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Living the Fat Life
Fat is an evil word, isn’t it?
Fat has gotten a very bad reputation over the past 40 to 50 years, as if we should rid the world of all fat, and never look back. Why eat bacon or beef, which is loaded with fat? It is delicious, isn’t it? And yet, sometimes we feel guilty eating it, because it makes us fat. Maybe we should feel guilt for the slaughter of countless animals and the profiteering of corporations? This is not an article that tells you eating animals for food is wrong; men have been eating animals for a very long time. This is not an article about telling you to turn to vegetarianism. This article is about eating fat for weight loss.
Yes, you read that correctly: I eat bacon and steak slathered with butter just about everyday, and I lose or maintain weight. Amazing, right? Let me repeat that: I love bacon. I love steak. I enjoy butter. I eat bacon. I eat steak with butter. Not very kosher of me and may the Rabbis forgive me, but I see food as nutrients that my body needs to survive. I eat those food items at least 3 to 4 times a week. I lose weight. I am healthier now than I was as a child. I have hiked mountains, rode my bike for 10 miles, swam for hours without stopping, and even ran a mile without getting insanely winded. How is this possible? Weren’t we told to avoid things like this because it makes us fat? If you think bacon and steak is the reason you are overweight or obese, you are wrong.
The good news? Bacon and steak do not make you fat.
The bad news? It’s probably all the other stuff you are eating that is making you fat.
Why is there so much fear and panic about eating fat? Reading labels that tell you things are fat free or low fat seems to be a common practice, especially among people trying to lose weight, yet they are the ones who struggle the most with weight loss.
As part of government propaganda, starting in the late 50s and 60s. As a result of the fat scare, in which people were told not to eat fat because fat will make you fat, when the complete opposite is true: Fat does not make you fat. Everyone believed the government was telling them the truth, but the results of the past 60 years show otherwise:
- 3 out of 4 (75%) Americans are fat, overweight or obese
- The #1 killer in the United States is: Obesity which leads to Heart Disease, Stroke, or Heart Attack which leads to Cardiac Arrest and ultimately to Death
- There are more fast food restaurants and processed foods in grocery stores now more than anytime in our history
- Fast food restaurants are spreading rapidly throughout the world
- Eating fast food is part of normal culture and society
- Children are less active and more prone to obesity
- Chances are that if the parents are fat, so are the children and future generations
- Parents still remain uneducated about food and pass that same ignorance on to their children
- The Food pyramid was wrong and attempts to re-create the food pyramid have failed
- The new ChooseMyPlate.gov is pathetic and fails just as miserably, because it lacks any mention of “fats” completely
- After over 50 years of research, all government organizations still fail at educating the public to better understand food and nutrition
- There is more profit in keeping people unhealthy than having healthy people
The word fat is such a bad word that some people may find it offensive: “You’re fat”, “We’re fat”, “I’m fat”, “He’s fat”, “She’s fat”. Why did this word get such a bad reputation for so long? Fat is amazing for you and your heart will love you for it. We should love fat, not hate it. We should also be eating a lot of it, not running away from it.
The United States has declared a war on drugs, declared a war on fat, declared war on poverty, declared war on education, and declared war on Afghanistan and Iraq, among several other times where the United States has declared war on something, including the latest United States agendas: war on welfare and war on s’mores (because we all sit around a campfire every night roasting marshmallows and eating them with graham crackers and chocolate). There is constant debate as to whether these wars were or are for a good reason or not, but these topics are not the focus of discussion for this article.
The point is that it seems that almost everything the United States declares war on, only seems to fail miserably and makes the situation worse for future generations, because the United States government system itself is largely uneducated about the specific issues, and how to really deal with them. Throwing money and weapons at things has been proven not to be effective as we would like to think. Apparently, doing tons of research into issues does not work, either. If research was truly working, we should have a cure for every disease today, but money and population control are much more important.
