Why diets don't work
Food And The Body
Mr. Conventional wisdom, you are incredibly misleading
As crazy as this may sound, food is the
fuel to the body. Okay, that’s pretty obvious, but what is crazy is that not
all food is created equal, and the body knows it. Traditional nutrition tells
us that food is characterized by its caloric content, and the number of
carbohydrate, fat, and sugar grams, but that is too ludicrous and illogical to
comprehend. For too many years now, we have been comparing the body to an ATM
machine.
This meal is 500 calories; therefore I
have 1,500 left in my daily balance!
I
am sorry to tell you, but this is deeply flawed…
As J.J. Virgin puts it, author of The Virgin Diet, “Your body is not a
savings bank or a calorimeter. It’s a chemistry lab.” Different foods, whether a
100-calorie apple or a 800-calorie double fudge Sunday, are digested
differently in the body. That means that an avocado may have 3grams of fat,
22grams of protein and 240 calories, but it will be digested differently then a
fake, fried, greasy French fry, even if that fry has the same nutritional
properties as the avocado. The vitamins and minerals in the avocado are
information for the body that will help strengthen your hair, clear your skin,
help build protein in the body and be digested more efficiently by your
digestive system.
Now this does not mean that you can gorge on all
healthy food (too much of anything can be bad), but it does mean that when you
eat the right foods for your body, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO COUNT CALORIES or even
worry about moderation! All you have to focus on is eating the right foods!
Why diets don’t work
When you embark on a diet, whether
Dukan, Atkins, Special K etc., you are always going to be restricting
yourself of various foods. Typically, it’s the foods you truly love. Simply
put, this restriction leads to desperation, and all of a sudden all you can
think about is that warm chocolate brownie, or hummingbird’s cupcake. It calls
to you with the promise of true happiness:
“Hey sexy girl, one bite wont hurt. You
know this is what you truly want... YOLO.”
But you, the
cupcake and I both know that it won’t be just be one bite…
“This
is the LAST time I will eat all this junk food, tomorrow I will start over. But
since this is the LAST time, I will just eat everything else I have been
depriving myself.”
Not only are us dieters stuck on this horrific
cycle, so called “diet foods” don’t help to keep us motivated. They are bland, gross, and full of unknown chemicals. They even make us even hungrier! Crazy
right? Trying to lose weight yet all we want is to keep on eating.
Our perfect, healthy body that is supposed to
promise happiness just brings misery and a deprivation from the right nutrients. All in
all, we are poisoning ourselves.
So what do we do? First we stop. Yes, put down that triple-chocolate-caramel-cupcake! Put down that low fat- zero calorie-zero carbohydrate-and loaded with
Good food will:
·
Digest easily in the
body
·
Help nourish all body
parts to make us glow
·
Boost mood
·
Fight diseases like
cancer, heart disease
·
Give us energy
·
Make us smarter
·
Make us lean, toned
and sexy
·
Help us to live
longer!
Bad food will:
· Cause weight gain
· Cause massive,
embarrassing, uncomfortable digestive problems
· Cause mood
swings
· Intoxicate the
body
· Make us feel
lethargic, with a case of fogy brain
· Give us dull
skin, hair, nails and cavity infested teeth
· Promote the
growth of deadly diseases
Good Food is:
·
Living food/ raw food-
food that is in its most natural form. Nothing has been done to alter its
composition. All the enzymes, minerals, vitamins are intact.
o
Example: fruits,
vegetables, nuts
·
Good
carbs- carbs are essential. But you have to eat the right kinds. Carbohydrates
are natural sugars converted to energy by our body.
o
Example: fruits,
vegetables, whole grains,
·
Good proteins- good
clean proteins to help build muscle, grow cells, lose weight, and keep us
fuller longer.
o
Examples: Clean animal
proteins, plant proteins (basically all plants contain protein), quinoa,
protein powder, nuts, beans, fish, eggs
·
Good fats- oil rich
foods that help to lower cholesterol, loss weight, and nourish the different
bodily organs. Fat is also energy, and just because it is a fat does not mean
it will make you fat since it is the good kinds of fats that you will be
eating.
o
Examples: avocados,
flax seed, pumpkin seeds, nuts, seeds, olive oil
Bad food is:
· Overcooked food-
all the nutrients have been depleted
o
Examples: Over cooked vegetables
· Bad carbs- these
are refined. The refinement process strips them of their vitamins and minerals.
Refined foods cause a spike in your blood sugar leading to health problems and
weight gain.
o
Examples: white chocolate, white bread, white rice, white flour,
candies, cookies
· Bad protein- red
meats, and fatty proteins, soy and also dairy. These are all very difficult for
the body to digest and can lead to many health problems like arthritis, heart
disease, kidney stones.
· Processed and
refined foods- these are what I call “fake foods.” They have been through
factories that inject them with chemicals, artificial sweeteners, and
industrial oils.
o
Examples: anything packaged
So from now on, lets CHOOSE to eat more of the "good foods", and less of the "bad foods." I put these in quotation marks, because I do not want you to solely focus on what category the food is under. Trust me, it doesn't help, because then you just want more of what you can't have. Instead, try to focus on how the food makes you feel. It may seem a little daunting at first, but overtime it gets easier.
Honestly, I was the biggest sweet addict. I would binge on all foods processed, and chemically intoxicated. But slowly, I began to ditch those foods that did not make me feel well. It truly transforms your eating habits once you begin to ask yourself, "how will this food make me feel?" before you decide to indulge! Think about the AFTER feelings. It makes the transition a whole lot easier.
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