How to Lose Weight Without Dieting — And Easily Keep it Off.
By: Homemade Method
Tags: Weight Loss, Health, Diabetes, Cooking, Weightloss Foods

Secret 2: EAT whole, natural ingredients

The second Secret to the Homemade Method™ is: to EAT whole, natural ingredients, as close as possible to their natural state.

For a long time, we were told that if we wanted to lose weight, we should restrict calories.

They used to say ‘a calorie is a calorie is a calorie’ — meaning, if you wanted to lose weight, you should just eat less calories.

This was the leading approach advocated for decades by the medical and weight loss industries. It was used by companies like Weight Watchers, who encouraged their members to count points.

We now know that the calories approach to weight loss is wrong.

It turns out a ‘calorie does not equal a calorie’, because the human body processes and responds to calories from different sources in different ways. Meaning the source and quality of your food matters. This is why it’s important to eat whole, natural ingredients — not processed foods or packaged ‘health foods’.

For example, the human body does not respond to 200 calories from a candy bar or from a handful of almonds in the same way.

The candy bar spikes your blood sugar levels, triggering a series of chemical reactions to bring it back down — leading to a drop in energy, and more cravings for sugary, carby foods, even though you don’t actually need more food.

Whereas, the almonds are high in fiber and protein so they provide slow release energy which doesn’t lead to a spike in your blood sugar, as well as containing a host of beneficial nutrients.

The calories approach led everyone to focus on eating less. Not eating right.

I personally recall playing the ‘calories game’: Taking just a bite or two of a candy bar, buying low fat ice-cream, protein bars or baked chips...

And all along it felt wrong.

Because, I knew deep down that none of this food was healthy!

And all the calorie counting and calculating never got me anywhere either.

But here’s the clincher that NO ONE else is talking about: Eating badly over the long-term actually messes with your hunger & satiety systems, so you feel hungry all the time and have constant sugar cravings. The GOOD NEWS is you can REVERSE this damage and recalibrate your hunger and satiety regulation systems so they function optimally - just by practicing secret 2!

#Start to EAT Today:

All you need to do is start eating more whole, natural ingredients close to their natural state. Again you don’t need to be perfect… just do it more thank you do it now.

Need advice on what is a ‘whole natural ingredient close to its natural state’? As a general rule if it’s one single ingredient, it qualifies and if it comes in a packet or has many ingredients then it probably doesn’t!

It’s an apple not an apple juice. It’s almonds not a protein bar. And it’s a potato or peas — not vegetable chips.

When you eat this way, you will nourish your body with the best possible foods, you will experience less cravings and you will be satisfied for hours after a good meal. Over time, you will find a natural, healthy equilibrium — that is not based on calorie counting or deprivation.