The United States government, yet again, fails to address most of the important issues because they are too busy acting like they give a damn about the health of the American public. The truth the issue is: Stop listening to the American government. They lie to your face, they are greedy, they are a necessary evil, and they have no business telling you what you should and should not eat. The choice is ultimately yours.
Don’t get me wrong: I am an American, born and raised, and have lived in the United States for most my life, I go to work and pay my taxes. I don’t hate the United States or the government system that runs it, I just don’t believe they know how to properly educate Americans or deal with important issues, despite paying a lot of people an extremely wealthy salary to try and do it. Again: Throwing money at issues or people solves nothing.
Let us get back to the real issue: The War on Fat.
If you were given a choice, what would you rather eat for breakfast?
- Toast with butter
- Cereal or Oatmeal
- Pancakes or Waffles
- Steak
- Bacon and eggs
- Ham and cheddar cheese
What do you think is or are the most healthiest item(s) on that list? Did you choose the toast with butter? Wrong, try again. Oatmeal? Still wrong. Pancakes certainly fill you up, but that is also wrong. The healthiest items on the list are actually the steak, bacon, eggs, ham, and cheddar cheese, all of which will help you lose more weight faster than eating any of the first three items.
I don’t want to declare a war on carbs because vegetables have carbohydrates and those are complex carbohydrates that actually assist in weight loss, such as asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, or cabbage, which help your body burn more calories, than the amount of calories in the vegetables themselves. I also enjoy a few spoonfuls of ice cream per week, and no, ice cream does not make you fat if you consume it within reason.
Eating an entire gallon of ice cream every week or everyday will make you fat, but a few spoonfuls a week will actually help you lose weight. By the way, there is a secret to being able to eat plenty of ice cream while avoiding most of the carbs and sugar that is often loaded into each bite of ice cream. If you are like me and love ice cream, you will find a way to eat ice cream without any guilt and without destroying the benefits of the lifestyle diet.
Wheat, sugar, and high fructose corn syrup, however, are probably the biggest culprits in the American diet and should probably be allowed to go extinct or be avoided at all costs, though our addiction to them will never allow for it. If you are addicted to having sugar in your coffee and eating a loaf of bread every week, than you may need to rethink your eating habits, especially if you are overweight or obese. Consider sugar alternatives such as Splenda, Xylitol, Truvia, Stevia, Erythritol, or Sugar-Free Coconut Flakes.
What if I told you that everything you know about fat is wrong?
Fat is a healthy nutrient for your body and your heart and your weight. There are thousands of books written on fat, both good and bad, for and against, but there are a selection that cover the truth about fat and are not based on studies from the American government, but by health companies and people alone, who have experimented themselves with eating high-fat low-carb diets, or induced ketosis diets, and seen results almost immediately!
Forget your current diet if it is not working. Forget all that you know about food. Forget what the government has told you. Forget that fat is bad. Forget all that you know about diets and dieting. This is the best lifestyle change you will ever make in your life. Why would I take the time to write this if I know it wouldn’t work for you? I have spent at least 3 to 4 hours writing this article for you, optimizing it for SEO, making it look good, making sure the information is accurate and that you, the reader, understand what I have written, or at least can make sense of what I have written. I did not start Confessions of the Professions so that I could write articles with false or misleading information. I do my best to write authentic truthful articles that will help you and provide you with much needed advice.
I have been doing this diet for months now and I highly recommend it, especially if you are someone who needs to lose 20 pounds, 30 pounds, 50 pounds, or even 100 pounds. Get on this lifestyle diet!
This diet is a lifestyle change and does require you to change some things in your life, but would you rather go for a piece of bread or a few pieces of bacon? Personally, I choose the bacon and I ask that you don’t feel bad for me because I don’t eat bread. I’m not suffering that much. If you need to eat a bread-like substance, I suggest you eat Paleo Wraps™ which come in Coconut and Tumeric flavor, and are stronger and healthier than Flour or Corn Tortillas, less in calories and carbs, cause no weight gain, and taste amazing.
