The following blog is not recommended for vegetarians or vegans and if you are struggling with your weight always seek professional medical advice. If you are looking for a diet then don’t read on because this is about a life style; but if you want to learn something new then read on.

What is the best way to lose weight?

Wouldn’t that just be to eat nothing or to eat things that are the lowest in calories like lettuce and rice cakes sure that would get you some initial results but how long can you keep it up and would the body start adapting to gain it back. You might keep it up for 3 days or 2 weeks or if you’re really strong-willed then you might keep it up for three months and suffer all the way through.

But how many people could keep it up for 5 years, 10 years or the rest of your life?

No one can do that so if you get on a diet that you can’t keep up forever then you will eventually gain the weight back. So what we’re really looking for is a lifestyle we’re not looking for a diet we’re looking for a way of life that we can maintain.

But then why do we diet?

Why do we do these things over and over again?

Why do we follow the recommendations of dieting, eating less, moving more, restricting calories, going hungry when we know it won’t work?

What about calories, do they matter in a physic sense? Yes they do you still have to burn more calories, more fuel than you take in but in the physical body, in the human body there are other factors.

So do you want to count calories? No don’t do it.

Hormones are key

In the body there are things like metabolism, hunger and satiety that are regulated, managed by hormones and these hormones tell your metabolism what to do, they tell your body how many calories to burn and how many to take in. So you can’t affect the equation from here you have to affect it from these hormones. They are insulin, leptin and growth hormone in particular so; the food that will ultimately help you lose weight forever is the food that will affect all of these variables in a positive direction.

These foods must reduce insulin because long-term, high insulin, produces insulin resistance and in the presence of high insulin levels there is virtually no fat-burning taking place; so as insulin resistance goes down fat burning goes up.

Another factor that depends on that is leptin resistance when we’re leptin resistant then the brain doesn’t hear the message that we’re full, the fat cells are getting fat, they’re making leptin saying,

“We’ve had enough,” but the brain isn’t listening so leptin has to go down in order to reduce the appetite and to lower the body’s setpoint.

Set point

Your body weight set point is the number on the scale your weight normally hovers around, give or take a few pounds. So what is the set point every time that you yo-yo diet you lose the weight and you gain it back plus 2 pounds, you lose the weight you gain it back plus 2 pounds, every time the setpoint goes up by a couple of pounds and the body thinks that’s the normal weight and that has primarily with leptin resistance. To do however that in turn depends on insulin the second thing that must happen is that your food has to make you full, it has to increase satiety so that once you’re really full you can go longer before the next meal. You can have longer fasts if you go longer between meals, that means in the end you’re eating less and it also increases hormones the longer you fast, the longer you go without food and you’re in fat-burning. The more the body will increase human growth hormone which again is a fat burning hormone.

The problem with this recommended food pyramid is that it is the opposite of all of these criteria and that is why this is a perfect recipe to gain weight.

Let’s jump right in;

Top Ten Foods To Help With Weight Lose

Number 10 is coconut cream. It is a staple in many Asian cuisines; it’s great for smoothies and rich sauces. It’s very low carb, very low protein, high in fat, very low insulin response, it’s quite filling and it’s inexpensive. Another plus is that very few people have any kind of sensitivity to it so it’s safe for most people.

Number 9 cheese,sour cream, creme fraiche, they’re low in carb moderate to high in protein so they’re higher than coconut cream for example and therefore they have more of an insulin response than coconut cream would; but on the other hand it is also more filling. One potential problem with dairy is allergies a lot of people are sensitive to it, if you are it can help to eat the cheese rather than the milk, it can help to use the fermented products, the sour cream, and the creme fraiche instead of just the regular milk.

Number 8 sardines in olive oil other fatty fish, as well, so you could use mackerel or salmon, any fatty fish just don’t get it in canola oil or soy oil, if it’s packed in tomato sauce or something that’s that’s fine too. It has zero carbs, it is moderate to high in protein so therefore it is moderate insulin response; but it’s very filling and as a bonus it gets you a ton of omega-3s the anti-inflammatory essential fatty acids.

