The Facts

1. Your body fat is made by insulin from the carbohydrates you consume.

2. All the carbohydrates you eat turn into blood sugar and your body produces insulin to reduce your blood sugar level by creating fat. Depending on your energy needs at the time, you use up some of this fat as energy to fuel your metabolic functions. This is true regardless of the food source, whether sugar, honey, cereals, bread, cakes, pasta, rice, potatoes, pulses, root vegetables, fruit, or sweetened drinks. THAT IS HOW YOU GAIN WEIGHT.

3. Losing weight is a reverse process where you force your body into a benign ketogenic (fat burning) state, forcing it to use up the energy stored in your own body fat.

This is done by starvation, or as most of us refer to it, dieting. The process is simple. Nature saw to it that you store some energy in your own saturated animal fat - the best and most efficient energy source to provide all your requirements - in case food becomes hard to come by. By going on a diet and counting calories, this is exactly what you achieve; make food hard to come by in your stomach. You burn up your fat and lose weight - until you come off your favourite method of starvation! Dieting, therefore, is a waste of time and money.

4. If you eat no carbohydrates (which is not possible) or eat very little of it, and satisfy your hunger and appetite with saturated or monounsaturated fat and protein, you will not put weight on. Or, if you are already over weight, you will lose weight until you regain your normal body weight for your height and body type. That sounds incredible in the light of what we have been told by nutritionists and dietitians for 40 years!

5. When you eat lots of cereals, bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, sugary foods, fruits and root vegetables, and little fat, probably following the 'healthy eating' advice, because all these ingredients turn into blood sugar, your body develops a sugar burning metabolism, using glucose for your energy source. Should you eat only so much carbohydrates as your body needs in terms of energy at any given time you would not put on weight. But, as soon as you eat more than that, your insulin manufactures body fat for you. Drinking any alcohol with your meal will aggravate this process as the energy in alcohol will be used up first by your body and if that is all you need at the time, all the carbohydrates you have eaten will become body fat. Millions of people go through this process every day since this phoney war on cholesterol began in 1953. We cause obesity.

6. When you eat lots of meat with fat on, fish, eggs, cheese, cream and green vegetables, having very little carbohydrates, in a very short time, your sugar-burning metabolism chemically changes into a fat burning metabolism, the very benign ketogenic state, which you force yourself into when dieting and counting calories. Only this time, you do not need to starve. In fact, you can satisfy both your hunger and appetite without counting calories. In a benign ketogenic (fat-burning) state, your body uses fat for your primary source of energy - as it evolved to do through millions of years. You will still have some blood sugar in your blood but without the large dump of insulin reaction. The fat you eat will enter your blood not as blood sugar but as glycerol and fatty acids, again, without triggering the insulin dumping into your bloodstream. Your body uses what it requires in energy. The surplus is expelled as kitone bodies through urine and exhaled air through the lungs. If you run out of dietary fat, your body continues by using your own body fat for energy in a natural way. That is how you lose weight naturally and attain your normal weight for life.

These are the basic facts. Now, what are you going to do with them?
If you are interested in the science behind these facts, we have more details and references for you on other pages of this website.
If you want to get on with controlling your own weight, you need more information to know:
How to avoid feeling hungry so often?
How to avoid food craving?
How to identify your favourite food ingredients and find out how they function in your body?
How to use your favourite food ingredients to help your weight control?
How to create favourite meals that will not put weight on?
How others with weight problems have succeeded in controlling them?
How to avoid mistakes?
What benefits did others gain as they lost weight?
How did they find their own experience of natural weight loss?
How can we help you with devising your own favourite menus?
How do health professionals feel about the realities of weight control outside the phoney war against cholesterol?

The answers to all these questions, if put on a website would cost you a fortune in phone charges each time you refer to them. So, we crammed them into a 1-hour video, which you can peruse at your leisure, in your own home, costing less then four junk meals.

PROTEINS
A human being, to function well in daily life and to retain good health, requires the daily intake of certain amino acids which the body uses to create and repair cells - among other functions. The foods that contain all the necessary complete proteins, provide all the essential amino acids and cell building nutrients, are meat, fish, eggs and dairy products. Other foods, such as grains and vegetables, also contain proteins but few have all the complete proteins you need. You need to select these carefully.

FATS
The body also needs the daily intake of other nutrients, lipids, sterols, vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Your main sources of complete proteins, meat, fish, eggs and some dairy produce also contain saturated animal fats which provide lipids – essential for healthy brain and nervous system functions - and sterols – the precursors of hormonal activities – as well as fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. There are plant sources of fats, such as oils and margarine which will provide some of the fatty acids we need, but in different proportions, some of which are unhealthy. For example, most plant based fats contain linoleic acid (Omega 6) at 40 to 70% concentration - much more than we need. At this concentration, linoleic acid suppresses the immune system. We only need this nutrient at 3% concentration. That is provided by animal fats.

CARBOHYDRATES
Carbohydrates are plentyful sources of energy. They are found in grains, potatoes, cereals, pulses, rice, root vegetables, fruit, honey, sugar and sweet drinks. The body uses a small amount of carbohydrates for assisting the metabolic process.
Carbohydrates metabolise quickly into blood sugar, or glucose which is used in the brain and in the muscles. The liver turns some glucose into glycogen for supplying a sudden surge of energy if needed in an Emergency. Unfortunately, any surplus energy intake through carbohydrates, which is not required by the body immediately, is turned into body fat by the body's own supply of insulin. In their raw state, the most popular sources of carbohydrates do contain some nutrients. Unfortunately, by the time they are available for human consumption, they are processed or refined, stripped of most of their nutrients.
There are no essential carbohydrates.

VEGETABLES AND FRUIT
There are a number of essential minerals, vitamins and trace elements in a balanced diet which are essential for a healthy body. Green vegetables and fruit are good sources of these, but for the sugar content in some fruit. These food ingredients provide dietary fibre and can be eaten in any preferred quantities limited by your appetite.

ALCOHOL
Contrary to popular belief, alcohol does not metabolise into glucose in the same way as sugar or other carbohydrates do. In fact, the body uses alcohol as an immediate source of energy, leading to any glucose in the blood stream not being used as a source of energy, being stored as fat. Eating a carbohydrate rich meal with alcohol is the most efficient way of achieving an increase in body weight.

The Perfect Weight Initiative has been created to inform you now about some aspects of the latest nutritional knowledge and indicate how you can use this new knowledge to control your own weight for life. We start by reiterating the absolute basics of weight control.

The Absolute Basics Of Weight Control

There are certain incontrovertible facts about nutrition and weight control, which are applicable to 93% of the population. Unfortunately, these facts have been largely defied in the phoney war against cholesterol by the nutritionists, dieticians and doctors who have been trained during the past 30-40 years.

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