Find the foods that work for YOU. Take charge of your health & weight once and for all!
“Have you ever spent a day saying, “That’s it! I am tired of the pounds packing on. I’m going to get serious and start eating clean!” So you start with your healthiest regimen of smoothies, turkey burgers and cauliflower!” The next day you step on the scale and say, “How, in the world, is that number there?”
There’s a reason why our healthy intentions and diets are not always yielding the results they should. That reason is called inflammation. Here’s what you need to know, we are all chemically unique. And what’s healthy for me may not be healthy for you. This is called bio-individuality, we all respond to stimulus differently. Your weight, and your health, are just your chemical response to foods. Research is showing that healthy foods can cause inflammation which can pose serious problems. Chronic low grade inflammation can cause obesity, premature aging and even diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
What is inflammation? Inflammation is an essential part of the body’s healing system. Your immune system attacks anything in your body that it recognizes as foreign- like bacteria, viruses, pollen, and yes, even compounds in healthy foods! Choose the right foods, and you can reduce your risk of illness and reduce inflammatory related weight gain. Consistently pick the foods that don’t work for your chemistry and you will accelerate the inflammatory disease process and gain weight. The foods that can be highly inflammatory may surprise you, it can be foods like black beans, asparagus, oatmeal and greek yoghurt!
How does this happen, and how can you gain weight, and get sick, from a healthy food? When you eat foods that don’t work for your chemistry, your histamine and cortisol levels start to rise. This means you will have short term water weight gain from the heightened histamine response and long term fat storage from the raised cortisol. Elevated cortisol levels also mean that you’re also more likely to be stressed out and this will negatively impact your hormones, like progesterone and estrogen. These constantly fluctuating hormones will attack your master gland of metabolism, your thyroid .It’s hard to believe that a healthy food like strawberries can create this domino effect in your body, but if strawberries don’t work for your chemistry that’s exactly what happens!
When you find the foods that work for your body you lose weight easily and feel better. In fact, we have seen positive changes in as soon as 3 days following a low inflammatory diet. You may be just like Maura who came to my office depressed and feeling her body was betraying her. She was sure that after years of dieting and never losing weight permanently, she was a lost cause. Within days we started to identify the foods that didn’t work for her and the weight started to fly off eating a healthy diet of over 2,000 calories a day.
“In just over 3 months I have dropped 37 lbs, seen tremendous improvements in my sleep, skin, and energy levels, and have gotten my hormonal and digestive symptoms under control! I was caught up in a cycle of dieting for years. I went from diet to diet and nutritionist to doctor. I did everything they told me but nothing worked! I saw you on Dr Oz and immediately bought your book. Lyn, I literally thought there was something wrong with me. Of course I was reactive to all the healthy diet foods I was told for years to eat. Now my life is normal and I no longer think my body is my enemy”
How do you know a food isn’t working for you? Well, aside from weight gain there are simple signs that your body is saying “Please don’t feed this food to me!”. It could be bloating after a meal, constipation, that 3:00 energy dip, body aches and pains, irritability, depression and hormonal issues. Identifying your “friendly foods” is as simple to listening to your body or doing The Plan. Remember there is no reason to have declining health, low energy levels or weight gain as we age! That is all a byproduct of eating foods that don’t work for your unique chemistry!
If your health is great and you’re at a perfect weight for you, then you are probably eating the foods that work for you. But if you are like the millions who are struggling with weight loss and health issues, it may be as simple as starting to pay attention to how your body responds to the foods you are eating. One simple sign is to note how you feel after a meal. Are you gassy, bloated or tired? Do your joints hurt, are you suddenly sad or irritable? That’s a sign that something you ate at your meal didn’t work for your chemistry! To find out more about identifying inflammatory foods you can visit www.lyngenet.com or you can order the New York Times Bestseller at Barnes and Noble!
Julie has lost over 170 pounds!
Yours in health,