“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” - Hippocrates

All Natural Weight Loss Diets and Ways to Keep the Fat Off

• These natural weight loss diets are designed for you to lose weight safely by conditioning your liver to burn fat rather than store fat. 

• Dieting can make your fat! Are you surprised by that comment? How is that possible? Well when you take appetite suppressant drugs and go on these silly fad diets your liver is thrown out of balance. Instead what happens is that you develop a "fatty liver" which then makes it impossible for you to lose weight. 

• You will see  that by following the natural weight loss diets here you can reach your ideal weight through healthy eating, and maintaining that weight over time. The problem is that it is the very food that we eat that not only makes us sick, but also overweight.

• Anyone who is health conscious should read food labels and know what they are eating. Stay away from any products that are artificial in nature - foods full of preservatives, cold drinks, cream cakes and buns, those filled with trans fats like fried potato chips, pizza etc.

• We all know this, this is nothing new. However, I take it one step further - stay away from genetically modified (GMO) foods. These are making us feel bloated and sick. GMO foods are linked to IBS, gluten intolerance, cancer and other diseases. They are lethal for your health!

• Finally, stay away from any food that is labeled "low fat", "Low calories", "sugar free", "0 Sugar", "lite" etc. because these so called "diet products" are made with artificial sweeteners that are not only linked to cancers, but are filled with chemical additives that are addictive. Not only that, they actually make you fatter because they increase your appetite by making you crave carbohydrates.
  

Are you Overweight but Malnourished?

We are what we eat. If we eat poorly by eating all the wrong things, chances are our bodies are not getting the right Vitamins and nutrients to make it function efficiently. Many people from wealthy countries find themselves obese and malnourished at the same time. We don't think of these two things going together, but it is a fact.

It is like the case of the early American settlers, who had no choice but to survive on just a diet of corn that made them obese. And despite their weight, many of those settlers died of starvation and illness because they were not getting the Vitamins and nourishment needed to maintain a healthy body.

For those of us who don't even think we have a weight issue, we find that we are still deficient of magnesium, all the Vitamin B Group, Vitamin D, selenium and other trace elements, due to our over-refined foods using white flour, white sugar,  saturated fats etc. and the overuse of chemical fertilizers that deplete the soil.

Our foods are so deficient in the nutrients that we need for good health, that the more we eat, the hungrier we become. Our bodies struggle to cope with the empty calories we keep feeding them. So if you have tried to lose weight in the past and haven't, despite eating "healthy foods" you are not alone. Hopefully, after reading this article, that will all change.

Food is your Friend in Weight Loss Health

Food to our body, is like gas to a car. If you don't put good gas into the car, it won't go or will go for a while and breakdown. If you don't put the right food into your body, it can't perform, you get sick, and worse.

Not all foods are equal. There is a variety of "stuff" out there cloaked and disguised as food. It is not food. Hot dogs for example are made with pork trimmings, mixed with pink slurry and pulverized chicken carcasses. It has little food value at all. Not even looking at the preservatives! A lot of food out there is synthetically manufactured rubbish that is killing us, but advertised on our TVs, and in newspapers constantly as food. Don't be fooled!

Wholesome food is medicating your body, feeding and nourishing it with good Vitamins and trace elements. And when you eat vegetables and fruit either grow it yourself or buy organic. Strawberries, for example are one of the most toxic fruit you can buy as they are heavily treated with all sorts of insecticides and pesticides during their growing period but so good for you if you grow them yourself.

To give you some examples of our miracle foods:

• strawberries can lessen your risk of cancer
• flax seeds contain selenium which can reduce the chance of cancer and other diseases
• Brazil nuts reduces your risk of colon cancer, again high in selenium
• avocado pear reduces high blood pressure
• cinnamon will reduce your cholesterol
• eating just one serving of watermelon or a pink grapefruit each day can reduce a man's risk of getting prostate cancer by 82%
• a carrot a day can reduce your chance of getting a stroke by 68%
• drinking raw juices can restore your fatty liver and allow it to function once again so that it burns fat
  

I could go on, but I think you get my point. Food can be your friend.

