What I Eat. Foods I Rate & Foods I Hate
The Foods I Rate
- Eggs are full of vitamins A, B, D E and K, calcium and Lutien which protects against age related eye degeneration. Eggs are a super food and contain everything to create life. Studies show that having 2/3 eggs for breakfast cuts hunger for hours whilst boosting concentration. Eggs are full of serotonin, high serotonin levels can stop junk food and sugar cravings.
- Avocado are one of the best foods of all as they are packed with vitamins. Avocados lower blood pressure whilst increasing serotonin levels which make us feel happier.
- Bananas are full of dopamine and serotonin. Dopamine is a natural anti depressant and serotonin is a happy hormone maybe that’s why monkeys always seem happy.
- Cinnamon just half a teaspoon a day reduces sugar levels in the blood which in turn encourages fat burning. Half a teaspoon of Cinnamon daily has been shown to lessen sugar cravings, add cinnamon to curries, stews, oats or tea.
- Almonds are full of B vitamins and zinc which helps stop sugar cravings (low levels of zinc are linked to depression.) If bears and squirrels can survive solely on nuts they must be good. Not all the oils in nuts is absorbed by the body and they are not fattening in regular portions (a palm sized amount.) The oleic oil in nuts cuts hunger very quickly. Only eat unsalted nuts. Walnuts and hazelnuts are also excellent snacks.
- Seeds including pumpkin, sesame, hemp and sunflower are full of omega oils which the body needs for almost all its functions, a lack of essential oils is linked to depression.
- Brazil nuts are full of selenium which blocks the body’s absorption of mercury. Selenium is essential if you eat lots of fish and also blocks the growth of tumours (only buy Brazil nuts in the shell, chocolate coated ones don’t count, sorry.)
- Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and brussell sprouts.
- Milled Linseeds/Flaxseeds. These are super nutrition for the skin, linseeds take the residue of old undigested matter from the gut (take 3 spoons a day.) If you have eaten a diet of refined and processed foods milled linseeds do a great job of removing the residue from your intestines.
- Apples -the skins contain pectin which is an anti cholesterol agent.
- Zsweet and Stevia are natural calorie-free sweeteners that lower blood sugar while giving you a lovely sweet taste in tea, oats, stewed or fresh fruit. Stevia is a natural herb and completely safe unlike artificial sweeteners which are full of chemicals or sugar which is full of empty worthless calories.
- Air popped popcorn sprinkled with light soya sauce is perfect if you want something crunchy and salty to eat when you’re in that TV watching /snacking mood, use them instead of crisps.They are great in childrens lunch boxes too. Popcorn is full of Lutein which again protects against eye degeneration.
- Endemame (soya beans/peas) just steam or fry in a wok for 5 minutes then add a little sea salt or light soya sauce. A delicious snack, they are also fab in stir fries, great in salads, a fantastic portable food and full of protein so a great food for vegetarians. You can make a great hummous using soya beans instead of chick peas.
- Fish is full of essential oils as are olives. Oily fish like mackerel, sardines and wild salmon are the best. If you eat fish more than three times a week always take a selenium supplement as selenium stops the body absorbing mercury.
- Green tea. The American journal of clinical nutrition showed that green tea is rich in catechins (a natural plant chemical) it can reduce waist circumference and abdominal fat and speeds up the metabolism because it contains chemicals called methylxanthines which seem to boost metabolism and burn fat more rapidly.
- The herbs and spices cinnamon, ginger, cayenne, cardamom and ginseng can help to stimulate thermogenisis (heat generated by the body) and promote weight loss. Hot spices can boost the rate at which calories are burnt by up to 15 per cent for a few hours after eating. Chillies speed up the metabolism and reduce hunger. South Americans have known for years that chillies reduce appetite.
The Hoods I Hate
I don’t even like calling the rubbish below food. I call it “Frankenstein food” as it is full of chemicals, additives, colouring and preservative that the body cannot break down or use.
Margarine is literally one molecule away from plastic and is a Frankenstein food. Rats, bugs and flies won’t eat it that should tell you everything. No mould or microrganisms will ever grow on it and the body just can’t get rid of it as it never breaks down which is why it never needs to be refrigerated.
Look at my picture of 15 year old margarine and copy the experiment at home. Place a tub of margarine in the shade in your garden and it will stay in the same state for years, it doesnt break down in the atmosphere or in your body because it is not food.
