Nutritional and Lifestyle Guidelines
Target no more than 60 grams of carbohydrates a day (15 per meal and 7 per snack) while your metabolism heals.- Limit dairy products to 4 servings a day, preferably organic.
- Completely avoid soft drinks (including diet sodas) and juices with high-fructose corn syrup. Limit use of artificial sweeteners.
- Drink 6-10 glasses each day of filtered water, seltzer, or herbal teas.
- Eliminate/taper sugar, sweets and junk food from your diet.
- Eliminate/taper alcohol — the ultimate “sugar buzz.”
- Eliminate “white food” – white sugar, white flour, white cereal.
- Be sure to take a medical-grade nutritional supplement, including a fatty acid supplement. Your hormonal balance depends on a supply of rich nutrients.
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In addition to what you eat, a few positive lifestyle habits can really make a difference in how you feel. We have learned that you have to get healthy before you can lose weight and keep it off. Once you create a health foundation, your body will naturally seek and maintain its ideal weight. Remember that a safe and healthy weight loss is 1-2 lbs per week. Here are the things we know work:
Shop the outside aisles of the grocery store.- Buy organic and local whenever possible. Pay attention to chemicals, heavy metals, and bacteria in your environment. Shop at farmer’s markets and specialty food stores that have a wider range of healthy foods.
- Stop weighing yourself. Use your dress size as your gauge.
- Start exercising. A 45-minute walk 4-5 times a week is great.
- Get 8 hours of sleep — no exceptions!
- If you recognize that you have a habit of emotional eating, get some counseling. The underlying emotional issues create other health problems too. And they won’t go away without intervention. For more information, read our article, “How Emotional Experience Determines Your Health.”
- Reduce the stress in your life to the extent you can. Make time for yourself to compensate for when you can’t.
- If you have obvious digestive problems or food sensitivities, consider a hypoallergenic diet or an elimination diet. Discuss getting a bioimpedence analysis from your practitioner.
Above and beyond the dietary and lifestyle choices you make, learn to love and accept yourself. Focus on your health, not your weight. And if you wander from your personal blueprint for health, forgive yourself and step back toward balance. If you can’t do it all, do what you can.
The suggestions above are a great starting place for all women concerned about their weight and being healthy.
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