Diets don’t work! I always say that because it is true.
Unless one’s lifestyle changes into a healthy one, any diet will just fail over
and over again. The best way to lose weight and keep it off is by eating in a
healthful way that you can maintain.
Does it make sense to cut out carbs forever? If you cut them
out for a diet, once you add them back in-you will gain the weight back. So,
ask yourself- What kind of healthy eating lifestyle can I adopt and maintain?
One way to do this is to just change one thing in your daily
eating routine and do that for a couple weeks. Once you have that change down,
try another change and so on and so on. These are baby steps that allow you to
adjust the way you eat that is not shocking to you or difficult to maintain. It
also will not make you go crazy with cravings.
My favorite way to start a new way of eating is to add fruit
for breakfast. Eating only fruit until lunchtime is a highly effective way to
streamline your digestion making it easier for extra weight to come off.
When fruit is improperly combined with other foods, it ferments
in the stomach and the body has a difficult time digesting the food causing you
to keep weight on instead of allowing it fall off. Doing this also cleanses and
detoxes the inside of the body. When you feel light and healthy, you will be more
prone to want to be active, workout and take care of yourself.
Our bodies have 3 digestive cycles as outlined in the book Fit
for Life. I have been using this book as my guide since I was 14 years old!
I know that it really works.
From 4:00 am until noon our bodies are in the elimination
cycle. This is when we eliminate body wastes and food debris. By eating only
fruit during this time, it helps our bodies along the way. Fruit digests very
quickly and goes right through our digestive system. Start out with juicy,
high-water content fruits and then move on to more dense and dried fruit
towards lunchtime.
From lunch until 8:00 pm, our bodies are in the appropriation
cycle which is the eating and digestion time. During this time is when you will
have properly combined meals such as veggies and protein or veggies and carbs.
Protein and carbs are 2 other things that do not mix well together. Protein is
best eaten alone with veggies and salad. When you mix carbs into the meals at
the same time as protein, the food tends to not want to be eliminated from the
body and stays inside your digestive tract for too long. When you want carbs
such as bread or rice, have them. Just combine them with salad, healthy fats,
and/or veggies. Any food that is not a fruit or veggie is a concentrated food
and your body can only handle one concentrated food at a time. When we properly
combine our foods, we are giving our body extra energy to burn fat and allowing
more energy for being active!
You do not have to worry about counting calories or weighing
your food or all that confusing and time consuming stuff.
Starting at 8:00 pm until 4:00 am is when our bodies are in
the assimilation cycle. This is the absorption and use of all the nutrients from
the food we have eaten during the day. The absorption cycle cannot take place
until the food has entered the intestines. A properly combined meal is in and out
of the stomach in about 3 hours and ready to be absorbed and assimilated. An improperly
combined meal can take up to 12 hours to do this. Yikes.
When our food is just sitting in our stomach we feel heavy,
weighed down and just not well. This prevents us from having the life we really
want and having no energy to go after it! You can turn this around by starting
with some small life changes and creating your healthy Purifoid lifestyle.
Here is one of my favorite properly combined meals. I use
meatless taco meat, avocado, and veggies. Yum.
Rae’s Meatless Taco
Salad
½ package of soyrizo
½ package of ground meatless taco meat
Oregano, paprika, and cayenne pepper to taste
1 can of black beans, drained
1 avocado
Juice of a ¼ lemon
½ tsp. of garlic pepper, powder or salt
2 medium tomatoes
½ an onion
1 jalapeno
3 pinches of cilantro
Chop the onion, tomatoes, cilantro and jalapeno. Mix it together
and set it aside in the fridge.
Mash up the avocado with the lemon juice and garlic salt.
Set it aside in the fridge.
Mix the ‘meats’ together with the oregano, paprika and
cayenne pepper. Place in the skillet and fry at high heat for 3-5 minutes depending
on how crispy (or not) you like it. I like the ‘meat’ dry and slightly crispy. Reduce
the heat to medium and add the beans until everything is heated through.
This will make a couple servings.
Put 1 serving of the ‘meat’ mixture on a plate with 1
serving of the tomato mixture on top. Place ½ of the mashed avocado mixture on
top.
Enjoy your properly food combined meatless taco salad!
Love,
Rae
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