I have two kids, rarely exercise, and I am 5'1 and 105 pounds. How do I stay so slim? It isn't from starving myself or doing drugs, rather a method which is harder to believe.
Most Americans will treat you differently if you are a fit and thin. I have experienced it through dirty looks, general rudeness, and projected feelings of self-doubt. It seems incomprehensible that a mother of two could actually be in better shape than before her pregnancy. My own mother accused me of being anorexic because I weighed 5 pounds less than she did. The truth is that anyone can be slim and healthy without starving themselves. There are open secrets that the corporations don't want you to know about and I will share a few.
After having my first daughter I became concerned about providing her the best possible health. After reading pamphlets and listening to doctors I got a decent grasp of what foods, chemicals to avoid and what to eat plenty of. I had no idea that it would change every aspect of how my family eats from that point on.
Keeping your body free of toxic chemicals and food additives is key to a slim, sexy body. Toxins become trapped within fat cells and makes it very hard for the body to utilize fat as energy. Water is incredibly important because it purifies the body. I suggest a Reverse Osmosis water filtration system for the entire residence. Despite what the ADA will tell you, fluoride does NOT prevent cavities and it can be devastating to your health. Yes, they are pricey, but the tap water, AKA, "city punch" is full of prescription drugs, hormones, and a whole host of other nasty things that will destroy health and pack on the pounds.
Don't use chemicals or bleach as there are natural cleaning products that are effective and much safer. All of these toxins will accumulate in the body and deposit in fat cells. This means that the fat cells cannot be correctly broken down and converted into energy, making it harder to lose weight, while slowly poisoning you. Toxins also trigger stress hormones which cause the body to store fat, particularly around the midsection.
With all the toxins in modern society, it is even more important to eat natural, unprocessed, organic foods. I made the switch to organic and the weight poured off! As a previously chubby young woman myself, I have 100% confidence that eating unadulterated food will produce results without reducing calorie intake.
It can be very difficult to eat organic if you are used to the standard American diet. Restaurants serve the worst quality food, often prepared at a factory and reheated so it is best to avoid eating out. Cooking at home does not mean eating "light", by any means! I eat more than most women do and I am always tasting my creations. I usually eat between 2000 and 3000 calories a day, which happens to be higher than what the FDA suggests for any person (let alone someone as small as myself).
Many people are turned off by mass propaganda that labels the organic consumer as a "Birkenstock wearing hippie" driving a Prius, but it couldn't be further from the truth. Before World War II, all produce was "organic," grown without the use of harmful toxins and pesticides. The opposite of "organic" is "intensive", which has become standard at the grocery store today. I am surprised that most people have no idea what "invasive" farming is, yet they purchase and consume it on a daily basis. The boom of the manufacturing industry in the 1950's begot modern farming techniques as we know them. DDT was marketed as safe to the American farmers (luckily it has been banned, but not before doing harm). When farming became a money maker for the chemical companies, food safety took a backseat. For this reason I boycott everything that Monsanto (famous for Round Up and Agent Orange) makes as they have a long history of stuffing their pockets at the expense of the American consumer.
Genetically Engineered, GE, foods should be avoided at all costs. Genetically Engineered foods are created by transferring a foreign gene from another animal or plant into a crop. The problem with this is that those "promoter" genes can travel around the plant, turning on all different genes. An even bigger shock is that these genes have been proven to pass into the animals that consume them, turning on pesticide producing genes inside the stomach. GE crops have wrecked havoc on organic farmers by contaminating their fields. Once these lifeforms are released into nature, there really is no taking them back. I will cover this topic more thoroughly in the future, but keep in mind that the same company that invented pesticides, Monsanto, is also the producer of the genetically engineered crops. These foods are highly dangerous to eat and will also cause you to gain weight by disrupting the thyroid.
Since there are no laws that GE foods must be labeled, the only way to assure that you are buying healthy food is to buy organic. After a few years of organic cooking, I have enough experience to avoid most GE foods when shopping at a traditional grocery store. The worst foods are corn, soy, and cottonseed or rapeseed. 85% of all American corn is genetically engineered. Don't buy any product that contains corn, soy, or cottonseed unless they are specifically labeled as "organic."
Avoiding these foods is A LOT harder than it looks. For example, peanuts are not GE, but almost all peanut butter includes cottonseed or rapeseed oil to achieve the creamy consistency. Make sure to buy PB made of only peanuts and perhaps salt and molasses or honey. Once you start reading labels you will see how corn is in almost all processed food. Soups, frozen dinners, ready-made meals almost always contain some form of corn as an emulsifier or thickener. Cooking from scratch will save you money, ensure the quality of ingredients, and (once you get the hang of it) the food will taste much better.
Growth hormones and antibiotics administered to livestock at factory farms are another problem with today's "inexpensive" food supply. Factory farms fuel epidemics live avian flu and mad cow disease. Animals are horribly abused and treated like a product instead of a living creature. Even if you have no compassion for these animals, you should still buy free range organic meats from animals that have never been given antibiotics or growth hormones. The same rules apply to milk and dairy products. Look for "no rBGH" when buying your milk. These hormones remain active in humans who eat them, leading to acne, early puberty, overgrowth of body and organs, etc.
Antibiotics in feed are just as deadly as the overuse of antibiotics in humans. Due to the filthy living conditions of these factory farmed animals, most wouldn't make it to their second birthday before falling prey to disease. In fact, 90% of factory farmed chickens have cancer by the time they are slaughtered while almost all are driven mad and sick. Restaurants have the worst quality chicken available. 100% of all chicken sold at American restaurants contain arsenic and have cancer at the time on consumption, as opposed to 90% of those sold at grocery stores.
Fish is just as bad as factory farmed beef and chicken! 80% of America's fish comes from China. This may be hard to believe since China has less coastal land than the USA (and it is incredibly far away). To compensate for this, most fish farmed in China come from hatcheries ridden with chemicals and antibiotics to keep them alive long enough to sell. Would you eat a fish out of a dirty pond next to a highway? I did once I 10 years ago and I can still taste it. Going along with my current theme, the worst quality fish is sold at restaurants. I suspect that all of it comes from Chinese landlocked hatcheries.
Fish is not a healthy food unless it comes from clean oceanic water, so please don't think that is what you are getting at the grocery store. It is best to check for "wild caught" Alaskan fish. As with any meat product, the less distance it has to travel from death to the dinner table, the better. The "fishy" flavor is not inherent to fish, instead it is the taste of rotten fish. Nearly half of all fish sold in grocery stores is old when it hits the shelf. Any "fishy" flavor means you've got a bad fish and you may want to reconsider what you are having for dinner that night.
After all of the previous information, it goes without saying that one should also avoid any artificial ingredients, food colorings, preservatives, MSG, etc.
I usually shop at my local "Trader Joe's," which has been a real life saver! This grocery store doesn't sell anything artificial or genetically engineered. I can go in the store and buy microwave dinners or frozen pizzas without having to check ingredients. The prices are wonderful given the quality of products and everything always tastes delicious. I urge you guys to check it out, if you haven't already done so. For families like mine, there really isn't an alternative!
The weight you are is mainly factored by what you put in your body. Just imagine what humans ate during 50 million years of evolution and not the last 50 years of science. Cooking meals at home makes this task much easier, and burns calories while you do it!
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