There is a lot of money in coming up with the right combinations of foods for people to eat and hitting the magic button between delicious and no calories.
There is no money in telling people what not to eat. The second problem is that people won’t avoid the foods they shouldn’t eat, they just want to cut back. Calorie counting is about cutting back so that you can maintain your life and hopefully control your weight.
I see people trying to exercise their way to lean or losing ten pounds and most of the time it doesn’t work. I know, I tried it for years. I have been an excessive exerciser and a less than excessive exerciser. When I was less than excessive, I thought I was doing enough to take off twenty pounds.
What I found and what I see is that it is usually wishful thinking. The body was conditioned not that many years ago in evolutionary time to not allow excessive weight loss from exercise. Early man did not have the means to consume enough calories to offset the exertion required to hunt and kill. What if it took several days to find meat?
The body is synchronized to store fat for a rainy day. If it thinks you are starving because it is not getting the nutrients it needs, it will hold on tighter. Cutting back on calories while maintaining an American diet sets of the starvation alarm. Exercising in this process doesn’t relieve the body’s sense of security. It thinks you are out looking for food.
Eliminating food the body doesn’t recognize is the best process. It would normally store these foods as fat or encapsulate them in fat. The foods it doesn’t recognize are the foods that didn’t exist 100,000 years ago. McDonalds only had one outlet back then.
I really don’t need to tell you the rest, but just so you don’t feel cheated, one should eliminate flour, sugar (fructose), foods fried or dipped in hot oil, and dairy. Meat is not bad, but you should avoid meats with hormones and anti-biotics, and produce with pesticides.
Where as the meats with harmful ingredients are not making you fat, they are setting you up for problems later. An oncologist told me that fruits and vegetables soaked in a half cup of salty water for twenty minutes will neutralize the pesticides. I have been doing this for years.
If you eliminate the harmful foods, what is left? Food a gorilla or bear would eat. The bonus is you can eat as much as you want because these foods have few calories; fruits, vegetables, natural grain cereals, seeds, nuts, good oils, beans, and some pasta without cheese sauces.
Now when you exercise, the body doesn’t feel it is hunting for meat because it is getting all the food it needs and it will quickly release the bad food encapsulated in fat. It is not beyond reach to lose ten plus pounds a month. I easily lost 25 pounds in four months on a raw diet with lots of exercise. Now I just maintain with good eating habits.
One of my friends has a heavy exercise routine and wants more muscle to show eating the same diet. He says he will exercise the excess fat off. My bet is his body never changes.