Eat As Much As You Want And Lose Weight

This is not a diet. It involves eating only “safe” foods.

What are safe foods?

Safe foods are different for every person. They’re foods your body can digest, metabolize and make you healthy.

Not every person has the same response to every food

You’re unique. And Your unique combination of genetic traits, environmental influences, and lifestyle – together – control what your body can do.

I’ve worked with individuals who never eat fruits and vegetables, never mind salads and leafy greens. They’re always hungry and they eat what’s available. Their hunger, instead, is triggered by some trigger, such as MSG in Chinese food, or starch in bread.

With lettuce and tomato, for example, they’ll eat 15 or more heads of lettuce for lunch. After they’re satisfied, they’ll stop eating. To them, the high amount of calories means more food. That’s a recipe for weight gain.

With another client, I had to keep him on a strict diet of water and celery (which are contrary-type foods) for 6 months. Despite that, he stayed thin as all get out. The problem was that he added a little hot sauce to his pasta and he didn’t become accustomed to the extra sodium. It’s a safe mutation to occur from such a restrictive diet.

Then there’s my client who, to get his weight down, occasionally ate storm shrimp and otherringsend(her words, not mine!) – and never gained any weight. Is he a safe eater? Of course not. I’ve checked.

The most reliable chef/nutritionist I know of, however, can tell someone if he or she is a safe eater or an unsafe one.

A chef’s life is busy. He or she is tested many times a day. She doesn’t always know the true value of certain foods, either.

The client who wanted to lose weight was a safe eater in a way. But what did she eat?

Based on the history of the client and the diet, both of us started with a salad. Here’s the problem:

Unlike a client on a normal business trip, she wasn’t allowed to bring her own food. She ate out consistently. Ask yourself, would you let that happen?

So the first thing to do was to have someone else make the salad for her. I suggested something wide-ranging – she could have chopped up cucumber, carrots, red and yellow bell pepper, shallot, red onion, olives, etc. Her salads always had croutons and dressing. We could have order the usual stuff or find a rare cut of beef or chicken so she could flavor it, too. Instead, we got produce that was not only farmed but also organic.

Other than that, she couldn’t eat out.

Here’s the thing: if she’d eaten that salad every day for those several weeks, that would have resulted in weight loss. Her weight loss would likely continue throughout the entire stay.

Unfortunately, she did not eat that salad every day. But she did make sure she ate it often.

Does that seem like a Then/Now?

It does, doesn’t it? What’s the status Qume?

One of my coaching clients said, after she changed her diet, that she gave up eating out when she heard me say – perhaps jokingly – that most nutritionists would never tell their clients to eat out.

My take?

I don’t know how you feel about going out and eating if you don’t have a better solution for doing it than eating at home.

But I do know that people who eat at home feel better about it than those who eat in.

Those who feel better about eating at home may even have an easier time sticking to their weight loss resolutions than those who feel better by eating out.

I’ve worked with sizes 6 and 12, and found the biggest clients would be impossible to work with; those who could eat dinner at home would have a hard time finding something to eat.

But that doesn’t mean you have to eat at home!

It’s all about your “Now.” What are your alternatives?

Am I alone in finding this issue bothersome? Essential.

Do you have better alternatives?

Will you continue to shop for food at the local99%Fat Free While Healthfully DecoratedandHave a Great Meal?

No response?

Am I alone in reporting this? Essential.

Do you have alternatives that work for you?

What do you tell yourself when you hear, “Wheat” or “Rye” or “Bread?” And am I alone in reporting that?

“Well, I made the best choice for my body. I ate what was available and it came down to a salad.”