mostly raw food diet. This means you can eat all of
the raw veggies, sprouts, salads and fruits that you want. You need
never be hungry while losing weight.
3. A reliable way to lose weight, even if you don't want to temporarily become a raw food vegetarian, is to
become a long term near-vegetarian. Meat contains fat, and even lean meat is over 10% fat. Drop meat, and you drop weight. Choose broiled or baked fish instead. It is also mighty difficult to pudge out on legumes (beans, peas, and lentils). Paleo people and keto-kids will not agree with me. I don't argue the point, because there is not really a problem.
That's because a Paleolithic diet or a ketogenic diet (in fact, practically ANY diet at all) is FAR better than the Standard American Diet that most people are eating now. Pretty much any diet that says "avoid sugar and junk food" is a good diet.
4. Another easy way
to slim down: simply skip desserts. Whenever I want to drop a few
pounds, I drop dessert. For me, doing so results in a sure-fire
one-pound-a-week in weight loss. If that does not seem attractive to you,
remember that it means 10 pounds off in 2 1/2 months; over 50 pounds in a
year. Instead of ooie-gooies, end your meal with fruit, especially dried
fruits. Yes, they do contain sugar, but no fat. Now you just try
eating two handfuls of raisins or dates. It is very hard to do, because the
natural mix of sugars, minerals, and fiber in fruit have a self-limiting
effect on the appetite. 5. Sweeten with
honey or molasses. Again, these are sugar sources but you simply cannot eat a
lot of either. I know I could gobble up a box of chocolates easily, yet
the very thought of eating a half cup of honey stops my appetite cold. 6. Want to control
your appetite without even giving up dessert? Adopt the motto of a
94-year-old 7. Yoga stretches
are one of the best forms of exercise I know. The basic postures are
described in books at the library, such as The Complete Illustrated Book
of Yoga. Yoga classes are inexpensive; check your local high school
or college for a beginner's course. I learned yoga on board ship while
crossing the Pacific in 1973, and I've used it ever since. As a college
student, I could JUST BARELY touch my toes. Now with my kids headed for
college, I can touch my palms to the floor. I can't wait to see how
flexible I will be at age 100! 8. We all have
learned to walk by about age one, and most of us have since forgotten
how. Walking is probably the greatest exercise of all. Did you
know that a mile of walking burns just as many
calories as a mile of running? And the walking is easier on your knees and
ankles. 9. Good weight loss
need only be one, perhaps two, pounds per week. Crash diets often crash
right back, with weight gained back almost as quickly as it was
shed. Take your time. A pound lost each week is 50 pounds a year
(with a two week vacation allowed for!) 10. The ultimate
weight loss plan is vegetable juice fasting. It is nourishing, safe, and
feels great. I've written about this at length in other articles posted
at this website. A search for “fasting” from the www.doctoryourself.com mainpage
will quickly find them all for you. Books by Allan Cott, Paavo Airola, N. W. Walker,
and Dick Gregory also contain very helpful information on fasting. As with any weight loss
diet, vegetable juice fasting results in permanent weight reduction only when
combined with regular exercise. Exercise seems to reset the appetite at a
lower point. 11. You've seen
those weight-loss powders and liquid meals. How would you like to make
your own? Here's what I make mine with. It is a modification of the
breakfast developed by Dr. Jacobus Rinse to
help clear plaque out his arteries. (It worked, by the
way.) I used this approach to lose 25 pounds myself. Combine two
tablespoons of lecithin granules (a lipotrophic or fat-transporting
substance), half a teaspoon of vitamin C powder, and a teaspoon of
calcium-magnesium powder with your favorite sweet fruit juice. Stir it
well and drink it. I usually follow it with a
"chaser" of some more "undoctored" juice. This stops
my appetite for hours, easily taking me to lunchtime. To improve the
value of your breakfast drink, you can add a teaspoon of nutritional yeast
for the B-vitamins. Alternatively, you could take a B-complex supplement. I
always take a multiple vitamin and 800 International Units (I.U.) of natural
vitamin E along with the mixture. 12. Please
remember that if you walk away from all of this at some point, you have not
failed. You only fail by not coming back. We're in no hurry.
Nature has been patient with us for years. Spam emails notwithstanding, there is no "secret" or "sneaky trick" to
losing weight. It is simply a matter of deciding to, and
following through. I've worked with people so overweight that they had
difficulty squeezing into an armchair. I have seen them lose up to 65
pounds by following even some of the ideas mentioned above. The side
benefits are tremendous: more energy, better self-image, and a longer, healthier
life. If they can do it, I
believe that you can do it. Here’s what one reader from "I am seventy
years of age and morbidly obese. Diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure four
years ago, have enlarged prostate, diverticulosis (itis?), chronic
esophagitis, and GERD to name some of what my Doc says. I do not have high
blood pressure, but have a chronic arrhythmia that occurs when exposed to any
significant amount of caffeine. I abused coffee when I was younger. And I am
a pensioner with no resource except my Social Security and two other tiny
pensions. I didn't mention the joint problems with two knees and the lumbar
spinal region. "A mess?
Surely, but a little over three weeks ago I started on your "eat for
$12.00 per week" plan [Note: those dollar amounts may need to be revised upwards, the way food prices increase].(http://www.doctoryourself.com/eatwellcheap.html).
I follow the diet almost exclusively, but do go out occasionally for a veggie
omelet. I bake my own 100% whole wheat bread, gobble frozen veggies, brown
rice, have become a juice drinker (100% juice with no additives, of course).
I haven't had any kind of a soda since I started, and I almost always did one of
those a day before. I make bean soup to enjoy even in the hot weather. I feel
good and will start supplements when I have a few more bucks to spend. I feel
better now (three weeks mind you) than I have in a very long time. "Your web site
is a favorite of mine and I can only offer my thanks for you turning the
light on in my elderly cave. I am losing weight slowly, but steadily. Does
your plan of nutrition work? Absolutely! Thanks." Put on your helmet for my infamous "Crash Course in
Vegetarian Cooking": http://www.doctoryourself.com/cooking.html Face it: my beloved Mother was a lousy cook: http://www.doctoryourself.com/moms_cooking.html Please don't eat the aphids: http://www.doctoryourself.com/aphids.html
Andrew Saul is the author of the books FIRE
YOUR DOCTOR! How to be Independently Healthy (reader reviews at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/review.html
) and DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works. (reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html
)
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