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I recommend and use the Hourglass Diet. It's got good food at the top (vegetables and fruit mixed with adequate protein and fat) and junk down the bottom (food that's been through the mill, the oven and the fat bath, composed of a mix of flour, sugar and fat, sold in packets, cans bottles cardboard boxes and plastic bags, and advertised to fools and children). There's a middle zone of the unrefined cereals - good for you, but a bit higher in energy density than the vegetables and fruit.
If you want to know more about the Hourglass Diet click here.
The Hourglass Diet is more a way of eating than a diet per se, and though they say you shouldn't go on a diet, I often suggest to people that they get themselves started on the Hourglass Diet by first spending a week on the Cardiac Unit diet.
The Cardiac Unit diet will get you focused and disciplined about eating from the top of the Hourglass. It will assist you to lose your attachment to the two white powders - flour and sugar.
This seven day eating plan supposedly comes from the Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital (where-ever that is) and is used in their Cardiac Care Unit for over-weight patients for whom it is advisable to lose weight prior to surgery.
I read somewhere that that was nonsense but so what. Even if it wasn't designed by cardiac specialist, even if there is no Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital it's still a good way to get focussed on cleaning up your diet act! And, if you embark on it with a view to losing weight you'll do so without dying!
The diet stimulates fat burning. You will burn more calories than you take in. You can check whether in fact you are burning fat or not by using ketone sticks which are available from most good health food stores. The diet works. I give it a nudge myself when I notice that things have got out of hand.
It helps reset your body's metabolism. If you're fat around the middle, and that's most people, you have a metabolic dysfunction triggered by high insulin levels within your blood, stimulated in turn by a sedentary lifestyle and too much flour and sugar.
INSTRUCTIONS No alcohol on this diet. Will-power dissolves in alcohol, along with peanuts, chips and Tim Tams.
Because everyone's digestive system is different this diet will affect everyone differently. After being on this diet for several days you find the back end of your system is not as lose as normal; add some psyllium husk to your diet.
The basic fat burning soup can be eaten at any time you feel hungry and as much as you wish. The more you eat the more you'll lose.
It is a nutritional diet. You won't die.
Remember: no bread, alcohol, soft drinks of any kind and no fried food or oil.
Drink plenty of water - six to eight glasses a day - along with tea, coffee, skim milk, unsweetened fruit juices, cranberry juice.
Is this a fad diet? Definition of a fad diet - a diet that gets you to focus on starving yourself for a few weeks, without helping you to satisfy the inner hunger.
This is a fad diet, but it will help get you focused and back on the straight and narrow. If you want to read up more on satisfying the inner hunger purchase a copy of the Hourglass Diet.
If you don't deal with what's persistently causing you to overeat and stuff yourself with junk, you're going to put the fat back on again. It's known as the rhythm method of girth control. Take away the immediate stimulus to crash dieting - eg the wedding is over - and won't-power takes over from will-power. You get fat again. You have to go back to your fat pants and walking around with your guts sucked in.
SOUP INGREDIENTS 3 tomatoes 2 large cans of crushed tomatoes 1-2 cans of Campbell's Beef Consomme, plus 2 cups of water 1 packet continental vegetable dry soup powder 1 bunch spring onions 1 bunch celery 2 cans green French beans 3 carrots 2 chicken stock cubes
If you can't be bothered making this soup, buy vegetable soup that contains less than 40 calories/100gms. It won't be the same as the Cardiac Unit soup, but it will be better than no soup at all. Keep your soup larder well stocked up at work and at home. 1 beef stock cube.
Method Chop all vegetables into small pieces, add pepper and stir well. Boil rapidly for ten minutes and then simmer until vegetables are tender. Add water as necessary or to make soup thinner.
This soup can be eaten any time if you are hungry. Eat as much as you want, whenever you want. The more you eat the more you will lose weight. Fill up a Thermos if you are going out during the day.
The soup is an essential ingredient of the diet. By keeping your stomach ticking over during the day, you'll stave off attacks of the munchies, plus you won't send your metabolic clock into shut down mode, that is, the point at which the body starts to conserve fat, thinking there is a famine coming on.
Day 1 Any fruit except bananas. Rockmelon and watermelon are lower in calories than most fruits. Eat only soup (as much as you want) and fruit today.
Day 2 All vegetables. eat as much as you like of fresh vegetables, raw vegetables or canned vegetables. Try to eat leafy vegetables. Stay away fro dry beans, peas, corn. Eat vegetables along with soup. At dinner time reward yourself with a jacket potato and butter. Do not eat fruit today.
Day 3 Eat all the soup and vegetables you want today. Do not have a jacket potato today. If you have eaten as above for three days and not cheated you should have lost between two and a half to five and a half kilograms.
Day 4 Bananas and skim milk. Eat at least three large bananas and drink as much skim milk as you can today. Eat as much soup as you want. Bananas are high in calories and carbohydrates, as is the milk but you need the potassium and carbohydrates today.
Day 5 Beef and tomatoes. You may have half a kilogram of beef or chicken if you prefer (no skin), and as many as six tomatoes. Eat soup at least once during the day.
Day 6 Beef and vegetables. Eat to your heart's content of beef and vegetables today. you may have two steaks (grilled) if you like with green leafy vegetables. No potatoes. Eat soup at least once during the day.
Day 7 Brown rice and vegetables, fruit juice. Be sure to eat well and eat as much soup as you can.
By the end of the seventh day, if you have not cheated on the diet you should have lost five to eight kilograms. (Inactive people will lose less due to inactivity.) If you lose more than six and a half kilograms, stay of the diet for two days then start again.
Well there you have it. Give it a burl. See what happens. In the meantime stay tuned; highly tuned and remember that nothing sucks seeds like a budgie without teeth,.
John Miller |
