The Maui Diet: Blog

Here are four great, healthy ways to lose fat now.

4. Move toward a balanced plant-based diet of whole, fresh natural foods, emphasizing fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains, beans, legumes, nuts, and seeds. This is the healthiest and best diet for losing fat because it is free of animal fat and animal products fat, like dairy and eggs. We are what we eat and meat and animal products are loaded with fat, and with the worst kind, saturated fat. If you’ re eating a balanced, healthy plant-based diet of whole, natural foods, you will get adequate protein. If you’re not willing to give up meats, poultry, fish, dairy and eggs, use these as flavorings rather than as the main course in every meal.

3. Practice eating to about three-quarters full. Lose the habit of filling yourself up at every meal. The best way to do this is to slow down your rate of eating. It takes 20 minutes for our stomach to tell our brain it is full. When you take a full 20 minutes to eat a healthy meal, you will feel full by the end of that time and unlikely to want to eat more. If you rush your eating, you are more likely to overeat.

2 Make breakfast your main meal, a substantial, healthy meal that starts your day off right, and keeps you fueled for four or five hours or more. Eat a whole grain or multi-grain cereal, hot or cold, with non-dairy milks like almond, soy or rice milk. With fresh fruit, nuts, seeds, dried fruit. Whole grain toast with nut butters like peanut, almond, or cashew butter. Fruit salad with soy yogurt.

1. Do not snack in between meals. Drink water instead. This is a powerful tactic that works. If during your transition period to establish this habit you must eat, make it a piece of fresh fruit, an apple, an orange or banana. But move toward eliminating snacking in between meals altogether.

1. Make pure, filtered water your main beverage.
2. Move toward a balanced plant based diet of whole, fresh natural foods, emphasizing fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains, beans, legumes, nuts, seeds.
3. Obey the feed limit. Practice eating to about three-quarters full. Lose the habit of filling up at every meal. The best way to do this is to slow down your rate of eating.
4. Eliminate the evening meal until you lose all the fat you want to lose.
5. Do not snack in between meals. Drink water instead.
6. Move toward making breakfast your main meal, a substantial, healthy meal.
7. Eliminate meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, eggs, refined carbohydrates, refined sugars, oils and other refined fats. Never, ever eat anything with hydrogenated fat/oil, trans fats.
8. Learn relaxation techniques and do them throughout day. They’re easy and beneficial for relieving stress, one of the main causes of overweight.
9. List your favorite non-food, non-beverage pleasures, things you like, healthy pleasures other than eating and drinking, and do some daily.
10. Avoid inflammation, a major cause of overweight, by eating lots of fresh, colorful fruits and vegetables.
11. Get adequate sleep but do no oversleep. For most people, optimum amount is between 6 and 9 hours a night.
12. Get daily aerobic exercise daily, at least 30 minutes a day, and as aerobic/cardiovascular base is established, add strength/resistance training, with or without weights, 3 times a week.