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Dried Nuts, Dried Fruits, Olives and Sit-Ups Diet

 
 
RexRed
 
Reply Sat 16 Dec, 2006 07:20 am
I have been dieting for the last five years since I gained about 45 extra lbs. NOTHING has worked. Take it I have not done anything really drastic like diet pills or strict eating regiments. After actually going to the starvation diet I realized that I could just not live with eating portions that would not even feed a flea. So exercise came into the picture. Every time I have thought of exercise I my mind imagines me gaining like another fifty pounds in bulk rather than losing weight. This is not the case... if you lose the weight in the right way you need only gain a moderate amount of bulk.

I have become convinced I know how to do it now. It is mainly one exercise, sit-ups.

I have had problems with sit-ups because my body shape does not like to lay flat on the floor, my lower back does not have the curve anymore.

SO, I bought a 20 dollar large adult size exercise ball. I do mainly sit-ups. I lay on my back on the ball and do crunches.

In three months I have lowered the pain threshold in my back by about 20 % and my overall health has significantly improved. I feel I can eat anything I want to but I have also changed what I eat. I found I had "severe" deficiencies in the good kinds of oils (bad dry skin). So now every day I eat things like figs, olives, nuts, pulses (peanuts), dried fruits salad greens and the oils have replaced the meat fats that were not good. This has provided a better circulation of my body oils (weight loss). My skin, nails and eyes have noticeably improved in health also.

But the main thing is spending three hours almost every day on the exercise ball doing sit-ups. If you have fifty lbs you want to remove then it will take about 5 months. So you need a break from work to fix your health. THE ONLY THING THAT WILL REMOVE YOUR BELLY IS SIT-UPS.

If you are like me think about it, all of your weight is in your stomach. Well your stomach (or butt) is not going to go away by running or doing curls with dumbbells. Your waist and butt is going to go away by doing sit-ups. The kind you can do on an exercise ball are full body they go all the way back and both stretch and crunch the abdomen and buttocks muscles.

So my weight loss came to me in the inexpensive form of a twenty dollar exercise ball and making different food choices. In three months I took off twenty lbs... twenty good solid lbs and my metabolism is now very efficient and I am now feeling and looking fit for the first time in years.

The major difference in my life is I am working out the very muscles that are weak. When I do my sit-ups I can feel muscles that are weak in my stomach and are at the root of my mid back problems. I have to do at least 200 to 300 or more sit-ups a day. I have seen my stomach fat just melt away. It is nearly all gone. All of my eating frustrations have seemed to vanish also.

The oils from nuts was at the root of what I was lacking nutritionally. I was trying to compensate for this deficiency with eating more meats vegetables and pasta.

I eat a large portion of nuts and dried fruits first thing everyday now. These nuts seem to satiate the appetite better than any other thing. Olives also satiate and stabilize the appetite.

(one note, be careful of nut allergies when attempting this diet. I have found that peanuts are the most nutritious and economical of nuts. I eat peanuts every day, they are a good alternative and cut food cravings. Peanuts take effort to eat too. I also think they have helped my allergies thought the core strengthening (sit-ups) and the weight loss has helped alleviate my allergies also.)
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patiodog
 
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Reply Sat 16 Dec, 2006 07:32 am
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These nuts seem to satiate the appetite better than any other thing. Olives also satiate and stabilize the appetite.


Yes, fat-laden foods will do that.
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RexRed
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:10 am
patiodog wrote:
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These nuts seem to satiate the appetite better than any other thing. Olives also satiate and stabilize the appetite.


Yes, fat-laden foods will do that.


I have also found that the more I eat and saturate my body with nuts oils dried fruits, olives, figs the less I crave greasy meat meals. (the kind mother made.)

When I am presented with choices I have to force myself to eat meat and cheese meals now.

Yesterday I bought all the ingredients for homemade pizza and when I got home my appetite would not let me cook the meal. In the store the pizza idea was fighting me. I put allot of veggies on my pizza too.

I ended up snacking on healthy things instead. I have now feta cheese lean ground beef and all the fixings for homemade pizza and my appetite is fighting the idea still.

Once you start replacing the natural oil and fat content, your body no longer craves greasy meals.

At least mine doesn't. I think I am turning into a squirrel.

But think of it, have you ever seen a fat squirrel?

The idea for this diet first occurred to me that regular hand moisturizers stoped being effective on my dry skin.

So I went to nut moisturizers (shea butter) and they worked but they were not getting below the skin or to the root of the problem.

Then it occurred to me that if I just ate the nuts then it would moisturize me from inside out.

It worked 100%, now I don't need to even moisturize my skin if I don't want to, even in the winter (when I get really dry skin).

The intake of nuts especially peanuts and seed type nuts, actually all kinds of nuts. I buy my nuts with no added salt because I get enough salt from the olives I eat.

