Friday, March 13, 2009

Fat Burning Foods

Battle of the foods continue. Food that is good for us is not the food that will burn fat.

There are lists of worst foods to lose weight, here and best foods to lose weight here .

Hundreds of them, all different.

However, did you know there are "good foods" that keep you fat?

We call them bad good weight loss foods.

People who consume the bad good foods are among the most frustrated of all.

Because, they'll say, I don't eat fast food like before, or white bread. I eat brown rice now. And, I drink only skim milk. And only half a sandwich at lunch, and oatmeal for breakfast instead of pancakes.

But they're not losing. And they likely won't.

Brown rice, explains Dr. Heidi, prevents fat burning. So does skim milk (!?!). So does oatmeal and cereal. In the little video below, Dr. Heidi explains why, and what to do about it. The extraordinary fat burn program that she refers to (and that is mentioned at the end of the vid below)
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Dr. Heidi's ER Fat Burn Formula
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Are Diet Pills Safe?

are diet pills safe

Truth About Diet Pills - How Safe Are Over The Counter Diet Pills?


For the millions of people trying to lose weight, you must know the dangers of over the counter diet pills. I know that food burns fat safely and much better than the latest diet pills. Know the truth about diet pills before taking them, ever!

F.D.A. Finds ‘Natural’ Diet Pills Spiked With Drugs

On December 22, 2008, FDA warned consumers not to purchase or consume 28 different products marketed for weight loss. Since that time, FDA analysis has identified 41 more tainted weight loss products that may put consumers’ health at risk. Full FDA recall here.

Just in from the New York Times...

Grady Jackson, a defensive tackle with the Atlanta Falcons, said he used the weight-loss capsules. Kathie Lee Gifford was enthusiastic about them on the “Today” show. Retailers like GNC and the Vitamin Shoppe sold them, no prescription required.

But the Food and Drug Administration now says those weight-loss capsules, called StarCaps and promoted as natural dietary supplements using papaya, could be hazardous to your health. In violation of the law, the agency has found, the capsules also contained a potent pharmaceutical drug called bumetanide which can have serious side effects. By Kim Klaver

And StarCaps are not the only culprits....Read full FDA recall here.

Weight loss through eating fat burning and cleaner foods, anyone?

FYI - Dr. Heidi has a message to share:

Since so many people are eating right and still gaining, I've made a new little video:

Bad Good Foods that are making you fat.

It's here... Foods That Burn Fat


And a new little report - "Three Weird and Natural Appetite Suppressants"


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Thursday, January 29, 2009

3 Diet Secrets That Keep You Doing YoYo Diets!

Most experienced dieters are flabbergasted when they hear these well kept secrets - unexpected things that hinder weight loss no matter how hard you try.

These are from a forthcoming book by my very dear friend, Dr. Heidi Dulay.
  • Secret #1.
  • Industrial burgers are fattening. Grassfed ones are slimming. (Both with no bun, of course.) Yes, a low carb diet works quickest for fat burn and weight loss, for most people. However, the wrong kinds of meats hinder weight loss in the long run. Industrial burgers have too much of the wrong kind of fat, and up to 5 times more total fat than grassfed ones. They contain antibiotics, hormones, and even harmful bacteria that upset our metabolism. While grassfed ones have lots of the good fats (omega 3s) and a ton of health giving vitamins and minerals.
  • Secret #2. A balanced diet keeps you fat. If you thought a balanced diet seems like the best way to lose weight you're not alone. 160 of the 225 folks taking our survey last week - 72% - said TRUE to question 9: Eat a balanced diet to lose. But it is not so. See here.
  • Secret #3. Fruits, veggies and grains may block the weight loss trigger. Granted fruits are better than eating sweets like ice cream and cakes. Fruits are good sources of vitamins and minerals. But they're not necessary for weight loss. They block the fat burning mechanism for most folks. But that's not all...See half way down here.
These are just some of the findings in the new book being written by Dr. Heidi - a nutrition professor at a university in Berkeley CA, and a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) from Harvard University.

Her live fat burn programs are based on not only 150 years of research findings (like Gary Taubes' 600 page book), but her own years of experimenting and tinkering with programs for her active weight loss clientele. Finally last year she put some of the missing pieces together, and I urged her to offer her new Extreme Regime Fat Burn program to my readers.

