The Virgin Diet: The US Bestseller. JJ Virgin

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      Food intolerance is one of the most frustrating conditions I know. All of a sudden, you can’t lose those extra pounds, even when you are eating and exercising exactly as you always have. Sometimes you might even be eating less and exercising more – and you still gain weight! How unfair is that?

      The best way to get Leslie’s immune system back on track was to cut out all 7 high-FI foods and increase her intake of low-FI foods. Once her immune system wasn’t jumping into hyperalert and flooding her system with inflammatory chemicals, her digestive system would have a chance to heal. I also suggested my special Virgin Diet Shakes as a source of protein. Along with the healing foods and healing supplements I recommend, the Virgin Diet Shakes would help reverse inflammation, reducing all those ‘protective’ chemicals that were causing Leslie’s body to gain weight, ageing her skin and hair and sapping her energy. In 7 days, I promised Leslie she would lose the bloat and look years younger. The Virgin Diet was the key.

      In fact, that’s exactly what happened. When I saw Leslie a few weeks later, she was so excited that her words kept tumbling over each other. “I’ve lost more than 10 pounds already, and I feel so hopeful about the other 30! Look at my skin. It hasn’t looked this good in years! My friends keep asking if I was away on holiday. At work, they know I wasn’t, so they’ve started a rumour about me having a new boyfriend. I can’t believe how good I feel!”

      I was so happy for my client because she had finally stopped accepting the weight gain, exhaustion and premature ageing that she had come to believe was her lot in life. Instead, she was losing weight, feeling great and looking 10 years younger. Terrific was now her new normal. It can also be yours.

      

      So, what’s the first thing I’d like you to do on the Virgin Diet? I hope you’re sitting down because my first piece of advice might shock you: stop counting calories.

      That’s right, I’m suggesting that you stop counting calories because your body is not a savings bank or a calorimeter. It’s a chemistry lab. Although the total number of calories counts, it is only part of the story. The source of the calories matters far more. If your calories come from foods that are causing your body trouble, then it almost doesn’t matter how much or how little you eat. Even moderate intake of problem foods sets up your body for weight gain. And as we’ve seen, those problem foods are not just biscuits, cakes and sugary fizzy drinks. They include artificial sweeteners and fizzy diet drinks, low-fat yoghurt, eggs, soy and whole grains.

       Your body is not a savings bank or a calorimeter. It’s a chemistry lab.

      

      Now here’s the key to the Virgin Diet: when it comes to weight loss and healthy eating, moderation doesn’t work.

      Why? Because weight gain among the non-obese is generally gradual, averaging almost a pound a year as the result of only moderate changes in diet and activity. Yes, if you binge for months on crisps and ice cream, you’re going to put on weight quickly. But that’s not how most people gain weight. They continue eating their normal diet, with maybe just a tablespoon of butter here or a few extra biscuits there. Before they know it, they’ve gained a pound a year, which adds up to almost 1 stone in 10 years and almost 1½ stone in 20 years. It looks like age itself is the problem, but it’s not. It’s that pound a year that caused all the trouble.

       Moderation doesn’t work.

      In other words, the average 30-year-old who consumes a moderate caloric diet while eating the wrong foods will be 10 pounds heavier by age 40 for what may seem like no reason at all. And if at any point along the way that person tries to lose weight – usually by restricting calories – she’s going to find it very difficult to lose weight, keep it off or both.

      Why? Because, you guessed it, your body is not a bank account or a calorimeter. It is a chemistry lab. Eating the wrong foods affects your body’s chemistry. Gaining weight affects your body’s chemistry. Stress and lifestyle changes affect your body’s chemistry. So, if you want to get that extra weight off, you have to heal your body’s chemistry.

       TOTAL POINTS:_________

       Your Food Intolerance Score:

       1 to 5: Low-FI

      Currently, you seem to suffer from few food allergies or intolerances, if any. I have found that most people feel and look better while removing high-FI foods and often are reacting to one or more of them whether or not they have any overt symptoms. You are reading this book because you want to make sure that you eat the best diet so you can keep feeling and looking lean and young.

       6 to 14: Mid-FI

      You consistently suffer mild or moderate discomfort and bloating with certain foods, but you do experience periods of relief. Over time, you have probably noticed weight gain even though your diet hasn’t changed. Your skin and hair may look somewhat dull, and you tend to feel more tired or stressed than you used to.

       15+: High FI

      Help! You can’t remember the last time you felt light and lean after a meal, and it feels as though your stomach is constantly bloated. You’ve done everything you can think of to lose weight, and it just hasn’t worked. Every time you look in the mirror, you think, How did I get so old? Why do I look so tired?

      

      Okay, so here’s how I like to think of it: food isn’t just calories or fat grams or even a source of energy. Food is information. Each bite of food that you put into your mouth sends your body a message – maybe even several messages.

       Food isn’t just calories or fat grams or even a source of energy.

      Some of these messages relate to your blood sugar and insulin production. Some of them govern your feelings of hunger and fullness. Others concern your fat burning and metabolism, and still others involve your hair, skin, СКАЧАТЬ