10 Principles for an everyday diet

Another programme I caught recently is The A-List Diet with Celebrity Food Doctor, Ian Marber, on Discovery Home & Health.

The two episodes I caught were both women. After 10 weeks, the first one lost a stone or 6.35kg, and went from 44% to 43% body fat. The other who was just 21 years old, lost 5kg and went from 39% to 37% body fat. They were most happy when out shopping and realised they had lost a dress size or two :)

The A-List Diet consists of 2 parts. The first is a 7-Day Detox that will also help to shrink the size of your stomach: "it consists of a lot of soups, and does away with simple carbs, stimulants (caffeine and alcohol) and saturated fats.

Afterwhich, if you can survive without tea and/or coffee, you follow the 10 Principles:

1. Eat protein along with complex carbs.
2. Stay hydrated - 6 to 8 glass of water
3. Eat a wide variety of food
4. Eat little, often or a small meal every 3 hours.
5. Eat breakfast - I can't stress how important this is!
6. Avoid sugar
7. Exercise - 3 x 30mins workout every week.
8. Follow the 80/20 rule - a small treat (like 2 squares of dark chocolate) for every 5th meal is ok :P
9. Make time for eating - dun rush!
10. Eat fat to lose fat - that's healthy fat from olive oils, omega-3 (aka fat fish) and nuts.

Ok, now go lose some of that bulge!