(Thanks, D. :)

Reader D. writes:

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Re: Staying trim or losing weight might not be....

Hi Hobie.

I too was over weight and lost a lot of weight quickly. It began when I started slow juicing raw produce. I also started not liking the taste of grain products and dead sugars or I had stomach problems when I did eat them. After losing weight going from obese to normal BMI, I started researching to understand how I lost so much weight.

During the late 1990's, our govt sponsored the Genome Project and the genetics that cause us to be obese, diabetic, get cancer, etc are all softwired and change based on our environment. Then I researched further to learn all corn & soy products contain a foreign form of estrogen that disrupts our thyroid to slow down metabolism of our foods. Further research showed we can fatten ourselves by raising insulin levels. Raw fruit (fructose) can spike our glucose and it wears off fast, whereas the high concentrate high fructose corn syrup hangs around for a while longer at much higher spikes. Grain products are not much better than the high fructose corn syrup because the sugars are released slower and will keep our glucose insulin pumping for a few days forcing our body to store fat. Dead sugars such as heated or dried fruit, or pasteurized fruit juices are bad for storing more fat.

The way I find that keeps the weight off is keeping a balance between glucose burning and fat burning. I'm thin and my weight stays within 5 lbs. I only eat one meal a day with very little snacking which keeps my body in fat burning mode most of the day. I eat as many of my foods as raw as possible. No grains, rarely dead sugars, all fruit is eaten raw, and I add lots of good oils and eliminate bad oils. The bad oils and especially fried proteins are hard for our body to digest so our body pumps out more insulin to help. A sample meal would be a can of tuna, 10 oz of guacamole, avocado oil added, EV olive oil added, 1 tbsp cod liver oil added, Himalayan sea salt, black pepper, ground turmeric, ground basil/sage/thyme/oregano, cayenne pepper, and I stir this all together.

I found the more good calories I consumed the more weight I lost. If I consume 5000 calories, I lost more than if I consumed 1000 calories. But this diet was based on good sugars & oils and no whey protein or incomplete proteins that have been processed. If someone freshly squeezed oranges they'd lose weight while pasteurized orange juice will gain weight like crazy. I did this test with pasteurized fruit juices and it takes a few days to lose the weight from pasteurized juices. And I don't drink pasteurized milk because the pasteurized sugars don't agree with my stomach.

I looked at a 1900 photo of grown men and they were all thin. Too bad we didn't inherit their thinnest. It's the processed foods that is making our children so fat. Our body was not meant for the junk being sold and the junk is being stored as fat to protect us from toxins. As a side note, I get more exercise now that I lost a lot of weight and I did not lose weight due to more exercise. It's the diet for weight loss.

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