| Fifteen Secrets of Safe and Easy Permanent Weight | | | | problem with pills and drugs is that instead of |
| Loss Revealed!* Nourish Your Body* Control Your | | | | "nourishing" your body with the foods that will control |
| Hunger* Take Control of What You Eat and Its | | | | your hunger and turn off your appetite, you just mask |
| Nutritional Density* Lower Your Insulin Levels* Stop All | | | | the hunger. Your body remains malnourished and as |
| Forms of Sugar* Do Not Lose Weight Quickly* Do Not | | | | soon as you stop the pills your hunger will still be out of |
| Rely on Exercise to Lose Weight* Do Not Take Pills | | | | control and the weight will reappear.Don't have |
| or Drugs* Do Not Have Surgery* Avoid Complicated | | | | surgery.Don't have surgery, is really a no-brainer. |
| Weight Loss Schemes with Long and Involved | | | | Surgery has definite associated morbidity and mortality, |
| Recipes* Avoid Weight Loss Schemes That Weigh | | | | especially in someone who is really overweight. The |
| Portions of Food* Avoid Weight Loss Programs with | | | | other real problem with surgery, is that once again you |
| Required Pre-Packaged Foods* Forget Setting Goals, | | | | end up malnourished. Most of the human's required |
| Visualizing Success and Your Own Weaknesses.* | | | | nutrients are absorbed in the small bowel, that typically |
| Forget Personalized Diet Plans.* And Last But Not | | | | is bypassed in these operations. Or, in gastric stapling |
| Least -Forget Worrying About Your | | | | procedures your stomach may be made much smaller, |
| Weight.DiscussionNourish Your BodyYou must nourish | | | | but, you still end up malnourished. In addition to |
| your body. Certainly one can starve themselves and | | | | becoming dangerously malnourished, once the bypass |
| lose weight, but this is not the weight that you want to | | | | is corrected you will become just as overweight again |
| lose. When you don't eat, human biochemistry will keep | | | | because your body is still starving for the essential |
| the blood glucose levels high because glucose is the | | | | nutrients it needs to survive. Far better just to learn |
| only molecule the brain can metabolize. It does this | | | | how to eat than go through the risk and trauma of |
| however, after just two or three days of starvation, | | | | surgery.Avoid Complicated RecipesMany diet plans |
| by converting muscle protein to glucose via the | | | | today have you spending more time preparing your |
| biochemical pathway called "gluconeogenesis." This is | | | | meals than anything else in your already busy and |
| not how you want to lose weight.Control Your | | | | complicated life. While you may be able to tolerate this |
| HungerYou have to control your hunger. Hunger is one | | | | for some time, usually you wear out quickly and then |
| of the strongest urges the body has, right up there | | | | its just one more diet plan that didn't work.Avoid |
| with survival and sex. Hunger is just like a river, you | | | | Measured PortionsSpending time measuring out |
| can "dam it up" but at some point it will spill over the | | | | portions is a real nuisance. Not only do you have to get |
| dam or break right through it and the resultant | | | | adequate scales to accomplish this, but it is a real |
| downstream "feeding frenzies" will more than put back | | | | impediment to any spontaneous or creative cooking |
| on the weight you lost by starving yourself.Eat | | | | you may want to do. Again, this will not be tolerated |
| OrganicTake control of what you eat and its nutritional | | | | long by most of us and soon the current diet fad will |
| density. This is extremely important and it is your only | | | | go out the window with the rest.Avoid required |
| chance of ever gaining control over your hunger. Here | | | | foods.Any program that requires you to buy its |
| in America that means eating only organic whole | | | | specialized foods should be avoided. The problem with |
| foods that meet or are close to the body's | | | | this concept is that you lose control over what you are |
| requirement of 75% Complex Carbohydrate, 15% | | | | eating and the old rule of eating out applies, "unless you |
| Protein and 10% Fat. Meat does not fit in this category | | | | cook it yourself in your clean kitchen -you don't really |
| since it contains no carbohydrate. Don't become a | | | | know what is in it." If you are going to eat diet foods |