Unfortunately we are heavier than we should be for a number of reasons. We may blame a thyroid problem or genetics. I once had a friend who was a young, overweight woman who blamed her weight on her thyroid. Her doctor was tough, and unsympathetic. His response was, " I didn't see any pictures of fat people in Jewish concentration camps."!

Our food problems stem mainly from the fact that when we were growing up food was either a punishment or a reward. How many of us had to finish our dinners before we got dessert? How we pushed the dreaded spinach around, trying to feed it to the dog under the table, who wasn't interested either!

We now need to look at food differently. Don't see food as something self-destructive. For some it is. We turn to food for comfort when we are depressed, lonely or bored. We eat badly  because we don't believe that we have the right to look good.

You need to see food as an essential friend. Not one that you should turn to comfort for when times are tough, but as a friend that when chosen wisely, will lead us to a long and healthy life,  making us feel good, and look good!

This is the most important step in weight loss health. This attitude towards food that we need to overcome. Without it, the rest won't follow.

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3 Stage Natural Weigh Loss Diet

Stage 1: Eliminating Intestinal Yeast Infections over 14 Days

If you are overweight, it is almost definite that you have an internal yeast infection, or candida as it is medically known. Without getting rid of the yeast infection you will battle for years to lose weight and never succeed. So this is a very important phase in dieting that many people don't know about, and therefore never seem to be able to lose weight.

To get rid of intestinal yeast infections you need to follow this program for 2 weeks:

• Eliminate all refined and processed foods from your diet; anything made with sugars and white flour
• Don't eat mushrooms, bread, or drink alcohol for 2 weeks. These things slow down your metabolism and feed the candida
• Drink plenty of mineral rich water to eliminate the toxins from your body
• Don't drink any diet sodas, or other sodas like Pepsi, Coca Cola etc.
• If you can buy a juicer and juice organic vegetables and fruits
  
• Increase your intake of vegetables and fruit, organic if you can
  
• Eat 2 tablespoons of plain, organic yogurt every day
• Get plenty of sunshine for Vitamin D
• If you get sugar cravings take either a teaspoon of honey, a handful of unsalted nuts, an apple or a carrot
• Limit your intake of carbohydrates
  
• Eat many smaller meals rather than 3 large meals per day
  

Over the 2 weeks you will feel tired as the candida fights to stay alive by scavenging all the sugar it can. Do not get disillusioned, for this is only temporary, and is a sign that it is working. You will soon return to feeling better than you have in a long time. 

 Stage 2: Eliminating Heavy Toxins from your System over 10 days

When you are overweight the toxins lodge themselves in the fat cells. For the next 10 days the aim for yourself is to get rid of these metal toxins that have been with your for most of your life, and have prevented you from losing weight. This diet will also stimulate your liver so that it starts releasing bile and getting rid of that problem known as a fatty liver.

To do this you need to do the following:

• Walk for an hour each day. Exercise results in sweating, which helps remove the toxins from the body through the pores in your skin
• Eat more selenium rich foods: Brazil nuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, eggs
• Eat more garlic
• Blend the following together and take 1 teaspoon every day:

1. 1/2 cup of cold pressed extra virgin olive oil
2. 1 bunch cilantro
3. 4 cloves of garlic

This cleansing phase of the natural diet program will leave you with abrupt mood swings. This is perfectly natural as it is the effect of the toxins moving through your body. In addition you may also experience some flu like symptoms. Carry on with the program. It means that it is working!

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The 10 Day Natural Weight Loss Cleansing Diet

Vegetable Broth Recipe

2 cups finely chopped vegetables using carrots, celery, spinach, parsley, tomatoes, okra, but no cabbage or potato. Add 2 quarts of water and boil for 12 minutes. Strain and season with salt and a non-meat flavoring. You can make enough for 2 days at a time.

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Phase 3: Foods to Eat that Will make you Slim

There are certainly a number of diet plans out there that will tell you how much to eat of this, and how to count calories of that, and how to weigh out portions. However, you don't need this. All you need is common sense.

You know if you are eating more than you should. You also know if you are eating the wrong types of food. This is something that we all have been programed with, we don't need someone to tell us that, and pay them a fortune for the privilege!

