Eat "good" fat to lose weight, feel better, and to improve your blood tests

Fat Intake, Weight Loss, and Symptom Reduction (as well as improved blood tests)

Excess, un-eliminated acids in you blood (left there because your bowel is not yet healthy enough to eliminate them), cause your body to retain water and fat (your weight goes up), trigger reactions from your body to protect against these (causing symptoms) and trigger reactions from your organs (that cause elevated cholesterol and other blood tests variables, like TSH and liver enzyme levels—to possibly increase.) Because ‘tis the time of year that weight is especially on everyone’s mind, and you will be hearing a zillion ads and commercials marketing the “will always fail crutch approach to weight loss!”—I will state this boldly in regard to your weight:

Fat does not make you fat. Excess acids in your blood do!

A lack of exercise, too many carbs, and a lack of willpower are not the cause of excess weight—excess acids are!

Hence, until your bowel is healthier and better able to eliminate acids from your blood that cause weight, symptoms, and bad blood tests, it is helpful to minimize the acids in your blood in other ways.

The foods you eat have a profound effect on the acids that are present in your blood.

There are several “ways” to reduce the acids in your blood with your diet. One, reduce the acidic foods that you eat. This reduces the “new” acids that enter into your blood. Two, eat foods that are not cleansing—that do not cause the old acids in your cells/organs to be discarded into your blood.

Healthy fats satisfy these two requirements.

Healthy fats include olive oil, cold/expeller-pressed oils, nuts and seeds and their butters, avocadoes, and butter! These foods are non-acidic, or very low in acidity. This reduces the new acids entering into your blood, which reduces symptoms, weight gain, and bad blood tests.

These fats are also not cleansing, They do not cause old acids to dump into your blood from your cells/organs. For now, this is desirable, and it means fewer symptoms, fewer weight problems, and better blood tests.

Additionally, by eating more of these fats/foods, you are very likely to eat less acidic, cleansing foods that trigger symptoms, weight gain, and bad blood tests.

So eat more of these healthy fats, and your weight will go down, your symptoms will reduce, and your blood tests will look better.

How much should you eat? Eat a lot more than you think. A long-term, healthy diet is comprised of about 25% fat—that is quite a bit! It may mean that you eat 2 tablespoons of butter, ½ avocado and 2 tablespoons of olive oil a day—or more.

Remember, you need to re-program your brain to rethink the cause of weight gain, symptoms, elevated cholesterol, etc. Acids in your blood that have not been eliminated by your bowel cause these (and these can be reduced by the foods you eat. Healthy fats fit into the category of foods that reduce the presence of these weight producing, symptom-producing, cholesterol-producing acids!).

Diet Tips For Your Success (sourdough bread products)

Foods To Help Heal Your Bowel and Body

Sourdough bread products

Sourdough bread is easier to digest, and less acidic, than white, wheat, and even whole wheat bread. These qualities of a food make it “healthy” for you. When foods are easy to digest, they require less of your body’s energy to break them into utilizable components. This means that there is more energy for healing activities, like eliminating acids from your body. If you were eating all day long, you would not have time to work and earn money to pay your bills. Your body also does not “survive” well when it is busy digesting food all day long!

The easy digestibility of sourdough also makes it a better choice for people who do not digest gluten (wheat) very well. If this is you may find that you do not experience symptoms after eating sourdough as you do if you eat wheat (although in cases of a very unhealthy bowel, even sourdough will not be tolerated, so this is something you will need to be watchful of).

Being relatively low in acidity, it also means that when you eat sourdough, very little new “trash” enters your body. With less new trash, your body can focus on getting rid of the old trash that causes weight gain, organ weakness, symptoms, cravings, and illness.

The end result of a low acid, easy to digest diet is that there are fewer acids in your blood, and fewer acids in your blood means less symptoms, less weight, and better blood tests.

Put another way, weight gain is not caused by excess calories, fat, or a lack of exercise—it is caused by excess, un-eliminated acids in your blood.

Excess, un-eliminated acids in your blood cause many of your symptoms.

Blood tests reflect the un-eliminated acids in your blood, and they will be worse—TSH, cholesterol, liver enzyme levels, etc—the more un-eliminated acids there are in your blood.