Here are some questions that might come to your mind:
- What is the name of this diet? You could refer to it as:
- Keto
- Ketosis
- High Fat-Low Carb (HFLC)
- High-Fat Low-Carb Moderate-Protein (HFLCMP)
- Basic
- Restoration
- Balance
- Cleanse
- Caveman
- Lifestyle diet
- Lifestyle change
- etc.
- Is this the paleo diet? Not quite, while Keto and Paleo are not far different from each other and share numerous amounts of traits, both emphasize a natural diet high in fats and protein. Paleo tends to favor unprocessed high quality meats, fruits, and vegetables, and things that grow from the ground, that are as closest to their natural sources as can be. Ketosis focuses strictly on high-fat and carbohydrate restriction, with very little emphasis on whether the meat came from farm or factory, but still emphasizes healthier fat oils. Ketosis also focuses on total net carbs rather than total carbs, which means that if something has 5 grams of carbohydrates, but 3 grams of fiber, than the total net carbohydrates is 2 grams of carbohydrates. Whether Paleo or Keto is better is completely up to the experience of the person on either diet.
- Do I have to make a few sacrifices? Of course.
- Do I have to suffer? Not really.
- Do I have to make a permanent lifestyle change? If you want to lose weight and keep the weight off, than yes.
- Is this diet for me? Only you know what you are capable of doing when it comes to your lifestyle and dieting. You either want to lose weight. Or you don’t. There are no excuses. Hopefully eating bacon, steak, and a ton of other amazing food won’t be too hard for you. You will have to give up some other foods, but you can definitely live without them and the trade-offs are far better.
- Is this lifestyle change manageable and tolerable? Absolutely. If you can eat bacon, steak, chicken, or fish for the rest of your life, than hell yes.
- Do I have to give up carbs? Not completely. You have to use portion control when it comes to simple carbohydrates. No more cups or bowls of ice cream, but rather spoonfuls per week; trade milk chocolate for dark chocolate and things like that. Try to stay between 20 – 50 grams of carbohydrates per day; if you can do less, than you will do wonderful and lose weight much quicker.
- Are there any side effects of giving up carbohydrates? Yes, there are a few, but none of these side effects are life-threatening. If you are American, your body is already used to a high-carbohydrate diet, as you have probably been eating a Western-style diet for years. You have probably been eating plenty of fat, but the wrong kind of fat, mixed with the wrong kinds of foods. You will experience a few symptoms, but your body will adjust and get used to your new diet. Your body is re-balancing itself, eliminating all the processed foods and other non-nutritious food that you have been putting into your body for so many years. All these symptoms are completely normal and will go away within a week. To reduce these symptoms, try taking Advil, rest, eating more fat, drinking more water, or having patience for about a week. Once these symptoms subside, you will feel energetic, euphoric, and return back to a normal balance and increased weight loss. While a person can go in and out of ketosis, these symptoms may not be present at all each time ketosis is entered. These symptoms are:
- Tiredness, Sleepiness, Weakness, Fatigue
- Nausea, Vomiting
- Headache
- Restlessness
- Diarrhea, Constipation
- Frequent urination, urge or feelings of needing to urinate or defecate
- Stomach pain
- Lack of motivation, lack of alertness, confusion
- Hunger
- Irritability
- Bad breath, fruity or metallic, like nail polish remover
- Do I have to give up sweets? The sweets that have been making you fat – yes, but there are plenty of other sweets that come in high-fat low-carb forms, especially if you make them yourself, as there are millions of people adapting to this new lifestyle change and finding creative foods that do not sacrifice flavor, taste, or quality. As I was writing this, my girlfriend brought me about a tablespoon of low-carb high-fat cheesecake, which she made herself.
- Do I have to give up fast food? Yes you do. But why do you want a processed piece of meat when you can go to the store and buy some amazing meat, season it yourself, and take pride in what you have cooked and are about to eat?
- Do I have to give up pre-packaged foods? Most traditional pre-packaged foods are not very healthy for you, but if you manage to find a low-carb high-fat moderate-protein package with reasonable sodium levels, than you could definitely get away with it. Taandor Chef offers some healthy pre-packaged meal options; aim for those with lower than 50 grams of carbohydrates.