That is what happened tonight I ate a few olives and no longer wanted pizza.

I think I have really found the answer to my weight gain cycle.

I think I was over eating to compensate for the lack of vital oils from natural sources.

The good kind of cholesterol.

Also I have a theory that you should eat allot of nuts before you go out in the sun.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:17 am
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz....





I have to ask, Rex. Is there something in you that won't pay any attention to science and is sucked up by flights of nutritional or other types of fantasy, for the sheer love of the flight?
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RexRed
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:23 am
ossobuco wrote:
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz....





I have to ask, Rex. Is there something in you that won't pay any attention to science and is sucked up by flights of nutritional or other types of fantasy, for the sheer love of the flight?


There is physical nutrition and spiritual nutrition and both need to be in balance to live a healthy and prosperous life. Smile
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 02:32 am
I agree with some of the segments of your opinion re healthful eating, on just this one post but your obsessive orchestrated stylized Way to Go is a vision of sheer fantasy re health.
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RexRed
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 03:17 am
ossobuco wrote:
I agree with some of the segments of your opinion re healthful eating, on just this one post but your obsessive orchestrated stylized Way to Go is a vision of sheer fantasy re health.


Everyone can choose their own maker but does everyone choose wisely?
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 18 Dec, 2006 03:20 am
Eh?
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RexRed
 
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Reply Tue 26 Dec, 2006 05:11 am
Here is an update on my diet.

It is true that I have lost weight and it is noticeable on this diet.

The last time I was at this weight I starved myself to do it and I was aware of the rubber band effect at work and I gained it right back. This time I have my metabolism and a well distinguished diet in hand.

This diet of nearly no meat substituted for nuts, berries and olives has also has some favorable side effects and some unfavorable.

One favorable side effect is that I don't smell as much. My bad breath has nearly vanished and my body odor has also abated. I could step out of a shower and my arm pits would smell within moments of leaving the shower. Now I don't even need to wear deodorant.

The main reason that I can come up with is that the meat staying in my body longer than the other foods causes it to rot in my body and this causes the added body odors (warnings) .

One other thing is I do not eat hot (as in temperature) food as often so that may also have attributed to the lowering of body odors.

I will start off by saying I am not a doctor or a nutritionist so much of what I say is off the cuff and has no real medical backing whatsoever. It is only my own personal testimony and my often erroneous observations. So any input or discussion on this subject would be very greatly appreciated.

So apart from the body odor being lowered I have also found that sugar is a very bad thing in large doses. It totally confuses the immune system and cause it to go out of balance also it depletes your energy (motivation) for exercises. True, pecan pie has nuts also but it is mostly sugar... (hehe, only a tiny sliver of pie should do you.) Keep the sugar levels at a reasonable balance.

I had surges in my appetite for sugar and I think it threw off the chemical balanced of my bodies parasitic organisms.

Especially my skin.

This is where the diet takes a strange turn.

Bacteria versus staph.

When staph over breeds on your skin it pushes out the bacteria from that area of skin and the staph grows into super staph. Most bacteria is good for your skin and body some bacteria is vital for proper digestion. There is of course bad bacteria too. (that is another discussion)

With the addition of oils to the diet there is the chance of more staph infections.

Staph likes to grow in warm oily places. Don't panic, there is a workaround.

This is a remedy for staph infections that my mother told me about years ago and "it works" in most cases even on the most stubborn of staph viruses, provided it is in a topical area.

Take a facecloth and immerse it in boiling hot water and place it on specifically the staph outbreak as soon as you discover it on your skin.

Hot water kills staph, remember this. Once you kill then staph the bacteria rushes in and multiplies and stabilizes the skin area. Do not attempt to pop the staph infection this only damages the skin. Juts put hot water on it each day and let the bacteria do the hard work.

This gets to the fundamental reason why this diet works... bacteria. Good bacteria helps you lose weight. Where do you get good bacteria (and some bad bacteria)? Veggies, greens, nuts dried, fruits, oils... things that are in raw form and that have grown in a natural ecosystem. Here is one example. Sometimes mediations will kill all of the bacteria in your bowels and you have to replace it to make them function properly. Many rely on yogurt for this but I have found that peanuts have much more active cultures. (I may be wrong on this) It just goes to reason that peanuts grow in the ground where there are millions of unique bacteria cultures growing. Also peanuts contain a percentage of mold that may also play a vital part in body metabolism and overall health.

I guess the point of this post is to say the diet works (as long as you do the push-ups too.) Strengthening the internal stomach muscles immediately causes the stomach to function at it's full digestive ability.

