Doughnuts, Pastries

These are some of the worst foods that you can eat. They are deep fried, made with refined sugar, and full of saturated fats/trans fats. {They have a negative nutritional value and not only make you fat but also destroy your health. They are unhealthy, they add to weight to your thighs and can make you sick.}
No wonder doughnuts have a hole in the middle. They are a big nutritional zero. This is exactly why they need to be avoided if you are a doing a detox diet for your body.

French Fries, Potato Chips

These are sodium-loaded, enzyme-dead foods.
Moreover, recent studies prove them to have large amounts of acrilimide, a popular carcinogen
French fries from fast food restaurants have 300 times the acrilimide content allowed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for one glass of water.
It seems like everyone in the USA is in love with toxic fried foods. Not only do they contain more than five hundred calories, they are extremely toxic to the body.

Store-Bought Juice, Fruit Drinks

Fruit “juices” from stores contain ten percent or less real fruit juice and are artificially flavored.
Ninety percent of store bought juices contain artificial sugars, high fructose corn syrup or plain sugar. If you find these sweeteners at the top of the label, make sure that you pass. Your teeth will thank you later. It’s hard to get rid of belly fat when consuming sugary beverages.

Decaffeinated Coffee

The way that they decaffeine coffee uses heavy chemicals such as formaledhyde. These have been shown to be potent carcinogens. Yep, you read that right……… formaldehyde. It is used in preservation of of  the deceased .Coffee is very hard on the body. This is due to the fact that it creates an acid environment inside your body. Going on a detox diet will balance out these acid/alkaline levels and create a healthier you that will get rid of belly fat much more easily.

Fried Fish, Fried Seafood

Fish made the list, because the majority of the fish in the ocean now have traces of mercury in them. Shellfish are also scavengers that scour the ground for anything and everything.
When we eat them, what happens to all the toxins that the shellfish ate?
We eat them and your body shuttles them to fat cells.

REMEMBER: If your fat cells are holding onto toxins, the fat becomes extremely difficult to get rid of.
Frying adds insult to injury, making them full of trans fats which is not a great combination for healthy weight loss.

Raw Clams, Oysters

Same as shellfish.  Having them raw makes you vulnerable to bacteria that may harm you health.

These 6 foods are sabotaging any single effort that you make to get rid of belly fat. This is why it is imperative that you start a detox diet today.

 

When you focus on the right food categories at the right time of day, you will see jaw-dropping changes in your waist size. This is the easiest way to get rid of belly fat. This principle will help you to have your cake and eat it too. It will teach you the most efficient times that your body can handle the food.

Ok, let’s look at this scientifically. As soon as you get up to start your day, what is it that you need? Energy!! Now, which food category will give you the most amount of energy? Carbs! Your body utilizes carbohydrates as a primary energy source.

When you eat carbs in the morning, you will have more energy to get through the day. You will feel less tired, more productive and more focused. Eating 75% of your fiber in the morning will keep you feeling great throughout the day and also more satisfied.In order to get rid of belly fat, following these simplistic steps are necessary. Following food combining principles are also a necessary part of a good detox diet.

In the afternoon, you need a balance of proteins, fats and carbs. There is less of the day left and you still have carbs left over from this morning. You have used some of your muscles, so your protein stores need replenishing.

Healthy fats help to fill you up and balance your blood sugar.
When combining healthy fats and proteins with your carbs, your body doesn’t absorb the carbohydrates as fast in the blood stream, which will cause that giant insulin surge. That insulin crash is what makes you want to take a nap after a huge meal.

For dinner, its time to cut back on those carbs and start eating a high amount of protein and raw vegetables with a small amount of fat. Eating more protein, fat and vegetables in the evening time will prepare your body so that it can rebuild while you are sleeping. Eating too many carbs at this time will cause you to store them as fat. You don’t need energy before you go to bed, so there is no need for complex carbohydrates. Stick with vegetables for your carbohydrates.

It is easy to get rid of belly fat if you food combine. To learn more about food combining and to grab your free fat loss report that reveals the truth about toxic weight gain, go to www.greenlifeweightloss.com .

People are always talking about foods that burn fat and how you need to eat certain foods to lose weight. Let’s talk about the other side of the coin: Beverages. Drinking these 3 beverages will pack on more weight than alot of the foods that you eat.

1. Alcohol
When you want to lose weight, you should not drink alcohol because it inhibits your body’s ability to burn fat.
When you drink alcohol, your liver has to detoxify it right off the bat.
The liver deals with the alcohol first before working on carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
Since fat is the hardest to metabolize and break down, it gets pushed down the chain.

