The Best Diet Tip EVER

Hi Joel,
About triggering insulin – unless the food has a GI of less than 30, it will. Also, carbs are 100% anti- ketogenic – so if you don’t eat a balanced diet, you can’t lose weight – you also need fats – 100% ketogenic, so you have to use your fat stores, & protein 46% antiketogenic & 54% antiketogenic, use a lot of energy to digest. You need to lose fat, but without burning it – so High-Intensity Interval Training & resistance training are essential. This is from a yo-yo dieter who has been on more diets than you’ve had hot dinners.

Joel i wanted to know whay u think about the keto diet, i have been on it for two weeks and think its a really good diet to try. Info from bodybuilding.com.

Actually, that is extremely simple and the last thing you think of, especially when you have kids. My first thought was I can’t do that, as the kids miss out, but then again, they need to learn how to eat better, and what a good way to be an example to them.

When my kids were younger and I was watching what I ate all the time they did learn to enjoy healthier options. Not that I expect kids to eat fat free or any kind of really restrictive diets but we had a lot of fresh fruit and veggies around the house at all times. Now that my baby is 20 and is the only one yet at home, I notice that he really isn’t into junk eating at all. Rarely wants dessert items and even when asked if he wants chips for snacking he doesn’t generally request that kind of thing. Paid off to minimize the trash because the kids simply didn’t develop the eating patterns that have been so difficult for so many of us to overcome. But the temptations are everywhere. At work is the most difficult for me. The dreaded, evil candy drawer that one of the doctors keep loaded for all of us nurses, the 3 am fatigue which tries to baffle us into thinking that we are hungry to stave off sleep, the nutritionally empty but Oh So Delicious gifts of food that families bring us or that our own staff brings almost every night….you get the picture. I try to keep a visual image of the goal I am working to obtain. Helps with the temptation factor.

Joel, thanks for being honest and revealing that guys who have a great physique and are muscular give up eating junk food totally and they have been doing it for a while to get to this stage now. Now I know how much give up it really takes to build a nice body and make muscles. I travel for my work and last nite my flight was delayed for 3 hours. I screwed myself with Taco Bell and then on the flight the drinks and snacks overkilled it.

Hi Joel
Thank you for Diet Tips for late Night Eating I think we all get the munchies at night, late or not after dinner, some times and you think before I eat something I shouldn’t go to bed before you pig out.

Thanks again

Cheers Steven

My house has been junk free for years now, and frankly, totally honest here, I cannot remember when I last had a potato chip! Or corn chip, pretzel, pop corn, crackers … well yes, the occasional whole wheat cracker dipped in hummus (home made for safety, no additives).

I have a sweet-tooth, but solved that problem by letting my husband keep a box of portion-sized bites somewhere (I don’t know where that is) and just give me ONE piece, when I crave something sweet. He’s not allowed to give me more than one piece at a time, and not give it to me automatically every day either.

Or I make “shake-sickles” – pop-sickles made from a protein shake and frozen in my freezer in special moulds. They’re great in summer especially.

This is a wonderful idea, but I live with my daughter and her two preteen children and don’t really have control over what is brought into the house. Any ideas on how to avoid this pitfall???

I have been trying to do this for years with a fair bit of success. Once i a while something does get into my house and, true to form, it goes quickly. When this happens though it does help me NOT to grab the wrong foods for the next while, while shopping.
My greatest snacking no-no is bread, love bread and it seems that whole grain, although good and good for you, sort of takes on a negative value when used in volume and as a snack.
My problem: I have tremendous will power – but it is the won’t power that is not nearly so strong!
Charlie

Joel, you are so right about the junk food. The best way is do not buy it in the first place. Since the first of the year, I have looked at every bite I take as a way of being healthy and happy for me and my family. It works, Want to snack have a carrot or salad or fruit with a few nuts. Hot green tea at night really helps me with the cravings.

Simply great advice

With both kids and significant others, I think the first step is to start slowly.

