The 'Fit For Life' Weight Loss Plan

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A quick review of Harvey Diamond's "Fit For Life" plan.

The Fit For Life plan involves a diet that relies heavily on "living" foods. Living foods are uncooked vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. The idea is to keep cooked foods to 50% or less of your daily intake. Apart from the loads of vitamins and healthy enzymes you'll get eating fresh fruits and vegetables, you also will be eating fewer calories, since these foods will fill you up with far fewer calories.

A Fit For Life morning is for eating fresh fruit only, and drinking water. Fruit "smoothies," made in your blender, are allowed, but without added sweeteners. This morning routine cleans out your system, and is very easy on your stomach.

Diamond stresses an understanding of proper "food combination." Proteins are digested by very acidic gastric juices, while starches are handled by more alkaline digestive juices. Mixing them too much, then, causes problems, because they can't digest as quickly. They may "spoil" in you stomach. If you do have digestion problems, try eating proteins at one time, and starches at another.

To avoid improper mixing of different food types, you are instructed to wait 30 to 40 minutes after eating fruit to eat other foods. Fruits digests very quickly. You have to wait three to four hours after eating starches or proteins to eat other types of food.

This emphasis on proper food combination is one of the primary differences between the "Fit For Life" diet plan and others. It is not universally accepted by nutritionists, but any of us that have mixed the wrong foods and suffered the consequences can see that there is an element of truth here.

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Quick Weight Loss Tips

You'll find this section in each newsletter. The idea here is that there are many small changes you can make to help you lose weight. Make changes that are right for you, and maybe, with enough of them, you'll lose weight even without a "plan" or "program." In any case, they can help no matter what plan you use. Today's weight loss tips:

1. Use creative procrastination. Put off eating that snack for twenty minutes, and you'll be less hungry an hour later at dinner time. Wait long enough for each of those three snacks throughout the day, and you won't have time left for the fourth. Procrastinate a little here and there to eat, you'll eat less over-all.

2. Walk to the grocery store, if it within a reasonable distance. You'll burn calories, and be discouraged from buying too much, since you have to carry the groceries home.

3. Snack on fresh, healthy vegetables first. You will be sure to get the vitamins and enzymes you need, and then when you break out the chips, you won't eat as many. Done the other way around, you sometimes may not get to those carrot sticks.

Bye now,

Steve