Since last July, some 60+ folks - mostly professional yo-yo dieters - went through the program. Because it was so successful and so different, her ER Fat Burn Formula has built up a major buzz in an industry known for its failure.

Not only did folks lose significant weight, but many of their aging symptoms disappeared. Including chronic diarrhea, acid reflux, high blood pressure (no more need for medication for some), insomnia, hot flashes, and sexual decline.

Look around. How come most folks are still overweight if the current diet programs and recommendations are so great? If almost no one can do them, what good are they? How about doing something you CAN do?

If you don't do this, how much will you weigh in a year? Or two or three years? Dr. Heidi's next Fat Burn cycle starts this SATURDAY. There is still time to start working on that new bod.

What is more important than your looks, your health and your energy?

You owe it to yourself and to those who love you to do something. Check it out right here. We're waiting for ya.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Low Carb With A Twist


Extreme Regime Fat Burn Formula




The Extreme Regime Fat Burn Formula is now open: for that determined dieter who's ready for a new bod.

ER Fat Burn Formula

But it closes this Friday, Jan 30, at Midnight PST (3AM EST - NY).

Because this ER Fat Burn Cycle starts officially on Jan 31 with Dr. Heidi's live kickoff call.

There are two Live spots left right now...

ER Fat Burn Formula

You can still go for the less pricey Multi Media option. It includes everything for the five weeks except the private weekly consultations with Dr. Heidi. Plus you go at your own pace.

All calls are recorded for anytime listening. Plus they're edited and transcribed so you can study those things you really want to dig into.

The forums are filled with active grads and newbies doing and asking and doing and getting slinkier and more energized.

OK enough already.

ER Fat Burn Formula


P.S. What if you don't do this program? How much will you weigh in one year or in two? And by then it will cost $173 million because of inflation. And your special bonuses will be gone for sure.

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Steak and Eggs - For Weight Loss?

Steak 'n eggs: Good or bad for weight loss?

What's the best way to lose weight fast and remain healthy?
There has been much hysteria pro and con the Atkins-type weight-loss regime, with the low-cal/lo fat and portion control camp screaming that red meat and eggs are dangerous.

In a recent weight loss study Atkins folks sponsored, plant-based diet supporters gleefully point out that participants were being apparently counseled "to choose vegetarian sources of fat and protein."

Kathy Freston, a Dean Ornish low-fat, calorie-counting anti-meat fan girl, insists that "there's a growing shift toward healthy, plant-based diets, especially among people looking to lose weight and keep it off." And a shift away from meat, animal fats and eggs, she writes. However, low carb, meat and blubber enthusiasts show proof of healthy weight loss and of keeping it off. Like me. Or Dr. Heidi and her ER clientele.

What should you believe?

Both. Steak (all red meats and poultry) and eggs are like cholesterol: There's good and there's bad. You need to know which is good and which is bad.

Bad Meat Most meat in U.S. supermarkets and restaurants come from confined and un-pastured cows who are often sick. Poky's animal 'hospital' (described in Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma) is one of many big-animal hospitals that treats feedlot cattle from industrial feedlots. Most of the animals' health problems, Pollan reports, are directly or indirectly related to what they're fed.

The cows are force-fed corn and soy which they can't digest. "They're made to eat forage, and we're making them eat grain," says Dr. Metzin who treats them. (p. 77, Omnivore's Dilemma)

Virtually all feedlot cattle, according to animal scientists, are sick because they cannot digest grain. The sick animals are then shot full of antibiotics so they live a little longer - so as to get a bit fatter before they're slaughtered. Happy Sunday cookout.

So yes, the Dean Ornishes and Kathy Frestons are right. Eating bad meats and fats from from such animals can NOT be good for you. Avoid eating bad meats and fats.

Good Meat Grass-fed animals. Grass-fed animals are pastured. [NOT pasteurized - but pastured.] This, my omnivore friends, you CAN eat. I do. Grass-fed animals are allowed to forage and graze in pastures - on grass and other stuff on the grounds. Eating what they eat naturally. They're not shot full of antibiotics because they're not sick.

Good meat shopping tip: When shopping for meat, ASK the meat person: Do you have 100% grass-fed beef (or pastured chicken)? If not, find a local farmer. They'll have grass fed beef and poultry. Google local farmers in YOUR CITY or check for local farmers online at Local Harvest or the Weston A Price Foundation.