| victim of the "Incomplete Food Cycle."Lower Your | | | | like this, make sure they are organic and whole.Forget |
| Insulin LevelsLower your insulin levels not by eating only | | | | goal setting and visualizing success schemes or tips.As |
| meat or fructose but by reducing the number of | | | | nice as these sound on paper, they are really a large |
| feedings. The human body evolved with the elegant | | | | waste of time and rendered completely ineffective |
| insulin / glucagon system for keeping the human alive | | | | when they get "steamrollered" by an appetite out of |
| and the brain well supplied with glucose. Like it or not, | | | | control. If you have not gained control of your appetite |
| eating three meals a day plus snacks abuses this | | | | by feeding your body what it needs, no amount of |
| system and turns it into an "insulin only" system. That | | | | positive visualization, hypnosis or goal setting is going to |
| hyperinsulinism is implicated in most of today's lifestyle | | | | get and keep you thin. If your diet plan relies on |
| illnesses no one will debate.Stop SugarStop or cut | | | | willpower, monthly meetings or such, I would get a new |
| back all forms of sugar. People are fat today, not | | | | diet plan as you are doomed to fail.Forget |
| because of ingested fat -they are fat because of | | | | Personalized Diet PlansHow can you personalize a diet |
| ingested simple sugars like high fructose corn syrup. | | | | plan before you know how to personalize it? First, you |
| Sucrose or any combination of glucose and fructose is | | | | need to walk before you try to run. First you need to |
| one of the most atherogenic (fat storing) substances | | | | feed your body what it needs for some time and then, |
| known. The body has no way to utilize all these | | | | your body will begin to tell you what it really needs and |
| "hollow" calories other than convert them into fat | | | | wants. You will create your own personalized diet plan |
| (energy storage) with insulin. Starving yourself is not a | | | | just as much as I eat very differently than my ex-wife |
| good way to lose weight. Why not try to do | | | | but we both are on the MericleDiet.What to forget ... |
| something that your body can do, not something that it | | | | Worrying about your weight!Finally, if you follow the |
| really can't do without disastrous consequences. Stop | | | | fourteen steps outlined above you will arrive at a point |
| sugar, meat and dairy. That is something that is easily | | | | where you are no longer concerned about your |
| within what you can do and it will make your body | | | | weight. If you feel you need or want help along the |
| better, not worse.Don't lose weight quickly.Do not try to | | | | way the MericleDiet can get you started and keep |
| lose weight quickly. The only weight you lose this way | | | | you going.Effective Weight Loss Begins with Effective |
| is the weight you do not want to lose. You can lose | | | | Nourishment of the Body.No diet plan that includes |
| water quickly and become very dehydrated or if you | | | | simple sugars and / or does not adequately nourish the |
| starve yourself enough you will begin to lose lean body | | | | body -will not be an effective diet plan for anyone. |
| mass / muscle. This is not real weight loss and as | | | | There is no diet plan today that accomplishes both of |
| soon as you begin to eat and drink anything at all, the | | | | these goals as well or as easily as the MericleDiet. |
| weight will come back, just as quickly.Exercise for | | | | To visit the MericleDiet follow the link below: John |
| improved immune function, not to lose weight.Exercise | | | | Mericle M.D. 2005 All Rights Reserved is devoted to |
| is touted as one way to lose weight. Unfortunately, | | | | achieving optimal health and peak performance |
| you may lose a little weight by starting an exercise | | | | through diet and lifestyle change. Dr. Mericle brings |
| program, but as soon as your body adapts to the | | | | together a unique blend of formal training in organic |
| increased work load, the weight usually comes right | | | | chemistry and biochemistry, medical education, 29 |
| back, despite exercise. Exercise, not to lose weight, but | | | | marathons, 3 Hawaii Ironman competitions and a lot of |
| to improve your immune system function.Don't use pills | | | | practical real life experience. |
| or drugs.Don't utilize pills or drugs to lose weight. The | | | | |