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Dr. Bob Arnot’s REVOLUTIONARY Weight Control Program

Theory:

This weight loss program is based on boosting the levels of serotonin, the master weight-control neurotransmitter, in your body.  The more serotonin your brain makes, the fewer excess calories you’ll consume and the more likely you’ll choose healthy foods that will keep your weight down.

Strategy:

This plan teaches you what foods will make your brain feel great so you have the mental wherewith all to shed fat.   It teaches you how to:

• Turn off hunger – what food will make you full and keep you full from morning till night
• Drop your glucose load – lists what foods can help you cut the overload of sugar in your diet.

Arsenal – Composed of foods that will help you lose fat.  The Arsenal rates foods according to their ability to cut your hunger, drop your glucose load, and deliver nutritional strength.  The basic principles of the Arsenal are:

• Hard food – hard food is physically hard to digest either because it is hard to chew or slow to be broken apart and digested by your immune system. These foods kill your hunger, cut your glucose load, and turn off the hormones that make you fat
• Protein – eat the leanest, most energizing, highest quality proteins for the mind and body
• Hard Fibers – important key to weight loss and perfect health
• Hard beans – beans are a dieter’s true super food – beans give you a high-fiber, low-fat way of eating super-quality protein while killing hunger and cutting your glucose overload
• Hard grains – most grains make you fat, but this plan lists the grains that won’t make you fat but will deliver protein, fiber, and a low glucose load.
• Beans and grains – the only food combination on earth that gives you a complete nutritional meal and a combination that excels at fat loss.
• Hard veggies – helps you pick the most power-packed and effective veggies to keep you full and shed the fat. 
• Hard fruits – add the wrong fruit to the right diet and you’ll pack on the pounds. Discover the fruits which are the most nutritious and still effective for weight control.

Feedforward Diet Plan –

Feedforward Eating begins with individually crafted meals which are spaced at strategic intervals. With Feedforward eating, you eat before the sight and smell of food or the pangs of hunger manipulate you to make disastrous food errors. The Feedforward day is divided into five zones:

Sample Meal Plan for 5 Zones

• The Power Zone – Waking to lunch
• Breakfast – first eat protein to get your brain feeling good – a glass of skin milk, whey, or soy protein; next – eat high-fiber oatmeal (it’s okay to add a little brown sugar) to add bulk, have half a cantaloupe
• Midmorning snack – a single bowl of high-fiber cereal
• The Loading Zone – Lunch through late afternoon
• This is the time to fill up, not with calories, but with bulk. This is your best chance to avoid a big dinner by really laying in foods that will just sit your stomach
• Veggie burger, heavy on the soybeans, with a hard seven-grain bread
• The Craving Zone – midafternoon
• Whole wheat quesadilla will black beans, brown rice, and a small amount of low fat cheese. 
• The Relaxation Zone – early evening
• The basic premise of dinner is false. You do not need to reload after a hard day at the office or with the kids. Now that the bulk of your day is behind you, and you’re cutting down on the activities, you should be cutting down on your fuel as well. 
• Whole wheat burrito with chicken, brown rice, and black beans
• The Fat Zone – night
• Three-quarters of the world’s population goes to bed hungry and so should you. You shouldn’t have the gut-searing hunger that keeps you awake; however, your stomach should feel nearly empty as you fall asleep
• Breakfast cereal in the evening is a good snack.

Robert Arnot, M.D. 1997. New York: Little, Brown and Company

Information provided on this website is not meant to replace the services of your physician, but only to act as an educational tool. The diet summaries are by no means a substitute for reading the actual diet programs, but rather are synopses of basic principles meant to pique your interest and help you select a diet. Be sure to consult your physician and read the entire diet book before beginning any weight loss program.