Fighting Your Weight

I don't know anyone who doesn't fight their weight or at least mind their waist-line.

Here's the cycle:

You eat a little salt/fat/sugar.
You crave more.
You eat more salt/fat/sugar.
You stop eating fruits, vegetables, rice and beans because you're "just not hungry".
You eat even more salt/fat/sugar.
You gain too much weight.
You can't "get the weight off."
You can't stop thinking about your next meal.

Simplistic diet rituals consist of abstaining from food, eating low calorie foods, or eating smaller portions. Stop making yourself crazy.

None of these diets address the basic problem: you are starving. Specifically, you are starving for water, enzymes, lipids, vitamins and minerals.

"Think of your body as being composed of millions of
tiny little engines. Some of these engines work in unison; some work
independently. All are on call twenty-four hours a day. In order for
the engines to work properly, they require specific fuels. If the type of
fuel given is the wrong blend, the engine will not perform to its maximum
capacity. If the fuel is of a poor grade, the engine may sputter,
hesitate, and lose power. If the engine is given no fuel at all, it will
stop.
The fuel we give our bodies' engines comes directly from
the things we consume. The foods we eat contain nutrients. These
nutrients come in the form of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, water, amino acids,
carbohydrates, and lipids. It is these nutrients that sustain life by
providing us with the basic materials our bodies need to carry on their daily
functions."
Prescription for Nutritional Healing
James F. Balch, M.D. & Phyllis A. Balch,
CNC

If you want to lose weight, do this: assess your vitamin and mineral deficiencies. You can do it one of two ways: go to a doctor, preferably a chiropractor, who does blood and urine analysis. Or self diagnose: try the following.

Find out what your "go to" food is: sugar? fat? fried foods? If you don't know or say yes to all three, keep a food journal for 3 days. Write down the time, food and quantity of everything you put in your mouth. What is the pattern?

Is your food-craving sugar or soda pop? Eat 5 pieces of fruit a day for 30 days. Eat the rainbow: eat a kiwi, an apple, 1/2 cantaloupe, a banana and a big bowl of berries. The second day eat 5 fruits and don't repeat any from the first day. Make it a game. Make a raw vegetable juice. Buy a Jack LaLayne juicer and throw carrots and beets into it. Drink it down any time you crave sugar.

Is your food-craving salt? First of all, all these years of craving salt have dehydrated you. Drink water. Drink water. Drink water. If you are a juicer put celery in your juice. Make a homemade V8 by juicing tomatoes, one apple and celery. The celery makes vegetable juice taste salty - go figure. Make a huge steamer full of long grain brown rice and top it with Bragg's Liquid Aminos.

Is your food-craving cheese? Eat natural oils. Almond butter is great on apples, celery, spelt toast and spelt tortillas. Experiment with Udo's Blend on your salads. Rub extra virgin coconut oil all over your body. Sit in the sun for 20 minutes. Your skin, which is a highly absorbent organ,m will ingest the oil into your blood stream while amplifying the Vitamin D trick your body does when exposed to sunshine. Extra virgin olive oil is your best friend. Soy, miso, tofu and all their whole food cousins will satisfy your texture craving.

Is your food-craving fried food and junk food? Extra-virgin olive oil and sea salt are a perfect pairing. Bake a russet potato until the skin and insides are soft. Slather it with olive oil and seal salt. Eat till you poop. Cover everything you eat with olive oil.

Is your food craving meat? Be very careful with this one. If you desire meat 3 times per day you might be feeding an intestinal parasite. Parasites are protein lovers. Your mind may be fooling you into thinking you "need protein". Trust me, you won't test protein deficient in a million years! America as a whole is on protein overload, just look at our collective massive middle sections: we have enough fecal matter stored in our small intestines and colon to poop for the next 10 years without becoming protein deficient. Stop it, right now. You are now officially a vegetarian. Tell everyone!

You are not fat, you are vitamin depraved. You are not undisciplined, you are in terrible need of enzymes. The fat is not in your head, it's in your body because you're ingesting plastic and petroleum instead of God's green earth. You truly are hungry: Eat Food!