Weight Loss - "Apple" Type Diet
- By Chris Hardwicke
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- 01 Jul, 2018
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"Apple" Type Diet
The apples will ALWAYS do better with a low-carb or a low glycemic-carb diet. You DO NOT have to watch calories IF, and I mean IF, you eat NO high or medium glycemic food. You must eat only carbs below 50 on the Glycemic Index. That makes low glycemic eating the MOST SUSTAINABLE choice for apple types.
However, many of you will not tolerate even ONE serving of the offending carbs per week as this could negate all weight loss. This ‘carb tolerance’ is highly individual and you must find your own level. Some can have a piece of bread per day, others cannot.
If I eat one sandwich per week I will be fat regardless of how much exercise I do. Believe me, I have tried!! I have not eaten a piece of bread in 15 years. I have tried to have an occasional bite of dessert over the years and immediately gained weight until I decided to stop playing with my food.
Many low carb diet books such as “South Beach Diet” sell better by stating that you CAN eat some of these carbohydrates. Just know that when you see those words you will be eating less carbohydrates AND less calories. If you want to eat until you are full, I doubt that you will be eating those “bad” (high glycemic) carbs.
You should NEVER go hungry. Contrary to popular opinion, you are not a supersizing glutton; you have a sickness. Your pancreas has been overwhelmed by a constant load of simple starch and sugar.
When we began to gain weight, 90% of us eventually ate less food in response. Now you may return to your full caloric intake as long as you eat NO bad carbohydrates. Eventually, very near the end of desired weight loss, the quantity of food MAY become more important to you as you finally pass by your “healthy” weight and attempt a “vanity” weight.
Vanity weight is a body whose fat stores are too low. This is not sustainable and many models and body builders get “ripped” for competition days only. This eventual need to watch calories confuses many trainers and other teachers who have little body fat to begin with. In fact trainers who have never been an “apple” will swear that lowering bad carbs does nothing simply because it does nothing to them! Remember, if your pancreas is fully functioning you will not gain weight from eating “bad” (low glycemic) carbs.
The more pronounced the tummy; the faster the weight loss. If you look ‘pregnant’ (male or female) and have not stored much fat elsewhere you will lose weight rapidly. Your next medical check up will show a lowering of triglycerides and the bad cholesterol within just 4 or 5 weeks. This is your diet. You are part of the epidemic in America today caused by excess consumption of sugar and processed carbs.
If you have read the whole weight loss section, you will know that on your first diet, you will lose weight very quickly and that it will be slower with each successive diet. If you do this over and over, as many do every bathing suit season, it may eventually take a year to lose 10 pounds. You may choose to start by eliminating all flour products, rice, corn, potatoes, sugar (except one teaspoon) or other sweeteners, beer and white wine, tropical and dried fruit. I know that these are your favorite foods or you would not have the tummy problem. There are a few other foods you need to look out for but these are the biggies.
Here is a list of carbs and their Glycemic Index. You may eat one serving at any meal of any the carbs below 50 on this scale, thus creating a BALANCED diet, NOT a low carb diet. Remember, if your low carb diet includes even small amounts of high glycemic carbs you must also eat low calorie to avoid fat storage. (Those of you eating whole plates of pasta and half a pizza are on ultra HIGH carb diets.) Overcooking, grinding, milling or juicing will all raise the glycemic index of a given carb.
This is the “sure thing” version. The other option is to gradually lower the quantity of the offending carbohydrates, instead of removing all of them, until weight loss begins. Weight loss will begin later but you will find you own carbohydrate tolerance level more quickly through this method and will not eliminate some carbohydrates unnecessarily.
Most apples will need to eat 5 times a day to prevent the low blood sugar problems that are associated with low pancreatic function. Most common symptoms of this include tiredness, brain fog and strong cravings for sugary and salty carbohydrates. Commonly these low blood sugar periods are at 10:00 am. to 11:00 am and again at 2:00, 3:00 or 4:00 pm. Be prepared and eat BEFORE you crash (sustainability trials).
There is much more to say about low glycemic weight loss, in fact, I have a manuscript on the subject that is 300 pages long. I welcome your questions by e-mail and I will post blogs and dates for my public lectures on this site.
We are fight or flight, hunting and gathering animals. In our DNA are all the tools for energy creation. Through the Kreb’s cycle, we can convert ALL food to energy. We can live in excess of 40 days on water alone. We can walk 300 miles without anything other than water. Though it is occasionally not evident, we are the most highly evolved animals on Earth.
