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    10 Easy Habits Of Eating Well Being Well
    10 Easy Habits Of Eating Well Being Well
    10 Easy Habits Of Eating Well Being Well
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    10 Easy Habits Of Eating Well Being Well

    By Swee Lin Lim

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    Discover 10 Easy Habits that will put you on the path to weight loss, better skin while allowing you to still eat a wide variety of delicious cusines and satisfying meals.

    Learn how to boost your metabolism without exercise and re-balance out the "food" hormone Insulin.

    Follow an easy to stick to approach that leads to lasting results.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSwee Lin Lim
    Release dateMay 4, 2016
    ISBN9789813170018
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      10 Easy Habits Of Eating Well Being Well - Swee Lin Lim

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      BREAKING THE CYCLE

      How many of you have tried to diet before? I am guessing that because you are reading this book, probably quite a few and your last diet didn’t give you the results that you were looking for. Personally, I have tried so many that I have lost count. In the following pages, I hope you will let me share my story because it will explain why I am passionate about trying to use my knowledge to help you. Ready? Here we go.

      From seven to eleven years of age, I attended ballet classes weekly. After ten, I felt I was gaining weight in the wrong areas to be successful as a ballet dancer. At eleven, I remember begging to leave ballet because I felt too large to be in a pale pink leotard that showed all flaws mercilessly.

      At twelve, friends in school started to become weight conscious and around that age, I started to eat less and less at dinner. I stopped gaining weight, but I also stopped growing taller for the next decade. I successfully stunted my growth at twelve!

      At 13, I started my first official diet – it came from an American health and fitness magazine, toted by a model who described her emergency diet to lose 5 lbs (~2kg) fast in three to five days. It was mostly liquid based but followed one core principle: stick only to 500 calories a day. So for a few miserable years, 500 calories was my diet target.

      When I wasn’t on this diet, 900 to 1,200 calories a day was my new normal. I felt like a failure for not being able to stick to these unrealistic targets and my weight still yoyo-ed up and down. I read everything I could about calories! I memorized the calorie count and standard portions for >50 foods but sadly, I still didn’t know enough about nutrition. I was also sadly ignorant about the effects this restricted calorie and low nutrition diet was having on my metabolism, my energy levels, my skin and my concentration. It was little wonder that even my school grades started to slip. Nearly everything I ate was oil free, low fat, low protein, filled with artificial sweeteners. No amount of natural fruit or steamed vegetables or multigrain bread (which I mainly ate) could compensate for what I was doing to my health.

      By perpetually starving myself, I developed new cravings for high sugar, high fat foods I had never thought that much about before – candy-bars, ice-cream, cookies and cake. And because I was calorie focused, I would skip meals to allow myself an ice-cream, cookies, cake or candy bar. Terrible diet, terrible nutrition! Periodically, I included small portions of vegetarian or low-fat, animal protein but it still wasn’t enough.

      At university, I was practically vegetarian on most days: I ate fresh and dried fruit, fresh vegetables, low fat cottage cheese, low fat yogurt, skimmed milk and had lots of complex carbs. Chocolate and cookies were regular treats, and I had only a little meat or fish once a week. But despite doing lots of walking and regular exercise, I kept getting heavier and heavier. What was even more troubling was that I constantly craved carbohydrates and worse still, when I had my blood cholesterol tested, my triglycerides were through the roof! (Triglycerides are high in response to a high carbohydrate diet.) By now, I weighed 120 lbs (55kg) on most days and 125 lbs (57kg) on my worst of days. What was going on? Vegetarians were meant to be slim, healthy and lean and I clearly wasn’t. I was miserable and overweight. What was I doing wrong?

      After my exams in my final year in undergraduate, and fed up with my weight and blood test results, I started buying and reading better books on nutrition. These included the Carbohydrate Addicts’ Diet (I was clearly one), Mood Food, Low Blood Sugar, Maximum Metabolism, Carlson Wade’s Amino Acids Book and Managing Your Mind and Mood Through Food. These books were a revelation and opened up a new world about nutrition to me. I finally understood more about the complex ecosystem of how food affects the body and the associated hormonal, brain and mood changes. I finally realized that by excessively eating too many carbs, even healthy carbs in the 1980s and early 1990s, by limiting my protein intake and by excessively cutting back on oil/fat, I had triggered an imbalance in my body that had set me up for an endless cycle of highs and lows in blood glucose levels, with the fat hormone insulin, rapidly storing what I ate as fat, resulting in weight

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