Lose Weight Without Dieting - Eat Like an Animal

Quite the mental picture that conjures up. We say someone eats like an animal when they're not following proper manners. Maybe chewing with their mouth open or taking huge bites or eating quickly and spilling food every where. Author and fitness expert, Adam Zickerman doesn't mean that of course when he uses the expression in his book 'Power of 10'. Rather he's suggesting that if we would eat what animals eat, we'd lose weight.

Again the mind jumps to all kinds of possibilities like small rodents or roadkill. Think more broadly. Animals are not lined Replica Movado Amorosa Watch up at McDonald's for a happy meal or popping frozen pizza into the microwave. Zickerman is more concerned about the 'what' we eat not so much the 'how'.

The obesity epidemic is not because we are over-eating. According to Zickerman, it's that we're eating the wrong food, mostly sugar that's the problem. In fact, if we were to follow his 'rules' on how to eat like an animal, we'd lose weight.

First, it's best to eat real, whole foods; things that do not require an ingredients list. Our bodies have evolved to process the nutrients in real foods and it does it very effectively. Apple is an apple. Apple juice on the other hand, has an ingredients list because things have been added or taken away or both.Second, when you do choose something with an ingredients list, read it. Note that the contents are listed in descending order. Take bread as an example. Often the first ingredient is enriched flour. That means that the whole grain has been processed to become white flour, stripped of many nutrients in the process, vitamins are added back in an effort to make the flour nutritious. Bread with real, whole grains as the top ingredient are always a better choice.Third, avoid trans fats. Unfortunately, even though the label says zero trans fat it may still contain up to 0.4 grams of trans fat per serving. Check the label for the serving size and you may be surprised again to find it's quite small. So, to be safe, if you see anything listed as hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated, chances are excellent that it has trans fat. Just say no.Fourth, avoid sugar and food stuff that immediately converts to sugar as soon as it enters the body such as white bread or pasta. Sugar is highly processed and comes in many forms. In addition to glucose, sucrose and fructose look for anything with 'itol' such as sorbitol. When you want something sweet reach for honey (ideally non-pasteurised) or real maple syrup. As a real food the body does not react to either ChronoDelphis Replica Paypal by spiking the blood insulin quite so much.Fifth, eat several small meals throughout the day so that you are never hungry. Isn't that a fabulous change? Zickerman argues that dieting is evil. When the body is hungry it goes into fast mode and slows the metabolism, tries to hold onto calories rather than burn them storing them as fat. This of course is completely the reverse of what you may be trying to accomplish.