To better understand how we create more energy, we would do well to visualize a spiral. If we follow the line of the spiral we see that it moves up and then levels out, reaching an ever-increasing height. The same is true when we create energy. Our energy levels cannot simply rise straight up. We must also level out to create energy (rest).
If you have been sedentary for a long time and one day you decide to go jogging for a couple of miles, you will be tired for several days after. You will need to rest. Tiredness is the downside of the spiral. From just that one run, you have created more energy that is yours to use AFTER recovery. This increased energy is the upswing of the spiral. If you continue to run and rest, the spiral will go up and level out with the net result being a gain in energy. Our heart becomes bigger and our lungs more toned, the relevant jogging muscles are stronger and more efficient.
To return to our car analogy, our engine has become bigger and stronger. When running a couple of miles no longer challenges us we have ADAPTED to our running regimen. At this point, if we do not run faster, farther or longer we will not continue to increase our energy. Our current level of running will MAINTAIN our current level of ADAPTATION (energy level). If we stop running we will gradually go back down the spiral. If we do not allow for full recovery through proper sleep we will also see a drop in performance. Sleep is an important part of the leveling out of the spiral.
In a nutshell, we must work hard enough to go higher “up” the spiral, and then rest, through which we will adapt to higher and higher levels of energy.
You can feed all the fuel you want to a weak engine and it will still not go faster. You can cleanse the fuel lines all you want and you will not increase YOUR performance if your engine is small and weak.
We have total control of our energy level. We are responsible for creating our own energy. If you do not have any, you have created the weak engine I am talking about. It is very easy to look to cleanses and supplements, but a strong engine can run very well for a long time on junk food, much as putting cheap gas in your car often takes 100,000 miles to have a negative effect.
In our car analogy, we fixed everything but the engine and still we had no better performance. A big difference between human engines and car engines is that if you park your car in the garage for a few years, the engine remains just as powerful. The human engine, however, will actually shrink. Your entire system can get clogged by parking it on the couch too long and not taking it out for a good drive once in a while. If you only drive it to work and back it won’t continue to run well for long. You will see what I mean when you finally “floor it” and black smoke pours out of the exhaust! It may even stall! Quick, before it’s too late, let’s make this thing run right, faster, and longer.
Why don’t you have some coffee, sugar, or fruit? That ought to pick you up! How about an energy drink with some wild sounding jungle herbs? Most of us regularly look for energy in a particular food or drink and we are eventually forced to acknowledge that it does not work.
We have an epidemic of blood sugar problems (hypoglycemia) that affect an estimated 60% of this country. In fact, most companies give workers a break at 10 a.m. and often this is not because they are generous, but productivity has markedly slowed. At this point you have only been at work for two, at most three, hours! Certainly you are not already out of energy. Notice that your break room is filled with caffeine, candy, and salty and sweet carbohydrates in hopes of kicking you back into productivity.
Further notice that the great ‘medication stations”—convenience stores— that are filled from one end to the other with these items! I can fix your “Blood Sugar” problem such that you can fully access energy you already have, but that will NOT create more!
Many alternative modalities promise to remove “blocks” to your energy or increase the flow of energy. Often “cleansing” of some type is recommended. Notice that removing blocks and increasing FLOW are NOT the same as creating MORE energy. For a better understanding of energy, I shall use a car for my analogy.
Let’s say that the tube that carries gasoline to the engine (the fuel line) is clogged. The car runs poorly. When you clear the “blockage” you “increase the flow” of fuel to the engine. While this is important and I often recommend energy-flow work, you will NOT have MORE energy, but full access to the energy you already had.
How about if the carburetor is not mixing the air and gasoline correctly? Again the car runs poorly. Many vitamin and supplements companies make “increased-energy” claims based on improving your fuel mix. While supplements and diet can sometimes correct nutritional deficiencies, you will only have better fuel, not more fuel. This is very important as better fuel is necessary for high performance. Many people in third world countries suffer from malnutrition and cannot perform well. However, you and I are likely getting everything we need for our day-to-day performance and even our “weekend warrior” athletics. Body builders, high school, college and professional athletes may well need supplements if their diet is less than perfect but I’m willing to bet that quality fuel is not your problem.
For now, let’s assume that your fuel system is clean enough and you eat a good enough diet. If this is the case, and most often it is, the cause of your lack of energy is that your motor is small and inefficient and that nothing you put in the gas tank can change that!
