The Maui Diet: Blog

Check my morning weigh-in’s over this 4-week stretch:

This was a very impressive weight loss. First, because it is challenging for me to lose weight, like almost everyone over age 40. It’s true for me, even as a weight loss professional.

But my loss was doubly impressive because I made just one small, painless change in my eating habits. What a significant change it turned out to be.
I was on my regular eating and exercise program, but during this time, I dropped my over-consumption of nuts and seeds. I went from 6-7-8 handfuls a day to less than one—I started strictly watching my limit. And the pounds plummeted.

Raw nuts and seeds are healthy, nutritious food choices, as long as they are raw, not roasted like the ones in the blue and yellow can, which are also heavily salted. But raw or roasted (never eat the roasted), nuts are high in fat. Which is why, as a lover of food and particularly fattening foods, I was way over-eating these otherwise healthy foods. Nuts, as you’ve probably heard, must indeed be eaten sparingly by anyone interested in getting lean. I looked, I learned, I took action, I got results.

It really pays to be vigilant when you’re going for a lean, fit body. I had to take a truthful look at every aspect of my diet and exercise to find I was way overeating nuts and seeds.
Then I had to take action to correct the flaw. When I did, the payoffs and rewards were spectacular.
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More great reasons to eat what The Maui Diet recommends—whole, fresh, natural foods, just the way they’re grown in nature.
A company recently recalled the second of its foods in two weeks, saying both could be contaminated with salmonella. The first was something called Veggie Booty Snack Food; the latest to be recalled is a popular snack food called Super Veggie Tings Crunchy Corn Sticks Snack Food.
Forget the salmonella. Contaminated or not, these are not to be eaten by anyone interested in a good diet. I call these types of products phony health food. They have nothing to do with health, but they use words like Veggie to put a veneer of healthiness on the product.
But whatever they’re called, the first dead giveaway is that they are a product, or a manufactured food. Processed, packaged. Far from whole, fresh, natural food, in other words. They’re junk food, and have no place in a wholesome, nutrient-rich natural diet, which is what you should shoot for.
But another part of this story is deeper, subtler, worth checking out and understanding. Taken with other food news recently, it gives us more reasons to eat whole, fresh, natural foods exclusively. You see, this product being recalled is actually made under contract by another, unnamed company. It is not even made by Robert’s American Gourmet Inc, the company doing the recalling. Wow.
Why not name that company, the one that is actually manufacturing this food product?
We consumers no nothing at all about this company that makes this product that is now suspected of containing salmonella.
It might be based in China. Or Mexico. Or countless other countries. Who knows? Only Robert’s American Gourmet Inc, and they’re not naming the company or where it’s at.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Remember, the FDA is not looking out for your best interests, far, far from it. To repeat, if it’s a manufactured, so-called “food product,” no matter what the name or health claims or things like “Zero Trans Fat!” on the label, move away from it. Put more simply, if man made it, don’t eat it. Stick with whole, fresh, natural foods, as closely as possible.

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