- Can I still eat fruits and vegetables? It is best to measure in tablespoons, but you do not have to give up fruits and vegetables completely.
- Do I have to give up bread? It would be best if you did, as bread is a big culprit in not helping you to lose weight, but there are always alternative foods to bread.
- Can I drink alcohol? With good moderation and planning throughout the day, you could get away with having one or two drinks but you must calculate how much you are consuming and what was in it; for example, a mixed drink usually has a ton of sugar, which will throw your high-fat low-carb diet off, but if you are strict on yourself for the next week after that, you can get away with one or two drinks. Opt for Lite versions and you can definitely get away with a glass of red wine.
- Can I starve myself? Absolutely not. No diet that emphasizes starving yourself can ever be good. You can fast for up to 16 to 24 hours at a time, but you should never be in pain because you are hungry. After these fast are over, you should replenish yourself with plenty of nutrition, but you should not be doing these fasts for days at a time. Once a week or every few months is perfectly acceptable. This lifestyle diet change requires that you eat food, specifically fat, in order to lose weight.
- Can I eat as much as I want? You can eat within reason. During your first few weeks of being on the keto or ketosis diet, you will experience hunger, feel hungry, and want to eat. When you feel this, go for high-fat foods such as bacon, steak, salmon, or peanut butter. Your body is craving carbohydrates and will try to trick you into thinking you are really hungry and need to eat. Once you ingest some high fat foods, you will feel satisfied, and the sooner you get into ketosis, the sooner and faster it is that you will be burning fat and losing weight. You can still gain weight on a high fat diet if you are constantly eating all the time. You want to eat a reasonable portion size of fat at each meal, two to three times a day, with some high-fat low-carbohydrate snacks in between your main meals. If you eat extra, don’t worry about it, but don’t go overboard with your eating habits. Everything in moderation is just right.
- Will I miss the old foods I used to eat? I told a friend of mine, “I am on a lifestyle diet where I can eat a lot of bacon.” He said to me, “Any diet with bacon in it sounds like a good diet.” You are replacing your diet with lots of great new food items, so you might miss your old habits in the beginning, but you will find a lot of great new foods you can eat without guilt on your new diet.
- Can I eat as much as I want? Within reason you certainly can eat however much you want. Eating fat tends to make you feel more full. You should not eat until you are stuffed, but eat until you are satisfied. Eating a lot of fat will give you that feeling so you will not want to eat much more and you can usually last for many hours without feeling like you are hungry or starving. When you begin to eat fat, you will start to notice that you are less hungry and more satisfied for longer periods of time.
- Should I count my calories? It is recommended that you count calories and monitor your macronutrients (fat, carbohydrates, and protein) in order to understand your eating habits and behaviors; whether you tend to overeat, undereat, or eat too much of one thing or another. If you eat two to three meals a day while eating high-fat low-carb and just grab a handful of snacks that are high in fat, you probably do not need to count calories, but the option to do it is always there.
- Do I need to exercise? You should be active throughout the day, or do something that works up a sweat for at least 15 to 30 minutes per day. No gym. No special equipment. No hours of working out. Everyone has at least 30 minutes a day, but if you find that you have no time for exercise, try for at least 3 to 4 days a week. I suggest the easiest and most fun workout: swimming. If you have no access to a pool, you will have to work a bit harder, and for that, I recommend Fitness Blender’s Brutal HIIT Ladder Workout which is just 20 minutes and will make you sweat like crazy. Let me know in the comments how easy this workout was for you. If you really hate exercising and nothing works for you, than start with the most basic of all exercises: walking.
- Can I snack at night? It is recommended that you choose an 8-hour period in which you can eat as much as you want and then fast for 16 hours. If you do choose to snack at night because you are hungry, please measure your intake in tablespoons: eat a tablespoon or two of almond butter or peanut butter to hold you over until you can eat again.