I just wanted to add this bit of a warning about staph and the dangers and remedies for it. The moment you feel a small sore bump within the skin it is staph and the sooner you compress it with hot water the sooner it will dissolve. Caution you skin is a living organ and do not scald it too much with the hot water. It only takes a moment of the hot compress to kill the staph working within the skin.

I also found that banana chips are a natural antibiotic. Smile

Happy and healthy eating.

I also might mention that once you get all of the animal products out of your body you will no longer crave meats (if your diet is balanced). If you do return to eating meats you will be returned to the bad body odor and bad breath immediately. (The bad breath is caused by meat allergens and sinus/stomach and not necessarily tooth decay. This is a guess of mine.) The textures and inner shells from the nuts and crunchy grains also help cleanse the teeth.
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Chai
 
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Reply Tue 26 Dec, 2006 06:07 am
book mark
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patiodog
 
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Reply Tue 26 Dec, 2006 07:34 am
Staphylococcus (specifically Staph. epidermidis) is a bacteria, and it is naturally the "good" microbial resident of the skin (together with Corynebacterium species).

It is not a virus.

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Sometimes mediations will kill all of the bacteria in your bowels and you have to replace it to make them function properly. Many rely on yogurt for this but I have found that peanuts have much more active cultures. (I may be wrong on this) It just goes to reason that peanuts grow in the ground where there are millions of unique bacteria cultures growing. Also peanuts contain a percentage of mold that may also play a vital part in body metabolism and overall health.


Yogurt is cultured specifically with bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus, which are in fact useful gut flora. Peanuts have -- God knows what, but I find it hard to believe that you've cultured them and found what organisms they contain. And unless you're buying raw peanuts, the only bacteria that are likely to survive the roasting process are probably fairly nasty, and anything else that's on there is something it picked up during the packaging process. Yummy.

Mold? MOLD??!?! Um, I'll pass on the mold, thanks.




Here's a tiny bit of info, if you'd like.

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/normalflora.html
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Chai
 
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Reply Tue 26 Dec, 2006 09:02 am
Honestly RR, I don't find your way of eating unusual at all.

It's what sustained mankind for thousands of years, in one form or another.

You're just eating closer to nature.

As far as the sit-ups, hey, whatever floats your boat. I don't think most people have 5 hours a day to devote to that.

I recently bought a concept2 rower, it's what I used to use at the gym. I am so loving it, because it exercises every single major muscle group, including the stomach. In addition, it's aerobic.

I would suspect by doing situps, you are also using a lot of other muscles too. 5 hours would definately get your heart rate up too.

I'm glad you're losing weight and feel better.
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RexRed
 
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Reply Tue 26 Dec, 2006 08:49 pm
patiodog wrote:
Staphylococcus (specifically Staph. epidermidis) is a bacteria, and it is naturally the "good" microbial resident of the skin (together with Corynebacterium species).

It is not a virus.

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Sometimes mediations will kill all of the bacteria in your bowels and you have to replace it to make them function properly. Many rely on yogurt for this but I have found that peanuts have much more active cultures. (I may be wrong on this) It just goes to reason that peanuts grow in the ground where there are millions of unique bacteria cultures growing. Also peanuts contain a percentage of mold that may also play a vital part in body metabolism and overall health.


Yogurt is cultured specifically with bacteria of the genus Lactobacillus, which are in fact useful gut flora. Peanuts have -- God knows what, but I find it hard to believe that you've cultured them and found what organisms they contain. And unless you're buying raw peanuts, the only bacteria that are likely to survive the roasting process are probably fairly nasty, and anything else that's on there is something it picked up during the packaging process. Yummy.

Mold? MOLD??!?! Um, I'll pass on the mold, thanks.




Here's a tiny bit of info, if you'd like.

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/normalflora.html


http://www.affymetrix.com/community/wayahead/plant_symbiosis_chip.affx

Thanks for the correction on my erroneous statement that staph is a virus I knew it wasn't I don' know why I said it. Thanks also for your input on the relative subjects.
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RexRed
 
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Reply Sun 31 Dec, 2006 01:25 pm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,239957,00.html
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patiodog
 
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Reply Sun 31 Dec, 2006 02:43 pm
Interesting article.

I don't see how it relates, but it's an interesting article.
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vsoul
 
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Reply Thu 15 Feb, 2007 12:04 pm
hi rexred,

i was wondering if you could give a little more details in your diet. how is it going? is it still helping you?

i was wondering if you eat carbs like pasta and rice. are there specific foods you stay away from?

it sounds interesting, i'd appreciate more info on it. thanks.
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vsoul
 
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Reply Thu 15 Feb, 2007 12:04 pm
hi rexred,

i was wondering if you could give a little more details in your diet. how is it going? is it still helping you?

i was wondering if you eat carbs like pasta and rice. are there specific foods you stay away from?

it sounds interesting, i'd appreciate more info on it. thanks.
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