Nutritional Recommendations

Please keep in mind that during the first 2‐4 weeks on this program, your body will be in a transition period wherein you will be ‘unlearning’ how to burn sugar and ‘learning’ how to burn fat. During this time, you may feel a slight drop in energy level and a general ‘slowness’. Please do not be discouraged, as this is only temporary. Once your body becomes adept at burning your own fat stores, you will have a constant supply of energy always available and your overall health will vastly improve. Once this transition happens, you’ll notice your hunger decrease and your energy will skyrocket. The transition period may vary in length between individuals, but EVERYONE gets better, no exceptions. Taking good vitamin supplements will speed up the transition and lessen the temporary energy slump as your body readjusts.

Whenever you make significant dietary changes is it important to ensure you include extra fibre. We recommend you take 1 dessertspoon or either Psyllium fibre or LSA. This will also add to your fluid requirements so set your goal to drink a minimum of 8 glasses of pure water a day plus your green tea.

If you do all of your shopping at conventional supermarkets, it will be difficult to eat in a way that allows your body the optimum nutrients to heal and maintain health. This is because today’s general food supply is processed without consideration to its nutritional content, in order to satisfy our tastes for salt, fat and sweetness. The modern non-organic agricultural practices have stripped many essential micronutrients, such as zinc and selenium out of the soil. Therefore, these foods are nutrient deficient. Today’s organic farming practices return these nutrients to the soil and grow foods without using harmful pesticides. Therefore, we recommend you eat organic foods as much as possible.

Remember that most expensive foods in stores are processed ones – you end up paying several middlemen for handling and distribution, in addition to paying for the removal of nutrients from perfectly good foods. You won’t go wrong if you eat nature’s packaging of foods instead of a profit motivated food manufacturer’s product. Options to purchasing food at a health food store include supporting local markets or becoming your own little gardener.

Read food labels. Watch for hidden sugar sources (words ending in – “Ose” fructose, lactose, dextrose, maltose, honey, mailed barley, etc.) even in health food stores. Do not be swayed by “healthy” labeling: 100% pure, all natural, whole grain, cholesterol free, fat free, etc. In an effort to eliminate fat and keep a product palatable, many foods are labeled to suggest healthy qualities and hide the unhealthy ingredients, such as large amounts of sugar. There is no substitute for reading labels and looking out for suspicious and misleading ingredients such as hydrogenated oils, no added sugar in fruit juices and fruit drinks etc.

Some products which we use all the time are; Blanched Almond Meal Flour, Organic Coconut Flour, Organic Coconut Oil, and Stevia  to include in your cooking for those special occasion treats.

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