Until you find a farmer, at least get meats that have not been fed antibiotics and hormones

Bad eggs Same story. Don't eat the eggs from chickens that are crammed together in spaces no bigger than an 8 and 1/2 x 11" sheet of paper, for their entire life. Don't eat those that are fed bio-engineered grain. Don't eat those kept awake with lights blazing into their cages 24/7 so they can lay as many eggs as possible before they're turned into soup. Those eggs can not be good for you. They're available in most restaurants and supermarkets.

Good eggs
Eat eggs from pastured chickens - they're the ones that go OUTSIDE and scratch around on the ground at the farm, eating grass, worms and such that they are designed to eat. NOTE: These eggs are also a surprise source of Vitamin D. Regular eggs do not have naturally occurring Vitamin D.

Good eggs shopping tip: Contact your local farmer for pastured chickens and eggs from pastured chickens. Organic is not enough here (not if you want that extra Vitamin D benefit, says Dr. Heidi here ) See sources above.

Bottom line: Find pastured grass-fed animals. Eat those. They're the good meat and animal fats. They have the same kind of GOOD fats that ocean fish have, they have more minerals and vitamins and they're not fattening or disease producing, like the feedlot animals. True, you won't keel over after one McDonald's hamburger. But the cumulative effect over the years of eating bad meats and bad animal fats weakens a body and makes it ripe for a disease to strike. Usually when you least expect it.

P.S. Kim learned most of this filming an eye-and-ear popping nutrition course Dr. Heidi Dulay taught in CA this spring. I hope to make some of the videos available soon.


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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Warning: These meats are fattening

This post is part of a new book being written by Dr. Heidi Dulay who created the Extreme Regime Fat Burn Formula. The five week fat burn program opens this Monday, Jan 26. 12 NOON Eastern time.
Go here to sign up and to learn more. Very Limited Space.


Dear reader: Below is part 2 of the 'controversial findings' related to the ad I tested recently:

Warning: Do not attempt another diet until you read this controversial report...


Part 1 of that report is here. Diet Warning: Big FAT surprise #1

Here's part 2.

Most folks think meat is good if you want to lose weight.

90% (208) of the 228 readers said "FALSE" to Diet Warning survey Question 5.

Meat is not good if you want to lose weight.



Big Fat Surprise #3:

Most meat is fattening.

Meats are not created equal.

Nor are chickens, turkeys, fish, eggs and dairy.

We compare two burgers: An industrial burger and a grassfed burger.

They may look the same, but one is fattening and the other is reducing. Yes, assume you are eating either one WITHOUT the BUN.

An industrial burger is fattening. Its grassfed counterpart is reducing.


Here's why the industrial burger is fattening. It has:
An abnormal amount of total and saturated fat: 4 to 6 times more total fat and twice as much saturated fat as grassfed.

Hardly any omega 3 fats – the type of fat that burns fat, like salmon has. Omega 3 naturally present in cow fat plummets in the feedlot – the longer the cow is in the feedlot, the lower the omega 3 content.

Excessive amounts of omega 6 fats – the fats found in corn oil that are correlated with obesity and diabetes.

High level of toxins: growth hormone, antibiotics, pesticides and genetically modified organisms.

In industrial feedlots cows sleep in deep piles of manure – a source of bacteria that may end up in our hamburgers. They are fed synthetic nitrogen, chicken litter, blood and fat products of other slaughtered cattle, along with as much corn as they can stand. Cows naturally eat grass, not corn. Corn messes up their digestive systems, causing all kinds of disease requiring antibiotics and other medication – which end up in our steaks and burgers. "A growing body of research suggests that many problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef ." (Pollan 2008, p.75)


On the other hand, grassfed meats come from cows that eat grass – food they’re made to eat and digest. They stay healthy, and develop ideal amounts of total fats and the essential omega 3 and 6 fats. Grassfed meats are a boon to folks who don’t like fish, because they provide the omega 3s that we prize in fish.

There are similar differences in the weight loss effects of industrial versus pastured chickens and turkeys, and farmed versus wild fish. I often tell my students that when they eat farmed fish, they might as well be eating a feedlot cow.


Other products from grassfed and industrial animals are also wildly different in the nutrition they offer.

Milk, butter and cream from grassfed cows can help burn fat and build muscle. They contain CLA, a type of fat that causes that to happen. (see Tom, 1977 in Robinson, p 20). Grassfed milk has 5 times more CLA than industrial milk.


