Recitas - The plan : eliminate the surprising healthy foods that are making you fat-- and lose weight fast

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Youve tried diet after diet.

You eat well.

You exercise.

Yet youre still gaining weight. Maybe a little, maybe a lot. Or maybe youre not gaining, but you just cant seem to drop those unwanted pounds the way you used to. At the same time, you might suffer from hormonal disorders, migraines, depression, skin conditions, joint pain, IBS, Crohns, or other digestive ailments. One day you step on the scale after eating healthy foods and your weight is up, and you have no idea why. You get frustrated and spend the next day eating cookies, and your weight stabilizes. You start to wonder if you should go on the cookie diet and at least have fun! Youve tried everything that used to work: dieting, juice fasts, exerciseand still the weight isnt budging. If youre anything like the thousands of people Ive worked with, youre seriously frustrated.

Why isnt your body responding??

Its pretty simple, actually. Your weight is nothing more than a reflection of your bodys chemical reaction to foods. I want you to pause for a second here and repeat that out loud (yes, really): Weight gain is nothing more than my bodys chemical reaction to foods. Youre not eating too many carbs, or too much fat, or too many calories. Youre simply eating certain reactive foods that are triggering an inflammatory response. And when your body is rife with inflammatory chemicals, it can cause a whole host of problems. Weight gain, migraines, skin conditions, high blood pressurelow-grade inflammation is the culprit behind all of them, aided and abetted by reactive foods that appear so righteous on the surface but are steadily and sneakily making us overweight, depressed, and sick.

And yes, Im talking about supposedly healthy foods like oatmeal, salmon, turkey, beans, Greek yogurt, and more. Thats why youre frustrated, my dear friendand understandably so! All those things youve been told for years are good for you are actually the problem, insidiously packing on the pounds and sapping your health and vitality while you suffer and deprive yourself.

Its hard to believe, but cookies and nachos are not the problem. We know if we overdo it on junk day in and day out well gain weight. Thats not a surprise. You dont eat them and say, Wow, why didnt I lose weight and feel vitally healthy? You do it because its fun, and you should be able to indulge occasionally. But fish? Green beans? Tomato sauce? If you spend the day eating cupcakes and gain a pound, well, okay. Maybe you go to the gym the next day and its gone. But if you spend a day eating healthy foods and you gain a pound, theres a problem. And Im going to help you find it.

Your body is constantly communicating with you about what foods do and do not work for it in ways you might not be aware of: fatigue, poor stress response, digestive issuesthese are all signals that your body is sending as an alert to please stop eating that food. But how do you know which foods? How do you interpret the signals? Im here to help you put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Welcome to The Plan. The next twenty days are going to be a controlled experiment to help you discover which foods do and dont work for your body. Every persons chemistry is unique, and were going to systematically test foods to learn how your body reacts, so you can start making informed choices.

The Plan is divided into three phases. Phase One, the Three-Day Cleanse, will be an easy detox to create a neutral base line in your body. In Phase Two, the Testing Phase (Days Four through Twenty), were going to test specific foods and your favorite restaurants as we home in on your friendly or reactive foods. Dont worry; if a food you love turns out to be reactive for you, it doesnt mean its banished from your life forever. Youll learn how to easily work it in and enjoy it in an informed way. After that, in Phase Three, Testing on Your Own, youll learn how to create your own menus and tests and analyze your bodys responses, so that The Plan becomes a natural and easy way of life.

By the time were done, youll see an average weight loss of up to 8 percent of your body weight and a dramatic improvement in sleep patterns, energy level, digestive function, and wellness (many clients are able to wean themselves off medications theyve been taking for years). All of these things happen when we root out your reactive foods, which cause inflammation, and allow the body to do what it most wants to do, which is repair, renew, and balance. Most of all, youll be armed with invaluable knowledge of how your body processes different foods so youll never again get sideswiped by mystery weight gain or symptoms that appear seemingly out of nowhere.

The Plan is not a diet program. I dont want you to eat macrobiotic, or vegan, or low-fat, or low-carb, or whatever other kind of regimen youve followed in the past. I want you to discover your own particular hidden saboteurs so you can eat like you, according to what works for your particular body. This is about creating your plan. Its not my plan. Okay, yes, it starts out as The Plan, and yes, theres protocol you need to follow for these twenty days. But the ultimate goal is to empower you to create your own personalized plan, which will change your relationship to food not just for these twenty days, but for the rest of your life.

Heres just some of what youll discover on The Plan:

• Why the foods we think are the problem arent the problem. I cant tell you how many people are gaining weight snacking on celery sticks and hummus when they could be eating potato chips and guacamole and losing weight.
• Which are your friendly foods, and which are your reactive foods. (Note that I didnt say good or badthere are no good or bad foods, only the foods that work, and dont work, for your body.)
• Why the very thing youve come to hatethe scaleis your new best friend. Your daily weight is nothing more than data, and were going to use this data to inform you how your body is reacting to certain foods. Youll come to appreciate your scale as a highly useful interpretive device!
• How to determine whether your thyroid is sluggish (even if it tested normal) and is sabotaging your weight loss efforts, and how to easily reverse that.
• How you can enjoy the foods you love most and still lose weight and feel fantastic.
• How to create delicious menus that will help you maintain your weight and meet your health goals for the rest of your life.

Within twenty days, you will be well on your way to reaching your goals of eating healthier, awakening refreshed and energized, and, of course, losing weight. No more feeling tyrannized and confused. Most of all, no deprivation. I want to bring the joy of eating back into your life. I love good food! I come from a long career in the restaurant business and spent years immersed in the world of wonderful food like great steaks, cheeses, desserts, and, of course, lots of good wine. Those things are still very much part of my life, and if you love them, theres a good chance theyll be part of yours, too. I want you to stop having to avoid fun food and understand that you shouldnt put the kibosh on that steak served with bread and butterit might very well be better for you than an egg-white omelet.