Ingredients to avoid for weight loss

If you see any of the following words on the ingredients list, your food contains additives that could interfere with weight loss:




Crystalline fructose

Corn oil

Corn syrup

Cornstarch

Dextrose

High-fructose corn syrup

Hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated vegetable (usually soybean) oil

Hydrogenated starch hydrolysate

Maltodextrin

Soy grits

Soy protein concentrate

Soy protein isolate

Soy lecithin

Textured soy protein

Yeast overgrowth affects men too

Yeast overgrowth in your GI tract slows down your metabolism and despite popular belief, yeast overgrowth isn’t something that only affects women. Plenty of men have it too. We recently treated an executive who had been diagnosed with sleep apnea and was using a breathing machine to keep his windpipe open at night. It turned out that a yeast overgrowth in his GI tract was causing an excessive amount of post-nasal drip. Within four days of starting our diet, the man was no longer using his breathing machine, and his wife no longer complained of him snoring.

Rearrange your kitchen

Which types of food do you have sitting in plain view? Which foods will you see every time you open the refrigerator, freezer, or cupboard? Many clients have told us that they’ve easily gone days or weeks without pasta, potatoes, bread, or other high-carbohydrate foods, but when they saw those foods- say their spouse brought home a fresh crusty loaf of bread from the bakery- they lost their resolve. If possible, get rid of tempting foods that you will not be eating in the coming weeks. If other family members complain, put these foods in an inconvenient location or out of sight. For example, put bread in the freezer. Put snack chips in the highest kitchen cabinet, one you do not open very often. Put chocolate and other extremely tempting foods in an opaque container, and put the container out of sight, too.