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A modified Paleo non calorie counting approach to eating:

Restrict/eliminate carbs, refined sugars in any form.

Then, eliminate any processed foods and any corn oil/soy oil products and any form of fructose.

Throw away any product labeled diet or food substitute, and never buy them again.

Don’t buy any food product with more than a few ingredients and with multi syllable chemical products.

Eat real ocean fish not farmed fish fed chicken food, like farmed salmon, shrimp and Tilapia.

Eat grass fed beef, lamb, pork and chicken not fed antibiotics.

Find local farmers, who plant and raise veggies/fruits and feed their chickens the plant stuff they don’t sell to produce great eggs. Buy their eggs and eat 5-6 per week.

For dessert one or two ounces of good chocolate. Again read the ingredients and avoid multiple products, any fructose and phony sugar. You will be getting your sugar from the fruits and veggies, you are eating.

Eliminate hard liquor, beer, sweet wines and enjoy a good glass of red wine with/after dinner. Forget the alcohol lunch drink.

Use EVO from most cooking/roasting food in your oven for home made salad tossings.

For high temp woking/grilling/convection ovens use Avocado oil.

Learn how to find, prepare and eat the colored fruits and veggies, several servings a day, raw, grilled or roasted in your oven cooked on a sheet of parchment paper in a cookie pan/ sheet.

Snack on walnuts , carrots, cherry tomatoes and any veggie/fruit with colors. Figs in season taste great and satisfy many cravings.

Get back to walking 5-6 days a week, a mile or two each day.

Drink your coffee and green sun tea with zero sweeteners and no cream type products, some these products have a laundry list of poly syllable additives.

Without counting, you should be able to lose 10 to 25#’s in the first two to three months. After about 2 months, your cravings for carbs should vanish and your sugar/sweet cravings will fade away.

After few months, you can stay on this modified Paleo/no carbs/real food lifestyle of eating, and merge the Mind Diet and Dash Diet** (google Mind Diet* and Dash Diet to see why these concepts are important.)

*In the past year we have lost 3 friends to Alzheimer’s. If a simple dietary change can significantly reduce our chances of getting this horrible disease. We went on the MIND program.

**Dash Diet: After 12 years of hypertension needing and Ace Inhibitor, my weight loss started a reduction of the Ace from 10 mg to 5 mg per day. We started the Dash addition
months ago, and I don’t need any drug treatment.

My wife had severe surgery a few years ago and one of the side effects was severe hypertension requiring two heavy duty anti hypertensive drugs. For close to 3 years,

She didn’t need to lose weight and dropped the carbs, went on the Mind and Dash program with me this past March. In a couple of months, she was able to drop one of the drugs. She has also,
reduced the dosage on the remaining antihypertensive. She will probably dc it with her doctor’s ok next month as her BP is below normal ranges.

She didn’t lose any weight, and I lost another 12-14 #”s in that time period, and I’m still not counting calories with a total weight loss 65+#’s in 14 months.

Do a Google Search on “why not to count calories”