Lifestyle Choices

3 ELIMINATE ALLERGIES

Weight gain is a common reaction to foods we’re intolerant to. Most of us have intolerances or allergies to certain foods, but few of us are aware of it. Eliminating the food that you are unknowingly allergic to can lead to highly dramatic weight loss.

Water retention, bloating and puffiness are all common allergic reactions, and they make you feel and look fatter. Once you’ve singled out and eliminated the foods that are triggering your allergic response, you are likely to see dramatic changes very fast. It’s not unusual to lose up to 7lb (3.2kg) within three or four days.

Food allergies also cause other problems, such as aches and pains, headaches, fatigue, mood swings and annoying skin and digestive conditions. These also go when you identify and avoid what you are allergic to.

The good news is you can often ‘unlearn’ your intolerances in as little as three months, which means you can reintroduce previously problematic foods into your diet. If you think you are food sensitive or allergic, it is best to have a proper quantitative IgG ELISA test.

4 SUPPLEMENT FOR SUCCESS

Modern growing methods and long-term storage techniques reduce the nutritional content of foods and there is no guarantee that you are getting all the vitamins and minerals you need from a well-balanced diet, so it is valuable to supplement your diet with additional vitamins and minerals.

There are some 30 vitamins and minerals that are essential for health. Many of them, together with vitamin C, will help you burn fat. They boost your metabolism and reprogramme your body to turn food into energy rather than fat. These aren’t drugs, they’re nutrients, and they will help fine-tune your metabolism as an integral part of my low-GL weight-loss diet.

FATBURNING SUPPLEMENTS — THE BASICS

Irecommend that you supplement your well-balanced diet with fatburning vitamins and minerals to ensure your metabolism is working at peak efficiency. The easiest way to take these every day is a high- strength multivitamin and mineral, and a 1,000mg vitamin C.

Most health-food shops can help you find supplements to meet these levels in the simplest and least expensive way, choosing from a variety of good brands. Supplements should be taken with food, preferably with breakfast, or spread throughout the day.

FATBURNING SUPPLEMENTS — PULLING OUT THE STOPS

To stabilise your appetite and sugar cravings in the first three months of starting the low-GL diet, I recommend taking, in addition to the vitamin C and multivitamin, a combination of the supplements HCA (hydroxycitric acid), 5-HTP (5- hydroxytryptophan) and chromium. These are the daily levels you need for the first three months only especially if you are prone to sugar cravings and have poor appetite control:

• Hydroxycitric acid (FICA) works best before meals. One 450mg tablet or capsule twice daily, 30 minutes before lunch and your evening meal.
• 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) 50mg taken with carbohydrate (such as fruit) twice daily, with your mid-morning and afternoon snacks. It also gives your mood a boost, but don’t take it if you are already taking an anti-depressant.
• Chromium 200mcg taken twice daily, with your mid-morning and afternoon snacks.

Supplement facts

If you want the best weight-loss results possible, supplements should not be seen as an optional extra but as a central part of your weight loss and health success. Proper scientific studies show that:

Following the Holford Low-GL Diet on its own will enable you to lose weight.

Following the Holford Low-GL Diet and taking a multivitamin and mineral with vitamin C will help you to lose more weight than the diet alone.

Following the diet and taking the multivitamin and mineral with vitamin C and taking additional chromium, HCA and 5-HTP supplements will lead to maximum weight loss.

This means that supplements make a positive and healthy difference to weight loss.

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