If you're trying to lose weight, there is only one way to do it. Either you choose to eat a high carbohydrate low protein and fat diet or a high protein fat and low carbohydrate diet. That's all there is too it. Go too much in one direction without enough of the other according to what you're doing, and you'll gain weight. If your carbs are low, you should only be getting them from vegetables. Mainly leafy greens like green leaf lettuce or romaine, not iceberg because it sucks and has almost no nutritional value. Green beans are good, as well as green peppers, red peppers, yellow peppers, spinach, broccoli and such, all of which can be stir fried with some chicken, turkey, or whatever you like. I recommend eating only walnuts, as they contain chemicals that are converted into serotonin when they get into the body. Almonds are okay, but actually contain a mild poison that can upset your digestive system if you eat them too much. For milk products you should preferably be eating only goat or sheep's milk yogurt with bacterial in it, no added anything. Organic is preferred for milk products. If you want cheese or milk, the latter
must be in raw form, otherwise don't even bother. Cheese is okay in nearly any form as long as its not processed. I prefer raw and organic, but you may be okay eating whatever. Protein intake should be at least 80-100g to start. If you do a lot of activity, increase it to around 120-150g. Fat should be fairly high, but not too high. If you're eating a lot of nuts, there's some right there, but also add in organic, unpasteurized cultured butter. It's easy to find. Most health food stores carry it now and I've even seen some supermarkets with it in a special section. Unsalted. I also recommend eating a lot of eggs, up to four per day. It's good to start breakfast with two, including an avocado because it contains a special sugar that blocks insulin production. For fruit, I've found that apples are the best for you. I prefer organic, but again you don't have to do this, I just like to keep as healthy as possible. I eat one half an apple slice with every meal except the last one for the day. You may also want to supplement with a few things. First, there is brewer's yeast, which will give you a decent amount of carbohydrates in the morning as well as some goodies that help with sugar regulation. Then, you can also try supplementing with something called Primal Defense by a company called Garden of Life. When I wake up at night, I take one, they must be taken without food. They contain special ingredients and bacterial cultures to help keep your bacteria in your intestines healthy to maximize assimilation of foods while keeping problems at bay. You'll never get sick if you take this stuff. Also you should be getting a good multivitamin, and unfortunately you're not going to find this at a supermarket, going to have to go to a health food store for it. Be careful of any ingredients I say you should avoid in my diet post on this forum (look for it and read my recommended avoidance list). You may also want to supplement with a nice calcium/magnesium/zinc tablet because with a higher protein diet you tend to drain these a bit faster. Also, the one thing I strongly recommend is fish oil capsules, but only if they're from wild caught small fish. It will say so on the bottle and these beauties will get rid of a number of problems you are having. Anyway, to give you an idea of how I eat, here's a sample day of mine:
1 Primal Defense tablet if I wake up to go to the bathroom at night
Upon Wakening
1 tablespoon of brewer's yeast, followed by a small handful of walnuts, two fried eggs (butter is good, but you can use nonfat canola oil spray from a health food store), 1/2 of a vitamin, about a whole avocado (depends on size), one apple slice, small serving of sheep yogurt, rose hips tea, water
Meals After That (Roughly Every Two Hours, I stick with this pretty hardcore earlier in the day, but after four I can go longer, even up to three or four hours before eating again)
small handful of walnuts, two and 1/2 or three scallops fried up with some green beans, broccoli, peppers and salt, serving of italian cut green beans with butter or 6 brussels sprouts (I like to rotate the beans and the sprouts every other meal), sometimes some organic raw unpasteurized sauerkraut (gold mine is the best), at least two large leaves of green leaf lettuce, depending on the time of day I might have one fish oil capsule or 1/2 a calcium/magnesium/zinc tablet, small serving of sheep yogurt (I eat this with the brussels sprouts), 1/2 an apple slice, nice large glass of water (
not chlorinated!!!!)
Last Meal of the Day
1 tablespoon of brewer's yeast, small handful of nuts, two hard-boiled eggs (I only purchase cage free, organic, extra large by the way) green beans with butter and salt, large leaves of green leaf lettuce, fish oil capsule, cup of rose hips tea, glass of water (go to bed no longer than one hour after this)
