The Fast Metabolism Diet by Haylie Pomroy Read Free Book Online

later, Jack looked up and he was 55 pounds lighter, and he was pissed at me. “That was supposed to be grueling. I was supposed to be hungry. Why didn’t I do this before? What happened to me?”
    With his crazy busy schedule and his desperate need for surgery, he didn’t even have time to second-guess the program. He was angry that simply allowing his metabolism to heal and ignite fat burning from within had never been offered to him before. He was angry that for so many years he had had such a negative relationship with food. Before finding his way to my office, Jack had spent years of torturous dieting and fasting, only to find himself plagued with excess weight. He has now reached his goal weight, got his knee repaired, and does mud runs and crazy fitness challenges. He still expresses a twinge of frustration to me that his metabolism had been slow for so many years when a Fast Metabolism was a real-life option out there waiting for him to find it.
    I get that a lot and it makes me both sad and happy that I get to do what I do every day.
    Fall in love with food again and let it support, nurture, and carry you over the threshold to a new paradigm of eating.
METABOLIC TRUTH #2:FOOD IS SOMETHING THAT WAS ONCE ALIVE AND CAME FROM THE LAND, SKY, OR SEA
    Things have to be real to be called food in my book. You know, apples, oranges, avocado, chicken, sweet potatoes, pork, shrimp, almonds, mangos. Chemicals, artificial sweeteners, colors, dyes, fat blockers,preservatives, pesticides, plastics, paint thinners, oven cleaners, weed killers, and spider spray just don’t count as food.
    Have you ever looked up the uses for some of these chemicals commonly found in our “food”? And what exactly is Yellow #5 or Blue #6? What purpose do aluminum, sodium benzoate, quinolone, carmoisine, and tartarazine 19140 serve in a body? I was reading a package the other day and its second ingredient was Sunset Yellow FCF15985 (E110). I wasn’t sure if I was to bake, broil, or deep-fry “yellow,” so I decided to skip that ingredient for dinner.
    Many of these chemicals are designed to add color to your paint or remove stains from your carpets, to build navy ships and bulletproof vests. They are not food! Therefore, they should not be consumed.
    Use them to decorate your house and build bombproof shelters, but do not put them in your mouth. The American Medical Society has coined a term for these industrial chemicals found in or sprayed on foods:
obesogens.
These obesogens disrupt normal hormonal balance and inhibit lipid (fat) metabolism. Obesogens can literally make you fat! Sadly, and ironically, most “diet”packaged foods are loaded with obesogens.
    Do not eat them. If you still feel the need to ask why and are not concerned that the accumulation of these toxins might someday kill you, then let me give you another little fact to chew on.
    FAST METABOLISM FACT
    Theliver both breaks down chemicals and metabolizes fat from food, from your butt, and fromcholesterol. You choose how you want your liver to spend its day: breaking down the chemicals you are eating under the pretense that it is food, or burning off the fat from your butt, belly, chin, and thighs?
PORTRAIT OF A DIETER WHO DIDN’T EAT FOOD
    I met Debi because Extra TV was doing a segment in which they wanted me to make over someone’s body. Debi couldn’t be more all-American—she worked as a special education aide for the school system, and her husband is a sergeant in the local police department. They have a son with special needs and a lot of stress in their lives. On top of all this, Debi had been trying to lose weight for years. She had spent thousands of dollars on diet programs, but because her metabolism had stalled, she would starve herself and if she lost three pounds, she’d view it as a miracle.
    I couldn’t help but feel so much compassion for Debi. She was a beautiful, warm-hearted person who just couldn’t understand why she couldn’t get healthy. She was