The average woman only needs 1,800 - 2,500 calories a day. The average man, 2,500 - 3,500 calories a day. The secret in losing weight is to reduce your calories so that your body draws on the stored fat to function. If you are wanting to lose weight, then as a woman your calorie intake should be 1,100 - 1,500, and as a man, 1,500 - 2,200.

I don't want you counting calories, but this is to show you that the more you put into your mouths the less weight you will lose. There are certain foods, that you can eat heaps of, and it won't make you fat. Winter squash is fantastic because it will make you feel full is low in calories. You can eat as much salad as you like, as well as fruit and raw vegetables, as well as most of the slimming foods.

I hope that you will pay particular attention to this next section, because once you have the right attitude towards your food, learning what to eat, and how to eat it, this is the next step in conquering the battle of the bulge.

Slimming Foods for Natural Weight Loss Diets

Most of you may never have hear of glutathione, and it doesn't matter. What does matter is that you should eat the following foods that are high in glutathione, because these are "slimming foods". Just like I mentioned earlier that there are foods that reduce cholesterol and high blood pressure, these foods will help you to reduce your weight.

18 Foods for a Slimmer You!

• tomatoes
• oranges
• grapefruit
• apples
  
• asparagus
• broccoli
• carrots
• onions
• garlic
• capsicums
• spinach
  
• avocado pears
• apples
• bananas
• peaches
• melon
  
• winter squash
• potatoes
  

The spin off of eating these foods is that you will super-charge your system. Your body needs and manufactures its own glutathione which is a super-antioxidant that is needed to fight illness and disease. In eating foods that are already rich in glutathione, you are helping your body being the wonderful machine that it was designed to be.

You may be surprised to see potatoes (and probably bananas) there as a slimming food, when we have heard nothing else for decades that potatoes and bananas are fattening. They aren't. But it depends on how many you eat of course! With potatoes it also depends on how you cook them and what you add to them. Fried potatoes are out, and mashed potatoes with cream and lashings of butter are also out. Common sense, once again.

12 Day Natural Weight Loss Diet

 Other Ways to Natural Weight Loss

• Drink lots of mineral water to flush out toxins. Stay away from tap water it is heavily laced with fluoride which slows down your metabolism. The faster your metabolism, the quicker you burn off fat
  
• Drink honey and apple cider vinegar at least 2-3 times a day
  
• If you are not having a daily bowel movement eat lots of prunes, or drink prune juice
• Add fiber to your diet (oats are excellent) as fiber blocks the fat from being absorbed by the body
  
• Cut out all refined foods, processed foods, white and brown sugar
  
• Increase fruit, vegetable and salads intake, especially from the list of slimming foods
• Juicing your vegetables and fruit allows for a higher intake
• Reduce your salt intake as salt causes fluid retention
  
• Do not eat or snack after 6 p.m.

Warning: Stay away from Artificial Sweeteners

Finally, stay away from sugar-free drinks and artificial sweeteners. Aspartame has links to cancer.

(‘Nutrasweet’ or ‘Equal’), Saccharin, or Sucralose (‘Splenda’) are all artificial sweeteners that have been proved to actually cause people to gain weight rather than lose weight. This is because these sweeteners stimulate cravings for carbohydrates, and we all know what too many carbohydrates can do to the body!

If you are trying to give up sugar, use honey. Honey is totally natural. It is full of Vitamins. It is also absorbed quicker into the body than sugar, and therefore stops the sugar cravings earlier and it doesn't stimulate any carbohydrate cravings either!

In addition, if you take a little honey with some organic cider vinegar (get Braggs as it has the mother culture), in a little warm water, you can lose a pound or two a week.

Dieting is a Tough Hill to Climb

Dieting is difficult. There will be days when you will feel despondent and wonder why you are bothering. You may become obsessed with your scale - lock it up - you don't need it. However, with re-education, determination and commitment, you can diet your way to good health, and remain that way by adopting  healthier eating habits and living a healthier lifestyle.

We guarantee, that if you stick to the above program, you will lose weight and will maintain your weight goal. However now, it is all up to you.

By Kathryn Bax

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