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FOOD
FOR THE BODY- FOOD FOR THE MIND
© 2000 June McHardy
There many strategies for peak
performance. We've been learning how to organize, visualize,
optimize, and finally, self-actualize. We've been given a glimpse of
what aligning ourselves with the natural laws of the universe can do
for our success and peace of mind and we've discovered how we can
create whatever miracle we want in our lives if we just make the
decision to do so.
Are we all healthy, vital, and full of energy? If not, then how
are we going to enjoy our new-found success? Besides, perfect health
is also the recipe for peace of mind. When we're healthy and happy,
the mind is clear and bright and we have the necessary energy to
move ahead.
So let's get started!
The most important thing to realize is that the human body is
incredibly intelligent and self-correcting. It has within it
everything necessary to keep us in perfect health at all times. The
reason we get sick is that instead of allowing the body to "do
its own thing", we fill it full of all kinds of chemicals and
pollutants . We stuff it with processed foods, sweets and empty
calories, cook all the vitamins and minerals out of everything we
eat and generally have no awareness whatsoever about what we're
putting into our bodies.
Fortunately, as soon as we realize this we can change this process -
and incredibly, once you have made the decision to change, it's much
easier than you think. You see, what we're about to suggest to you
is not a reducing diet - in fact, if you need to GAIN weight, you
can use the same process. What we are recommending here is a EATING
LIFESTYLE change.
Much of what I am repeating here comes from Harvey and Marylin
Diamond's book "Fit For Life" with some personal
preferences and additions. Since as human beings we tend not to
follow through with something unless we can both enjoy it as well as
see results, I have taken what I feel is easiest to implement and
appears to work best. I have personally seen some dramatic results,
both in greatly increased energy and vitality as well as weight loss
using the following guidelines:
THE ENERGY AND VITALITY DIET
Cooperating with the natural cycles of the body frees up all the
excess energy required to lose or normalize weight and feel GREAT!
So we try to maintain our ingestion of food to cooperate with our
natural body cycles, which are roughly:
Ingestion (taking in foods) - from 12:00 noon to 8:00 PM (8
hours) during which we eat our 2 main meals - Lunch and dinner.
Assimilation (using those foods in our body) from 8:00 PM to
4:00 AM (8 hours) during which we eat only fresh fruit and fluids.
Elimination (preparing our bodies to eliminate the foods
from our bodies) 4:00 AM to Noon (8 hours) during which we eat
only fresh fruit( including breakfast) and fluids.
PROPER FOOD COMBINING:
PROTEINS (meats, cheese, eggs, nuts, etc.) and CARBOHYDRATES
(breads, potatoes, rice, pasta, etc. are not eaten at the same meal.
They each require a different stomach acid to digest - acid or
alkali, thereby neutralizing each other if eaten together by takes a
great deal of energy which instead can be used for other things,
including weight loss.
Vegetables and greens, raw or cooked, fresh, or frozen, can be
eaten with either carbohydrates or proteins at any meal.
Fruit can only be eaten on an empty stomach.
Raw greens, i.e. tomatoes, green onions, celery, green pepper
and cukes, can be eaten with fruit or anytime as a snack.
PROPER FRUIT CONSUMPTION:
Fruit is always eaten on an empty stomach.
Following
a Meat meal, wait 2 1/2 hours before eating fruit. After a
Carbohydrate meal, wait 2 hours.
After
a Vegetable meal, 1 hour.
Eat
as much fresh fruit, including bananas, as you want for breakfast
and throughout the morning.
Eat fresh fruit and fluids only, from bedtime to lunchtime the next
day.
OTHER
GUIDELINES:
Snack on fresh fruits anytime your stomach is empty of other food.
Snack
on celery, lettuce, green onions, tomatoes, etc. anytime.
Peas, beets and corn are high starch vegetables and are eaten only
occasionally.
Use butter, but use it sparingly. The same goes for salt. Use enough
for taste, but not enough to cause your body to hold on to its
fluids. This defeats your purpose.
Avoid sugars, highly processed foods, and foods loaded with
chemicals.
Try to reduce your ingestion of red meat, especially, marbled with
fat and replace it with leaner cuts and with poultry and fish.
Try to avoid hard fats, and hydrogenated fatty foods.
Enjoy your food and treat this diet as a guideline for proper eating
as a lifestyle, rather than as a reducing diet. Treat yourself
occasionally, then come back to proper eating.
Even
if you only use one of the principles for now, you'll benefit from
it. The better you internalize the guidelines and follow them
automatically, the more weight you'll lose (or gain, if that's your
goal) because this diet allows your body to take care of itself
properly. That means normal weight and great energy.
And finally, ENJOY your food and proper eating and your body will
reward you with more energy and vitality than you can possibly
imagine!
YOU'LL FEEL PHENOMENAL!!
June McHardy is editor of
several Motivational Blogs: These are dedicated to maximizing success in our lives as well as on the internet. Lots of great inspirational stories and success strategies.
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