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Atkins New Book

The new Atkins diet book, an updated version of the popular high-fat eating plan, promises that kind of quick result. “The New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great” promotes a program called the “optimal protein diet” that certainly appeals to our cheeseburger cravings (minus the bun, of course). The revised diet book is already a best-seller, but is pumping up protein and cutting carbs really the best way to slim down safely and stay that way? Losing weight that fast could be harmful .

While this latest Atkins incarnation includes far more vegetables, it still shuns, especially in the beginning, healthful whole grains, fruits and legumes. Even when it does allow for some of the vilified carbohydrate-rich foods in later phases, the amount of total carbs suggested continues to fall very short of Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) recommendations, as well as the government’s current Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

In fact, a recent two-year study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that reduced-calorie diets led to weight loss in overweight adults regardless of which macronutrients — protein, fat, or carbohydrate — were emphasized.
And a just published follow-up study in the Annals of Internal Medicine noted that obese people who followed either a low-carbohydrate or a low-fat diet for one year maintained a modest weight loss — 5 pounds and 9.5 pounds, respectively — at three years. While those who followed a low-carb diet lost more weight initially, they tended to regain more weight by the end of three years.
“These results highlight the difficulty in sticking to a low-carbohydrate diet, as carbohydrate intake did not differ between the low-carbohydrate or low-fat dieters by three years,” according to Dr. Marion Vetter, R.D., one of the study authors. “For some people, low-fat diets may be easier to sustain over time.”
Despite efforts to blame carbs for our stubborn pudge, a study published in the November 2009 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition detected no differences in weight-loss maintenance after one year between those who followed a high-protein diet and those who followed a high-carb diet after three months of weight loss.

Before you order that steak
That said, protein does appear to satiate more than carbs or other fats, triggering hormones and other chemicals to send “feel full” messages to the brain. Some research has shown that boosting protein in your diet increases fullness and reduces how many calories you consume.  Consuming dietary protein also increases thermogenesis, meaning more calories are used to digest, absorb, and metabolize protein than for either carbohydrate or fat. It also helps you hold on to lean muscle mass that often shrinks while dieting.

Consuming more protein (while reducing carbohydrate and/or fat intake) has also been shown in studies to improve insulin sensitivity, glucose tolerance, blood lipids (including cholesterol), and other cardiovascular risk factors. A high-protein diet has also been shown to control blood pressure, especially when the protein comes from plant sources. In older people, adequate protein intake also protects against age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass.

But before you order your next big steak or turkey club sandwich, be mindful that not all proteins are created equal.

Animal sources such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt are considered sources of complete proteins since the proteins they contain are made of all the essential amino acids. These foods also boast vitamin B12, folate, biotin, and iron.

The downside is fatty meats (especially processed ones like hot dogs, salami and bacon), poultry (like fried and/or skinned varieties), and full-fat (and even reduced-fat) versions of dairy products deliver lots of total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol. Too many of these foods (especially in large portions) can mean too many calories — and elevated blood cholesterol levels and heart disease risk.

Choose animal-derived proteins in their lowest fat form, such as sirloin, flank steak or round cuts; fish; and low-fat or nonfat dairy foods. Keep portions small to maximize nutritional benefits while minimizing health risks.

Of the plant proteins such as nuts and seeds, grains, legumes — dried beans, peas, lentils and soybeans — vegetables, and to a lesser extent fruits, only soy is considered a complete protein. All others are incomplete proteins, which means they lack one or more essential amino acids. Plant proteins pack in fiber, folate, potassium, calcium and magnesium, but have little, if any, saturated fat and no cholesterol. Choose some of these foods each day to get enough essential amino acids, especially if you follow a vegetarian or vegan diet. Watch portions since legumes, nuts, and seeds pack in lots of calories in relatively small amounts.

If you have kidney problems or any other disease or condition that warrants a lower protein diet, be sure to consult with a doctor and registered dietitian.

Although the protein and weight-loss connection appears promising, it’s not a secret weapon for getting skinny. No matter which diet claims to help you shed pounds quickly, it’s not advisable to lose more than one to two each week. Anything more than that and your metabolism may slow down and actually make your body a less efficient fat-burner. Shedding pounds too fast increases your risk of gallstones, nutritional deficiencies and other serious health problems.