Number 7 butter, olive oil and coconut oil they have zero carbs zero to trace protein they’re very high in fat and therefore it’s almost zero insulin response. It is quite filling but it’s not really a meal in itself so obviously you wouldn’t take a bottle of olive oil and you start glugging it; but you can pour it plenty on vegetables and other foods.

Number 6 macadamia nuts because they just edge out the pecans in terms of the numbers but they’re very close together so these are the two best nuts in terms of being low carb, low protein, very high fat and they’re also high fiber so they’re filling in the sense that they just create some bulk. They’re very low insulin response, they’re quite filling the only thing to watch for is that they’re so tasty that it’s possible to overeat.

Number 5 is leafy greens and non starchy vegetables, so even though this is basically pure carbohydrate it is not a carbohydrate that will raise a lot of insulin. It’s very low carb in the sense that what the carbs you’re absorbing is very low, it is low protein, very low fat and high in fiber. So again it provides some bulk and it provides some substrate for your microbiome.The human microbiome is the collection of trillions of microbes living in and on the human body. It consists of about a thousand different bacterial species that reside in the mouth, gut and vagina, and on the skin. These microbes, and the genes they express, make us a “superorganism” composed of human and microbial cells it’s high in minerals and that might be the number one reason to eat and to include a lot of leafy vegetables and non starchy vegetables in your diets because there’s so little fuel that you actually absorb then it has a low insulin response and it is quite filling especially if you combine it with some fat. So put some good olive oil dressing, rich sauces or anything together with these vegetables.

Number 4 avocado nature’s perfect food very low carb, very low protein, moderate fat, high fiber again it is plentfull of minerals and it’s very low in the insulin response and because of the high fat content it is quite filling even though it doesn’t have a lot of protein in it.

Number 3 is eggs and especially the yolk it’s very, very satisfying the egg white has the protein the egg yolk has all the other nutrients. It is very low carb, it is moderate to high in protein, it has low to moderate insulin response, it’s very filling it’s a complete food you can certainly make a whole meal out of just eggs; again some people might have some sensitivities so watch out for that if they do it is usually more against the egg white that they’re reacting too.

Number 2 is chicken wings it has zero carbs, high protein, high fat, moderate insulin response it is very filling and it is certainly a complete food you can easily make a whole meal out of it. Serve some vegetables on the side the only thing to watch for is to try to get the best quality chicken get it’s organic and pastured if at all possible because all of these meats and foods they are only as healthy as whatever they have been fed.

Number 1 on this list is grass-fed beef for several reasons it has zero carbs, moderate to high fat, a lot of people don’t realize they think when they eat a steak or when they eat some ground beef that they’re eating mostly protein and they do have a lot of protein, but something that has 10% fat let’s say you’re eating ground beef with 10% fat that is actually 51% of the calories from fat even though beef has about 20% protein. The fat is more dense in terms of fuel so very quickly even in something lean like 10% ground beef you’re actually getting more than half of the calories from fat. If you eat 20% fat in the ground beef now 70% of the calories are from fat and only 30% from protein even though you’ve got the impression that you’re eating just protein and meat it is high in protein, it’s moderate insulin response, it’s very filling as a matter of fact I don’t know of any other food that is more filling, if you just want to get really full for a long time then I think steak and meat would be the way to go. Alot of carnivores are finding this out if they combine carnivore with one meal a day then there is no problem at all to kind of maintain that one meal because it’s so filling, it is a complete food and it is virtually unheard of to be sensitive to it. some people may have a little bit of trouble digesting it if they don’t have enough hydrochloric acid but you basically cannot be sensitive or have allergies. I mean you could but it’s very rare so it’s one of the safest foods to eat and in addition it is becoming more and more available. It’s relatively easy to find good quality grass fed beef these days you can find it.

Remember

So remember that it’s not about losing weight, it’s about losing weight and keeping it off, it’s about allowing your body to return to balance to reduce insulin resistance, reducing leptin resistance and allowing the setpoint to go down because otherwise you’ll be fighting with weight for the rest of your life.

This is the recipe to find balance you can stop fighting and start enjoying life and finding a balance between you and the food you eat. If you are like me who loves food always remember eat a balanced diet.