Bottom line, meat lovers; meat shunners.

Industrial animal farming has spawned an industrial food syndrome epidemic – folks who are obese, diabetic, and prone to heart disease, cancer, asthma and arthritis.


The reaction against cruelty to animals and dangers to human health from industrial food has given vegetarianism new life. Even Michael Pollan who started out as an omnivore, advises us on the cover of his newest book:

“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants”.

But we need not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Instead, we say:

“Eat food, low carb, grassfed and wild.” And of course, eat real fat.

P.S. This post is part of a new book being written by Dr. Heidi Dulay who created the Extreme Regime Fat Burn Formula. The five week weight loss program opens Monday, Jan 26.

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Big Fat Surprise: A balanced diet keeps you fat.

Diet Warning: Big FAT surprise #1

This post is for someone who's still overweight and who's pondering the next diet. I have something for you to consider.

I'll assume that you are health-conscious - you do not eat at McDonald's regularly, and know that pizza, chips, sodas and candy are fattening. Plus you may have a hard time fitting in exercise. If that's you...



"Warning: Do not attempt another diet until you read this controversial report."


When I tested that ad folks asked: what controversial findings?! Here goes...



Big Fat Surprise #1: A balanced diet keeps you fat.
If you thought a balanced diet seems like the best way to lose weight you're not alone. 160 of the 225 folks taking our survey last week - 72% - said TRUE to question 9: Eat a balanced diet to lose.






But it's not so. Not for most people, anyway. Quick definition of a balanced diet:

According to the latest U.S. government Pyramid, balanced diets include 5 food groups:
1) grains
2) vegetables
3) fruits
4) milk and dairy products
5) meat, beans, fish and nuts
Plus fats and oils.
But if you eat all these things each day, that may explain why you are not losing.

To trigger the fat burning mechanism, you need an imbalanced diet. For a while. Just like a plane that takes off needs imbalanced power to get off the ground and get airborne - then levels off its jet power after it reaches cruising altitude.
What in a balanced diet is keeping you fat?

Ready?

Fruits, veggies and grains may block the weight loss trigger.


Granted fruits are better than eating sweets like ice cream and cakes. Fruits are good sources of vitamins and minerals. But they're not necessary for weight loss. They block the fat burning mechanism for most folks. But that's not all...

Veggies also block the fat burning trigger for most of us. Especially the starchy stuff.

And grains, including brown rice, beans, pasta and breads, all block fat burning.

[Meats, including animal fat, can be good for weight loss - but not all meats are created equal. (The Meat Report, coming tomorrow.)]

Proof of these anti-establishment findings:

(1) Look around. Note the size of many people who say they eat right or do balanced diets;

(2) Clinical studies of the last 150 years, kept hidden (see below);

(3) Readers of this blog who did a new imbalanced weight loss program over last 6 months (see below).

Read rest of the story here... Big Fat Surprise and read how Suzanne lost the weight when she gave up diet shakes and other real results from the real people eating nothing but real food!
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Mr. Banting Lost 50 Pounds on Low-Carb. Is It Dangerous?

How Mr. Banting Lost 35 lbs in 8 months even though he drank a lot of alcohol.


"Mr Banting was a fat man. At age sixty-five, the five-foot five Banting weighted in at over two hundred pounds.

'I could not stoop to tie my shoe...nor attend to the little offices humanity requires without considerable pain and difficulty, which only the corpulent can understand,' he wrote.

"Banting was recently retired...had no family history of obesity, nor did he consider himself either lazy, inactive, or given to excessive indulgence at the table.

"Nonetheless, corpulence had crept up on him in his thirties, as with many of us today, despite his best efforts. He took up daily rowing and gained muscular vigor, a prodigious appetite, and yet more weight.

"He cut back on calories, which failed to induce weight loss but did leave him exhausted and beset by boils. He tried walking, riding horseback, and manual labor. His weight increased. He consulted the best doctors... He tried purgatives and diuretics. His weight increased..."


How Mr. Banting Lost 35 lbs in 8 months even though he drank a lot of alcohol.

"He cut back on calories, which failed to induce weight loss but did leave him exhausted and beset by boils. He tried walking, riding horseback, and manual labor. His weight increased. He consulted the best doctors... He tried purgatives and diuretics. His weight increased..." (from Part I)


"Luckily for Banting, he consulted a surgeon who had recently been to Paris. The doctor had just heard the great physiologist Claude Bernard lecture on diabetes.