Copyright. Marisa Peer
Artificial sweeteners: Another Frankenstein food that is a poison in our bodies, sweeteners have been linked to Cancer, Alzheimer’s, ADD and Dementia. Sweeteners are made from wood alcohol and petro chemicals and the body cannot break them down. Artificial sweeteners still raise your insulin levels even though they have no calories..
Zsweet and Stevia are not artificial sweeteners they are natural calorie less sweeteners. Any food that is made in a plant rather than originating from a plant can only harm your body.
Sugar: is not a food it is a refined, proccesed, bleached chemical and when you eat it your body makes more internal fat to keep sugar away from your internal organs because it is so very toxic for our bodies. Low fat high sugar food will never make you thinner but it will make you fatter. Sugar is made in a refinery and has no nutritional value at all so the body lets you eat a lot of it looking for nutrition which it never gets. Sugar also feeds anxeity and dramatically ages the skin. Read my post on gastric banding and obesity to understand why sugar makes us fat.
Cow’s cheese: is concentrated diary produce that is full of cow’s mucus an insulin growth factor designed to make you grow. Most of the milk we consume comes from pregnant cows. Dairy produce gives calves a 300% growth spurt and does the same to fully grown adults who don’t actually want to grow anymore. It takes 12 pounds of milk to make 1 pound of cheese making it literally a concentrated growth hormone that is linked to prostate and breast cancer.
Processed Food: The chemicals in processed food disrupt your metabolism and the additives are so highly addictive they leaving you craving more. Read my post on junk food to understand why processed foods make us fat and stop us becoming thinner.
Processed foods are full of trans fats (see margarine) and preservatives so they don’t break down. Don’t eat food that doesn’t rot. Every item in this box below is 14 years old which is horrifying as most of it still looks edible. Eating non-food like this will disrupt your ability to become or stay slim as your body makes more of its own internal fat to wrap all the toxins in.
Wheat is so chemically altered it is indigestible and almost worthless as a source of nutrition. Modern bread has as much sugar as cake and to your body there is no difference in cake or bread. There can be three spoons of sugar in one slice of bread. Starchy wheat based foods like bread, pastry and pasta push up your sugar levels forcing your body to store fat and stopping it from burning fat.
Wheat evolved on the planet as cattle feed and humans have nothing in common with cattle. The croissant and roll below are ten years old and like play doh and glue (which has the same ingredients as bread) they do not decompose.
Copyright Marisa Peer
Colas: are osteoarthritis in a can, the phosphoric acid in cola ruins your teeth and leaches calcium from your bones and the chemicals in cola contain formaldehyde (embalming fluid) Nice. If you want to be turned off cola place a tooth, a chicken bone and an old coin in a glass of coke and watch what happens. The acid will strip the grime from the coin and cause the tooth to go black and the bone to disintegrate. Use your old cola to clean your jewellery, your toilets, your taps and the burnt bits of pans it does a great job. Sadly it has the same stripping effect on your body.
Crisps: are solidified fat, chemicals, salt and additives designed to make you crave more. They don’t claim “bet you can’t eat just one’” for fun they chemically alter them to ensure you eat the whole packet and want more. Many crisps don’t even contain potatoes. Burn crisps in a bowl and see how much fat comes out, see the picture below. Make sure you do this by a sink. When I last did this the fat in just ten crisps burnt at such a high temperature it blew a hole in the ceramic bowl.
Copyright. Marisa Peer
Salt: is linked to high blood pressure and strokes. While a little sea salt is fine it’s better to cut salt from your diet, it allows you to regain your waistline super fast. Season foods with herbs or marigold salt free bouillon – it’s gorgeous.
Breakfast cereals: are so high in sugar many are no better than confectionery. Eating modern breakfast cereals is like eating a packet of biscuits broken up and drenched in milk. Some Dorset cereals are literally 60% sugar! Why would you eat anything that is 60% sugar.
Breakfast cereal bars: are even worse, you might as well eat a Mars bar for breakfast! When you start the day with a high sugar food your insulin levels rise and you begin your day by storing fat and then continue fat storing all day as your blood sugar levels stay too high. If you want cereal make your own by adding nuts, seeds and linseeds to real oats then adding a little chopped fresh fruit never dried fruit .
Muffins: are simply cakes and we should not be eating cakes for breakfast. A latte and muffin has more calories than a full English breakfast.
Modern yoghurt’s: like Muller are no different to eating a crème brulee or chocolate mousse for breakfast they are so full of sugar, it is normally the second ingredient in them so they raise your blood sugar levels and encourage your body to store rather than burn fat.
