I had to get on a weight-loss program so I decided to go with what I know has worked in the past.
The interesting thing about diet is that everybody has a different opinion. Many of those opinions back them up with what they believed to be scientific fact. Everybody has different facts though. Facts and studies can be produced was just about any outcome that you want. Just get on the internet start searching. You can support your opinion, even if the majority would say that your opinion is crazy. Somebody is out there that has some kind of documentation that would support crazy.
Rael Kalley my habits coach says that whatever book you read about nutrition and weight-loss you should stick to if it works for you, because if you go back to the book shelf and buy another one it will tell you all different things. Which one is true? Now you are just confused. The reality is that there are different paths to the same end. You could cut your portions in half. That works. You could eat nothing but lettuce. That works. You could walk 10 km a day. That also works. Diet books come and go but what works in your body? Can you create a lifestyle with that knowledge? Go with that.
I'm going to share with you my opinion about a book I read over 20 years ago called Fit For Life, and I would encourage you to try a little experiment in your own body to see if you might feel the same way. Why use other people's opinions? Try some things out and see what your opinion is after you try something different.
Many years ago when I was in my early twenties I was very sick, a lot of the time. After I ate I had pain, and bloating. I also got headaches a lot, and they were really intense and sometimes I had to be hospitalized. Doctors had differing opinions of what was causing these problems. In the end it seems that perhaps there were two causes (although no doctor actually contributed to that opinion because they could not seem to agree on anything.)
The headaches were likely unrelated to the stomach problems. They were likely caused from food coloring, preservatives and MSG. I started going without these things and diligently reading labels and I immediately seen an improvement in the frequency of the migraines.
The stomach issues were a little bit more complicated, and many tests were ran. The doctors were unwilling or unable to come up with any satisfactory diagnosis. One suggested that it was probably irritable bowel syndrome, but at the time they seemed to not be certain of that either. All I knew is that I felt gross a lot of the time. I had little energy, and pain in my lower abdomen almost constantly, and more so after I ate.
When I got married to my first husband I wanted to impress him with my culinary skills and did a lot of home cooking. This included foods like homemade bread, and perogies and cabbage rolls, and lots of meat and potato dishes. I quickly gained 30 pounds in less than 6 months losing my trim figure and adding a little depression to my diet.
On a trip home to Saskatchewan my aunt had told me about her experience with reading a book called Fit for Life and how she had been planning to have a hysterectomy because of female problems and pain in her abdomen continuously but once she had being on this diet for about six weeks the symptoms had disappeared. She had also lost about 40 lb. I quickly went out and bought the book and began to apply everything in it.
The result was that I quickly lost the 30 lb but there were some other interesting side effects. The pain that I had been experiencing after I ate stopped entirely. My energy level went up significantly. In fact, from that point to this day I have always had a high energy level. It seemed to replenish vitamins and minerals in my body in some very visible ways. For instance, I had always had weak fingernails and suddenly they were strong, hard and growing. My hair was glossier and also began to grow faster, requiring to be cut more often. My skin became more clear and even my eyesight sharpened up.
Reducing the artificial enhancements to food had reduced the amount of headaches that I had had significantly. When I was in my late teens I was having a migraine headache at least once a week and sometimes three or four times a week. With those dietary changes I had reduced the amount of headaches to about once a month. I had started making those dietary changes when I was about 20. When I read the book Fit for Life I was managing the monthly headaches and I had truly believed that life was as good as it was going to get. However at age 25 when I started applying the principles of Fit for Life the headaches completely disappeared. To this day I rarely have any kind of a headache, and I think I've had two migraines in the last 23 years.
I'm a Believer in the Fit for Life principles because I have used them myself to take off weight, to feel better and more vibrant, and it has given me back my life. Over the years I have encouraged other people who had struggled with health issues to try it out. I'm not a doctor and I can't make it prescription however I can hand somebody a book and say listen if you don't believe it, just try it for 6 weeks and see if you feel a difference.
I've seen people with colon problems, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, and a variety of undiagnosed issues, work themselves back from the brink of distress, in a matter of 4 to 8 weeks. Over the years when I have followed the program I had long periods of weight maintenance. When I stopped following the program I rapidly gained weight and then uncomfortable symptoms and stomach pains began to reappear.
