Eating For Cellulite Treatment - The Slow Carb Diet

By Dr. Elizabeth Downey


Finding foods for cellulite treatment is simple. Just adhere to a slow carb diet. Here are the easiest strategies for getting the quickest results within 30 days.

Benefits of a Slow Carb Diet

Insulin is one of the protein hormones implicated in the development of cellulite. The slow carb diet offers many benefits, one of which is to keep blood sugar and insulin spikes under control. It is what a slow carb diet does best.

The best sources of slow carbs are certain veggies. Veggies combined with the right amount of protein and fat slow down the formation of blood sugar, thereby keeping insulin spikes in check. This helps maintain tissue integrity under the skin, which might otherwise disintegrate in pockets that lead to the development of cellulite.

Rules of the Slow Carb Diet

These 5 rules summarize what to do for the first 30 days of the slow carb diet.

Rule 1: Avoid 'white' carbohydrates

These include all cereal grain-based foods, including whole grains (bread, pasta, tortillas), breakfast cereals, potatoes, breaded foods, rice, and everything else that is overly starchy.

Rule 2: Eat the same foods over and over again

This is what to do for the first 30 days. Go slow and steady and be persistent. Keep things simple by choosing one or two good sources of the following at every meal: protein, legumes, and vegetables. Vary it if you get too bored with the same foods over and over again.

The best and easiest sources are: proteins (eggs, chicken breast or thigh, beef, fish, pork); legumes (lentils, black beans, pinto beans, red beans, soybeans); vegetables (spinach, cole crops (e.g., broccoli, cauliflower, etc.), sauerkraut, kimchee, asparagus, peas, green beans).

Rule 3: Do not drink calories

It is especially crucial to stay away from milk, soft drinks (either with sugar, HFCS, or artificial sweeteners), and fruit juices. Aspartame (NutraSweet) is so poisonous that you should never put it in your mouth. And you wouldn't believe the fast carb hit that comes from fruit juices!

Rule 4: Avoid fruit

Fruit contains sucrose (table sugar), which consists of a molecule of glucose and a molecule of fructose. The riper it becomes, the more fructose ('fruit sugar') it contains. Fructose will ruin the way your body handles carbs because it only metabolizes in the liver. That is where carbs are converted to fats, mostly triglycerides that circulate in your bloodstream. Too much is bad news.

You don't have to stay away from fruits forever. Add them back into your diet, carefully, after the first 30-days of avoiding them. Once you start to see great results in the first month, though, you will be able to almost instantly tell what fruits do to ruin your metabolism and how much you can eat without undue consequences.

Rule 5: Take one day off per week

Eat whatever you want one day per week. Choose the same day and enjoy a blow-up.

Have chocolate, cookies, ice cream, soft drinks. Drink and eat whatever you want all day. There are no limits on what to eat or how much to eat on the weekly blow-up day.

One benefit from a weekly blow-up day is to ensure that your metabolism will not slow down from 6 days of a slow carb diet when you may not eat enough for your basal metabilic rate. Taking in plenty of calories each week helps your thyroid, which in turn helps you trim fat and tighten your skin. What a pleasant surprise it is to benefit from eating crap!

A blow-up day also provides incentive to stick with the slow carb diet the rest of the week. This is important mentally, if anything.

Take Action Now

Just stick to the rules above for at least 30 days, and you will be amazed at how good you look and feel. You don't have to cook any fancy recipes, join a fitness center, or buy any kind of exercise equipment. Okay, now get started!




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