The liver, reported Bernard, secretes glucose, the substance of both sugar and starch. It was this glucose that accumulates excessively in the bloodstream of diabetics. It struck him that "a diet of only meat and dairy would check the secretion of sugar in the urine of a diabetic."

Banting's surgeon immediately formulated a dietary regimen for Banting. Namely, "complete abstinence from sugars and starches."

After all, wrote the doctor, we know that to fatten up animals, "a saccharine (sugar) and farinaceous (flour) diet is used." He thought "excessive obesity might be allied to diabetes as to its cause...and if a purely animal diet were useful in the latter disease, a combination of animal food with a vegetable diet that contained neither sugar nor starch might...arrest the undue formation of fat."

So here's the regime Banting followed for the next year:

"He ate three meals a day of meat fish, or game, usually five or six ounces at a meal, with one or two stale toast or cooked fruit on the side. He had his evening tea with a few more ounces of fruit or stale toast. He scrupulously avoided any other food that might contain either sugar or starch, in particular bread, milk, beer, sweets and potatoes."

"Despite a considerable allowance of alcohol in Banting's regimen - four or five glasses of wine each day, a cordial every morning, and an evening tumbler of gin, whisky or brandy - Banting dropped thirty-five pounds by the following May (eight months later) and fifty pounds by early the next year.

"I have not felt better in health than now for the last twenty-six years,' he wrote. 'My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.'"
- Taubes, 2007

That was 1864. Banting's 16 page (free) Letter on corpulence, Addressed to the Public, launched the world's first popular diet craze. Within a year, Banting "had entered the English language as a verb meaning 'to diet.'"

If someone is "gouty obese, and nervous, we strongly recommend him to 'bant'" suggested the Pall Mall Gazette in June, 1865. - Taubes, 2007

Guess how the medical community of the day reacted? Some, writes Taubes,

"did what members of established societies often do when confronted with a radical new concept: they attacked both the message and the messenger. The Lancet, (like today's Newsweek), first whined that Banting's diet was old news. Second...that his diet could be dangerous."

150 years later, some in the medical community raise the same question:

Is a low carb approach safe?

Today we have many modern versions of Banting's low carb diet, most notably Atkins and South Beach. And just this year, Dr. Heidi's ER Fat Burn Program, the very latest in a low carb-based regime, has seen great success among the participants. (One gal dropped 18 pounds in her first four weeks and got her sex drive back(!))

For some people, however, the question remains:

Is a low carb regime dangerous?

Six years after he lost 50 lbs with his low carb regime, Mr. Banting published the fourth edition of his "Letter on corpulence." By then his name had become a verb - 'to bant' meant to diet - by following his published low carb regime. Mr. Banting had kept those 50 lbs off all those years and added that "My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history."

Still, in 1865 and today, 143 years later, some people ask, "Is low carb dangerous?"

Remember Banting's regime: Mostly meat, fish and fowl and a bit of fruit and veggies and No sugars, no starches, bread, milk, sweets and potatoes.

Few experts disagree with what he stopped eating. It's what he DID eat - the meat - that has caused mild panic in some corners in the past 15 years.

Reason: Meat has "saturated fats" which are thought by some to be associated with heart trouble - you know, clogging of the arteries and such. And since the low-carb regimes recommend eating meats, bacon and similar fare, it was put on the high risk list by these concerned folks.

I am no health expert. I'm just a person extremely interested in health, want to play tennis when I'm 95. And I love to eat good foods. Here's my take:

Let's agree that meat has saturated fat in it. And let's agree also that meat has had saturated fats in it since the beginning of time.

I have three questions for someone who asks: Is a low-carb regime safe - since it's high in saturated fat?

1. Why has saturated fat become a problem now, when our ancestors since the stone age, 2.5 million years ago, survived by eating animals? There was no heart disease reported in the stone age. And we're here, aren't we?

