Why are we overweight? Well its definitely not because we don’t exercise but the core reason is because we eat the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories, at the wrong times of day. This may sound odd but suspend disbelief a little: nothing else has worked maybe this can. I believe this idea will change the way you think about dieting. It did for me.
Food is the fuel in your engine! It truly has the power to make you slim or fat. Have you ever heard of the saying “You are what you eat”. Well for it to be really accurate you have to expand the saying so it becomes “You are what, when and how you eat”.
What you eat and when you eat it has a very powerful effect on your body. Together they can have a more decisive effect than any prescription weight loss pill. Your engine to be efficient really only needs certain foods at certain times, and if you don’t eat the right foods at the right times then calorie burning will be slowed to a crawl and they’ll be stored as fat tissue. This may sound counter-intuitive but eating more often (a.k.a. grazing) is a key factor in losing fat.
So the idea is that can SLIM down by eating the RIGHT FOODS at the RIGHT INTERVALS.
The Old Ways (which I have tried and failed with):
- Low Calorie Diets. You can’t lose weight by starving yourself because your metabolism will sense the drop in calories and it will then adjust itself by burning less calories a day. It’s a survival mechanism Frustratingly it’s why you can starve yourself on 1,000 calories a day and not lose weight while your friend can happily eat 3,000 calories a day and not gain an ounce.
- Low fat diets? Well have you noticed to that there is practically a “no fat or low fat” version of everything in the food store…and yet (and I don’t think I’m talking about just me here) we keep getting fatter…despite this “low fat” help.
- Low carb diets have been immensely popular but they can be very restrictive. Some deny you a large apple when you start or let you eat out normally. As a result they tend to leave you feeling fed up and discouraged and as an aside (I know from experience) can give you horribly bad breath.
I was amazed when I found this system. It’s different from anything I’d ever seen. They promise that you’ll see a change in your body in just 11 Days. For me that was an eye catcher. I had to forget about past dieting failures for a moment and think WHAT IF it was really possible to change your body in 11 days?
So what is their (2 part) Secret?
1) FOOD IS NOT YOUR ENEMY.
It is your friend! Every time you eat your brain releases fat related hormones into your bloodstream. There are 2 types and together they control Fat Burning and Fat Storage. However the really important fact is that these 2 hormones are controlled by the foods that you eat. Knowing that we can manipulate the fat burning hormones with our diet!
So the goal is to eat in order to manipulate these hormones so that after eating your body goes crazy producing more of the fat burning hormones and minimizing the fat storing hormones.
One of the key ways to do this is to eat more than 3 times per day because that allows us to control them better. Do you find it hard to believe that eating more often could be the solution to speeding up weight loss? Remember food is not the enemy instead think of it as the switch which can turn fat burning on and off. If I could turn fat burning on by eating I’d eat all the time (just kidding).
But sounds crazy doesn’t it? Eating more often can be the solution to weight loss. Realize this isn’t a magic pill. It will take effort. You must eat the right meals in the right patterns each day (clearly eating chocolate 10 times per day wont help you get slim).
However, the bottom line is that you’ll be eating MORE than 3 meals per day during the next 11 Days, you wont be hungry and after 11 days you’ll be slimmer and lighter. What is there to lose? I am thinking…”the weight!”
2) CALORIE SHIFTING.
This second part means that your body will be given different types of calories each day which will boost your metabolism and force faster fat loss.
Why does this work? Well your metabolism doesn’t know how much food you’ll eat tomorrow or the next day. So it burns calories based on your previous eating habits — it assumes that you’ll continue to eat in the same general way. However this system does the opposite of that so your body keeps burning at the higher level. So when you change the types of calories/meals every couple of days, your metabolism burns the foods entirely and then switches to burning your fat tissue.
Of course, in order for this shifting technique to work you need to eat foods which have been rated “Fat Burning Compatible” — because the foods you eat must be easy to burn. This does not mean you will be eating celery 5 times a day. Far from it, but it does mean you can’t go on a chocolate diet.
It’s a simple program that uses science but makes it soooo easy.
The world of dieting and diets is full of some really strange and wacky ideas! It seems that almost every month some celebrity or another is coming out endorsing yet another spin on the diet theme! Well, I’m no celebrity, but here is one you might not expect – The Chocolate Diet!
I can almost see you falling off your chair in fits of giggles – here comes another of those wacky fad diets from yet another self-proclaimed expert! I’m always very aware of that old definition of an “expert” – “X” is an unknown quantity, and a “spurt” is a drip under pressure!
The Chocolate Diet? Haven’t we’ve been told since we were young that chocolate is BAD for us – a moment on the lips, a life time on the hips! Certainly, if you are talking about highly refined milk chocolate then I would agree with you. But, what if we were talking about something very different?
We might be in need of a quick history lesson. Hernan Cortes was the Conquistador who led the “conquest” of the Aztecs. Writing in 1519 he observed:
“The divine drink builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food”!
And the drink he was talking about was …. Chocolate! Remember, he was a soldier not known for making rash, unsubstantiated, judgments. Clearly, something is going on here that we need to pay attention to.