Until your bowel is healthier and better able to eliminate acids from your blood, a low-acid, easy to digest diet will help minimize their presence there, and therefore will minimize your symptoms, weight problems, and bad blood tests. Used correctly, sourdough can help you achieve these results.

Therefore, let me expand upon and clarify the recommendations in my book for eating sourdough products. One, there is “good” sourdough and “bad” sourdough (just as there is good salt and bad salt, good fats and bad fats, etc.) The good sourdough is made from a sourdough starter. The bad sourdough is made from yeast. Check the ingredients label on the bread bag or ask the bread shop where you purchase this if a starter or yeast is used. Avoid sourdough made with yeast. For the most part, sourdough products in the grocery store or at restaurants are made form yeast and are not very healthy for you. Sourdough products made with a starter are more readily available at health food stores and bread shops.

Secondly, even though sourdough made with a starter is healthy for you, it is cleansing because it is high in carbohydrates. This means that it sends acids from you cells into your blood and bowel, where it will trigger symptoms, weight gain, and bad blood tests if you cannot eliminate these acids. Therefore, if you start this program and avoid bread and carbs, do not immediately introduce sourdough into your diet. On the other hand, if, when you start this program, you are eating other breads, pastas, bagels, and other carbohydrates, you will look and feel better if you replace as many of these with sourdough (or rice too, of course!). So if you usually eat a sandwich on wheat bread and can make one with a good sourdough, you will look and feel better doing so. If you usually have a bagel for breakfast, replace it with some good sourdough toast, and you will look and feel better.

If you are lucky, you may be able to find other wonderful, good sourdough products in your town and at your health food store, like sourdough pizza crusts, bagels, pancakes, or crackers. And if you are really lucky, you live in San Francisco, sourdough heaven!.

P.S.--I even had a client tell me that when she visits Mexico, most of the breads are made with sourdough, as is true in Europe and other parts of the world where a lot of bread is eaten, and people are not suffering with the same weight and health problems we are.

P.P.S.—just today, I read about a baker in France who became obsessed with baking the best bread in the world. His recipe? Sourdough bread. He sold $10 million worth of it last year! If you are ever in France, get some, and tell me what you thought about it! (it is called Poilane bread).

Chill out on the peaches and cherries!

Chill out on the cherries and peaches!!!

Every summer, I threaten to take 6 weeks off from work and move to the Bahamas, returning when the “summer fruit season” is over! Why?

Because in order to succeed in healing your bowel and body, and to look and feel good while doing so, it is imperative that you “blame the right thing!” Your greatest chance for failure in this program occurs if you blame the wrong thing (for your weight, symptoms, and bowel problems, like gas, loose stools, etc)

This is never truer than when summer rolls around!

In fact, I forget about this and soon am reminded of it, and begin starting every consultation with the question, “how many peaches and cherries are you eating?”

More times than I can count, a client has blamed the Bowel Strength, this program, the bentonite, their calcium, or some other product that they NEED to find long lasting, effortless health and weight maintenance for their poor bowels, increased symptoms or weight—when the real blames lies in all the summer fruit they are consuming (and not jut cherries and peaches, but plums, apricots, pineapples, etc.)

Summer fruit is healthy for you, and I think it is this knowledge that lead’s one to neglect to blame it for their problems. How can something that is good for me make me look and feel worse, you may ask.

The answer is that summer fruit is very cleansing. It moves acids from your cells into your blood and bowel, and when your bowel is unhealthy—as yours is until you have healed it!—this causes worse elimination, and the re-absorption of these acids back into your blood and lymph, causing every symptom under the sun!

If you have clogged arteries or cancer this reaction might be something you would need to put up with—move acids in your blood and fewer in your organs and cells does help prevent death, but the majority of you are not focusing on your heart and cells, rather your weight and symptoms. And more acids in your blood than you can eliminate makes your weight and symptoms worse, not better!

Bottom line: I know these fruit are sweet, in season for a limited time, and hard to resist—but try not to overdo it with them. They are not hurting you, but hurting you if you wrongly blame the things you need—your Bowel Strength, bentonite, calcium, etc—when you should really blame the fruit for causing problems. So if you can’t resist these fruit, fine, just keep taking your other products and remember, one day, when your bowel and body are healthier, the consumption of summer fruit won’t aggravate your symptoms or weight…