Elisa Zied, R.D., is a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. She is author of “Nutrition at your Fingertips” and co-author of “Feed Your Family Right!”

When it comes to losing fat there are many diets to choose from. There are thousands of diets that combine food choices in such a way to reduce caloric intake and cause fat loss. Most diets work, however not every diet works for every person. One of the goals of dieting is to find a diet that you can follow. Hopefully, you’ll find a lifestyle diet that will be easy to stick to once the excess fat is gone. Picking a diet that restricts you too much will be difficult to follow and will increase your chances of failure.

Here at “Think Sim” we believe that any diet without coffee is going to be a miserable disaster. I’d rather be 20 pounds overweight sipping on a hot mug of freshly roasted coffee than lean with only memories of coffees consumed long ago. With that said, I decided to seek out a diet that puts coffee first. To my knowledge none exist. It is then our duty to create a diet or modify an existing diet so we coffee drinkers can lose the fat and not abandon our favorite beverage. Although we strive to drink coffee in our diets, coffee by itself shouldn’t be the basis of that diet. Most of our energy should still come from food.

Caffeine as a Fat-Loss Supplement

In addition to coffee’s role in the most popular diets, let’s briefly address how caffeine by itself can be used to lose fat. There are many fat loss supplements at the nutrition store where the primary ingredient is caffeine. Supplements with names such as Metabolife, Ripped Fuel, and Beta Lean HP all use a combination of caffeine and ephedra (Ma Huang). This combination has been effective at promoting fat loss while preserving muscle. Although there are some critics of ephedra-based supplements regarding safety, this article isn’t going to go into that debate. For more information on this topic read Muscle Growth and Fat Loss by Stimulating the Я-Agonist System – The Role of Ephedrine, Caffeine, and Aspirin by Michael C. Prevost Ph.D.

The Role of Coffee in Other Diets

Before we build or modify our own diet let’s divide the major diets into 4 groups and examine how they feel about coffee. There are other diets and there are diets that fit into multiple categories. This overview is not meant to be complete and is only intended to serve as a starting point to building a coffee-friendly diet.

1. Low-Fat/High-Carb Diet
2. Isocaloric Diet
3. Low-Carb Diet
4. Macrobiotic/Holistic

The low-fat/high-carb diet includes the Pritkin Diet, Dean Orish’s diet, and countless others. Because coffee is fat-free, this diet is the most coffee friendly. However one of the reasons fat-free diets sometimes fail is the belief that removing the fat makes one immune to excess calories. A mocha made with fat-free milk may be without fat, but it is loaded with sugars and is calorically dense. If you like the sweeter coffee choices, be aware that although the drink may be fat-free you can jeopardize your diet with too many empty calories.

By far the most popular isocaloric diet is The Zone. An isocaloric diet is one where the calories from fat, protein and carbs are equal or close to equal. In the case of The Zone that ratio is 40-30-30 (40% carbs, 30% protein, and 30% fat). Isocaloric diets pay very close attention to the quality of carbohydrates. One of the key elements of this diet to avoid sugars. A simplistic overview is that by avoiding sugars the body can become more effective at burning stored body fat. But does Dr. Sears like coffee? No. Caffeine even in absense of calories can affect blood sugar. More on this later.

The low-carb diet made famous by Dr. Atkins restricts carbohydrate intake to the point where the body goes into a state known as ketosis. In the absense of carbs the body becomes very efficent at burning fat. Like the Zone diet, this diet is concerned with blood sugar and insulin levels; therefore, coffee is forbidden.

The last group is the Macrobiotic and Holistic diets. These diets deal with food combining, and Chinese medicines/enzyme therapy. You may be be able to guess how these diets feel about coffee. They don’t like caffeine because it is an aggressive stimulant. Often, they recommend ginseng tea or grain coffee as a substitute for real coffee. No thanks.

Coffee and Insulin

Both The Zone and Dr. Atkins frown on coffee because it can negatively affect blood sugar, which will affect the body’s ability to burn fat. How can a zero calorie beverage affect blood sugar? According to the Canadian Diabetes Association: Drinking caffeine in large amounts as coffee over a short period of time has been shown to raise blood sugar. Caffeine does this by enhancing the effect of two hormones (adrenaline and glucagon). These two hormones release stored sugar from the liver resulting in high blood sugar. And what happens when blood sugar levels are increased? From the Running Planet article The Glycemic Index – How to use it to Increase Your Energy And Lose Weight: This results in large amounts of insulin being dumped into your blood stream. Remember that the job of insulin is to regulate your blood sugar. It needs to do something with the excess glucose (sugar). The easiest thing for insulin to do with it is to store it in your body as fat. Simply put: coffee can affect your blood sugar which could interfere with the body’s ability to burn fat.

