Eliminate Inflammatory Foods and Boost Your Metabolism
Eliminate Inflammatory Foods and Boost Your Metabolism
Key #2 BURN - Chapter 5: Reset - Perform a simple 2 week test to switch your metabolism.
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Chapter #5 - Reset Your Metabolism To Burn Fat
Time for the BURN step which I call “Reset.” In the step before, we talked about eliminating industrial seed, oils, sugar, and the highly processed foods, from your diet and replacing those with more healthy options. Now we can go through the reset phase, which is a two-week inflammatory reduction diet.
Imagine if you weren't hungry all the time and had unlimited energy during the day and on your run. Well, once you go through this process, your metabolism will be switched over from preferring carbs to preferring to burn body fat. What we're going to do next is to go through three steps to switch you from being a Sugar Craver to a Fat Burner.
We'll do a little pre-assessment,
Then a two-week metabolism reset test,
We'll do a post-assessment afterward to see how it went.
Most people struggle with this because we've been taught that eating fat is bad. It makes you fat or ruins your heart. But if you eat the correct healthy fats, there are absolutely no issues at all. You also may think it's going to take forever to see any sort of results. Over the next two-weeks, you're going to find out what an amazing transformation you can go through by eliminating these foods and switching your metabolism over.
Once you've switched your metabolism, it's very easy to sustain. You don't have to be on some crazy diet in order to keep this going. It's just a matter of sticking to elimination of industrial seed oils, sugar and processed foods, and you'll maintain a very healthy, fat-burning metabolism from now on.
In the next action steps, we'll be going through taking your pre-assessment, then we'll do your two-week test and a post-assessment.
Reset Action #1 – Pre-Assessment
Your first action step is your pre-assessment; just go through and answer the questions.
Are you tired in the mornings?
Do you experience poor memory?
Are you jittery, agitated, moody after eating? Do you get excess gas? Bloating?
And are you sleepy after meals?
Answer those questions and write them down.
Reset Action #2 – Your 2 Week Test
When we first started off, we talked about getting prepared for the two-week test. We do that by identifying all the inflammatory foods and processed foods, getting them out of the pantry and kitchen so that you can do the two-week reset test without these foods available for you to just grab during the day.
The real key to the two-week tests is you need to be very strict on following the process. There's really no cheating allowed for two weeks. It's very important that you stick with all the approved foods and stay away from those industrial seed oils, sugar, processed foods and grains.
The whole idea behind the two-week tests is twofold. There are some foods that you’ve been eating that are creating an inflammatory response and creating some symptoms that you thought were normal, but they're not. The second thing is to switch your metabolism over from a sugar craving to the normal default setting of fat burning. So it's very important to eliminate those foods and just stick with the good stuff here seriously for two weeks.
Now, here are a couple other things about the two-week tests: it's not a diet, it's not calorie restriction, so you can eat all you want, just only use the approved foods. The other thing is you don't necessarily have to keep track of macros, i.e., the amount of protein, carbs and fats. The whole idea for this first two-week period is to do a little bit of a cleanse.
I found that what works really well is to keep things very simple. Over the two-week period, I just have the same thing every morning for breakfast or just a couple of choices. I usually have a green smoothie or eggs. Then for lunch, a five-color salad with some protein on it works great.(Check your salad dressing for seed oils and sugar!) For dinner, some protein and vegetables on the side.
It's pretty simple. Keep some nuts around snack on if you need that between meals. Try and keep everything as simple as possible so that you can concentrate on staying away from the bad stuff. That way, you'll get the most bang out of this and it'll really work for you.
Good luck with this. Sometimes you can be a little bit surprised by the results. The reason why I asked a few questions in the assessment about how you feel about things is you may notice after a two-week period that you feel totally different and you'll probably lose some pounds also. So it's kind of exciting to look forward to that. Now don't expect miracles in the first few days, and you might even feel a little weird, but as you get into the second week, you'll feel a lot better if you're not feeling that right at the beginning.
Reset Action #3 – Post- Assessment
Action step three is a post-assessment. Before you went through the two-week test, we did a pre-assessment and now go through and answer these questions again and see if any of these symptoms went away and what other changes you might've seen.
Are you tired in the mornings?
Do you experience poor memory?
Are you jittery, agitated, moody after eating? Do you get excess gas? Bloating?
And are you sleepy after meals?
Answer those questions and write them down.
Reset Homework
It's decision time. Time to get off the carb roller coaster and commit to the two-week test and reset your metabolism to burn body fat for unlimited energy. So here's your homework
1. Take pre-assessment
2. Complete your 2 Week Test
3. Take post-assessment
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Next Chapter: Chapter 6: Flex - Take a more flexible approach to your eating for more energy.