By Brutus Laurentius
Here is a diet plan that you can follow, and is as easy as using a scale and a calculator. Furthermore, rather than saying what you can’t eat, it says what you MUST eat, and as long as you eat that, you can feel free to eat anything else you want.
First, you MUST eat vegetables. Any vegetables. How many vegetables must you eat? Take your weight and divide by 20. That is how many servings of vegetables you must eat daily. You must eat your vegetables FIRST at any meal. You can always feel free to eat more vegetables if you are inclined, and no matter how much you weigh, the minimum servings you can have daily is six.
Now, if you weigh a lot, that might look like a lot of vegetables, but it isn’t really. I just looked at a package of frozen broccoli that weighed 10 ounces, and it claims to contain 3 servings. Heck, I could polish off that package in one sitting easily and still be ready for more!
Second, you MUST eat protein. When I say protein I don’t mean reconstituted regurgitated industrially processed soy crap. I mean MEAT, FISH and EGGS. Sorry, this diet won’t work for vegetarians.
How much protein do you need to eat? Again, weigh yourself. Divide that number by 18. That is how many ounces of meat, dish and eggs (in any combination) you MUST eat daily. At any meal, your meat follows your vegetables.
There’s a method to that madness. You see, protein triggers satiety. You won’t get full on the veggies so you’ll eat them all. Then you gobble down the protein and by the time you are done you feel so full you can barely move.
As with the veggies, you can always eat more if you want. What I gave is the MINIMUM requirement. Feel free to exceed it.
Third, you must eat fruit. How much? Fruit is not as critical as vegetables, but you MUST eat three pieces of fruit daily. Eat it as the last thing in a meal. That’s because when it is early in a meal fruit will stimulate appetite but later in a meal combined with proteins it will put the finishing touch on satiety.
That’s it. That’s the whole diet. As long as you eat the required veggies, protein and fruit you can feel free to eat anything else you want.
You know the catch, don’t you?
Veggies don’t supply many calories but they supply gobs of nutrients. Most of people’s diets are composed of nutrient deprived crap so they have to eat way more calories than needed just to get baseline levels of nutrients. By having all those veggies, you will have more nutrients and in higher quality synergistic forms than you could ever get from a pill.
No, those veggies will NOT fill you up. The primary constituent of most veggies is water. No, they are NOT boring. Just get a copy of a couple of decent cookbooks. There are a million ways to cook cabbage, carrots, broccoli, asparagus and so forth so they never get boring and taste wonderful.
The catch, rather, lies in the protein (and those protein sources are PACKED with niacin and other important vitamins) combined with the fat that usually accompanies them. (Forget the idea that fat makes you fat.) The protein (combined with the bit of sugar from the fruit) triggers satiety and the fat is a slow burning fuel that gives it staying power.
As a result you won’t be very hungry for other things. Also, as the amounts of these things you can eat is unrestricted so you can eat an entire side of beef if that’s what floats your boat, you will not suffer from the effects of inordinate calories restriction and other causes of people being unable to stick to a diet. This is a plan that will work for life.
So this is the “What you MUST eat” diet.