People often eat while they drink alcohol so they tend to add a bunch of unecessary calories which… turn to fat. Alcohol has the second highest calorie content next to fat, with seven calories per gram vs. to nine calories per gram, respectively.
Your body transforms most of the foods you take in as fat when you are under the influence of alcohol  

2. Soda
Pop is a major contributor to obesity in this country.
According to research, those who drink soda are most likely to have diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, tooth decay, caffeine dependency, and nutritional deficiencies.
Studies also show that people who drink sodas do not cut back on the regular foods they eat.
This adds at least 200 calories a day, or 1,400 calories per week, to their intake!

The components of soda are:

Phosphoric Acid: Combines with the hydrochloric acid of the stomach and disrupts digestion.
It’s also known to take minerals out of the bones.

Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup: Sugar in liquid form is dangerous, because so much can be consumed in so little time, sending the body into a blood sugar frenzy.
The capacity to burn fat drops when your insulin levels rise. This leads to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, premature aging, heart disease, and, of course, weight gain.
A good holistic weight loss and diet plan will help you to find healthy, natural alternatives to sugar and HFCS.

3. Tap Water: Tap Water: composed of chemicals including chlorine, trihalomethanes, lead, and cadmium, which are hazardous to your health and get stored in fat cells.

4. Diet Soda, Diet Beverages
Diet drinks give you all of the dandy benefits of drinking pop, plus artificial sweeteners that have been shown to alter brain chemistry, increase cravings, and cause cancer.
The main artificial sweetener used is aspartame.
Studies show there are over 92 health-related effects including:

• Brain tumors
• Birth defects
• Diabetes
• Emotional disorders
• Epilepsy/Seizures

If you ask me, anything that has this many life altering side effects is worth staying away from.
The bad effects of aspartame are written about in journals, books and articles on a regular basis.
If you go to Medline.com on the internet, you can find hundreds of research articles on this subject.
In the end, drinking diet pop will slowly cause your body to build up toxins and you still will not lose weight.

In order to lose fat naturally and live a long and healthy life, these 4 “dangerous” drinks must be avoided.

Water is one of the most overlooked tools for weight loss that we haveWater will actually keep your appetite down and will move fat stores out of your body.

Studies have shown that a decrease in water intake will cause fat deposits to increase. Why does this happen? Because if your kidneys aren’t functioning properly due to dehydration then their workload gets shifted to the liver. Your liver is responsible for metabolizing your stored fat.

If your liver has to do some of the kidney’s work, it can’t operate at full throttle. As a result. it metabolizes less fat and more fat remains stored in the body stopping your body’s ability to lose fat naturally.

As for water weight gain, drinking enough water is the best treatment to get rid of excess fluid in your body. Your body has a built in survival mechanism: if you start to dehydrate, it will adapt and start storing water.

The body stores water outside of your cells causing your feet, ankles, legs and hands to appear swollen. When you take a diuretic, this is only taking care of the symptom temporarily, not fixing the problem permanently. Diuretics force out stored water along with some essential nutrients. Again, the body perceives  this as a threat and will replace the water at the first opportunity.

The best way to overcome the problem of water retention is to give your body what it needs-plenty of water. Only then will stored water be released. Any good weight loss program to get rid of belly fat or any other problem areas will address this issue.

People who are obese need to drink more H2O because they have larger metabolic loads on average than a “normal” sized person.

What’s the optimal amount of water to drink for weight loss? The average sized person should take in about 8 glasses a day. If you are obese then drink around 10-12 glasses. If you are extremely overweight, then drink mofe than the 12 glasses. Remember… these are general rules of thumb.

As you can see, drinking water is a foundational aspect to any program designed to flush fat out of the body.

The best way to get rid of belly fat is to eat frequent meals.People who eat often are called grazers. People who eat 3 or less meals a day are referred to as gorgers.A standard rule among the majority of diet plans is to “graze”. In otherwords, eat five to six small meals/snacks a day.

There are three reasons why eating 5-6 times a day is so important:

1. We are eating how our ancestors ate, which means we are agreeing with out genetic makeup.Being foragers/hunters, we were forced to eat frequently and not 3 square calorie filled meals.Our ancestors food supply was full of nutrient without being packed to the brim with calories.

2. Your body turns into a fat burning machine because your metabolism is constantly running to break down the food. (Grazing raises your metabolism and a higher metabolism means you can lose fat naturally) Your digestive system cannot handle large amounts of food and causes loss of energy and fat storage.

3. Grazing suppresses your appetite. This helps you to avoid the intense hunger signals you get from being on a “diet”.

The second part of this rule is to always stay full. If your hunger signals reach a high enough level, it will be impossible for you to make wise food choices. The most satisfying and most often available are those heavily refined, fast or fried foods full of bad fats and lots of carbs.

Due to the fact that our lives are filled with very high stress situations, we tend to crave fats and sugars so that we can make more stress hormones out of them. In “fight or flight” mode, our bodies are better able to deal with stressful situations.