What I eat
Breakfast
- Eggs either boiled, poached, hard boiled or scrambled and made with olive oil or an omelette cooked with oil, add any kind of vegetables including tomatoes, spinach, peppers, onions or ham, prawns or salmon and add coriander for serotonin. Eggs are rich in lecithin and although they contain cholesterol they will not raise levels in the blood unless you have an inherited cholesterol problem, you can eat far more than the previous guideline of five a week..
- Soya yogurt with almonds and/or mixed seeds sunflower, hemp, sesame, pumpkin, linseeds (a dessert spoon size of mixed seeds and nuts) and a teaspoon of cinnamon.
- Oats made with water adding a little soya, hemp or rice milk, add linseeds and cinnamon. and a few nuts to push up the protein content.
Lunch
- Salad with fish, chicken, turkey, eggs, avocadoes or nuts and seeds or soya beans or quinoa.
- Any kind of protein with vegetables such as cooked chicken or fish with veggies.
- Soup full of protein like chicken or ham with vegetables and add quinoa if you want a bulky soup.
- Falafel made with fava beans or chick peas see lunch menus at www.marisapeer.blogspot.com
- I don’t usually need a snack as I eat enough protein but if I do want something I have fruit or nuts or maybe both or celery with peanut butter or endemame or hummus and crudites.
Dinner
Is always protein with lots of green vegetables I aim not to have any carbs at night so I have:
- Chicken with stir fried Savoy cabbage and broccoli.
- Steak and vegetables.
- Grilled fish with roasted vegetables like peppers leeks and onions.
- Turkey meatballs with garlic, spring onions, celery and spinach.
- Bolognaise with julienne courgettes and scallions.
- Lentils or minced lamb and mashed cauliflower with olive oil (instead of potatoes) is a great shepherd’s pie.
- Curry made with cardamom, cayenne, cinnamon, ginger and ginseng and chilli as they speed up metabolism. I have bean sprouts or shredded cabbage instead of rice.
- Kebabs of steak, chicken, turkey, prawns or fish with green peppers and scallions.
- Peppers stuffed with lean minced turkey.
- Grilled prawns, peppers, soya peas and spinach.
I don’t eat pasta or rice but if you want it occasionally only have Del Ugo or Orgran pasta as they are vegetable or protein based and are less starchy so they don’t raise your sugar levels the way wheat based pasta does and they keep you in fat burning mode.
I don’t have too much variety at each meal as this stimulates appetite and overeating.
If I am out to dinner I don’t enforce this because as long as you eat like this most of the time the odd difference really doesn’t matter.
Extra Tips
70% of the food we eat today is food our ancestors NEVER EVER ATE our bodies & metabolism cannot adapt to the change.
Eat from the 4 RS and you will eat food that your body can digest and burn off.
- Only eat food that grows or Roams – Nothing processed or refined.
- Only eat food that you could eat Raw – You don’t have to eat it raw but if you could it is digestible.
- Only eat food that you Recognise as a natural food – Margarine pretzels and donuts are not food.
- Only eat foods that Rots - If it does not break down your body can’t break it down.
Don’t eat really late at night. Don’t snack before bed.
Our bodies are still like those of caveman. Primitive man got up with the light and retired as it got dark as there was nothing else to do. Eating too much and too late at night leaves our bodies full of undigested food. Our metabolism slows down dramatically at night even if we are wide awake. Nature assumes we’re sleeping and therefore not as active as when we’re awake so our heart-rate slows right down making digestion more difficult.
Limit Variety
We need to eat a varied diet but too much variety at mealtime’s causes overeating which causes weight gain. Too much variety makes us fat because we gain weight when our appetite drives us to eat too much, so we don’t know when to stop, all humans have an inbuilt “sensory specific satiety” which means there is only so much of one food we can eat before we get bored and naturally stop eating.
Marisa
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I listened to Marisa cd and helped me a lot.would love to have
hypnotic session with her.how can I have more details?
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Hi Marisa I’m a convert now and am losing weight again with method after stalling with weigh loss on another well know diet where I’ve been playing around losing and regaining with the same few pounds for couple of years now .
Have you tried Dukkah ? (Roasted Nuts seeds & herbs …it wouldn’t have been allowed on the other diet ) I love it on roasted cauliflower ( and as a dip for any veggies with olive oil).