These days Fit for Life can be found in a second hand store usually for about $2. Some people say it was a fad diet and that there was not enough science behind it. There are lots of other more recent diet books that are on the shelf next to it in the bookstore. Over the years I have read some of the more successful ones, mostly out of a point of interest or because some friend of mine was trying a new program. We all know how zealous our friends can be when they are trying a new program. They want to tell everybody about it, and anything that you might know prior to they're reading this new great book is irrelevant because this new great book has new information. After reading many of these books with new information I have concluded that most of them that actually deliver results have stolen all or most of the program that was actually originally printed in Fit for Life. That's why they work. Don't take my word for it, go ahead and read Fit for Life, then read the Atkins diet, then read the South Beach Diet, then read whatever diet is trending right now, and you tell me if I'm wrong. There's always some variations but the core is about combining food in a way that better results happen, even if they don't tell you that is what they are doing. The Atkins book for example tells one to remove all carbs from their diet. That naturally leads to food combining because without any carbs in your diet you can't improperly combine a carb and a protein. It takes the carb off your plate.
In summation the Fit for Life program it suggests that you should never put meat and potatoes, or meat and bread, or meat and pasta, on the same plate. Fit For Life calls that a "bad combination." The reason is - it takes two different kinds of chemicals in your stomach to break them down. Starch requires alkaline, and meat is a protein which requires acid. If you remember your days of chemistry in high school what happens when you put alkaline and acid into the same container? They neutralize one another and therefore digestion is impeded. Which is why when you eat a nice big turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, you feel really slow and sluggish for several hours. All of that food of mixed combination working against each other in the same confined place takes a lot of energy out of your body and never actually properly digest the food, because alkaline and acid have been pumped in together into the same space.
Knowing this one thing about how food breaks down, empowers me to make better choices. If I want to have a steak, then I should enjoy a steak with some very nice salad. That keeps the steak without a heavy starch carbohydrate that requires alkaline. If you don't believe me, I don't blame you. I would ask you though to run an experiment. Have steak for two nights in a row. The first night eat your steak with a nice big baked potato with sour cream on it, and make sure you have a piece of bread with the steak. After you are done go lay on the couch for a while. Think about how you feel. How does your stomach feel? Consider your energy level. Do you feel like getting up to go do something outside? Write your observations down. Continue your evening doing the things that you normally do. The next evening prepare the steak again but this time, eat it only with salad. Make sure everything that is with the salad is raw. Raw lettuce, raw tomato, raw cucumber, and use a light dressing. Eat as much steak and salad as you want, but don't have any bread, or quinoa, or potato, or rice or, or pasta. After you're done your meal go lay on the couch and think about how you feel. Ask yourself the same questions.
Try this experiment with Fish and Rice one night. Then try it again with fish and only salad.
Try this experiment with chicken baked in the oven, and mashed potatoes and gravy. Then the next night make a nice salad and put chicken on the salad.
I encourage you to form your own opinion. Don't believe everything you read from any source, including Fit for Life. Try these things out in your body and write out the results in detail. See how you feel or if you notice the difference. This is why I believe this is a great program, because I can feel a difference. I think you will too if you stop and think about how you feel after you eat.
Tell me how your experiment worked?
And also please subscribe to this blog on the top right hand corner of the page.
Many years ago when I was in my early twenties I was very sick, a lot of the time. After I ate I had pain, and bloating. I also got headaches a lot, and they were really intense and sometimes I had to be hospitalized. Doctors had differing opinions of what was causing these problems. In the end it seems that perhaps there were two causes (although no doctor actually contributed to that opinion because they could not seem to agree on anything.)
The headaches were likely unrelated to the stomach problems. They were likely caused from food coloring, preservatives and MSG. I started going without these things and diligently reading labels and I immediately seen an improvement in the frequency of the migraines.
The stomach issues were a little bit more complicated, and many tests were ran. The doctors were unwilling or unable to come up with any satisfactory diagnosis. One suggested that it was probably irritable bowel syndrome, but at the time they seemed to not be certain of that either. All I knew is that I felt gross a lot of the time. I had little energy, and pain in my lower abdomen almost constantly, and more so after I ate.
When I got married to my first husband I wanted to impress him with my culinary skills and did a lot of home cooking. This included foods like homemade bread, and perogies and cabbage rolls, and lots of meat and potato dishes. I quickly gained 30 pounds in less than 6 months losing my trim figure and adding a little depression to my diet.
On a trip home to Saskatchewan my aunt had told me about her experience with reading a book called Fit for Life and how she had been planning to have a hysterectomy because of female problems and pain in her abdomen continuously but once she had being on this diet for about six weeks the symptoms had disappeared. She had also lost about 40 lb. I quickly went out and bought the book and began to apply everything in it.
The result was that I quickly lost the 30 lb but there were some other interesting side effects. The pain that I had been experiencing after I ate stopped entirely. My energy level went up significantly. In fact, from that point to this day I have always had a high energy level. It seemed to replenish vitamins and minerals in my body in some very visible ways. For instance, I had always had weak fingernails and suddenly they were strong, hard and growing. My hair was glossier and also began to grow faster, requiring to be cut more often. My skin became more clear and even my eyesight sharpened up.
