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I am now over 3 weeks in to the Elimination Diet, and what have I learned?

Coffee: having been a coffee junkie for years, going without for over 3 weeks has at times been tough. BUT after the initial withdrawal headaches and generally feeling rubbish, I am now finding it easier to go without. I am also finding my sleep patterns have improved massively, and I feel more lively during the afternoon (a typical sluggish time for me). Now this may be due to an increase in water intake too, I don’t really know. The big thing here and I don’t want to understate it, really is the improved sleep quality!

Breads and Pasta: Not really missed the pasta’s, never really ate too much of the stuff anyway! But the bread was like the coffee, one of my major weaknesses. I think this part has contributed mostly to the visable results that i have obtained, no more bloating, no more over-full feeling. We simply do not have the stuff in our house any more, and going out for lunch or dinner simply means ignoring the bread that appears on the table!

Over high energy dense foods: Heavily processed foods such as sweets, pizza, burgers and such like didn’t really exist in my diet anyway, but I was certainly prone to the more than occassional treat… which it seems added up. Cutting those out at times was difficult, regularly eating our normal dinner and then wanting something sweet after was just a habit. A habit that is now broken.

Yes this is a bit of a sales pitch, BUT only because I could not have done the last few weeks without it. The Elimination Diet Cookbook has been a indispensible companion on this journey so far. So if you are starting your Elimination Diet program today, then I would thoroughly recommend the Cookbook too.

The Results: well in 3 weeks, ie. 21 days, i have lost 4.5kg and now dropped to my lowest body fat percentage measurement I have ever recorded on myself.

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OK here I am again experiencing another of our fundamentals this time Nutritional Responsibility, what is this exactly? well it is actually very simple, it’s all about going back to basics making sure that we have a clean diet consisting of fresh fruit and veg, fresh meat and fish, low fat dairy and water.One of the things that we ask you to do is to to keep a truth diary. This involves writing down everything that goes into your mouth and at what time.You will also grade them. A is for all fresh, B is for not so good but not so bad and C is yes you guessed it is all heavily processed foods like pizza, alcohol, biscuits etc. You will also mark down how many portions of fruit and veg you have eaten and what you have drunk.

So how is it going so far….. well boy does it make you think about what you are putting in your mouth. The idea is not really to change what you are eating just to record it, but automatically i found myself making small changes.

From seeing what I had written down I have automatically increased my water intake upped my portions of fruit and veg, cleaned up my main meals by reducing the amount of processed foods and increased the amount of times that I am eating per day(which is never a problem for me as I love to eat:o), which of course is the key to revving up your metabolism and getting rid of your body fat. So with out really making an effort and just with these small changes I have lost nearly 2 kilos already!!!

Now as part of your 3 month pro gramme with us for ONE MONTH we ask you to give up alcohol, wheat based products and all processed foods so that you can really see dramatic effects that it can have. I will let you know how this goes in the not to distant future…

Start training with Marie this week, utilising the power of Nutritional Responsibility, go here to arrange a consultation

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It is day 15 of the Elimination diet for me. So how has it been going.

The biggest thing for me is cutting out the coffee. I am finding it less of a problem day by day avoiding the coffee, but at times it really has been difficult.

The bread part has not been so difficult, and I have really managed to work around not being able to make a sandwich.

The Elimination Diet Cookbook has been a lifesaver to be honest, breaking my wife and I away from the tedious meat and vegetables meals, and we have tried a couple of different dishes including a slightly different style of omlete for breakfast.

Snacks have fairly consistently been fruit based and also natural yoghurt for the protein element.

So what has been the results: so far I have lost about 2.5kg not a huge amount, but significant in just over 2 weeks. The big difference is in the body fat percentage now down to its lowest in 18 months.

Dax is just finishing off the new Elimination Diet site, but if you want to get hold of it simply pop over to:

http://www.eliminationdietblueprint.com/

Oh yes and I would strongly recommend the cookbook if you plan on starting which you can get here

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So far so good… well kind of… One of My Magic Hundred was to follow the elimination diet…

I am 2 days in to Dax Moy’s Elimination Diet… basically you are only allowed to eat things like fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh meat/fish/poultry, some basic dairy produce and drink only water.

The hardest part for me so far is the coffee bit… having spent a week in the US trying to stay awake in a different time zone whilst listening to lectures has required plenty of coffee, so going cold turkey on the caffeine has produced some monster headaches.

The other hard part is cutting out the bread… I admit it is my one major weakness.

I did ForestFit this morning and suffered big time… too much rubbish this last few weeks has taken its toll.

Despite sounding like it is awfully hard to do, having done this before I know the results it can produce. Last time I cut bread for a month I lost 5kg of pure body fat! So it really can make a difference.

To get Dax’s Elimination diet go to http://www.daxmoy-pts.co.uk/elimination/

He also has a great cookbook that accompanies the free program available here

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