- Do I have to give up soda and sugary drinks? Yes you do, but there are plenty of alternative sweet drinks, such as Crystal Light flavored drinks or True Lemon, which will keep you satisfied. Water, however, is the best option for your body, and should be consumed a majority of the time, at least 4 to 8 cups of water per day.
- Is all fat good? Unfortunately, not all fat is equal. There is Omega-3 fat, Omega-6 fat, and Omega-9 fat.
- Omega-3 fat is an essential good fat that naturally occurs in fish, butter, steak, and olive and coconut oil. Americans may not be getting enough of it in their standard diet.
- Omega-6 fat is an essential good and bad fat that is also naturally occurring, but too much is bad for you. Americans get way too much of it in their standard diet.
- Omega-9 fat is a non-essential good fat that is naturally occurring within the human body and is made from the other fats.
- Good fats: Fish oil, Coconut Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil — use as much as you want
- Bad fats: Vegetable Oils, Canola Oil, and most other oils — not horrible, but use very sparingly
- Why is there so much information that says fat is bad? Years and years of propaganda and false research could be the reason, or the uneducated population and general ignorance of most people. There is a lot more money in the corn and wheat industry: cheap production, cheap costs, more buyers, more profit. With the introduction of GMOs, the grow time is less and the price of production is even cheaper, which leads to even more profit. If fat is so bad, than why are people still getting fat by avoiding fat? If fat was bad, than why am I losing weight and feeling so healthy? Fat takes more quality time for companies to produce, harvest, sell, and package and has a shorter shelf life than carbohydrates and protein.
- Can I have a cheat day? If you could figure out a way to not have a cheat day, by incorporating low-carb sweets into your diet, it would work best. Throwing off your low-carb day for a day could definitely take you out of ketosis, if you were aiming for it, but if you can eat in moderation, than a cheat day would be fine.
- What if I have a bad day? We all have those days, where your discipline up to par and you had a party to attend, or friends or family invited you out to dinner, and you just wanted to have a good time with lots of fun and without worry. Perfectly okay. Remember: It did not take a day for you to become overweight or obese. You are not going to lose all the weight in a day, either. Feel free to have a bad day every so often, and consider it your cheat day. You are perfectly okay with doing it, so long as it is not a daily occurrence. Remember: You probably had plenty of those and that is why you are in this position of wanting to lose weight now.
- How long do I have to eat like this? You don’t want to eat bacon and steak all the time? For most diets to really be effective, to lose weight and keep it off, you must do it for the rest of your life. However, you can do it for as long as you want. When you get down to you goal weight, you can have a few extra cheat days, and then just get back into ketosis or a low-carb high fat diet for a few weeks at a time, but most people who go back to their old ways end up gaining weight again. Remember: If you were overweight or obese once, it can and will happen again. Unfortunately, that is just your body type regardless of how much you weigh.
- What exactly is happening to my body during this diet? You are technically starving your body of glucose, which is the pure energy you get from sugar. This does not mean your body is starving of food. It means that it is starving of easy-to-access energy, and therefore, it must turn to another source of energy: ketones. There is a ton of energy stored in fat, and therefore, your body will find this fat and use it as a way to keep itself alive and burn energy. Ketones are what the body produces in order to burn fat for energy. Instead of using the freely easy-to-get sugar source, which it no longer has, it turns to your fat cells for energy. Exactly the fat cells you are thinking of: The fat you cannot see around your organs and the fat you can see in your chin, arms, back, belly, legs, etc. Your body is a natural fat burner and will do all it can to find source of energy in order to keep you, the soul within, alive. When it burns fat, you breathe out the excess and excrete the gases of that fat, and then you will eventually see yourself getting skinnier, feeling healthier, and ultimately losing weight.
- I am losing weight / I am gaining weight. In the first few weeks of this lifestyle change, your body is going to go through some major adjustments. You may begin to see weight loss initially, as your body restores balance, pushing out all the garbage in your system, and forces you to also lose body water in the process. You also might see weight gain, which is just your body retaining water or trying to hold on to carbohydrates for longer, but eventually, everything must come out, and you will have some massive bowel movements that will make it seem like you lost a ton of weight. Ignore the weight scale and continue eating a high-fat low-carbohydrate diet. Within a few weeks, your body will be functioning normally on your new fuel source: ketones and fatty acids.