Begin by making the top shelf of the fridge a quick-eating, healthy zone. When people want to eat, they’ll pick what is easy and quick. When kids open the door for something quick, have some precut veggies like broccoli, carrots, and celery with healthy dressing or peanut butter, marinated, sliced, and cooked pieces of chicken ready to go, yogurt cups, sliced fruit, and other goodies. Leave out walnuts and perhaps a fruit bowl (although some fruits are best sliced and ready to go.)

The best way to do this is to never waste your time and energy cooking less than you should. First, before ever going to the store, have a nice, large portion of meat cooked in healthy fat like olive oil (keep you feeling full), lots of water, and a good source of vegetables for fiber. That will keep you from impulses. Go to the store and buy a ton of boneless, skinless chicken breast. When you get home, immediately put in in marinade (either in the baking dishes or bags) to bake together the next day. Slice, portion out into single-serving containers and make sure you keep a couple thawed portions in the fridge at all times. Make sure they LOOK appetiizing, too! Continue to buy the usual stuff at first. Make sure your hungry husbands and kids are getting enough protein and healthy fats to keep them full.

For other healthy foods, make them easy. Prep a salad with fresh spinach leaves, walnuts, chunks of chicken, sliced prunes, and a little gorgonzola. Have a healthy dressing close by. It can be served with dinner, as a snack, or anytime.

Remember this too: “value” amounts of discount ice cream never are a value. Don’t buy unhealthy foods in bulk. You rarely need a whole carton of ice cream – buy a pint, if anything. Make dessert something you go out for, not something you have at home.

After a couple of weeks of keeping quick, healthy snacks in your refrigerator, and finishing up the sweet stuff, sit down with your family. Tell them that while you understand that they love your sweet tooth, your job as a parent or significant other is to feed and nourish. Let them know that you will provide and pay for all the healthy foods they want, but they are responsible for saving up and paying for the sweets they want. Explain that sweets are for special occasions, and you feel they have started to take them for granted. Then stick to it and be an example. For kids, they’ll learn a little about saving and value. For spouses, you might see yourself asked out on more dinner-dates to have something delicious. Make sweets a special occasion, not the only quick thing available in the kitchen.

I never eat non foods. Yes, they are in my house because my wife eats them. But I keep my foods in seperate areas from my wifes foods. Plus, I eat no grains and no sugar, so that right there eliminates most junk foods. So that leaves me fruits and veggies, plus eggs and fish for protein. I stick with my whole foods, even at parties or family events.

Great advice! I’m an addict in redcovery with 14 years clean. We have a saying if you keep hanging around the barbershop you’ll eventually get a haircut. I keep my home junk food free because I know that if it’s there I’ll eventually have some. Thinking anything different is only fooling myself.
Thanks again for all you give us on a regular basis. Joel, you da man!.

hey joel, I never thought of it that way, i never carry any of those foods in my kitchen anyways, but it seems i might have to, lol because all I have is healthy foods and I’m not gaining any weight. I’ve got my protien intake roughly around 2g per pound, calorie intake at 800 to 1000 over my TDEE, (i’ve got the routine down to a science). Aside from having only 5 to 6 hours of sleep a night, I dont know what else I’m doin wrong, my body fat is lower than it should be, and it seems my metabolism is goin hard:(. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanx

I believe as long as you dont see the things at your fingertip you wont have the urge to go out and get it.I always tell my friends that they will soon forget what the things that is bad for them they will soon forget what they taste like and that piece of advice is bearing fruit please try it.
Freddie

Sound advice! I found if you do have “illegal” foods in the home – keep is locked away so that it is an effort to reach it. By the time you’ve unlocked the cupboard and got to the grub you would have come to your senses and not scoff it down.

Keep the tips coming – learning everyday!

Best diet tip ever. If only I can convince my wife to junk all the junk food.

Heh Heh! – Got to admit that I didn’t expect that one!
I guess in really desperate times, make sure that your friendly neighbour hasn’t got any nasty foodstuffs in as well ;-)
Excellent tip though.
Cheers
Tel