From Your Lips to your Hips

Ch 2: Overfed Yet MalNourished

The Effects of the American Diet II as adapted from Eat to Live by Dr. Fuhrman

Our natural sweet tooth should really be for fresh fruits. Reasearchers have discovered  substances that help prevent aging and protect the brain. Too bad our desire for sweets is typically satisified by candy bar and ice cream-not fresh fruit. The FDA estimated that average American consumes about 32 teaspoons of added sugar in one day.

If you want to lose weight, the most important foods to avoid are processed foods: condiments, candy, snacks, and baked goods; fat free has nothing to do with it. You must cut down from refined carbs like bagels, pasta and bread. Pasta is not health food-it is hurt food.

Empty calories are empty calories. Cookies, jams, and other processed foods sweeted with fruit juice" sound healther but are just as bad.

Another way that will keep you from your weight loss are salad dressings. Oils are 100% fat. There are lots of calories in just a litte bit of oil Fat such as olive oil can be stored on your body within minutes from your lips to your hips. Foods cooked in oil soak up more oil than you think.Olive oil and other salad and cooking oils are not health foods nor diet foods. Oil will add fat to our already plump waistlines increasing risk of disease including diabetes and heart attack.

Eliza

Digging Our Graves with Forks and Knives

The American Diet Part I as adapted from the book Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman



Obesity is the number one health problem in the U.S. and if the current trend continues by 2030 all adults will be obese.



Studies show the initial weight loss is followed by a weight gain because even most primary physicians fail to look at the long term health of their patients.





Obese families tend to have obese pets which is obviously not genetic. So it is the combination of food choices, inactivity and genetics that determine obesity.





Extra weight leads to an earlier death.



Since dieting almost never works more people are turning to drugs and surgeries.



Surgeries to Weight Reduction and it’s Risks: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has reported that more than 10% have to go back for a second surgery to fix the problems they are having. They might be experience metabolism problems, stomach aches, gastritis, outlet stenosis and even death.



Dangerous Dieting: Americans have become obsessed with gimmick dieting which almost never results in permanent weight loss and actually worsens the problem over time. Some people even gain more weight than what they first started off with. Low calorie dieting doesn’t work either. You may not know this but being overweight is not caused by how much they eat but what they eat.



Eating large amounts of good food is the key to your success.



Regardless of your weight and genetics you can achieve your goal if you switch to a high nutrient diet style. As long as you are eating fatty foods it is impossible to lose weight no matter how much you try to work out. Eating healthy and activity will do the work.



As a rule of thumb, for optimal health and longevity a man should not have more than one-half inch that he can pinch near his belly button and woman should not have more than one inch.

Eliza

So you want to get skinny?

When you're fat there are the handful of people who let you know how fat you are and that you need to stop eating this and that to lose weight. There comes and day that you do lose the pounds and those same people then tell you how skinny you are and how you need to eat this and that. Don't listen to anyone.

You know your body the best. Do what makes you feel healthy. No size and no amount on the scale will make you any happier if you're not truly happy with yourself to begin with.

I've tried every diet you can think of. One day I got sick of it and the constant thought of "I need to lose weight". This happened right after we got back from our honeymoon. We had eaten so much,  I was at my heaviest on my wedding and even heavier when I got back. I just didn't like the stuffed feeling.

Two books changed my whole prespective on eating healthy. I had heard about the book Eat to Live from an inteview with Alanis Morisette. Three years prior to that during our visit to Barnes and Noble, I came aross the Skinny Bitch book which I bought and returned it the next day. I didn't like all the things they wrote about mostly because it was a vegan book. How can I not eat meat!??

After getting back from our honeymoon I read Eat to Live and did Dr. Fuhrman's six week plan http://fatfreevegan.com/blog/2010/01/01/eat-to-live-6-week-plan/with my husband. He lost 15lbs in 3 weeks and I lost about 5lbs. While I was writing about the book on facebook one of my friends mentioned Skinny Bitch again so I went back and got it again, this time ended up keeping it and becoming a huge fan of theirs. It's pretty much an all vegan diet.

What I learned from these books, I applied to what best fit me and Osh. It's been a year since we started this eating healthy and working out thing and we both have lost over 20lbs and I feel so awesome.

Educate yourself then make up your own eating and work out plan that works best for you and stick to eat. No all you can eats or weekend binging.

xoxo
Eliza