- What foods should I be eating? Foods that are high in fat, moderate in protein, and low in carbohydrates.
- Beef, Poultry, Fish:
- Meat
- Bacon
- Deli Cold Cuts (non-packaged)
- Ground Beef
- Ham
- Lamb
- Pepperoni
- Pork
- Ribs
- Salami
- Sausage
- Spam
- Veal
- Venison
- Fish
- Cod
- Crab
- Flounder
- Herring
- Lobster
- Mackerel
- Mahi Mahi
- Salmon
- Sardines
- Scallops
- Shrimp
- Sole
- Tuna
- Trout
- Halibut
- Poultry
- Cornish hen
- Chicken
- Duck
- Goose
- Pheasant
- Quail
- Turkey
- Ostrich
- Meat
- Breads:
- Condiments:
- Hot Sauce
- Lemon Juice
- Lime Juice
- Mustard
- Mayonnaise
- Ranch
- Salsa
- Dairy:
- Butter enriched with extra virgin olive oil
- Heavy Cream
- Half & Half
- Cheese:
- Cream
- Bleu
- Cheddar
- Feta
- Goat
- Gouda
- Marscapone
- Monterey Jack
- Mozarella
- Muenster
- Parmesan
- Provologne
- Swiss
- Etc.
- Sour Cream
- Unsalted grass-fed butter
- Drinks:
- Water
- Unsweetend Almond Milk
- Unsweeted Cashew Milk
- Club Soda
- Seltzer
- Tea
- Coffee
- Eggs:
- Deviled
- Fried
- Hard-boiled
- Omelets
- Poached
- Scrambled
- Soft-boiled
- Fruits / Vegetables:
- Asparagus
- Artichoke hearts
- Avocado
- Bell peppers
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Bok Choy
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Cranberries
- Cucumbers
- Eggplant
- Garlic
- Kale
- Mushrooms
- Onion
- Pickles
- Raspberries
- Romaine lettuce
- Squash
- Acorn
- Butternut
- Spaghetti
- Spinach
- Strawberries
- Tomatoes
- Nuts and Seeds:
- Almonds
- Cashews
- Chia
- Flax
- Hazelnuts
- Peanuts
- Macadamias
- Pistachios
- Pecans
- Pumpkin
- Sunflower Seeds
- Walnuts
- Oils (Cold-Pressed):
- Chia Seed & Flax Seed [non-oil version]
- Bacon Fat
- Beef Tallow
- Almond
- Avocado
- Extra Virgin Olive
- Ghee
- Hemp
- MCT
- Red Palm
- Unrefined Virgin Coconut
- Snacks & Sweets:
- Almond Butter
- Beef Jerky
- Dark Chocolate
- Fat Bombs
- Low-carb Ice Cream
- Peanut Butter (Natural or Omega-3 enriched)
- Pork Grinds
- Spices:
- Sea salt
- Black Pepper
- Basil
- Cayenne Pepper
- Chili Powder
- Cilantro
- Cinnamon
- Cumin
- Oregano
- Parsley
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Thyme
- Tumeric
- Sweeteners:
- True Lemon
- Crystal Light
- Splenda
- Xylitol
- Truvia
- Stevia
- Erythritol
- Sugar-Free Coconut Flakes
- Other:
- Anything that has very little sugar and is low-carb
- Beef, Poultry, Fish:
- You mentioned ice cream earlier and I love ice cream… Say no more. I am very happy you made it this far because ice cream can be enjoyed and eaten without guilt and I have found a way to do it. Of course, one way to eat low-carb ice cream is to actually make it yourself with an ice cream processing machine. However, you might be like me and prefer to find it already made. There are several companies that specialize in making this ice cream and are a true delight to making your lifestyle change an even better experience. These companies are:
- Can I drink my calories? Yes, as long as you get the proper nutrients throughout the day, it does not matter what form they come in. There are several products with many more being made as full meal replacements in liquid form, but always opt for low-carb and low-sugar versions. These products are:
- 100% FOOD (use discount code TREAT-A-FRIEND to get a free sample)
- Ambronite
- Low-Carb Soylent (DIY)
- Ketolent
- KetoSoy
- My personal keto protein shake recipe
- Ingredients:
- Silk Unsweetened Almond Coconut Blend (2 1/2 cups: 88 calories)
- Respect Chocolate Protein (1 Scoop: 113 calories)
- NOW Foods MCT Oil (1 tablespoon: 100 calories)
- Spectrum Decadent Blend Flax and Chia Oil (1 tablepsoon: 120 calories)
- Heavy Cream (1 tablespoon: 60 calories)
- Nutritional Information:
- Calories: 481
