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Lose 10 Pounds in 7 Days
Change Your Diet and Transform Your Life
Two things that make people feel sick -- toxicity and inflammation -- also make us fat. AOL Diet & Fitness Coach Mark Hyman, M.D., author 'The UltraSimple Diet,' explains how to safely lose weight -- and keep it off -- by focusing on these issues.
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Eliminate Toxins and Stress
There is a connetion between what you eat, how your live life and how you feel. For example, our body's immune system fights stress and toxins created by our environment and diet. When this system is overwhelmed, it can damage our metabolism and lead to weight gain and certain diseases.
Get Rid of Bad Foods
Cool inflammation by quitting toxic foods and eating an allergy free diet for just seven days. Avoid foods with refined sugar and flour, trans fats, hormones and pesticides, as well as gluten, dairy, eggs, corn and yeast.
Add Good Foods
Your body thrives on whole foods -- fresh vegetables and fruit, whole grains and beans, nuts and seeds and lean animal proteins. It's that simple! Organics have higher levels of nutrients and weight- and disease-fighting chemicals called phytonutrients.
Detoxify
Drinking vegetable broth full of phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals will help keep your body's pH balanced, and boost detoxification. Flax seeds, fiber, magnesium citrate and vitamin C can keep your bowels clear and prevent toxins from getting absorbed back into your body.
Cool Inflammation
Reduce inflammation with a low allergy protein shake made with berries and omega-3 fat-containing flax and borage oil. For the protein powder, go to your local health food store and ask for one with rice protein.
Relax
While you can't entirely eliminate stress, you can try a wonderful antidote. Draw a hot bath and sprinkle in Epsom salt, baking soda and lavender oil to help lower stress hormone levels. Soak for 20 minutes before bed.
Reflect
Take time each day to reflect on what works and what doesn't in your life. Notice how changing your diet and lifestyle for just one week makes you feel. Now write it down and connect the dots between your diet, your behavior and how you feel.
Enhance Your Success
Adding a few supplements daily can boost your results. Seek out a good multivitamin, omega-3 fish oil capsule, calcium/magnesium/
vitamin D3 combo and a probiotic. Combine that with 30 minutes of walking or some simple relaxation exercises.
Make the Changes Permanent
Continue eating whole foods, avoid processed foods and other toxins, and make a habit out of relaxing and reflecting. You can gradually add gluten, dairy, yeast, eggs and corn, but pay attention to which foods cause you problems and avoid them for good.
The UltraSimple Diet By Mark Hyman, M.D.
'UltraSimple Diet'
Excerpted from 'The UltraSimple Diet' by Mark Hyman, M.D Copyright © 2007 by Mark Hyman, M.D. Excerpted with permission from Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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