These fears of coffee may be over-stated. Even though the authors of these 2 diets do not favor coffee, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that either of these diets can be successful despite the continued consumption of coffee. And there is some non-ancedotal research, which indicates that exercise helps stabilize blood sugar after ingesting caffeine. Our goal, as defined above, is to get lean while continuing to enjoy coffee. So let’s address the problems coffee could pose to a diet, and find a solution.

Step 1 – Clean Up Your Coffee

Coffee by itself is perfect. It has zero calories, zero carbs, and zero fat. It even has properties that assist with fat loss. Coffee by itself isn’t the problem. Lattes, mochas, iced espresso blended with sugar, whipped cream, ice cream, flavored syrups, alcohol, and caramel are just a few of things we add into our coffee. Coffee is derived from the old Arabic word “qahwah” which means “gives strength”. Consuming popular coffee drinks today that are as calorically-dense as desserts has the effect of giving coffee a bad name, and changing the meaning of coffee from gives strength to gives girth.

In order to succeed on our diet, we must get back to basics. Regular coffee and straight shots of espresso are fine. As for milk, that depends upon your specific diet. An Atkins diet may allow half and half, whereas a low-fat diet would insist upon skim milk. If you must use sweeteners, at least make an effort to cut down: go from 2 packets to 1 packet.

Step 2 – Reduce Your Coffee Intake

If too much coffee can affect blood sugar then it only makes sense to reduce your caffeine intake. However, you don’t want to reduce your coffee intake at the same time you are reducing your caloric intake unless you have super willpower. Less calories and less caffeine usually means a reduction in energy which could lead to binge eating. A smarter move is to reduce your coffee intake for a week prior to the diet. Once the diet starts, you can slightly increase your coffee levels. It’s good to have a clear head when you’ve got an empty stomach.

Another idea is to space out your coffee intake. Instead of drinking 4 mugs of coffee back to back, consider spreading those 4 mugs throughout the day. One at 6am, 10am, 1pm, and 5pm. As long as you don’t consume too much, caffeine can be an appetite suppressant. Spreading that effect throughout the day will not only reduce your chances of increased blood sugar, but it will also help you cope with the reduced caloric levels.

Reducing your coffee intake is important, but it can be painful. Cutting back on caffeine can cause headaches and constipation. A good article on reducing caffeine intake is Accelerated Detox by Rachel Elliot.

Step 3 – Avoid Eating Simple Carbs with Coffee

Now if you’re on a low-carb diet, you’ll want to avoid simple carbs completely. However, it is a wise idea not to eat simple carbs on any diet while drinking your coffee. You know the simple carbs I’m referring to: the bagels, croissants, and scones that you see in every coffee shop. Going back to the insulin argument: if caffeine could affect blood sugar negatively then the last thing you want to do is combine it with something that is certain to cause an insulin spike.

Step 4 – Exercise

It’s common sense that exercise helps one lose fat on almost any diet. In the words of the The Illinois Department of Human Servies exercise …helps the body use insulin more efficiently, and this lowers blood sugar. If exercise can help us stablize our blood sugar then maybe we don’t have to get rid of our coffee in order to get lean. So lift some weights, do some aerobic activity, and keep drinking coffee. If you don’t have access to a gym, you can perform body-weight exercises such as the push-up and the Hindu Squat.

The 4 Diets Revisited

People are often more fanatical about their diet choice than their religion. So far be it from me to slam or endorse any particular diet. Each of the four groups mentioned restrict food selection and the result is often a caloric reduction, which translates to fat loss. What happens behind the curtains may be different, but a combination of healthy eating and exercise has always been the secret to getting lean. Using the above steps we can keep our relationship with coffee while dieting. Even a macrobiotic diet will be successful if your only deviation is pitching the herbal coffee in favor of the real stuff.

