This Week's Step

You're eating Fruit in the morning, you've switched to whole grains, you're keeping your food groups separate, you're using cold-processed unrefined oils - and the weight is coming off! You might even have gone down one or two dress sizes by now - yeah! Now it's time to clean out your kitchen and remove all tempting UnDiet foods.

You'll be going through your refrigerator, cupboards, and all your secret stashes looking for Forbidden Foods. Throw them away, serve your family a "last supper", invite the neighbors to a backyard potluck, donate to a food bank ... Do whatever it takes to get rid of all those processed and incompatible foods because you will never eat them again. Allright I'm being dramatic - it would be a good thing if you NEVER ATE THEM AGAIN. Don't allow the fear of NEVER EATING THEM AGAIN to serve as an excuse to hold onto these foods. If you suddenly develop a craving for boxed macaroni and cheese you can always pick some up at the grocery store. After all, if you're going to step off the UnDiet for a moment, won't you want a fresh box of powdered imitation cheese & cardboard flavored pasta?

Toss These Cookies

Listed under each category are the types of foods to discard.

Boxed prepackaged foods

• ingredients that contain more than four syllables and a hyphenation (in other words lots of chemicals in the ingredient list)
• white flour
• white rice
• Starch & Protein mixes (unless one or the other is a very small amount)
• monosodium glutamate
• Rice mixes: if it's white rice throw it away. Brown or wild rice products are okay as long as they don't contain any other undesirable ingredients or Proteins.
• Pasta mixes: if it's not a whole grain pasta throw it away.

Sweeteners:

• refined sugar (dehydrated cane juice is okay)
• sucrose
• aspartame or Nutrasweet - this is permissible if eaten occasionally but why would you want to when there's so many healthy alternatives
• corn syrup or corn syrup products
• high fructose corn syrup (occasionally it's okay)
• dextrose

Bread

• no white breads
• don't use any bread that doesn't contain whole grains (Be careful: labels sometimes say "wheat flour", which while better than white flour is not the same as "whole wheat flour")
• Substitutes:
  1. Protein Breads
  2. whole grain bread
  3. whole wheat pita pockets
  4. whole wheat tortillas
  5. whole grain crackers

Canned  and jar foods

• chemicals, food starches, dextrose, monosodium glutamate, refined sugars, corn syrups, corn syrup solids, Starches mixed with Proteins.
• chicken broth (way too acidic but you can serve this to your family until you run out)
• most soups are either improper mixes or contain too many highly processed ingredients
• tomato sauces (way too acidic)
• tomato based pasta sauces (you can serve this to your family until you run out)
• tomato soup (you can serve this to your family until you run out)
• Don't forget to read the labels on basic foods such as beef broth, they usually contain a large assortment of chemicals. I've been able to find powdered chicken flavored and vegetable broths at my local health food store that taste delicious. (Check out our UnDiet Products page at a later date and I'll have these available via mail-order.)
• Fruit; if it's canned it's been cooked. You can serve this to your family or use it for an occasional dessert.
• Fruit in sugar based syrup
• Fruit fillings with refined sugar

Cereals

• must be whole grain and sugar free
• rolled oats, not quick cooking, are the best hot cereals, but not for breakfast, except occasionally

Fruits

• jams and jellies with refined sugars or corn products
• canned Fruit in sugar based syrup

Gum

• most gums contain sugar or aspartame

Ingredients

• bread crumbs are most likely made from white bread
• corn starch
• corn syrup solids
• high fructose corn syrup solids (this is not the same as "fructose")
• white sugar
• use only all non-natural and preferably organic ingredients

Medications

Birth control pills, and estrogen replacement therapies aggravate hypoglycemia, hyperinsulinism and overweight conditions. According to Dr. Atkins if you're on these medications, you would not be expected to do well with this or any other diet. In other words, you would be forced to choose between being slim and having normal blood sugar levels. Check with your doctor about finding a replacement that will allow you to reach both your health and weight goals.

Nuts

• Nuts are a difficult food as they are an almost equal mix of Protein and Starch, so use them sparingly and infrequently.
• Cashews are best used with a Starch meal.
• Macadamia nuts are best used with a Protein Meal.

Sweeteners

Any sweeteners listed here are absolutely forbidden when following a high Protein diet. They can be used in any other type of  food combining plan but very ,very (VERY, VERY) sparingly.

• sorbitol, mannitol and other hexatols; sucrose, maltose, fructose, dextrose and any sweetener ending in "ose"
• aspartame, NutraSweet, Equal
• white sugar
• brown sugar
• turbinado sugar
• raw sugar (isn't really raw)
• Substitutes:
  1. Stevia can be found in natural food stores in the "Supplements" section. It's sold as a food supplement, not a sweetener, but that's exactly what it is.
  2. Trutina: a sweetener extracted from kiwi that is all natural, calorie-free, and has no bitter aftertaste. This is by far the best choice for a sweetener and there will be a link provided soon so you can purchase it on-line.
  3. natural sweeteners: date sugar, maple sugar, raw unfiltered honey, real maple syrup
  4. Sweet n Low (if you must use a chemical sweetener.)
  5. Sucanat is dehydrated cane juice. Use it in the same proportion as you would white sugar. It has calories but is just as healthy as raw, unfiltered honey.

Don't Alienate Your Family

If your family can't quite give up the little blue box (Kraft Mac and Cheese) and it's too tempting for you to have nearby, stash these items in an area outside of the kitchen or in a place that's difficult to get to like over the fridge.

Step By Step

1. Print out Forbidden Foods.
2. Get rid of forbidden foods.
3. Set up a stash for your family's favorite foods.

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