Small Diet Changes Can Generate Remarkable Weight Loss

Small Diet Changes Can Generate Remarkable Weight Loss

During one recent four-week stretch, I went from a high of207.8 pounds to 200.7 pounds by taking one simple action.

Before I tell you what that was, understand that this was a verytelling weight loss. First, because it is challenging for me tolose weight, like almost everyone over age 40. It is honest for me,even as a weight going professional. The railway car-culture,push-button world we live in is a big part of this challenge. Andof course our entire culture of fling food, fast food, fattening,non-nutritional foods is another great factor, not to mention supersizing, jumbo portions, giant beverages and all the suspension. Itis tough out there, make no mistake about it. There is definitely aconspiracy to make us pitch the scales on the high side.

But what was most impressive about this seven pound loss wasbecause I made just one small, painless change in my eating habits.Just one, but what a significant change it turned out to be,especially when you consider all the above factors working againstme, and all of us.

I was on my regular ingestion and exercise program, which I haverefined over many years. I consider it an excellent program, andfeel I am in excellent shape. But I recently had some blood workdone and one number, my LDL, the bad cholesterol, came in a littlehigh, at 106. The paperwork said 106 was elevated, and the idealLDL number is 90 or below. Tip: a way to remember that LDL is theimmoral cholesterol is to say that the LD stands for LittleDevil.

I had to admit, I was a little unpleasantly surprised. Andmystified at the same time, because I do not eat meat, poultry,someone, dairy, eggs or any other animal products, and thesaturated fats in pith and fleshly products are main contributorsto high LDL cholesterol and whole cholesterol, I mentation.

And that is on-key, research I did habitual that. But after moreresearch, what I found was that any kind of fat can impart to highLDL, even non-organism fats. So I had to do some dietary detectivework on my own self. In short, a fearless and searching inventoryof my own eating and ingestion habits. I had to ask myself, whatfatty food or foods was I eating, ahem, perhaps to indulging?

When I zeroed my search down to that specific question, my mainculprit was pretty well exposed. I love nuts and seeds and wasquite happily, even blissfully, overeating them. On a dailybasis.

With the problem half solved, the solution was easy. I dropped myover-consumption of nuts and seeds. I went from 6-7-8 handfuls aday to less than one. I started strictly watching my limit. And itwas incredible to watch the pounds plummet. Actually, the 1/10thsof pounds. I have a digital scale and highly recommend such scales,because we really don not lose pounds. It is more accurate to saywe lose fractions of pounds, especially if we are losing weighthealthfully. Roughly 1.5 to no more than 2 pounds a week. Any morethan that and we are almost certainly losing animal tissue, too,which is bad news all around.

Understand, raw nuts and seeds are healthy, nutritious food forthought choices, as long as they are raw, not roasted like the onesin the familiar blue and yellow can, which are also heavilysalt-cured. But raw or roasted, and I urge you to never eatroasted, nuts are high in fat. Very high in fat.

Which is why, as a lover of solid food and particularly fatteningfoods, I was way over-eating these otherwise healthy foods. Nutsmust indeed be eaten sparingly by anyone interested in getting andstaying lean. Six, seven or eight handfuls a day, as I was eating,is gross over consumption. One small indefinite quantity,palm-sized portion a day is plenty.

I looked, I learned, I took human activity, I got results.

It really pays to be vigilant when you are going for a lean, fitembody. I had to take a truthful look at every aspect of my diet tofind I was mindlessly overeating nuts and seeds. Then I had to takeaction to correct the flaw. When I did, the payoffs and rewardswere spectacular. I effortlessly dropped seven pounds.

Oh, a final footnote: after 30 days on my new nut consumptionregimen, I had another blood experiment taken. Result: my elevatedLDL cholesterol of 106 had dropped to 79, which is in the Idealrange.

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Jerome Kellner is author of The Maui Diet.He’s lived on Maui since 1972 and keeps fit biking, hiking,swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, exercising in his outdoor gym.Seewww.themauidiet.com

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