Everybody Is Different

It is possible to try the above steps with your chosen diet and not succeed. If you find that you must decide between coffee and getting lean, that’s a personal decision you should discuss with your doctor and roaster. In addition to weight training and power walking, this author followed a modified Zone Diet using the above 4 steps. The result was a body fat reduction from 18% to 9% in 4 months.

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The key factor in Zone Diet is the hormonal balance you achieve while eating each skillfully prepared meal. With a food plan comprising an accurate balanced ratio of carbohydrates (40%), fat (30%) and proteins (30%); you actually get to eat foods, which control your body’s insulin production. This means that no meal or snack is forbidden in the Zone Diet and yet you can lose weight or fat while Zone dieting.

For those emphasizing weight loss, or for the matter, for those who want to steer clear of cardiovascular sickness, diabetes and other chronic ailments, eating food that follow recommended recipes and staying in the Zone is a must.

Zone Dieting means following recipes with a low-carbohydrate diet plan, where proteins do not dominate the carbohydrates. This allows dieters to get more energy from carbohydrates rather from proteins or fats. The Zone Diet, unlike other diets, insists dieters to keep a close watch on the calorie consumption while eating: a meal not exceeding 500 calories and a snack not exceeding 100 calories is ideal for staying in the Zone.

Weight loss is not the only reason to be in the Zone. There are numerous additional benefits linked with the the Zone Diet, such as enhanced health, improved energy, improved mental clarity. The number of Americans with Type II diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate. The Zone diet is perfect for someone with Type II diabetes. Being a high protein, low carbohydrate diet program the Zone Diet was implemented to reduce both hunger and compulsion to eat. Most Zone Diet meal procedures are customized to each individual, based on sex, activity level and proportion of body fat. Every meal or snack is calculated around the 40-30-30 ratio so that the body can give optimal performance.

The Zone Diet encourages foods such as fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts, leafy green vegetables, sufficient protein consumption, and eight glasses of water everyday. However, Zone Diet prefers mono-unsaturated fats for saturated fats, says a big no to both processed foods and meals that contain too much salt.

How Zone Diet makes weight loss possible: Consuming too many carbohydrates produces too much insulin, a hormone that tells the body to pile up nutrients. The overload of insulin prompts the body to convert those carbohydrates into fat and store them in your gut, thighs, buttocks or other areas. But protein which has the contradictory effect stirs up the hormone glucagon, which tells the body to let go carbohydrates that are stocked up in the liver. When those carbohydrates are freed, the brain tells the body that its energy supplies are fulfilled and you ought to stop eating. Consequently, limiting the type of carbohydrates you eat and balancing them with 3-4 ounces of low-fat protein at every meal will keep insulin and glucagon balanced, controlling your hunger with smaller number of calories. End result: You’ll experience fat loss and lose weight. This is how the Zone Diet functions.

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MY WEIGHT BOOK FIRST “PERSONAL BOOK” FORMAT, CONCEIVED BY FRENCH MD WITH 32 EXPERTS, OFFERS INDIVIDUAL ANALYSIS OF WEIGHT CONTROL ISSUES AND PERSONAL SOLUTIONS FOR LOSS AND LIFELONG MAINTENANCE

“You have gained weight in a personal way. You will lose weight well, quickly and long-lastingly in a manner just as personal,” says Dr. Pierre Dukan, MD, in MY WEIGHT BOOK, the first “personal” book in existence. Dr. Dukan was joined by 32 specialists in areas of study such as weight and–Stress, Nutritional Therapy, Physical Activity, Tobacco Weaning, Menopause, Early Childhood, Pregnancy, Anti-ageing, and other aspects of personal experience. These experts joined Dr. Dukan in an effort to fight obesity on a world wide scale.

Pierre Dukan evolved his method and total plan over thirty years of practice in France. Many patients came to him with weight control problems that affected their health. But no matter what diet methods they employed, after the initial loss, they regained their weight and more. Working with each patient individually, he came to understand weight gain is as individual as a person’s life experience, heredity, food preferences, and emotional circumstances. Ongoing stresses—from family, a job, or the general angst of a modern life with few natural releases—often led to the immediate satisfaction of eating.

As his patients came to understand their own motivations and behavior, he was able to work with them so they could lose their weight without deprivation and, most importantly, keep it off. As requests for his work grew, he decided to come up with a book and a format that would offer an individual approach to as many people who wanted it. The figure is 1 million readers in France and, millions more in Italy, Korea, Russia, and Portugal. It was noted in France, that Dr. Dukan’s book was good in relation to other plans in loss of weight, but significantly more effective in keeping it off.