- Total Fat: 41.5g
- Saturated Fat: 22g
- Cholesterol: 25.5mg
- Sodium: 490mg
- Carbohydrates: 2.3g
- Fiber: 1g
- Sugars: 0
- Protein: 26.3g
- Ingredients:
With all the food listed here, you really don’t have to feel like you are suffering. The only foodstuff that is missing from this list is mostly bread, pasta, processed foods, sugar-loaded foods, fast foods, and alcohol. Once you remove the items from your household and your life and replace them with all this other delicious food, you will never know any of them are even missing.
This an amazing amount of food that you can still eat without feeling like you are sacrificing your life and depriving yourself. This food is meant to cut out a great majority of the sugar that is keeping you from losing weight. You will feel much more satisfied and less hungry from eating this type of food. It is this food that you must learn to love because it will change your life.
In the beginning, when you see friends and family going to grab a bite to eat at a fast food restaurant, or co-workers bringing in bagels and donuts, you will have the urge to want to get one, and you may even grab and eat one, but you must stay on track. As time passes, and you realize all the great food you get to eat, and as much as you want, it will get much easier, and you will be able to ignore what everyone else is doing or eating, and focus on your own life and foods.
Go ahead and work out as much as you want. Exercise for a few hours a day and continue eating the way you have always eaten. How has that been working out for you? I might be lucky enough to do the Fitness Blender’s Brutal HIIT Ladder Workout once or twice a week, but I really have to be in the mood to do it and once I start, I do get on an HIIT binge.
When I’m not on an exercise streak, however, I am very close to lazy, and about the only exercise I get is riding my bike to work, which takes me about 10-15 minutes and a nice half hour swim if there are no kids in the pool. Breaking that down, that’s about a half hour of exercise per day, 5 days per week, and it is not really intense exercise since I am enjoying it. Yet I step on the scale every morning and my weight has either stayed the same or it goes down. Rarely does it ever go up unless I ate something that was loaded with carbohydrates.
You can also have that amazing benefit of doing almost nothing everyday and losing weight, but you have to give up the simple carbohydrates, in the form of bread, sugar, candy, potato chips, cookies, or anything that is basically labeled “high fructose corn syrup”, “corn syrup”, or if you look on the back of the package and a single serving has more than 10g of carbohydrates with the same or more amount of sugar, than you either break that single serving in half or less if you can’t resist it.
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For more information on the ketosis diet from information to recipes, visit: www.vivaketo.com
The truth about getting information from any source, especially when it comes to your own health: What works for one person may not work for another, so experimentation with your own body is the best way to see the results you want. Some experiments may cause you to gain weight, while others may cause you to lose weight. In most cases, it is likely that eating a high-fat low-carb diet will help you to become healthier and lose weight.
I would tell you to consult your doctor before pursuing a new lifestyle diet, but very few doctors would recommend something healthy for you. Yes, I said it. I used to go to the doctor once a year, when and only if I was sick, and they used to tell me the same thing: “You are overweight and you need to lose weight.”
