A long term solution?

During spring, I start to get desperate about my post holiday weight gain and I begin looking for new and interesting ideas for weight loss. This happened again last week and I stumbled upon “The Diet Solution”. I watched the little video and was “sucked in”.

Try as I might, I couldn’t find any “real” reviews on this diet; just website after website, set up to look like blogs, promoting this plan.

The only thing I had to go on was that the creator of the plan (a nutritionist named Isabel De Los Rios) does everything she can to make you feel comfortable about the privacy policy, not selling your name and about trying her plan with the promise of a money back guarantee. So I decided to give it a shot.

I paid my $47 and downloaded my 9 e-books. I took the metabolic test and what the author had to say really seemed to sum up my eating style. I discovered I’m a “protein type” which would explain why I feel hungry much quicker after a meal consisting mainly of carbohydrates (yes, even healthy ones!) than I do after a meal with more lean protein.

***NOTE: Because I’m a sucker and often believe what I read if I don’t research it, I read the other metabolic type descriptions. Turns out the Carb-type eater has a very different style and it most certainly didn’t describe my eating habits.***

This is by no means a low carb diet (yay!), I still eat healthy carbs but the focus is more on the protein to carb ratio. For example, dinner could be a 1/4 cup of brown rice and a ½ cup of veggies sautéed in olive oil with 5 ounces of protein. Eating like this has really helped with evening snacking. I find that I’m just not hungry after dinner.

After the test, I read through the quick start guide. A major focus of the plan is eating whole, natural, organic foods and avoiding sugar, fake sugar, soda, bad fats, preservatives & processed foods.

I really like this idea and find that when I eat meals that satisfy me, I don’t need to eat so much. What this means is that despite paying a bit more for “clean” foods or specialty foods, I eat less so I’m spending about the same as I was on processed “diet” foods.

There ARE a few things about “The Diet Solution” that I haven’t quite “bought into” yet.
1. Using coconut oil for cooking
2. Eating DARK meat from poultry; or eating fattier birds such as duck
3. Consuming WHOLE milk

Fattier foods do keep me full longer but I also know the dangers of cholesterol in my family. So far I have found that eating lean proteins, snacking on a few raw walnuts between meals or cooking with olive oil has worked at keeping me satisfied.

The diet creator seems to be ok with experimentation of her sample meal plans (created for each metabolic type) and says that paying attention to your body in the beginning is important. She adds that eating for your metabolic type will become second nature & give you an understanding of what your body wants for the long‐term.

“for the LONG-TERM”, I like that!

Now I just have one more problem to solve: I LOVE salads! Salads loaded with tons of fresh veggies but even with protein, I find myself hungry within an hour.

I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard or read “Fill up on veggies” but that only holds me over for a short while and then my stomach starts growling and feeling empty; a feeling that all the water in the world or more veggies can’t take away.

So I’m not sure what I’ll do about the salad situation yet…Maybe olive oil & balsamic dressing with a “heartier” protein and some avocado?

Anyway, gonna give this plan a fair trial and see if it becomes my long term solution.