Instruction for Healthy Weight Loss
Baking Bread at Home and Healthy Weight Loss
Unleavened products, matzoh, natural yeast are Allowed.
Avoid Baking soda, baking powder, preserved yeast for Healthy Weight Loss.
Beverages and Healthy Weight Loss
Herbal teas (chamomile, mint, papaya); grain-based coffee substitutes; fresh vegetable juice; hot chocolate soy milk; or rice beverages are Allowed.
Avoid Fruit juice (too high on the glycemic index), alcohol, caffeine, hot chocolate, coffee, carbonated beverages, artificial fruit drinks for Healthy Weight Loss.
Alcohol and Healthy Weight Loss
Allowed—Non-alcoholic beer; wine that has the alcohol removed
Avoid—Alcoholic beverages tend to be high in calories and low in other nutrients. Even moderate drinkers may need to drink less if they wish to achieve ideal health and maintain steady weight loss.
Heavy drinkers may lose their appetites for foods containing essential nutrients. Vitamins and mineral deficiencies occur commonly in heavy drinkers—in part because of poor intake, but also because alcohol alters the absorption and use of some essential nutrients. These sub-clinical nutritional deficiencies may cause a person to eat more high-calorie foods.
Sustained or excessive alcohol consumption by pregnant women has caused birth defects. Pregnant women should limit alcohol intake to two ounces or less on any single day.
Heavy drinking may also cause a variety of serious conditions such as cirrhosis of the liver and some neurological disorders.
Cancer of the throat and neck is much more common in people who drink and smoke than in those people who don't.
Chocolate and Healthy Weight Loss
Allowed—Carob and carob powders
Avoid—Milk chocolate and carob candy bars containing hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil
Dairy Products and Healthy Weight Loss
Allowed—Raw milk; sugar-free, low-fat yogurt; and buttermilk
Avoid—All processed and imitation butter (margarine); any yogurts containing Nutrasweet, sugar, cane syrup, gelatin, modified food starch, or any artificial colors or flavors; high-fat cheeses and any pasteurized processed cheeses or cheese spreads Note: instead of cream cheese use Neufchatel cheese. When choosing hard cheeses try dairy-free soy and rice-based cheese substitutes. You can also make your own low-fat herbed spreads with tofu-based cream cheese.
Desserts and Healthy Weight Loss
Allowed—Fruit flavored yogurt, fresh fruit compote, or any desserts listed in the Recipe Section in the back of the book
