“This personalized program will help you find your own balance and will show you that it is possible to lose weight with a normal diet that includes carbohydrates as well, but in a way that allows you to keep you muscles and lose only fat.”
“Fats burn in the flame of carbohydrates”
Food that contains carbohydrates elevates our mood, stimulates the release of a hormone called serotonin, and, most importantly, complex carbohydrates also stimulate fat burning processes in our body, resulting in not only weight loss but fat loss as well.
There is a well-known saying in medical biochemistry textbooks: “fats burn in the flame of carbohydrates” and it explains how it isn’t possible to activate metabolic and fat burning processes in the body without a certain amount of carbohydrates.
For example: bodybuilders are ideal for an experiment like this one, because a nice-looking body is not the only thing that they are after – they want a perfect body.
When a competition is coming up, a bodybuilder watches the following parameters on a regular basis: body weight, body fat percentage, intensity of their workouts, as well as calorie intake, which is always calculated so that it matches the number of calories they burn. Body fat levels in their body rarely exceed 5%.
What would happen in a few weeks’ time if, under the same conditions and following the existing diet plan, 300 calories of carbohydrates (for example rice) were replaced with 300 calories from fruit (for example bananas), while total daily calorie intake stayed the same?
That would result in an increase of body fat percentage. If we took away the bananas and brought back the rice, body fat percentage would decrease in a few weeks’ time. Shocking, but true!
A person can lose weight only if they eat!
This personalized program will help you find your own balance and show you that it is possible to lose weight while being on a diet that includes carbohydrates but do it in a way that makes you lose only fat and keep your muscles.
My clients become relaxed when it comes to food and do not wait for the program to be over. They do not worry about food as they used to and eat practically everything, often even more than they expect, and still lose the weight.
Combining wholemeal grains, vegetables, fruit, carbohydrates, fat and proteins is still a general rule of a balanced and proper diet. Avoid highly processed foods, choose local seasonal ingredients and try to use the most natural ones. Go back to cooking. Remember: a person can lose weight only if they eat.
When is pasta less fattening?
Complex carbohydrates are found in grain products such as bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, and also in leguminous vegetables. Complex carbohydrates do not elevate blood sugar level quickly, because it takes certain time for them to break down into simple sugars. All of these foods contain carbohydrates in the form of useful dietary fibres, but also carbohydrates in the form of starch, which instantly causes fear that the mentioned foods are fattening. Yes, if we eat them too much.
My advice to my clients is that, when they eat spaghetti, they rotate the main dish with the side dish in terms of quantity, i.e. to eat a plate full of vegetables with the side of spaghetti instead of eating a plate full of spaghetti.
This way we satisfy the need for starch flavour, i.e. pasta, but eat more vitamins and minerals. There are also the so-called resistant starches, which human organism does not absorb and which work in the same way as dietary fibres inside the bowels. They provide feeling of fullness, but the body does not consume them, so consequently – they do not cause us to gain weight.
Nutritional research shows that green tea, when consumed together with food, makes starch impossible for resorption. We can drink several cups of green tea while eating pasta or a sandwich.
The resistant starches are also found when pasta or rice, once cooked, are left overnight in the refrigerator. That way we can reheat a risotto the next day or make a salad using potatoes from the previous day. There we also have the answer to why it is not a good idea to eat fresh, hot bread.
No need to stay away from bread
Bread holds a special place in the Fett-FREI FORM program, because bread has always been and still is a staple food for our region. Using wholemeal bread is highly recommended. Why? Wholemeal bread has the same amount, or maybe even more calories than white bread, but provides us with the feeling of fullness for longer periods of time and it rarely makes a person overeat. Bread complements a meal, gives a pleasant starchy taste to food and provides that needed feeling of fullness during the day.
If we feel full most of the day, we will avoid sudden fluctuations of sugar levels in the blood that drive the cravings for sweets, which are actually our biggest threat and the most common obstacle for people who struggle with dieting.
Interview
‘How can someone who’s a great hedonist change their eating habits?’ one man asked a nutritionist Ana Lipowatz, convinced that such venture would be mission impossible.
Ana, a nutritionist educated in Austria, who has numerous patients throughout Europe, explains that people with increased body weight call themselves hedonists, referring to positive aspects of that title solely.
–Hedonism, whose sole purpose and goal lie in the aspiration towards pleasure, after some time turns into its complete opposite. The art of delight is also a process and requires lengthy training.
What amount of pleasure is not too much? Moderate degree of hedonism will not diminish your enjoyment in food, but result in a positive way and lead to a happier, better and a longer life, which looking at the broader picture, is the purpose of life.
The thing that a great number of nutritionists together with Ana Lipowatz advocate is that people should go back to some healthy habits, and start from devoting certain time to the preparation of food and each and every meal.
– We consume much more food when we eat in a hurry. It takes about twenty minutes for our stomach to send a signal to our brain that it is full, and many people finish their meal in 5 minutes. By doing this, we will add another dimension to food. It is necessary to break with bad habits, such as eating on the street or in the car.
Obese people most often eat on the street. How we eat and our dieting styles are one of the five cultural distinctions that characterize a person and a nation in general (language, religion, history, art). The worse food you eat the faster you get to like it.
The percentage of fat in our food is not the biggest problem. For example various additives and so called flavor enhancers that can be found in street food are the key reasons for the outbreak of allergies that did not exist fifty years ago. Everything wrapped and in cellophane including bread should be avoided.
The beginning of a healthy diet includes maximum cut down on processed food, return to buying food at green markets and cooking.
– Take out the pressure cooker from the dust of your pantry and cook that lunch in a fast and easy way like our mothers who were just as busy as today’s women used to do. More ingredients are preserved by cooking fast at high temperatures than by stewing at low temperatures over long periods of time.
It is Ana Lipovitz’s opinion that allergens remain a big problem for those who practice raw food dieting.
– Allergens are ”killed” by long heat treatment. A child that is allergic to red apple will not have an allergic reaction if they eat it in compote.
According to Ana raw food dieting provides benefits to those with serious health problems, but it is very demanding if you accept it as your regular dieting regimen and children do not easily accept it.
During a new nutrition regiment, which as Ana Lipowatz mentions should become a permanent nutrition regiment, everybody encounters some crisis during which they give up and start eating high-calorie and unhealthy food.
– Moments of crisis often accompany difficult processes, but that is the moment when we should all say to ourselves I have a new plan’ starting from tomorrow’. We all fall and get up throughout our lives, but what’s important is to rise above. It is important not to falter.
Program FETT-FREI FORM doesn’t offer a magic pill, but it makes the road of change easier, reveals the inner strength which all of us posses, the strength that will help us overcome crisis and change ourselves for the better. ”It is not a torture” is the phrase that my clients most often use to describe how they feel about following this diet.
They feel good in their own skin, eat everything and lack in nothing but most importantly have the impression that they will not gain weight again. Fett-frei diet offers a permanent way to get rid of unnecessary weight to all those who need it. Bread is the foundation of Ana’s Fett-frei diet program.
Another piece of advice from Ana is that you shouldn’t go to sleep feeling hungry.
– If you deprive yourself of something, yo-yo effect is inevitable, since mechanisms for collecting energy get activated. Many factors influence this hormones, lifestyle, psychophysical condition among other things.
During sleep it is our task to keep the level of insulin within a range that is neither too high nor too low, a so called ‘level of fat burn’. We don’t burn fat when we are hungry. Skipping meals lowers our basal metabolic rate and leads to weight gain.
Despite all attempts and trends, a normal meal which contains carbohydrates, fat and proteins in balance, is still considered a proper meal.