The breakthrough in his personal approach is mirrored in the “Personal” book, a format now available for women in the U.S. A reader goes on-line at www.myweightbook.com and decides they want MY WEIGHT BOOK, pays and receives a password and the essential questionnaire. She answers 154 questions, which detail the personal factors that led to her weight gain and the strengths that will help her regain control. These questions are the basis for the book that is put together for her specific weight control plan. Her copy is printed individually and reaches her in ten days. And because Dr. Dukan feels support is essential, he includes personal instructions to encourage dieters. They soon find there is no deprivation and fight against a starving body with this diet, less of a struggle. Weight control is an obtainable goal.

Dr. Dukan’s MY WEIGHT BOOK has four basic phases; attack, cruising, stabilization, counterattack. The attack phase is extremely short, it can go from two to seven days for the obese. It also can vary according to age, sex, weight to be lost, history of overweight, facility to lose, heredity etc. The reader chooses from 72 foods rich in proteins, seven meats, twenty-four fish. These foods are like a full refrigerator from which the user eats as much as she wants, at any hour and in any combination. In this period confidence sets in as weight is lost. It’s also important because the loss combines elimination of grease and water. This phase encourages and strongly reinforces motivation.

The cruising phase, improves the attack mode with 28 green vegetables. These are added in alternation to the food proteins and according to a rate which varies with the parameters of the individual’s needs. It lasts until the Right Weight is obtained, the weight ideal for the person calculated according to many parameters.

Consolidation of the weight lasts ten days for each two pounds lost. That’s 50 days for ten pounds. In this phase, fruits are added, as well as cheese, and starches. If all consolidates well, weight is maintained in the period of definitive stabilization. This establishes practices to be included for life, such as a protein only Thursday, to act as a safeguard for the other six days.

Dr. Dukan’s unique format, the personal book, means for the first time his readers are holding a book intended only for them. No two copies of MY WEIGHT BOOK are the same, just as no two readers are the same. Yet all readers can use it to obtain not just weight loss, but weight control for life.

Read more:

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• Pierre Dukan Protal – Nutrition Facts
• Pierre DUKAN, M.D. – new weight loss book Q & A
• The First Customized Diet Book by P. Dukan M.D.
• Pierre Dukan, M.D. – Exclusive Interview

Weight Loss and Diet Q& A:
Pierre Dukan on the “Book of My Weight”

Official site http://www.pierre-dukan.com

Dr. Dukan, could you tell us about your new weight loss program and diet book that you are calling the “Book of My Weight”?
I’d be delighted to. The objective of this book is to give every person who is overweight – a weight loss solution with a scientific analysis outlining the reasons for their excess weight and provide them with a solution and plan to correct it. I want to allow everyone who is overweight a chance of hope. I want to offer everyone who is overweight – something not proposed before. It is a plan to lose weight which includes “The Book of My Weight”, a unique program and analysis that offers each and every unique individual – their best chance for NOT regaining their excess weight back again in the future.I created this system with a team of specialists I assembled just for this purpose. The program and the team focus on each book and each reader. The weight book is central and the reader must fully understand that no one can lose any excess pounds for them. While t is possible to make an individual lose weight artificially by temporarily muzzling them, to really lose weight and to get out of the “fat person” category, a person must “play their own leading role” in the battle of excess weight.

The “Book of My Weight” structure and strategy was conceived, created and produced by a team of experts, “to research, to explain and to give each reader their very own, personal formula and ideal method of losing and maintaining their “Just Weight” permanently”.

• The Book of My Weight sounds like a revolutionary book?

The advent of printing was an incredible revolution. But this novel type of book is the exact reverse. In this regard, it is no longer a case of an author writing for the largest possible audience but that of a team of professionals – writing on a given subject for one sole reader. And today, the subject is overweight.The book consists of 154 questions designed by 32 specialists from weight-related disciplines creating a unique investigative tool. The 154 answers (and their billions of possible combinations) are treated in record time by a powerful computer system that deciphers and analyzes each unique individual’s relationship to their weight.The result is a synthesis that allows for the completion of a graph designed to classify all the interconnected reasons leading to the particular weight of a particular individual. In reference to the genetic code as well as digital-prints, I named this the “WEIGHT CODE”.We use this information as the material to first elaborate an all-out analysis. Then, to compile a guide-book containing everything a person needs to know – to lose weight as quickly as possible with the least amount of frustration and to stabilize to the desired weight as slowly and durably as possible.

