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The F2 Diet
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What is the F2 Diet
The F2 Diet is a healthy way not just to lose weight, but to eat forever. While losing fat faster than on any other diet of the same calorie intake, you will be lowering cholesterol, helping protect yourself again cancers, feeling good yet not feeling hungry.
The F2 Diet is all about eating a lot of fruit, vegetables, grains, and pulses - and avoiding red meat and fatty foods.
The theory is that a high intake of dietary fiber fills you up quickly, providing the bulk of food without calories. Most fiber content passes through the digestive system. In addition it was thought that by chewing high fiber foods, it was easier to detect the body’s satiety level.
The F2 Diet rules
1 Breakfast on half a grapefruit for its GI-lowering impact and vitamin C. Pink grapefruits are sweeter, so they help you resist adding sugar.
Have a bowl of a high fibre cereal which includes Kellogg's All-Bran Original. It contains the most wheat fibre which helps speed waste through the gut. It is also one of the lowest-GI cereals. Slice a just ripe greenish banana into your cereal.
2 Have a low-fat probiotic drink or yoghurt each day. The word 'probiotic' means they contain live bacteria capable of surviving the journey through your digestive system to supplement the good bacteria in your gut.
3 Eat one or two servings of an F2 soup or salad each day. Red lentil and tomato soup or carrot, almond and raisin salad are excellent.
4 Eat large quantities of vegetables and pulses. Beans, parsnips, chickpeas, broccoli and spinach are beneficial.
5 In addition to a banana and grapefruit, eat at least two pieces of fruit daily. Berries, pears, oranges and apples are the richest in fibre.
6 Eat two slices of fibre rich wholemeal bread daily.
7 Feel free to enjoy grain-based foods like wholewheat pasta, brown basmati rice, couscous, noodles, barley and bulgur wheat.
8 Ration the fat containing foods which were making you overweight.
Fats lurk in ready-meals and fastfood meals, cheesy dishes, crisps, dips, pastry products, biscuits, cakes, chips, chocolates, creamy soups, oily sauces, mayonnaiseheavy sandwiches. The list is endless.
Unfortunately, chocolate has an addictive quality and the more you eat, the you want it.
If given a box of chocolates, pass it on to someone who is thin, or to someone you don't like.
Cheese is also high in fat. Nearly every restaurant pizza, unless there's a cheese-free option, costs around 1000 calories. A shop bought deep pan meat feast contains 1300 calories and enough fat to give a bullock a heart attack.
9 Choose to eat fish in preference to meat or follow a vegetarian menu. Limit any red or processed meat to a maximum of two portions a week and select only organic or free range animal products.
10 Drink water, teas and most low calorie drinks freely and coffee in moderation. Alcohol is high in calories. Cut out fruit juice too while you are shedding weight.
When you eat whole fruit it impacts upon your appetite. When you only drink the juice it doesn't. Lemon juice is the only exception. Drink as much as you can. Squeeze it on fish, stir it into soups. Vitamin C and has a major effect in lowering the GI of meals.
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