The Maui Diet: Blog

If you are interested in healthy, permanent fat loss, every day can be a fat loss day. Here is how such a day looks. Follow this template and you will lose fat, guaranteed

The day starts out the night before. You have not eaten dinner or snacked at night. More on these further on.

Drink some water, hot, warm or room temperature. There was a time when I could not drink water in the morning, so I know this can be a challenge. I was able to change and so can you if you need to.

I like to exercise on an empty stomach, so I start my day with exercise. Whether you like to eat before or after exercise is your choice, but it is important to get exercise in the morning. When we exercise in the morning, we charge up our metabolism from the start of the day. This keeps it elevated throughout the day, so we burn calories even when we are not exercising. If we wait until the afternoon or later to exercise, our metabolism tapers off sooner and we lose the benefit of burning extra calories.

Eat a full, healthy, nutritious breakfast. Ideally it is your main meal of the day. A whole grain, multi-grain cereal, hot or cold, with fresh fruit and almond, rice or soymilk is one good choice.

My favorite is rolled oats, with dates, almonds, walnuts, raisins, apple. I sometimes add a banana smoothie in place of milk. This dish is nutrient dense, with protein, fat, carbohydrates, plus fiber. It really sticks to the ribs.

If you don’t have time for such a meal, get up earlier. Or use a crock-pot to cook your healthy cereal overnight. Making breakfast the main meal of the day is that important.

You do not snack between meals. You let a minimum of four hours pass before eating again. If you have eaten the kind of breakfast I advise, you will not get hungry for at least four or five hours.

If you get hungry between meals, drink water. If water will not do and you need to eat, have a banana, apple, an orange. In any event, pure, filtered water is now your main beverage.

Relieve stress and tension throughout the day. Do deep breathing, stretching, mini breaks. A short walk. Stress is a major cause of overweight, so do not neglect healthfully handling it.

Lunch should be a substantial meal, emphasizing foods as grown: fresh vegetables, fruits, complex carbohydrates. Real food, not refined.

Eliminate dinner. And nighttime snacks. The pounds really come off when you this. The health benefits of fasting during the evening hours include enhanced production of melatonin, which helps regulate sleep.

Bed: you get enough sleep, but not too much. For most, the ideal is between 6 and 9 hours. You wake up feeling ferociously fantastic, hungry for a nutritious breakfast, ready for another great day.

I ran into a buddy recently who reminded me of the lawyer I helped bury a couple of years ago. No, this is not a lawyer joke; the lawyer was dead of a heart attack.

My buddy is just like that lawyer, forever fat. He’s into “wait loss,” waiting for something to finally help him lose weight. He knows my business and he mentioned that he needs to get on my program. But he hasn’t, and has been that way for years.

One of my tactics in The Maui Diet for people like him is called “create your own click.” Instead of waiting for something to click to make you lose fat. Because who knows when that might come along? Creating your own click is a proactive approach and easy to do. You just do it—create your own click instead of waiting for it to magically appear. You make it happen. Anyone can do this immediately.

What if you don’t? You can end up like Ed, the 500-pound lawyer who is no longer with us. He suffered a massive coronary infarction—a heart attack—and died in his early 30s.

A tragedy. He was a smart guy and could have put all his intellectual powers to work and lost all the weight he needed to lose. Anyone can. But he didn’t. He was into “wait loss.”

As sad as his death was, another friend who never lets anything get in his way of seeing the humor in things, said before the funeral, “My God, they’re going to need a piano crate to bury Ed in!”

And indeed Ed’s casket was a biggie, which are being made more these days, along with oversize furniture, hospital beds, clothes, etc. At the cemetery we pallbearers actually had to walk uphill hefting Ed in that piano crate-sized casket. I thought we were going to have heart attacks.

Think something like that could happen to you? Maybe, maybe not. A heart attack is just one of many risks of overweight. We now know overweight is connected to many more forms of cancer than previously known. Along with stroke, diabetes and all the other unsavory scenarios being overweight invites into your life.

I urge you to get out of your “wait loss” mode and into creating your own click right now to lose weight, healthfully and permanently. I show you how in my books, The Maui Diet and The Maui Diet Daily Action PlayBook. Get your copies and you can and will turn “wait loss” into real weight loss.