Healthy Info

natural weight loss

A natural weight loss diet relies exclusively on those natural fat burning foods that were consumed by our Pleistocene ancestors. By understanding how your ancestors ate, you will automatically understand how you should eat if you want to flourish physically.

A natural weight loss diet is very conservative and as well-grounded and tested scientifically as any eating plan could be. A natural weight loss diet is an eating plan that consists of eating foods that are as close as possible to the foods humans or proto-humans ate during the Pleistocene. We evolved eating those foods, and we are healthiest when we eat them.

What are those foods? They are foods that consist of natural sources of fats, proteins, and (unrefined or unprocessed) carbohydrates. Unfortunately for us, there is a big difference between eating wild plant foods and eating cultivated plant foods, and there is also a big difference between eating wild flesh foods and domesticated flesh foods. This makes it more difficult for us to obtain the foods of a natural weight loss diet. Incidentally, they tend to be low carb foods.

The best low carb foods from plants are non-starchy vegetables. Other good low carb foods are asparagus, lettuce, mustard greens, beet greens, turnip greens, parsley, kale, collard, bok choy, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, cucumber,(green, red, or Chinese) cabbage, mushrooms, peppers, yellow summer squash, and zucchini.

Flesh foods are staples of a natural weight loss diet as well as being low carb. If you drink alcohol, have no more than one drink daily if you are female or two drinks daily if you are male. Always avoid sweetened alcoholic beverages. Also avoid wild rice, teff, millet, sorghum, sugarcane, and cane sugar.

In other words, avoid anything that your Pleistocene ancestors could not have eaten including candy, sweet fruits, dried fruits, and sweetened foods. Please do not worry about eating a low carbohydrate diet. If you stop eating processed carbs, your body will automatically switch to burning fat for energy instead of carbs.