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I hated it to say the least, but I drank it as I was willing to try anything. As I drank this warm muddy-looking water, I would hold my nose and try not to be sick – it really was that bad. Here’s my point: within one month, not only did I get used to the smell and taste – I actually began to like it. This is why changing your diet of food is going to be a breeze, once we remove the brainwashing, conditioning, and trickery of BIG FOOD that is. Nothing you switch to will taste and smell anything like tree bark so the adjustment won’t take anything like a month and you certainly won’t be holding your nose and trying not to be sick during it. In fact, most of the things many of you will already love. But it really doesn’t matter if at this stage a main course salad and some vegetable juice sounds about as appealing as a fortnight’s holiday in Afghanistan. Once all the brainwashing, conditioning, and misinformation regarding your diet of foods and drinks has been removed, and you have the correct mental tools on exactly how to change your diet easily, you will be amazed at what will happen and how easy and enjoyable it can be.
You Health Freak!
This doesn’t mean for one second that once you change your diet all you will be able to eat is salad and fruit – so don’t panic. Halfway through the book you could well start to think it’s all about eating grass, which is why it’s so important to finish the entire book. Trust me, at the end you will be about to eat ANYTHING you want, whenever you want to eat it. The key here is to remove the brainwashing and conditioning and expose BIG FOOD for what it is, so that your genuine choice will be not to have the rubbish nor give your hard earned money to BIG FOOD and BIG DRINK.
I never dreamt that one day I would go out for a meal and actually want a main course of fish or avocado salad – that I would choose it over everything else. I never thought that I would be in a position where I would have vegetable juice daily, seriously, vegetable juice – you would never have thought it. I never imagined that I would go out of my way and actually pass by McDonald’s or Pizza Hut to get to a juice bar or find something healthy. I certainly never thought that I would look at people eating crap with genuine pity as opposed to total envy, as I used to when on a diet. I just feel very lucky that I changed my diet when I did. I often seriously wonder where I would be now if I hadn’t.
CHANGING YOUR EATING HABITS
Just as important as your diet is the way you eat. In order to get and stay ‘Slim for Life’ and to increase your chance of a longer life, it is vital to learn the process of eating just to the point of being almost full. It has been shown many times over that the lighter the burden put on the digestive system, the longer – on average – a person lives. This principle is key to lifelong slimness.
It takes about twenty to thirty minutes for the body to acknowledge it has all of its nutritional requirements, so if you eat until you are full you have overeaten. This is also why it is so important to chew your food thoroughly, as it gives the body a chance to acknowledge it is going to be fed. The enzymes in your mouth are more powerful than those in your stomach, and it is essential to use your ‘natural blender’ (your mouth) before swallowing to signal the right digestive juices in your stomach. It seems odd that people say they love their food so much, and that is why they find it hard to change, yet it’s the very thing they miss out on every time. Think about it. Most people are on the next forkful as they gulp down the previous unchewed mouthful. They are completely missing their food already!
A study carried out by the University of Osaka, Japan, and published on the website of the British Medical Journal, illustrated that people who eat quickly and eat until they are full are three times as likely to be overweight than those who eat slowly and leave the table without feeling completely full. The study, led by Professor Hiroyasu Iso, suggests that the manner of eating too quickly – and until absolutely full – is a significant factor in the obesity epidemic, as it overrides signals in the brain which would normally tell the person to stop eating. Dr David Haslam, GP and clinical director for the National Obesity Forum, said, ‘The great dietary gurus of a century ago stressed the importance of chewing food for a long time and eating slowly, and these messages are even more important today.’
CHANGING YOUR DIET GIVES YOU CERTAINTY
I know for certain that I will never be overweight again. I know for certain I will never go on a diet. I know that I will not have to worry about whether I am getting the correct nutrients. I have energy, I feel light, I wake up and actually feel awake, I feel mentally sharp, I have regained confidence I had no idea I’d even lost, and I now wear whatever clothes I want. In short, I am what some people would describe as a ‘health freak’ and it is just simply the best feeling in the world and I wouldn’t trade it for any amount of money on earth.
The reason I have written this book is because I also know for certain that once you fully understand every aspect of the ‘diet trap’ and follow a few simple instructions, you too will change what you eat and you will love it. Everyone has it within their power to change their diet for good – because it’s easy. Forget everything you have tried in the past and everything you have heard or read about food – let’s start with a clean slate. No past to drag with us or dwell on, just a compelling future to look forward to.
I have designed this book so that at the end you will not only want to change your diet, but you will literally love the process. And that tends to be one of the main problems people have when they think about changing what they eat. They feel all doom and gloomy before they even start; as if they will be missing out and making a huge sacrifice by making the change. If you change your diet for life and totally change how you look at your old diet then you will never feel as though you are missing out for one simple reason – it will suddenly dawn on you that you aren’t.
In order for you to see this clearly, and before we even attempt to make any changes, we need to debunk the clap-trap that you’ve been bombarded with for years about food and health. ‘Stuff’ that is now stored in your head and your conscious and subconscious doesn’t even question it as fact, it just takes it as read that it is. The biggest problem is we believe a lot of what we have heard over the years about nutrition, diets, and health because it is put across by ‘experts’. The question I want you to ask is: is it possible that some of the experts were taught incorrectly themselves? Is it possible that we just have too much information about food and nutrition? Is it possible that we have literally been blinded by science? Is it possible we have over complicated the issue so much that we can’t see the wood for the trees?
I ask you to set aside what you believe to be ‘fact’ and read what I am about to write with an extremely open mind. It is time to simplify the whole business about what we should eat, what quantity we should eat, what time we should eat and what is best for us by unloading our minds of pieces of so-called vital health information, which, plain and simply …
A little over one hundred years ago we didn’t even know what a vitamin was, but we still got here didn’t we? A gorilla doesn’t know how many vitamins or minerals there are in a banana or whether it contains any calcium or protein: why don’t they know? Because they don’t need to know!