Reducing the artificial enhancements to food had reduced the amount of headaches that I had had significantly. When I was in my late teens I was having a migraine headache at least once a week and sometimes three or four times a week. With those dietary changes I had reduced the amount of headaches to about once a month. I had started making those dietary changes when I was about 20. When I read the book Fit for Life I was managing the monthly headaches and I had truly believed that life was as good as it was going to get. However at age 25 when I started applying the principles of Fit for Life the headaches completely disappeared. To this day I rarely have any kind of a headache, and I think I've had two migraines in the last 23 years.
I'm a Believer in the Fit for Life principles because I have used them myself to take off weight, to feel better and more vibrant, and it has given me back my life. Over the years I have encouraged other people who had struggled with health issues to try it out. I'm not a doctor and I can't make it prescription however I can hand somebody a book and say listen if you don't believe it, just try it for 6 weeks and see if you feel a difference.
I've seen people with colon problems, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, and a variety of undiagnosed issues, work themselves back from the brink of distress, in a matter of 4 to 8 weeks. Over the years when I have followed the program I had long periods of weight maintenance. When I stopped following the program I rapidly gained weight and then uncomfortable symptoms and stomach pains began to reappear.
These days Fit for Life can be found in a second hand store usually for about $2. Some people say it was a fad diet and that there was not enough science behind it. There are lots of other more recent diet books that are on the shelf next to it in the bookstore. Over the years I have read some of the more successful ones, mostly out of a point of interest or because some friend of mine was trying a new program. We all know how zealous our friends can be when they are trying a new program. They want to tell everybody about it, and anything that you might know prior to they're reading this new great book is irrelevant because this new great book has new information. After reading many of these books with new information I have concluded that most of them that actually deliver results have stolen all or most of the program that was actually originally printed in Fit for Life. That's why they work. Don't take my word for it, go ahead and read Fit for Life, then read the Atkins diet, then read the South Beach Diet, then read whatever diet is trending right now, and you tell me if I'm wrong. There's always some variations but the core is about combining food in a way that better results happen, even if they don't tell you that is what they are doing. The Atkins book for example tells one to remove all carbs from their diet. That naturally leads to food combining because without any carbs in your diet you can't improperly combine a carb and a protein. It takes the carb off your plate.
In summation the Fit for Life program it suggests that you should never put meat and potatoes, or meat and bread, or meat and pasta, on the same plate. Fit For Life calls that a "bad combination." The reason is - it takes two different kinds of chemicals in your stomach to break them down. Starch requires alkaline, and meat is a protein which requires acid. If you remember your days of chemistry in high school what happens when you put alkaline and acid into the same container? They neutralize one another and therefore digestion is impeded. Which is why when you eat a nice big turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, you feel really slow and sluggish for several hours. All of that food of mixed combination working against each other in the same confined place takes a lot of energy out of your body and never actually properly digest the food, because alkaline and acid have been pumped in together into the same space.
Knowing this one thing about how food breaks down, empowers me to make better choices. If I want to have a steak, then I should enjoy a steak with some very nice salad. That keeps the steak without a heavy starch carbohydrate that requires alkaline. If you don't believe me, I don't blame you. I would ask you though to run an experiment. Have steak for two nights in a row. The first night eat your steak with a nice big baked potato with sour cream on it, and make sure you have a piece of bread with the steak. After you are done go lay on the couch for a while. Think about how you feel. How does your stomach feel? Consider your energy level. Do you feel like getting up to go do something outside? Write your observations down. Continue your evening doing the things that you normally do. The next evening prepare the steak again but this time, eat it only with salad. Make sure everything that is with the salad is raw. Raw lettuce, raw tomato, raw cucumber, and use a light dressing. Eat as much steak and salad as you want, but don't have any bread, or quinoa, or potato, or rice or, or pasta. After you're done your meal go lay on the couch and think about how you feel. Ask yourself the same questions.
Try this experiment with Fish and Rice one night. Then try it again with fish and only salad.
Try this experiment with chicken baked in the oven, and mashed potatoes and gravy. Then the next night make a nice salad and put chicken on the salad.
I encourage you to form your own opinion. Don't believe everything you read from any source, including Fit for Life. Try these things out in your body and write out the results in detail. See how you feel or if you notice the difference. This is why I believe this is a great program, because I can feel a difference. I think you will too if you stop and think about how you feel after you eat.
Tell me how your experiment worked?
And also please subscribe to this blog on the top right hand corner of the page.
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