The Diet Disaster Checklist
Let me ask you a question: What’s the point of eating? To fill you up and satisfy hunger, right? In other words, the point of eating is to be able to STOP eating.
However, if the food you eat has any of the three items on this checklist, it will have the opposite effect: You’ll eat uncontrollably. And most popular foods out there — including diet foods — have at least two of these damaging items:
Salt makes you ignore fullness and keep eating.
1) Excessive Sodium (Salt)
Want to know how powerful an appetite-booster salty flavor is?
Two hundred years ago, during the Napoleonic Wars, the food supply ran dangerously low for Napoleon’s army. So, the troops were forced to eat horse meat soup… all the time.
To get them to start eating it, the army officers used gunpowder to make it taste salty… and it worked. Before you could say bon appétit, troops were scarfing down gunpowder horse meat soup!
The point is, salt (or salty taste) will make you
eat when you’d normally push the plate away.
That’s why I recommend avoiding a ton of salt in your food. Check your ingredient labels and be mindful of the sodium levels. Some foods have over 800 milligrams!
However, as bad as sodium is, the next item on this checklist is far worse…
2) Fructose
Food companies hide hunger-spiking fructose in almost everything you see.
If there’s anything that’ll screw up your body chemistry and make you fat, it’s fructose — the sweet part of sugar.
This nasty compound triggers a reward signal in your brain that tells you, “Keep eating that! MORE MORE MORE!” And then, fructose messes up your hormones so you STAY that hungry all the time.
So, check the ingredients list on your food for any of these words:
- Sugar
- Sucrose
- Fructose
- Syrup
- Cane Juice
- Honey
- Agave
If you see any of these on the food label, you’re seeing fructose. RUN…
But don’t run to diet foods! They contain something that might be even worse than fructose…
Artificial sweeteners might be even worse than the real thing.
3) Artificial Sweeteners
Common artificial sweeteners include sucralose (Splenda), aspartame (NutraSweet), and saccharin (Sweet ‘n’ Low).
These chemicals trigger the same addictive sweet reward as sugar… PLUS they confuse your body into making you eat more. And that’s only the beginning…
They also screw up a special slimming mechanism in your body that’s supposed to manage your weight for you. (Fructose does this, too, by the way.)
And it’s about time I told you what this mechanism is… and how you can fix it so it starts working overtime to slim your body down fast! It’s called…
Your “Microbiome”
Your microbiome is the collection of trillions of microbes — mostly bacteria in your gut — that keep your body healthy.
And these gut bacteria play a key role in your weight: They determine how you process the food that either fuels your body… or makes it fat.
Your gut bacteria help determine your body type. Change them to change your body.
And some bacteria tend to make you skinny… while others tend to make you fat! This was shown in a now-famous study involving multiple pairs of “discordant” human twins — one fat twin, one thin twin.
Scientists took the gut bacteria of the fat twins and those of the thin twins… and implanted them in different sets of microbe-free mice. And guess what happened?
The mice with “thin twin” bacteria stayed thin… and the mice with “fat twin” bacteria got fat!
AND THEN… when they let the “fat twin” mice get a few of the “thin twin” bacteria… those mice became less fat!
All this means is… the more of the “skinny” bacteria you have in your gut, the more likely you’ll have a sleek, slender body. And the more of the “fat” bacteria you have, the more likely you’ll get fat.
And do you know what the “fat” bacteria feed on? Sugar and artificial sweeteners. Eating this stuff makes the fat bacteria take over, stopping you from getting the lean body you want.
That’s why you need to feed your “skinny” bacteria and help them take your gut back from the fat bacteria. Once this “power shift” happens inside you… you’ll most likely be looking at a much slimmer body in the mirror!
To Your Health!