What To Eat For Weight Loss - Part 1
Confused about what to eat to create weight loss?
I know I certainly was when I began my fat loss journey.
There is so much information out there on diets and nutrition for weight loss and fat loss, and the worse thing is it all seems to contradict each other.
Walk into any book store and you will find at least 100 books on the latest fad approaches to diets and dieting for weight loss and burning the fat. Most of the information in these books is questionable at best and totally confusing to the average person looking to reclaim his or her health.
When I commenced my fat loss journey I decided two things:
1/ I would find someone to model who has demonstrated the ability to burn fat of their bodies and sustain the loss for a long period of time. I wanted to learn from the very best at burning fat and creating excellent health, energy and vitality.
As a result I purchased a ton of books, audio programs and memberships to health & fitness web sites. I read everything I could get my hands on, and listened to all of the experts who I knew fitted this criteria.
2/ I wanted to keep it simple! If it is not simple then I knew that I would not follow it. So I needed to take all of the information I had gathered from step 1 and chunk it down into a few key ideas.
When I look at my progress so far (Currently in Week 
I would have to say that 75% to 80% of the successful result I have produced is attributed to nutrition.
In other words …
What you put in your mouth makes the biggest difference to your success or failure in your own personal weight loss journey.
So here is what I learnt from my study and research that I have been applying over the last 8 weeks.
Everything you have been taught about good nutrition to date is most likely wrong. The healthy eating pyramid we are taught, and that governments use as a benchmark for their health recommendations are wrong!
Want evidence of this?
Just take a look at the global Obesity epidemic!
So what should the healthy eating food pyramid look like?
Well in my opinion there are only two types of foods.
There are FAT FOODS and FIT FOODS.
If the majority of food you put in your mouth comes from the FAT FOODS category then guess what? Thats right, you will wind up fat, sick, lacking energy, lowering your self esteem and placing yourself in the high risk category for a whole range of health issues.
If you have a weight challenge right now then I can almost guarantee you that you put more FAT FOODS into your mouth than FIT FOODS.
On the other hand … if you eat more FIT FOODS on a consistent basis over a long period of time then your body will respond by restoring your health, ramping up your metabolism making it easier to get and stay lean, move you out of the health danger zone, give you more energy & vitality for life, make you look sexier and more attractive, raise your self esteem and generally improve your life dramatically.
If I had to tell you the one thing that has made the most difference in my fat loss so far it is simply shifting my food intake from FAT FOODS to FIT FOODS.
I used to eat approximately 90% FAT FOODS and 10% FIT FOODS.
When I commenced my fat loss journey eight weeks ago I shifted my food intake to 90% FIT FOODS and 10% FAT FOODS.
It was not easy. I still have some way to go and plenty of room for improvement. It is however the single greatest contributor to my fat loss success to date, and I believe it will be into the future as well.
So essentially what I am saying is this …
Eat less of the foods you know are making you fat and eat more of the foods you know will make you fit.
Most people already know what are FAT foods and what are FIT foods.
FIT foods are those foods that are as close as possible to their natural state. In other words they have not gone through processing, refinement or creation in a factory. When you look at the food lable of a FIT food it is usually easy to identify as it only has one ingredient.
FAT foods on the other hand are highly processed, refined and often created in a factory or food processing plant. They usually contain sugars, bad fats, chemicals, preservatives etc. Look at the label and if you find a string of ingredients then chances are good its going to make you fat, and miserable regardless of the short term pleasure.
Most FIT foods where around 1,000 years ago.
Most FAT foods where created in the last 50 years.
An apple is a FIT food. Apple pie clearly is a FAT food. Simple really.
If you can make this one simple shift to eating 90% FIT foods and 10% FAT foods then you will totally change your life.
The great thing about this strategy is that you can still eat the foods you love as part of a lifestyle plan for healty eating.
In part 2 of this article I will go into more detail about what foods you will find in the FIT category and what you will find in the FAT category.
July 20th, 2008 at 8:47 am
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