Slim Jim Diet

My body and I gain weight, add fat really easily.  I am sensitive to carbohydrates.  Very.  And I eat emotionally sometimes.  This makes for a tough combination if I want to maintain my high school weight.

When I travel, I get fatter.  I visited the beloved Lesley in Santa Fe.  She cooks beautifully.  I eat.  I gain 5 pounds that trip.

I visit Sasha, our youngest daughter at Washington State University, we eat in good restaurants.  I gain another 5 pounds.

1. Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t. What I’m doing doesn’t work.  Try something else.

Try Something Else

I’ve been following Dr. Jade Teta’s work for years and have applied his ideas to my own eating with great success.  He had a long haul trucker who needed to and wanted to lose weight, come see him.  The trucker wasn’t going to prepare nutritional home cooked, locally sourced, organic meals while he was on the road.  Not happening.

There and then Jade invented fast food diet that the trucker named – the Slim Jim diet.  You can download the strategy named – The FAST FOOD Fat Loss System here.  Jade includes guidelines for eating in restaurants and fast food places.  He even lists recommended foods in every fast food restaurant you can think of.  I’ll give you the basics in a second.

Jade ran an experiment on himself.  He ate every meal at MacDonald’s for a month and only at MacDonald’s.  He hated MacDonald’s but he felt that they had gotten a bum rap with the film Supersize Me.  In the documentary, the fellow gained fat in huge amounts and his health deteriorated dramatically.  Jade bet he could choose enough healthy foods even at MacDonald’s to survive OK.  What happened surprised even him.

Over the month, Jade lost fat and his blood markers all improved.

Here Are Your Guidelines –

1. Focus on high protein.
2. Ignore the fat.
3. And squash the carbohydrates towards zero.
4. Eat some kind of produce at every meal.
5. Ignore all other issues such as additives and organics.

Simple, right?

Get a burger with extra lettuce and tomato throw away the bun, order a salad – skip the croutons.  Bev tells me Carl’s Jr. even sells lettuce wrapped burgers with extra tomatoes, onion, pickles – no bun.

I ate omelets for breakfast loaded with veggies and said, “Hold the hash browns and the toast, please.”  Mostly, my servers were just fine with that.  They were pros.

For lunch and dinner I ordered the ubiquitous chicken Caesar salad –  hold the croutons and bread.  Simple.  Yummy.

And what about Slim Jims?  Jade recommends them as an easy portable snack as they fit the protein and fat profile.  He also suggests apples to go with them.  Apples have too many carbs for me so I avoid them.

I use whey protein shakes instead of the Slim Jims as they are equally easy and portable – just toss protein powder into a shaker with water and enjoy.  Mine has 5g of carbohydrate and 22g of protein.

There’s more to the guideline than that and Jade writes enjoyably so read Jade’s The FAST FOOD Fat Loss System.

And check out Jade’s programs Metabolic Effect site.  He’s the real deal.

How did I do on my last trip?

Great.  I finished this two week sabbatical with the same body composition as I started with and I feel great.  I don’t feel sludgy and hung over as I sometimes do with too much restaurant food.

Give it a shot.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. I did walk and/or bike every day as usual.

P.P.S. Body composition makes a better indicator of health and fat than weight.  Body composition measures the amount of fat you have vs. lean body mass.

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