2 days ago, I sent you a great article written by Wes Virgin, a certified personal trainer and fitness and weight loss expert who created theFat Diminisher System to help his clients.
He explained why doing long, slow cardio is a mistake if you want to lose weight fast. And he busted the 7 common lies about fat loss.
Now he’s about to explain the lie behind today’s obesity crisis.
The big, wealthy food corporations spend fortunes telling us that…
A calorie is a calorie is a calorie.
Mistake #2: believing a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, even though it’s been pounded into our heads… because it’s just not true.
Your body handles different calories differently.
Like many of us, I want to lose a few pounds. So when I reached out to Wes Virgin, I was shocked when he told me that under no circumstances should I eat anything marked “diet” or “low fat,” or even “healthy” or “natural.”
He said, those words are code for “full of sugar,” and sugar makes you fatter faster than anything else.
I said, Wes, you’re full of…sugar. Because a calorie’s just a calorie! I mean, they all contain the same amount of energy.
Don’t they?
Sure, he said: but your body uses different forms of energy differently.
After all,you wouldn’t shovel coal into your car’s gas tank or pour diesel into a jet engine. But the food and diet corporations spend fortunes telling us we should do that to ourselves.
I asked,Can you prove to me what you’re saying is true?
Sure, he said. It’ll take just 2 days.
I’m game! I told him. What do I have to do?
One day, you’ll eat what I tell you. It’s just real food and you can season it any way you want.
The next day, you eat all the “healthy” “diet” “low-fat” food” you want. Just tell me how you feel.
So on Day One, I ate what Wes told me to:
For breakfast, his Fat Diminishing Drink packed with anti-oxidant-rich superfoods followed by a generous plate of fruit and some Greek yogurt. Lunch? Roasted salmon on a gorgeous salad of greens and broccoli with tangy lemon dressing and roasted sweet potato wedges. My midday snack? A perfect sweet-tart apple and cashews, a dinner of spicy chicken saladwith brown rice and fresh vegetables and a small glass of red wine, followed by my night-time Fat Diminishing Drink.
I wasn’t hungry and enjoyed the food, I felt great all day long and slept like a baby.
The next day, everything came out of a bag, box or carton telling me how good it was for me, how healthy and natural it was.
But it was a nightmare. I was hungry all the time. I don’t mean, hungry as in, Time for lunch. I mean, I simply couldn’t stop eating.It was like there was a little evil demon in my ear whispering, more, moremore…
And I thrashed all night long.
ThenWes had me read the labels.
There was sugar in my fruit yogurt for breakfast.
There was sugar in my granola bar snack—about as much sugar as a candy bar, in fact!
My very tasty frozen lunch was full of sugar. And the juice I drank at lunch had as much sugar as a can of soda!
Then I had a second granola snack bar—the label said it was full of healthy fiber, which I know I need——and more fruit yogurt in mid-afternoon.
Dinner was a salad with low-fat salad dressing—which is full of sugar—and I had some “whole wheat” bread for more fiber. Except that it had just a sprinkling of whole grain meal and it got its color from… brown sugars like molasses.
Wes toted up the calories from both days for me. I’d eaten about 500 calories more on Day Two of processed “healthy” and “diet” and “low-fat” food than Wes’ simple menu of real, good food.
If you’re wondering, a pound of fat has about 3500 calories in it.
Despite being well on my way to packing on another pound, I’d had way less energy.
“Our bodies can’t handle a lot of sugar,” Wes told me. “So it releases insulin to store that sugar as fat, which makes us very hungry and craving more sugar. This is how people who are trying to eat healthy become obese and diabetic.”
Wes is right…
All calories are not the same.
In just a few days, I’ll share Mistake #1, which does more to sabotage your weight loss efforts than anything else—and how you can easily repair that damage.
PS: In the meantime, Wes has shared his favorite spicy chicken salad recipe with you. It’s quick, easy and delicious. Click here to enjoy it yourself.
Wesley Virgin’s Spicy Southwestern Chicken Salad
Makes 4 servings.
This salad is packed with flavor so you enjoy it and anti-oxidants so your body burns fat faster.
Ingredients
• 1 pound cooked chicken, shredded (your choice white or dark meat)
• 1 ripe avocado, peeled and cubed
• 1 red bell pepper, preferably organic, seeded and chopped
• ¼ onion, finely chopped
• ½ cup cilantro (use parsley if you hate cilantro)
• 2 scallions, thinly sliced
• 1 jalapeno, seeded and finely chopped (use less if you want and wash your hands well after handling)
• ¼ cup good olive oil
• 1 lime, halved and juiced
• 1 clove garlic, roughly chopped
• Splash of your favorite hot sauce
• Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Combine chicken, avocado, red pepper, onion and cilantro or parsley, and jalapeno in a small bowl. In a blender, combine olive oil, lime juice, garlic, hot sauce and salt and pepper. Puree, drizzle over the salad, and toss well.
Serve with a green salad, some brown rice, and a handful of your favorite green vegetables. Or wrap salad in whole wheat tortillas along with sliced juicy ripe tomatoes and fresh baby greens, and serve with a side salad.
