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We love to lose! That is why we keep doing it.
As of the closing days of August 2004, Dan has lost 150# and Marlene has lost
80#. Do you want to be a loser too? Or, maybe you just want to get healthy. Here
is where we will share with you the process and the results. We have been the
guinea pigs for our own road to greater health.
Here
is the main gist of
Dan
and Marlene's Nutrition Plan:
Every
person needs to adjust this plan according to their own waking hours.
For instance, Dan and I are up very, very late, but also sleep later.
Our noon, therefore, is not 12:00, but, rather, more like 2:00 p.m.
If you are an early to bed, early to rise person, your noon may be 10:30
or 11:00. I hope this helps you to
understand how to make the plan fit your own lifestyle.
BREAKFAST
= BREAK FAST
Breakfast
is actually a word that means what it says, breaking the fast.
Did you know you were "fasting"? Well, when you go for more than 3 to 4 hours without eating,
your body registers that you are fasting. So,
when you begin your day with break-fast, you are breaking the nightly fast.
That is one reason that it is so very important to eat breakfast.
DON'T SKIP MEALS unless you are on a Biblical fast.
Think
of it this way. If you ever knew
what it was like to live before everything was automatic, back when you had to
build a fire for heat, you know that, during the night, the fire often went
out...or at least so low that there was little or no heat left.
That is what happens to your inner furnace during the same time.
First thing you need to do, if you want to lose weight and get healthier,
is to stoke up the fire. EAT!
Now,
what happens if no one keeps the fire going during the day...no one puts any
more fuel on it? It will go out or
get too cold to profit anything. Your
inner furnace is the same way. You
have to fuel it if you want it to burn. AND...YOU
DO WANT IT TO BURN...BURN ALL THAT FAT OUT OF YOUR BODY.
So, in order to keep the furnace burning up that fat, you have to EAT!
If
you make the right food (fuel) choices, it would be better for you to eat ALL
day than it would for you to eat once per day.
Keep your fat-burning furnace going...EAT!
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Breakfast
- From the time you get up until within 1/2 hour or so of your lunch time (3 to
4 hours after rising), eat fruit...all the fruit you want...any fruit you want. The juicy types of fruit do not make you feel as filled, so I
recommend that you eat a banana as your last fruit because it holds you longer.
Fresh fruit is always the best. I
do not recommend dried fruits or fruits packed in syrup.
The sugar defeats the purpose. Juices
can be used; but, remember, it takes many, many fruits to make 4 ounces of
juice. And, juice, alone, will not
be as filling as the number of fruits it takes to make that juice.
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Lunch
(1/2 hour or so after eating the last fruit) - Eat vegetables (except potato)
with protein (if you want protein). This
can be meat, cheeses, soy, beans, anything protein.
OR-----
Eat
vegetables (including potato if you want it) with starchy carbohydrates (if you
want the carbs). This can be
pastas, potatoes, breads, etc.
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Dinner
(3 to 4 hours after eating lunch) - Eat vegetables (except potatoes) with
protein (if you want protein). This
can be meat, cheeses, soy, beans, anything protein.
OR-----
Eat
vegetables (including potatoes if you want it) with starchy carbohydrates (if
you want the carbs). This can be
pastas, potatoes, breads, etc.
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GET
IT? The whole idea is fruit in the morning then DO NOT MIX CARBS
WITH PROTEINS AT ANY OTHER MEAL.
Why
does this work? From research we
have done, it takes one kind of acid to digest carbs…and another type to
digest proteins. When you combine
them, neither is properly digested; and, therefore, you are not getting the full
nutrition from any of it. Now, I
know that veggies are carbs…but, except for potatoes, they are mostly water
and they are NOT CONCENTRATED carbs.
So, those mostly water veggies can be eaten with either
one…concentrated carbs or proteins. But, the concentrated carbs and proteins should NOT be eaten
together.
Dan
and I are proof that it works. And,
his diabetic meds have been decreased from 6 to 2 per day, with plans on
eliminating them all together.
We
have been on probably every DIET in the world and failed.
We, obviously, are NOT FAILING at this new nutritional lifestyle
Hungry? Need a snack? Snack
(3 or so hours after dinner) Grab
vegetables or fruit. Or, make this
great drink:
1
Banana
1C
Apple juice
1/2
C Plain, unflavored (LIVE CULTURE) Yogurt
1
or more trays of ice
Put
ingredients into the blender. Add
ice until the drink is thick. Drink
it. It is both delicious and
filling. We put our fiber powder in
ours.
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ALWAYS
TAKE A GOOD QUALITY MULTI-VITAMIN IF YOU HAVE NO MEDICAL REASON NOT TO DO SO.
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Dr.
Becker, "Your Health" at 12:00 Noon on the Dish Network, Family Net,
recommends that a diabetic needs to have a carb before bed.
It can be a slice of toast or a few crackers, etc.
Something rather minor, but still a carb. It helps stabilize the sugar during the "fast".
Now,
you do not have to eat the same choice for both lunch and dinner as long as
there is 3-4 hours between them. You
might choose the veggies and protein for lunch and the veggies and carbs for
dinner, or visa versa.
WE
ARE NOT DOCTORS OR A NUTRITIONISTS, BUT THIS HAS WORKED FOR DAN AND I. HE HAS LOST OVER 150 POUNDS AND I HAVE LOST AROUND 80 POUNDS.
DAN HAS GONE FROM 6 DIABETES PILLS PER DAY TO 2 PER DAY AND MAY BE
ELIMINATING ONE OF THEM AT ANY TIME. OUR
DOCTOR BELIEVES THAT, IF WE STAY ON THE DAN AND MARLENE'S NUTRITION PLAN, DAN
WILL BECOME NON-DIABETIC.
BECAUSE
OF TODAY'S SUIT-CRAZY SOCIETY, I MUST "COVER MY ANATOMY" BY SAYING
THAT I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYONE WHO CHOOSES TO TRY OUR EATING PLAN.
IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY IT, YOU ARE STRICTLY ON YOUR OWN, BY YOUR OWN FREE
WILL, AND TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS AND DECISIONS AND WILL
NOT, IN ANY WAY, HOLD DAN AND/OR MARLENE LIABLE.
WE HAVE MADE NO MONETARY CHARGES FOR THIS INFORMATION.
IF I COULD, I WOULD GATHER EVERY OVERWEIGHT, UNHEALTHY PERSON I COULD
FIND AND HELP THEM CHANGE THEIR LIVES, FOREVER, THROUGH THE DAN AND MARLENE
NUTRITION PLAN.
IF
YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS...OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOUR TESTIMONY
ON HOW THIS PLAN HAS HELPED YOU, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME AT:
nutritionplan@marlene.org
Visit
my site at www.marlene.org if you would
like to check it out and, while you are there, please sign my guestbook.
You may also want to listen to the songs on the “Music” page.
Those are all songs that I not only sing, but I also wrote.
Check out my BIO to learn a little bit about my life and check out the
“Electronic Apostle” if you want to read some messages to touch peoples’
lives.
Thanks
and I hope this information is helpful and healthful to you.
Marlene
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