Instead of eating a hamburger at lunch, you opt for chicken noodle soup and a slice of white bread without butter. Instead of snacking on potato chips, you munch on a couple of rice cakes.
Whole grains are very versatile and can be incorporated into all meals, snacks, appetizers, entrees, salads, soups and even desserts. Usually, a person eats foods high in caffeine, sugar, packaged foods and animal protein. These foods are acidic and have the ability to disturb the pH balance of the body, thereby creating a lot of health problems. Rather than focusing on how many carbs a food has look at the food's Glycemic Index, a measure of how much one's blood sugar rises after eating a particular food. Eating high GI foods means large amounts of glucose are released into the body.
Forget blood pressure, blood sugar, and hormone levels. The single most important health measurement is the pH level in your blood. Stick to healthy whole grains which are absorbed slowly and do not lead to imbalanced sugar levels, such as brown rice, millet, spelt, oats, buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth or natural white rice such as jasmin or basmati
Foods such as sugar, animal protein, caffeine and packaged food will introduce acids into our body, and thus interfere with the alkaline minerals in our body. Alkaline minerals are magnesium, potassium, sodium and calcium, which protect our body from chronic illnesses. High-carb and high-glycemic foods (e.g., white potatoes, tropical fruit, dried fruit, sugar), as well as artificial sweeteners, are discouraged. Low/zero-calorie natural sweeteners such as stevia, lo-han, and xylitol are permitted.
Dairy products turn into lactic acid because of its high concentration of sugar, which means you know it - acidic waste! The reason blood cholesterol, sugar, and triglycerides may be reduced on high protein diets is that people are eating much less, because of their loss of appetite, and sometimes nausea. Similar re sults, for similar reasons, are seen with cancer chemotherapy. This is very similar to the alkaline diet, in which you cut out all of the negative food stuffs, and replace with a diet rich in low sugar fruits, vegetables, good oils and small amounts of fish/lean meat.
In all honesty, the only downside to paying to join a weight loss program or a weight loss plan is that you have to pay to do so. With that in mind, however, you should be able to find affordable weight loss programs and plans, both locally and online. The 5 Day Miracle Diet doesn't come easy, but it is a miracle worker if you follow the plan.
I can attest first hand that the diet does work provided proper diligence is applied to the proposed meal plan. However, following the diet will prove to be no easy task as even the simple block plan amounts to a low calorie diet that leaves one in the same predicament of any other low calorie diet; a large requirement of willpower for long term success.