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The
Women’s BODYRHYTHM
Diet
Theory:
This diet is different
because women are different. Women’s bodies are programmed to be fat to
help in species survival, and differ from men’s in the way they store
and burn fat. A diet plan for
women must help defuse food cravings, promote a good balance of certain
mood-moderating brain chemicals, and deactivate specific hormonal
mechanisms that encourage fat storage in the female body.
The diet must also supply liberal amounts of all the nutrients
women need to stay healthy and to look good – among them,
bone-protecting calcium, blood-enriching iron, collagen-forming and
cell-rejuvenating protein, and the full range of vitamins and minerals,
including mood-enhancing vitamin B6. In
short, a weight loss program that really works for women must satisfy
women hormonewise, moodwise, nutritionwise, and tastewise.
The
Diet:
- Protein
– women lose pounds better and faster by limiting their protein
intake to fish, chicken, and certain meats.
Plant protein just don’t seem to work as well.
- Fats
– one choice at lunch and dinner both stages
- 1
teaspoon margarine (2 if diet margarine)
- 1
teaspoon oil (corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, olive, peanut, or
sesame
- 1
teaspoon mayonnaise (double if diet mayonnaise)
- 2
teaspoons bottled salad dressing, such as Italian, French, herb
(don’t use diet dressings, you need the fat in “real
dressing.”
- Free
Foods – Low-cal vegetables,
such as broccoli, bell peppers, and cabbage.
In Stage 1 and Stage II you can have free foods in unlimited
amounts.
- Portions
- Don’t tinker with the amounts. They are to help you control your
cravings while still losing weight.
Stage
I - Reduced Craving Food Plan
In this stage you’ll be
eating lower-fat proteins and smaller amounts of high-fiber starched than
in Stage II, and one of your fruit snacks will have a slightly lower sugar
content than your Stage II fruit.
- Breakfast:
- 1,
8-ounce cup of low-fat milk
- 1-ounce
(measured dry) cereal (high-fiber is best)
- Lunch
or Dinner:
- 3-ounces
Stage 1 low-fat proteins (halibut, red snapper, orange roughy, lean
poultry, and low-fat dairy products)
- Or,
½ cup cottage cheese (low-fat is best)
- Or,
½ cup hoop, pot, or farmer cheese or,
6 egg whites
- 1,
1-ounces slice of bread of roll (whole-grain is best)
- 1
portion fat
- Free
foods, as much as you like
- Calcium
Requirement:
- 1
8-ounces cup nonfat milk, low-fat milk, or buttermilk (in addition
to the 1 cup low-fat milk with breakfast)
- Snacks:
- 1
serving vitamin C-rich fruit, anytime between meals (such as orange,
grapefruit, strawberries)
- 1
serving low sugar fruit, anytime between meals (such as berries,
melons, peaches, kiwi)
- Free
foods, any time you like
When the cravings begin to come on strong and you need extra help to deal
with them, change to Stage II of the diet.
Remain in Stage II for as long as you must, but no longer
Stage II: Increased Cravings
- Breakfast:
- Lunch:
- 3
ounces Stage II higher-fat proteins (salmon, fresh tuna, dark meat
poultry choices, certain red meats, cheeses (low-fat, part-skim if
possible) or eggs.
- Or,
2 ounces hard cheese (part-skim or low-fat is best)
- Or,
2 eggs (or 1 egg and 3 egg whites)
- 2
1-ounce slices bread or 2-ounce roll (whole-grain is best)
- 1
portion fat
- Free
foods as much as you like
- Calcium
Requirement:
- Snacks:
- 1
serving vitamin C rich fruit, anytime between meals
- 1
serving higher-sugar fruit, anytime between meals (such as apple,
banana, cherries, pineapple
- Free
Foods, anytime you like
Henrietta
Spencer, Ph.D and Margaret Danbrot. 1990.
New York
: Bantam Books
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