Fats and sugars provide the necessary building blocks for your body to produce stress hormones such as adrenaline.

The bad news is that if your body stays in “fight or flight” mode, then it will literally start to break down. Our bodies were not meant to sustain long periods of stress.

If you are looking for a permanent way to lose fat naturally, then start eating 5-6 smaller meals per day and watch your figure change.

Putting this rule into practice will ensure that you can build a foundation for you and your family for future success in weight loss.

Let’s talk about fabulous fiber. Research shows that increasing your daily intake of fiber, will cause you to lose weight with changing anything else in your diet!

We will go over exactly why fiber is king over the next few paragraphs.

Currently, health care practitioners and dietians recommend 30 grams a fiber a day is what is currently recommended by health professionals. If you want to lose weight fast with fiber, increase the amount to 40 grams per day.

You can also do a holistic cleanse. A majority of these cleanses contain high fiber amounts to clean your colon which can aid in losing weight.

Eating high fiber food will satisfy your hunger and fill you up. This is due to fiber expanding in your belly and making you feel full.

So why is fiber so good for you? Check out the list below:

There are 2 types of fiber: insoluble and soluble.

Insoluble fiber means that it doesn’t dissolve in water. This type of fiber adds bulk to your bowel movements and cleans the walls of your intestine

Fiber that breaks down in water is called soluble fiber.This fiber turns into a gooey gel-like substance and is responsible for regulating the flow of your bowels.

Functions of Insoluble Fiber

• adds mass to your bowel movements
• regulates the pH in your colon

Why insoluble fiber is good for you:

• encourages daily bowel movements and keeps constipation from occuring
• purges body of toxins through the bowels
• Decreases chances of getting colon cancer by balance the bodie’s pH

Food Sources of Insoluble Fiber

• Vegetables such as green beans and dark green leafy vegetables
• Veggie and fruit peelings
• Whole-wheat products
• Oats
• Corn bran
• Seeds & Nuts

Purpose of Soluble Fiber

• attaches to fats in the body
• prolong stomach emptying time so that sugar is released and absorbed more slowly

Benefits of Soluble Fiber

• lower total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol (the Bad cholesterol) therefore reducing the risk of heart disease
• helps diabetic people to control their blood sugar levels.

Food Sources of Soluble Fiber

• Oat/Oat bran
• Dried beans and peas
• Nuts
• Barley
• Flax seed
• Fruits such as oranges & raspberries
• Vegetables such as carrots and celery
• Psyllium husk

Most foods will have a little of both, insoluble and soluble. It is always a good idea to eat a variety of foods so that you can obtain the best nutrition possible for your health.Eating fiber is a key concept to lose fat naturally.

 

 

Most people suffer from emotional eating. Their mind controls their eating habits and they eat too much. If this sounds familiar, then this principle will help break the worst of your habits. I call it the addition rule.

The principle behind this rule is very powerful.To get rid of a bad habit, you need to add something positive in its place to fill in what was there before. Nature abhors a vacuum and will fill up the empty space.

Adding healthy food to your diet can help you to flush body fat naturally. To understand what I mean, check this out: if you are trying to give up chocolate, then replace the chocolate with dark chocolate (a much healthier choice because dark chocolate has antioxidants in it).

After you have done this for a period of time, start adding some more raw fruits and vegetables to your diet.

There are four powerful reasons why you want to add these:

• Eating these raw, give you much needed digestive enzymes that are needed to break down your food. Processed foods do not give you this.
• Vegetables and fruits contain high amounts of fiber which grows in your stomach, causing you to fill up and feel fuller faster.
• It helps to push food through your digestive tract.
• These give your body antioxidants and trace minerals that are essential not only for weight loss, but for your body to stay healthy.

The second part of the rule is to “eat my fiber first.”

Eating fiber first (salad) clears your digestive tract and prepares it for your meal.

When eaten with other food, fresh fruits and vegetables literally clear a place for the rest of your food and detoxifies your large intestine. This in itself will help you lose fat naturally.

For instance, when you eat pasta, make sure that you eat your salad (minus all the heavy dressing) before you eat anything else. If you choose to have a sundae, make sure that you top it with lots of fresh berries.

Adding the fruits and veggies fills you up faster and you won’t eat as much. Plus, you will be getting a good dose of anti-oxidants!

Go ahead and start this immediately. It’s not unusual for people to lose 5-10 pounds off of just this little tip!

Dr Livingston is a chiropractic physician who has thousands of hours studying and researching cleansing the body, fat loss and advanced nutritional testing. He is also the author and creator of http://www.greenlifeweightloss.com which teaches healthy “green” principles for shedding weight fast and naturally with no drugs or surgery.