Science has finally caught up with common sense on the question of food and weight gain. If you want to weigh less, you have to eat fewer calories. Paradoxically, this does not mean that you need to be on the scale every five minutes. Nor does it mean you need to walk around with a pair of tweezers and a microscope doling out minuscule portions of food.

If you ate nothing but celery do you think you could get fat? Even if you ate a lot of celery? Celery is a high fiber food that your body is going to have work hard on to digest. It appears that we have a principle here. We have discovered at least one food that you could eat unlimited amounts of without getting fat. The problem is, once you change what you eat, you should have no intention of ever changing again. You don't really want to be stuck with celery for life.

You need to reduce the number of sodas or pop that you drink. If you drink no soda, that would be best. The only thing you should drink is water. By the way, you can drink all the water you want. So again, we have something that you can consume as much as you want of. I believe the science says you need to drink eight glasses of water a day. If you really want to loose weight, this means you! Drinking a glass of water before you eat a meal will allow you to eat less.

There is no minimum daily requirement for refined sugar. If you really want to loose weight you need to give up refined sugar for life. No cookies, cakes, candy or ice cream.

You also need to give up empty starches such as potato chips and crackers.

What can you eat? You can eat as many vegetables as you want. When you have finished with the veggies you may have fruit for desert.
What ever kind of fruit you want. No pies though. In other words, no cooked fruit.

Meat is still on the menu. As for my self I love lasagna and cheese burgers. I just don't take sugar, not even in my coffee and tea.

If you give up refined sugar and empty starches, you may eat almost anything else you want but you must eat things like bread in moderation. Even then, the bread should be whole grain bread. None of that denatured crap that they have to add fake vitamins back into. Eat real bread, but not a lot of it.

Speaking of vitamins, I have never heard a recognized medical authority state that normal, healthy people need to be popping all kinds of vitamin pills every day. We need to get vitamins from food. If you have a medically recognized deficiency

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