2. Is it possible that the recent association of saturated fat and heart disease might have been off the mark? It wouldn't be the first time we've been wrong about the cause of a problem. The latest and meticulously researched 601-page tome, Good Calories, Bad Calories (journalist Gary Taubes, 2007) has 10 conclusions. Here are the first two:

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease, or any other chronic disease of civilization.
The problem is the carbohydrates in the diet, their effect on insulin secretion, and the hormonal regulation of homeostasis - the entire harmonic ensemble of the human body. (p. 454)

3. If it's not the fat, could it be the meat? There were no industrial feedlots in the stone age. No one was force-feeding the animals corn and soy, instead of their natural food source, grass. No one gave them growth hormones and shot them full of antibiotics (because they're mostly sick in the feedlots now, reports Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma), since they cannot digest the corn and soy).

Might part of the resistance to a low carb approach to weight loss be a result of NOT making the bad meat- good meat distinction?

These questions, and my personal wonderful experience being on a real food low carb regime make me say that for me, low-carb is a wonderful, healthful approach to living. The caveat: all food must be real. No highly processed foods, no toxins, no artificial ingredients or any other poisons or chemicals.

P.S. I learned all this (and have become extremely interested in eating and health) because of my old friend,
Dr. Heidi. I filmed her university nutrition course in CA this spring.

I am now marketing her
ER Fat Burning program because I am betting that it will change your idea of eating- now and for years to come.

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Do You Eat Real Food Like Butter and Kefir?

I admit I'm a real food fanatic! But, that wasn't always the case. I used to think if I cooked it at home, it was real food verses take out food.

Over the last year I've learned that most people think the same way I did. They don't know what Real Food is.

In the modern food industry, novelty and technical wizardry are the rule. In the United States, 10,000 new processed foods come on the market each year, and it seems a new diet is always climbing the best-seller list.

I'm learning not to play by the health-tip rules or current advice. How am I doing this when I read daily about the latest studies telling us food is bad?

I learn from people like Dr. Heidi Dulay -- Nina Planck -- Atkins -- and Gary Taubes - Good Calories, Bad Caloriesgood calories bad calories. Along with sites such as Weston Price -- Eatwild and Local Harvest.

Here's a sample of what Nina Planck tells about her book, Real Food: What to Eat and Whyreal food
(By the way Dr. Heidi feels the same way about real food and teaches people like me what real food is.)

Lard? Most excellent - "hardly anyone knows that lard is good for you."

Tropical fats? Yum-o.

Red meat? Dig in, but search out the grass-fed kind.

Salt isn't a poison to be avoided; it's a godsend that brings out the flavors of many foods. Unrefined sea salt is best.

Search out fermented foods: kefir, sauerkraut. Your gut will thank you for it.

Eggs? "A nutritional bonanza."

"I don't buy the low-fat version of anything," Planck writes.

What kind of food do you eat? Why did you choose it?


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Monday, January 19, 2009

Atkins Scares Me A Little

Diets are so confusing and we never know who to trust. We all know someone who had results from diet plans, some good results some not so good and possibly dangerous. I want to share what a gal wrote about the ER Fat Burn program when she learned it was similar to Atkins. Note I said similar, it's not Atkins.

"Atkins scares me a bit, Kim"
So wrote Lulu just now, an old acquaintance. She emailed about signing up for the guided home-based ER Fat Burn program.

She continued:
"My brother did Atkins a while back, lost 30+ pounds eating pork rinds and pork chops and mayo and heavy cream and almost no veggies. His cholesterol shot up, and he looked a bit gray. Thin, but sorta the color of cardboard. Or pork rinds.

"Then, he gained it all back and quite a bit more, as I was afraid he might."
Then she added, hopefully,
"This will be different though, with Dr. Heidi at the helm, right?"
Yes, Lulu, day and night different - in a few critical places.

Anyone else afraid of Atkins? Let me respond to both the cholesterol and the gaining back.

Re the cholesterol
Atkins's own work (he was an MD - a cardiologist) showed that bad cholesterol went down with his diet. He encouraged folks to measure it before starting so they could see for themselves.

However, that was 30 years ago. The big difference today is in the quality of the meats and fats people are consuming with Atkins (and all everyday foods.)

Feedlot livestock is full of antibiotics and hormones, and they're often mistreated and sick. They're force-fed grain and soy. But their digestive systems are designed for grass. It may be that eating these industrial meats, eggs and fats exclusively, as most Americans do, can indeed contribute to high bad cholesterol. With or without Atkins. See Omnivore's Dilemma here.