Advanced technology, computer science and artificial intelligence are some of the means to reach our goal. We favor affective, emotional, social and psychological relations like the dimension of pleasure and instinct. For example, how does a person deal with or compensate for stress? How do they build self-esteem or self-image and with that, their view of beauty or seduction? It’s important to understand how a person deals with their own history and the way they live the story of their own weight.

• Doctor Dukan, could you explain the “Weight Book Diet Strategy”?

It’s not a diet but rather a global methodology which uses several successive diets. The methodology is composed of the following four phases:1. An attack phase, short and powerful. This can be compared to launching a rocket that in turn, in a few days, obtains the necessary results to deeply reinforce a person’s motivation, or “thrust” so to speak.
2. A cruising phase or orbiting phase, which lasts until the attainment of what I call the Just Weight.
3. Just Weight is different for every person. This weight is the easiest weight to attain and also to maintain. However, if you don’t choose your Just Weight properly, you can spend a lifetime trying to reach it.
4. Then there’s the stabilization phase, the After Weight Loss, which stands firmly at the heart of the battle against weight gain, overweight and obesity.

Until recently, doctors and patients agreed on weight loss objectives. As soon as weight loss was attained, everybody acted like the problem was solved, and now one could just pick up one’s life where it was left off.

That’s all very nice, but after a dieting things are never as they used to be. A body that has lost weight doesn’t forget it and it learns to resist. This means stabilization often requires even more effort when you take up the weight battle again.

• Are you questioning our way of living!

Absolutely! Gaining weight is not a disease.
Gaining weight is a natural way of reacting to an artificial way of living.
Dieting, however, is anti-natural. No animal in the world has ever gone on a diet. Whales sometimes commit suicide collectively by beaching, but no form of life at any given period of time, ever arbitrarily considered reducing its food intake.

The major reasons for excess weight lie in our modern-day lifestyle. Contrary to what one might believe – the price one pays for easy access to comfort, abundance and hyper-consumerism – is a rough, tough and stressful lifestyle, rich in superficial pleasure but poor in natural, vital sources of satisfaction.

In our rich and modern societies we often eat to obtain gratification, to feel pleasure, or to be appeased. We seldom eat to simply nourish ourselves.

• Can you develop this idea more?

Putting food in your mouth, while watching television, are the two best ways to gain weight. One adds fuel to the weight mechanism while the other reduces your energy expenditure.  Many paths that one could choose leading to simple and natural happiness are seemingly obstructed or blocked. We can observe how food, television and games are now being consumed as happiness substitutes.

• Are contemporary foods too rich or fatty? If so, how?

Yes, our bodies are not equipped to support such rich food. 70% of what we eat is industrially produced. Food manufacturers are in a perpetual race to market attractive products that appeal to our palate, which means that they are often too sweet, too greasy and too salty. Our organism, the human body, was originally conceived to survive in a world with a higher degree of scarcity. We are structurally unable to assimilate our current levels of food abundance – which is further combined with the eradication of almost all of our physical effort.

• What diet solution or system you suggest?

First of all, TEMPORARILY LOSING WEIGHT and PERMANENTLY LOSING WEIGHT are two totally different things. Most people, including many health professionals confuse these two topics.You can lose weight by following a diet. Any diet… Even the most extravagant or absurd diet you can find.
But losing weight permanently is an entirely different approach. It also starts off by losing some pounds. But to can talk about weight loss with the condition that the loss was acquired through a durable and healthy solution. This necessitates a phase of rehabilitation and a modification of the causes leading to the weight gain.

It is necessary for the person who has attained their Just Weight to understand this and to act intelligently and accordingly to decrease their chances of gaining weight.

Understanding the difference between these two processes makes it possible for everyone to develop a new strategy. I believe that someone with 40 pounds to lose is like someone who is drowning. You wouldn’t offer swimming lessons to a drowning man. You would pull him out of the water as fast as possible. Then you could take the necessary time to teach him to swim.