Here’s a great recipe for Dukkah with butterbean puree and egg..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/04/butter-bean-puree-dukkah-ottolenghi-recipe
Laska
Hi
I’m vegetarian, so the proteins from fish and meat aren’t on my menu. I eat lentils and tofu but wondered what you thought of grains like quinoa?
Lentils barley and quinoa are good as long as you serve them with a protein like fish /eggs.
Very Best
Marisa
Sounds lovely Laska, go on enjoying it. Very Best, Marisa
Hi Marisa, I know it isnt actually a diet and am reading your book for the second time and love it. Is there an actual menu planner i can get hold of anywere just so i can get started and get in the swing of it. I thought i would make some butternut squash and pepper soup today and then thought, is butternut allowed, also things like butterbeans in stews. Really love your explanations in the book, quite amazing to read. Ive been overweight all my life (currently about 3 stone) and also get bouts of depression, probably because I despise how i look. I’m forever trying to starve myself to lose weight which never works because i just think to myself,oh i havent had anything so now i can go mad, its madeness i know !! Im sick of it and really want to change (Im 50 !!). Here goes, and thank you for any menu ideas you may have, or do you have another book that would help.
Hi Marisa after making myself ill on a day out last week by eating bread and a pork pie i am back eating all the wonderful foods i have been eating after reading your book, i have come across a health bar called 9 bar full of nuts and seeds have you heard of it and should i be eating them. Many thanks.
Hi Marisa
I am a big fan of yours and i love your book, wish I knew this all 20 years ago! I am 3 stone lighter and i know i will never put it back on. I am just so hooked on crips. Help! When is your new book out?
Your biggest Fan!
Niamh
Dear Niamh,
Well done for dropping 3 stone, I’m so pleased my book has worked for you. I would recommend you look at my blogspot which gives you an alternative to crisps: http://marisapeer.blogspot.com/…/kale-crisps-fab-and-tasty-alternative.html
Please keep looking at my website for the latest on the release of my new book but it won’t be long now.
Very Best
Marisa
Dear Janice,
Please see some recipes and menus on my blogspot: http://marisapeer.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/some-recipes-and-menus-for-lunches-and.html
Butternut squash is fine as it’s a vegetable.Beans aren’t great as they’re very starchy peas are ok – or chick peas and soya peas.
Very Best
Marisa
These have pure cane sugar and honey in them so they are not good for you at all. I would recommend the food doctor bars as they have no sugar in them. Very Best Marisa
Hi Marisa.
I started your plan on Monday and am really enjoying your book. Help wanted please; my hubby has said we are going for a curry this weekend for a friend’s birthday. What do you suggest I choose?
Michelle
Hi Michelle, Ask for Tandori chicken or Tandori fish with spinach and cauliflower. Any kind of dry ish chicken, fish, meat is fine with vegetables but you need to avoid sauces, rice, bread and poppadoms. Very Best, Marisa
Marisa
I find the way of eating has changed my life round – i have a long way to go – but am enjoying fruit and veg again – would like to know how things like sweet potato stands.
David
Hi David, Sweet potato is really a vegetable and has a lot less carbs than regular potatoes. Very Best, Marisa
Hi Marissa,
I love your book and your blog and have recommended it to lots of my friends! One question I have though is, are the “Eat natural” food bars ok to eat?
Thanks
I’m afraid most of these bars still have lots of sugar in them. Very Best, Marisa
Hi Marisa
I have been reading your book since friday and already I am noticing the difference in my attitude to food and yes I have lost 1lb! Doesn’t sound alot, however I have been a terrible emotional eater which hasn’t been helped by the fact that my poor dad is dying of Motor Neurone Disease and I am a wife, mother, daughter, grandmother and trying to hold down a job as well. Life is pretty rotten at the moment, but for the first time today, I feel quite good about myself if that makes sense.
Marissa is a legend, without her book i would still be battling with my bad relationship with food,
Thanks to her i have got rid of 3 stone,
Changed my life, she is welcome at my house for a cup of green tea anytime xx
Hi Marissa
Only just started reading your book and exploring your website. Please can you share your thoughts on almond milk and hazelnut milk for use with oats and coffee?
Thank you
Just finished reading your book Marisa. It was very emotional but I was extremely impressed. The fact that you first dealt with the mind is highly effective – the fact that I got so emotional reading it made me realise just how important it was to face up to the facts of my unhealthy eating. Thank you, and I am looking forward to thanking you again very soon when I have become thinner.