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The
MAKER'S DIET
Theory:
The Maker’s Diet is a weight
loss program focused on improving the health of the digestive system.
Its principles are based on information from the Bible on health.
The Maker’s Diet 40-Day Health Experience is designed to attack the
three i’s – insulin, infection, and inflammation. Many times in the
Bible when God wanted to trigger a significant “turnaround” on earth,
He instituted a forty-day plan. The Maker’s Diet 40-Day Health
experience begins and ends each day with prayers of thanksgiving, prayers
for healing, and prayers for petition. The weight loss program is
divided into three, two-week phases.
Phase 1: Day 1-14
- Phase
1 is the most restrictive, limiting disaccharide-heavy carbohydrate
foods such as grains, pastas, breads, sugar, potatoes, corn, beans,
and legumes. It
temporarily limits fruits, whole grains, and honey, will allowing for
the liberal consumption of protein foods, vegetables, and healthy
oils. In The Maker's
Diet contains a complete list of foods to enjoy or avoid.
- The
Prayer Factor - For greater resolve and appreciation, you can
begin and end each day of your journey to optimal health with prayers
of thanksgiving, healing and petition. Examples of prayers are
included in the book
- "Partial
Fast" Days – This diet includes partial fast one day per
week in each phase. (Thursdays are suggested since fasting is much
harder on weekends.) On partial fast days, you shouldn't eat breakfast
or lunch, allowing the body to cleanse and rebuild itself.
Day in Phase 1
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Breakfast – Onion, Pepper,
and Goat Cheese Omelet, Avocado slices with seasoning
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Lunch - Oriental Red Meat
Salad
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Dinner – Coconut Milk
Soup, Easy Broiled Halibut, Green salad
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Evening snack – goat’s
milk yogurt, raw honey, vanilla, and blueberries
Phase 2: Days 15-28
Reintroduces a greater variety
of goods into your daily diet including fruit, nuts, and seeds
Day in Phase 2
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Breakfast – Easy
soft-boiled/hard boiled eggs, avocado with salsa
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Lunch – Chicken Soup,
Stock
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Dinner – Red Snapper
Mexican Style, Black beans, Easy Vegetable Salad
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Evening snack – mixed raw
nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans, Macadamia nuts)
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Apple slices, 1 ounce cheese
Phase 3: Days 29-40 and beyond
Phase three is the maintenance
phase of the diet. In this
phase you will reacquaint yourself with healthy grain foods and foods
higher in sugars and starches, such as potatoes.
Phase Three does not mandate a daily snack.
Day in Phase 3
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Breakfast –
Berry
Smoothie
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Lunch – sliced turkey and
avocado sandwich on toast sprouted or whole-grain sourdough bread,
Carrot and celery sticks
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Dinner – Barbecue style
chicken breast, Pan-roasted red bliss potatoes, steamed asparagus.
Jordan S. Rubin. 2004. Florida
: Siloam
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