But before you go rushing off to the local supermarket, and hit the sweet counters, this is not any old chocolate we are talking about! Certainly, it is not your average confectionery chocolate. What if we were talking about one of the most natural and nutritious foods known to humanity – the original Healthy Dark Chocolate?
Most of our “sweet” chocolate is so highly processed that all the natural goodness has been stripped from it. The very processes we use to make chocolate more “palatable” destroy nearly all its nutritional value. In the same way that overcooking a dish of vegetables turns it into a nutritional wasteland, so it is with chocolate.
This article is all about how healthy chocolate can genuinely help you to lose weight. It is not a joke or another diet scam. It is a serious and accurate claim that can work as well for you as it has for us.
Let’s think about dieting for a moment. Most people equate “going on a diet” with some sort of fiendish punishment for past sins! They believe that everything that makes eating fun and enjoyable has to be stopped – no more treats, just boring, boring, rabbit food!
That is precisely why I love the idea of “The Chocolate Diet”. Imagine being able to have regular portions of healthy chocolate that will actually help you to lose weight. Suddenly being on a diet doesn’t seem such a bad proposition after all!
Surprisingly, there is a great deal of solid scientific evidence to suggest that eating healthy dark chocolate can actually reduce your body fat levels! It seems that eating real chocolate regulates the genes that are involved with the metabolism of fats. It actually helps our body to digest the fats we consume.
Not only that, but healthy chocolate also seems to act as a major appetite suppressant too. A small square or nugget fills you in a way that seems unbelievable considering its size!
Much of our desire to eat comes from the poor nutritional content of so much of our food stuffs. Our body craves certain nutrients and will encourage us to eat to supply its needs. If it recognises that it is getting the nutrition it needs it ceases its craving for “junk” foods with their high sugar and dubious nutritional content.
Our family has certainly found this to be the case, and our desire for “quick fix” snacks has all but vanished since we have been taking our healthy chocolate. Regular doses of good, nutritious, food seem to naturally regulate our weight – without all the painful side effects and cravings of conventional dieting.
Does it mean that you can still eat lots of other rubbish and magically lose weight? Of course not! You have to look at your total diet. The good news is that the chocolate seems to help you! A common experience is that people no longer crave unhealthy snacks – the need for instant sugar fixes are gone, and with it goes all those extra calories that pile on during the day.
Remember, the most effective way to lose weight is to control what you eat. And an effective way to control what you eat is to let healthy dark chocolate do the work for you. You definitely won’t feel like you’re “on a diet” then!
One of the definitions of madness is doing the same thing but expecting different results! Until you do something different you will not lose weight – it really is that simple. Sometimes people just need a gentle nudge to make empowering changes. That nudge can come from eating healthy chocolate – it will simply do the work for you.
If you have a few too many wobbly bits where there use to be firm curves then here is something that should definitely get you interested. A new approach to lose weight that will help you to get the body you always wanted, without all the heartache of a conventional diet!
Chocolate diet was introduced by Italian dietitians. The duration of chocolate diet is from 5 to 7 days; after that you should make a break for 4 days, but 6-days break is preferable. You are allowed to drink only in 3 hours after eating. The menu of chocolate dietChocolate diet allows the mixing of these products, as well having snacks between the main meals. The products can be eaten in any form. For example, eat whole fruit for breakfast on Monday, make a fruit salad on Tuesday morning, and mark the start of Wednesday with applesauce. The remarkable feature of chocolate diet is that starvation becomes anti-productive. That means you need not starve yourself, it is even prohibited. Hence it appears the formal permission to have snacks between the main meals. Chocolate can help you to stay alert and energized. To say the true, you cannot exceed the specified standard which is 30 g per day. There is no strict time frame for the chocolate diet; you can reduce on it for about a week, on the average. Approximate daily list of products for chocolate diet: • Pasta (spaghetti, noodles, shells and other solid pasta); • Sauces for pasta (with a low-fat, mostly without the meat, with an exceptions of small pieces of white meat); • Salads (filled with fatless sauces, without crackers); • Vegetables; • Fresh fruit; • Popcorn (cooked without oil and salt); Toppings (supplements) for popcorn may include fatless oil and vegetable supplements, powdered garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, chili peppers, hard parmesan. • Chocolate (30 g per day); • Water (2 liters a day). Sample of menu for chocolate diet: Breakfast: Fresh fruit, fruit salad, wheat flakes with skimmed milk and strawberries. Snack between main meals: popcorn, fruit. Lunch: salad, pasta salad, spaghetti. Snack between main meals: popcorn, vegetable assortment, fruit cocktail (0.5 0f fresh banana, 0.5 cup of peaches or other fruits to choose from, 1 cup of skimmed milk). Dinner: fettuccini with garlic and tomato sauce or any other whole grained pasta, salad, vegetables, cooked by steaming or boiled. Snack between main meals: popcorn, chocolate. During the day: water, sparkling water, mineral water. Find various useful diets for weight loss at Ideal Weight Blog.