How Fruit Can Take You to Your Ideal Weight

The Fruit Newsletter The Fruit Pages   Reach your ideal weight with fruit Healthy weight loss Maybe it sounds too good to be true but all you have to do to reach your ideal weight is eat as much fruit as you can every day! If you don't believe it or just want to know more you definitely have to read further but you might want to calculate your ideal weight first. Lose the weight with fruit First we think it's best to focus on feeling good. Secondly to remind that in order to live a healthy and energetic life in a body that is fit to do that job, attempting to lose weight only will not be the key. There are some other changes you might want to bring into your life. In order to have the cells of your body function properly they have to receive the right nutritious elements and toxins must be kept away from them as much as possible and should be disposed of properly. In order to reach that goal we have the following recommendations for you: 1) Consume as much as you can of the 'right nutrition'; 2) Avoid as much as you can of the 'wrong nutrition'; 3) Exercise moderately; 4) Be happy with every small change you've been able to make permanently; 5) Don't make weight loss more complicated as it is.   1) Consume as much as you can of the 'right nutrition' After many research a great deal of scientists agree that: raw fruits and (cooked) vegetables are the only right nutrition for human beings. If you want to succeed in living a truly healthy life the best thing to do is to consume as much of the 'right nutrition' as possible each day. The more raw fruits and (cooked) vegetables you eat, the more your appetite for them increases and you might end up feeding your body with nothing but the right nutrition! If you don't consume five pieces of fresh fruit a day yet (raw or squeezed) and you want to lose some weight permanently in a period of, say, six weeks (this period depends on your current eating pattern) the best thing to do is eat (or squeeze) those five fruits every day. If you haven’t consumed that much healthy food for a long time, it is most likely that your body starts to detoxify. You could even get sick!   5 pieces of fruit a dayTo meet your "five to nine pieces of fresh fruits a day" you can squeeze the fruits instead of peeling them and eating them by hand. Squeezing is much more efficient: one glass of 2 squeezed oranges, 2 mandarins and 1 grapefruit can be squeezed in 5 minutes. If you eat 1 banana afterwards you already have consumed 6 pieces of fresh fruits! This also means that you can consume the largest part of the required nutritional elements you need for a day in just 10 minutes...    Tips Squeeze at least one fruit drink a day. In this way you eat about 3 to 4 fruits so you can fulfill your daily need; Put some ice cubes in the blender with your juice. This cools your fruit drink quickly in summer; Put a little bit of banana in your juice mix and blend it like a milk-shake. This gives your fruit drink a certain softness and reduces the bitterness (caused by grapefruits for example); Take sweet fruits to blend. Use citrus fruits (oranges, red-grapefruits) as a basis and mix it in the blender with the sweet fruits of your choice. You can squeeze a jar of orange juice that you keep in the fridge and blend it with the fruit of your choice when you want to.  2) Avoid as much as you can of the 'wrong nutrition'; If you want to lose weight quickly just eating or squeezing five pieces of fresh fruit a day will not be enough. We have put together a list of foods to avoid if you want to speed up the burning process. In this way you'll start burning fat faster. You'll have to avoid as much food from the 'wrong nutrition' list as you can. In fact it’s a simple list to remember, only two food groups are mentioned: stimulants and animal food. Now this list might seem simple enough but it is actually quite difficult to find out which products in the supermarket do or don't contain one of the products mentioned on the list. If you check out the labels you'll notice that almost every product contains a stimulant, mostly white refined sugar or some kind of animal based product, often stock. So, the foods you have to stay away from as much as possible if you want to help your body function properly and thus lose the excess weight are stimulants and animal based food.   Wrong food categories Animal food White flour Refined Sugar Stimulants  3) Exercise moderately Just a bit of exercise will do. It is important though to get some exercise every day especially if you are in a job where you sit down all day. A half-an-hour walk a day will do. Of course more exercise is always better but never feel bad if you can't get yourself to do it. If you just take that walk for at least half an hour each day you'll be fine. Stretching your muscles is also good, it makes you more conscious of your body. 4) Be happy with every small change you've been able to make permanently. Your body reacts like an oil tanker so if you want to change course it will take some time. Every structural change in the right direction is one to be proud of as long as it is permanent. After making a change it will take about six weeks before a change becomes permanent and part of your daily life. Be smart If you want to be slim you have to be smart: change your eating pattern permanently. In this way you'll lose those pounds forever! Remember this: after eating (five to) nine pieces of fruit a day for a few months you'll notice that your appetite for fruit has increased structurally and moreover your appetite for stimulants will certainly have decreased! Try it out, it really is magic! In other words: the more fruit you eat, the more fruit you eat.. it's as simple as that. 5) Don't make losing weight more complicated as it is Step five: Just follow the four steps mentioned before and don't complicate things when doing so. Be easy on yourself as long as you are working on it. Just follow the simple steps we give you on this page and eating healthy won't be a punishment anymore. It just will become a whole lot of fun! Additional tips See replacing foods from the 'wrong nutrition' list by foods from the 'right nutrition' list as a game Try to feel what consumption of the 'wrong nutrition' list does to your body: are you more sleepy, feel like you've lost energy, are you constipated or the opposite, are you noticing a loss of memory, do you have headaches, are you thirsty Don't feel guilty if you consume food from the 'wrong nutrition' list. Just enjoy it as much as you can and feel carefully what it does with your body the day after http://www.thefruitpages.com/weightloss.shtml As the weather gets warmer and the use of big sweaters and sweatshirts to cover the extra weight from the long winter season decreases, we become more aware of our figures.  The thought of slipping into a bathing suit in a few short months is something that not many are looking forward to.  The consumption of fresh fruit can help diminish those extra pounds along with making you feel healthy and energized.  At Fruit Occasions, our beautifully arranged fruit bouquets are not only pleasing to the eye, but the stomach and body as well.  Whether you would like to pick one up to treat yourself or let someone know you are thinking of them, fruit is always the way to go. Fruit Occasions 1729 Dixwell Avenue Hamden, CT 06514 (203)691-1111 www.fruitoccasions.com