Folks in ER Fat Burn have reported reducing their bad cholesterol. That's likely because in the ER Fat Burn, people eat only ER-quality meats, fats, eggs and oils. ER quality means:
1) only 100% grassfed beef
2) pastured chickens and eggs (see mini egg video here), and
3) only non-damaged fats and oils.
ER Fat Burn participant and psychologist Al Frech, a diabetic for 30 years, worried that "eggs and other saturated fats" would raise his bad cholesterol. He's on statins, he said.
But to his surprise, his bad cholesterol went down during and after ER FB. So did his blood sugar, which is now in the normal range (90-110) for the first time in 30 years, he said. Plus he lost 15 pounds in 6 weeks and has kept it off.

Dr. Frech had been on low carb for years and never lost weight before ER Fat Burn. Plus he was always hungry. Not anymore. We suspect his results are due in part to the ER quality of the protein, fats and oils he ate.
Re gaining weight back
If a person goes back to the eating habits that made them overweight in the first place, I don't know what else we should expect - except weight gain again.
What's been surprising to the ER FB participants is that the biggest weight losers have not gained anything back. One gal has now dropped 30 pounds and is losing a pound a week. One of our programmers lost 20 pounds in 6 weeks, and five more since. As a programmer, he sits all day. And a month later, he has kept it all off.
Here's what's most gratifying to me: ER Fat Burn participants say they'll never go back to their old ways of eating (industrial food) - they're ER food converts. That doesn't mean they will never have ice cream or pasta once in a while. They will. Because they'll be on their coasting cycle.

Hope that helps anyone who has the two questions Lulu did. Any others? Post them here at the bottom.
Watch these three videos - actual results from people who have done the ER fat burn program:

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Good Calories for Weight Loss

Did you know that on any given day, there are about 60 million U.S. Americans on a diet to lose weight? Out of a population of about 300 million, that means one in five of the people you might encounter today are right now in the process of attempting to take off extra pounds.
A simple fact, commonly known and frequently ignored, is that some diet products and diet plans don't work and some actually keep you from losing weight.
Buyer beware.

Understanding a few key concepts would help many people avoid the mistake of starting a diet plan that is doomed to failure.

Often, it is not the dieter who fails, but rather the flawed premise of the diet plan that ends up failing to work for the dieter. It is heartbreaking to know that someone who is giving their best effort, and suffering discomfort, unnecessary hunger, and
emotional pain during the process of dieting has a 98% chance of regaining all the weight they lost, plus a few pounds more.

The most important thing for anyone contemplating a diet to understand is this one: Dozens of studies have shown conclusively that 'traditional' dieting - restricting caloric intake - does not work.

In a nutshell, here's why simply reducing calories will not ever work. Our bodies are programmed in miraculous ways for survival, and the part of our brain that does the work to keep us alive couldn't care less about fitting into a smaller sized pair of jeans.
Faced with a radical reduction of food, the alarms go off and our bodies set to work: conserving energy, creating more fat, slowing down metabolism, and engaging in a battery of survival mechanisms that keep us from starving. In the process of restricting calories, people inadvertently trigger these "starvation responses," which make weight loss very difficult and which guarantee that when the diet is over, all the lost weight will be regained.

People fall for diet programs that defy common sense for a number of reasons.
1. There is confusion because so much conflicting information is published by the media.
2. We are barraged with some very effective marketing as companies compete for our dieting dollars (35 billion is spent annually in the US alone).
3. The truth is that most of us want to believe there is some magic answer, an easy, quick and effective way to get fit. Source
There is a way to lose the weight and keep it off from now on. And, there's no starving, no calorie counting, no low fat foods, and the biggest thing, no pills, shakes or need to buy special packaged diet foods.
What is it?
It's an online weight loss plan based on eating real food.
The program opens to the public January 21, NOON PT 3PM EST.
The live program starts January 31. Everyone has the week before to get situated and do a few preliminary things online.
Listen to Dr. Heidi's intro call here:
BTW, Dr. Heidi will be interviewed by Jimmy Moore in March for a podcast featured on his blog.
Stay tuned for the opening of the online ER fat burn program this week!


Real Food with Dr. Heidi Dulay - Little Spa

My Whole Food Nation website. Good Food Making You Fat Video w/Dr. Heidi


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Help Spread The Low Carb Word

Help us let people know about the best way to lose weight, the Low-Carb food. Listen to Dr. Heidi's intro call about her ER Fat Burn Program. If what we are doing for people fits you and your site we would be happy to chat with you, email Robin here: robinplan@gmail.com
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