Thanks for telling me what I already knew. Didn’t need you to bill my insurance company a fortune for that kind of information. The children at my elementary school, middle school, and high school definitely made sure to let me know what you just told me. Thanks for confirming my suspicions of when I looked into the mirror, I saw an overweight person that needed to lose weight. I have never received a single piece of good advice from a doctor on how to lose weight.
Your doctor will gladly tell you that the saturated fat and bacon grease will clog your arteries, resulting in blocked passage ways, possibly resulting in stroke or heart attack, and your doctor is not wrong — if you add in french fries and vegetable oil with processed cheese. Your doctor probably has no idea about what it means to cleanse a body and couldn’t give you any cure for anything you have without prescribing a prescription pill for it. Most doctors are just a salesman for drug companies and I wouldn’t be surprised if they got some type of compensation, commission, or heavy influence from drug companies to sell a specific drug product to their patients.
If you want real advice from a real doctor, than turn to herbal or natural medicine doctors. Trust more in the doctors who don’t have to write a prescription for you than the ones who do. If you want the best advice, than do your research and conduct interviews into the lives of people who were formerly fat, overweight, or obese, and have kept it off for years. I speak to plenty of people about my weight loss, only to find out they once were a hundred pounds heavier and have since lost a substantial amount of weight.
I love finding out how they lost so much weight, what they ate, what they did, etc. Those are the people who know the secrets of weight loss, and the majority of them do not and have never starved themselves. People who have personal experience and have struggled with weight loss their entire lives know the most and are usually friendly and happy to share their accomplishments with anyone who is willing to ask about it. Those are the people who know more than any doctor could ever tell you.
I didn’t get any advice from any doctor for my own weight loss. I experimented with my own body, taking tons of different miracle weight loss pills, eating this and not that, exercising like crazy, and even doing p90x for 3 months, which I highly recommend for strength, balance, and toning, but not weight loss. After all was said and done, I originally weighed 260 pounds and today I am down to 175 pounds. That is a total of 85 pounds.
I remember being 260 pounds and I was not happy. Overweight was my reality for the majority of my childhood into adulthood. I wanted to lose weight and I wanted to be healthy. Gaining weight is the easiest thing in the world to do. Losing it is one of the hardest things you will ever do, but you don’t have to struggle so hard that it seems impossible. With some discipline and proper nutrition, the weight will come off. Depending on your metabolism, you could lose up to 2 to 5 pounds a week.
Don’t allow for yourself to get to your weight loss goals in 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months. Think in terms of getting there in at least a year, maybe two or three. I constantly made excuses for why I could not lose weight. I thought it was my genetics; my environment; my metabolism; my stress levels; lack of sleep; my thoughts; my destiny; my fate. I even convinced myself that being overweight was normal and healthy for me. I tried exercising 5 days a week at the gym, both cardiovascular exercise and strength training, but the most weight I would lose was 5 pounds, which would come right back a few days later.
I was wrong about everything: It was my ignorance of food and what I was eating. I knew plenty about protein and carbohydrates, but I knew nothing about fat, except that I was fat. Consuming it for weight loss was the furthest thing from my mind. If I ate fat, it only made sense that I would get fat, and that was the opposite of my goals. I wanted to avoid fat in order to avoid getting fat! However, I was completely wrong about fat, and have learned to love and appreciate the deliciousness that is fat. Now is my time to claim control over my own weight and health: Fat is the way to go.
If you want to lose weight, you can do it, but you have to find the correct information and stop listening to government sources who clearly have no idea what they are talking about. If they did know what they were talking about, we would have a healthy society, and you probably would not know someone or lived through it yourself, who has had cancer, heart attack, stroke, or who has a weight problem.
If you want to see the change in your life, than you must make the change in your life. Not only should you make the change in your own life, but your family life as well. Everything in this diet is doable, easy, and enjoyable. You will wonder why you have struggled for so long when the answers were clearly right in front of you: What you thought was guilty eating pleasure was absolutely the best and healthiest thing you could eat. Stop looking in the mirror and thinking that you will not ever lose the weight. There are no excuses. Lose the weight today! Lose the weight now!
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