So, I repeat:
First, lose weight quickly. Then, find and attain Just Weight and Stabilize slowly – over a long period of time.

To lose weight you need a Backbone, Landmarks, and Reference Points. The only landmarks that make sense are the ones that are in harmony with our species and which emanate from our very origins and our specific manner of feeding ourselves.

In order to do that, we go back to the Genesis. The human lineage follows the great apes’ lineage. But there was an important mutation in our genetic code between, shall we say, the most modern of the great apes and the first humans.

Some of these mutations are connected to eating and feeding. Apes are vegetarians, whereas man is a hunter-gatherer. Or to be more precise, men hunt protein – game, fowl, and fish – while women traditionally gather varieties of vegetables.

To confront obesity, I’m proposing that we get back to a more natural way of eating and feeding ourselves – losing weight by eating protein-rich foods and vegetables.

To succeed with this difficult undertaking, I adapt a nutritional code of conduct to the specific profile of each user, to one’s weight history, heredity, tastes, and physical activity…

Then I add the “six magic words”: EAT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT!

Armed with an array of nutritious, tasty, appealing and satisfying foods – I request and even insist that my patients eat without limitation in regards to quantities, mixes, and schedules.

This is not a promotion gimmick. I honestly think that since everybody only has one stomach – the more it is filled with human food, the less room there is for greasy, salty, fattening artificial foods. So, the more you are able to eat in this manner – the more weight you will be likely to lose.

• Is primitive man the marker you use to locate a human being’s real needs?

Yes, exactly. Original or primitive man is the one that I find the most naturally human. He is the fruit of genetics and of the environment at a precise moment in the evolution of our species, totally pure of any cultural necessity or influence at that period in time,  Nutrition is one of the great issues of our natural life, but only one. The other issues concerning our evolution have had to adapt to successive cultural changes and civilizations too.We live at a time when culture and technology are at the service of mankind. Every woman and every man alive today, has seen the quality of their existence improved, by those who have preceded us. Our needs and aspirations are better satisfied, our illnesses better cured and our lives are more prolonged.But in order to benefit from these gifts, this Manna, the individual has to step back and bow to the society that has made it available. As a result, he must also accept the economic rules of growth. And the artificial necessity to be a better consumer this season than in the season preceding it…But all human being are governed by instinctive and biological needs. And these needs (on condition that they are met and satisfied) are the only ones which truly have power to maintain our biological and psychological balance, the stability of our emotions or put another way, our “happiness and fulfillment”.Consumerism amuses and entertains us and can even give us a kind of a high. But consumption doesn’t have the physiological or cerebral ability to make a person happy. And when a person doesn’t feel happy, “they desperately try to grab a bit of pleasure out of life and get intensely attached to any event that puts some life back inside of them at whatever cost”.Most often the simplest and easiest first gesture consists of putting food in one’s mouth disregarding any future consequences for weight, health or personal well being.

• What about obesity and the future?

I am optimistic. More and more, leaders from many countries are alarmed with the situation. Excess weight is a reliable marker for measuring general wellness and weight increase is a sure sign of difficulties in other areas of life. I believe that more and more voices will speak up, to refuse to accept or allow that the essentials, the “basics of human life” continue to be threatened by the superfluous.Doctors will likely play an increasingly important role in this collective awareness. They are the clinical witnesses to the absurdity and the toxicity of certain modern-day lifestyles. Depression, spasmophilia, anxiety, asthenia, obesity, the use of psychotropic drugs and societal violence – all are loud, clear signals that point to an individual lack of the human essentials. And anti-depressants and tranquilizers won’t treat the core of these problems. They may reduce the collective pain and suffering temporarily but they won’t increase the pleasure or sustainability of living.

• What “Future” do you see for the “Book of My Weight”?

This new approach is radically innovative. The price is quite reasonable for the majority of people who are gaining weight today so the “Book of My Weight” is capable of effectively addressing societal and individual dietary needs. The “Book of My Weight” provides individuals a durable, sustainable weight loss solution and system as well as a proven weight control program and weight loss plan.

• The Book of My Weight – In Closing

I personally feel that the information contained in each and every individuals unique “Weight Book” will provide, (perhaps for the first time since the global appearance of mass obesity), a halt to the systematically unchecked march toward obesity, now occurring in numerous countries throughout the world. Thank you.