1. Take the All or Nothing Approach
The Dr. Oz plan asks you to make some drastic changes in your eating plan, especially in the first week. Getting rid of all that processed food may seem impossible, but jump in and get rid of it all. The additives and preservatives in processed foods, designed to make them taste better than they do and last longer than they should, do nothing good for your health. Toss out all the processed foods containing anything but whole natural ingredients. This includes the crackers, flavored chips, breakfast cereal, prepackaged meals and anything containing hydrogenated oil or corn syrup. A good rule of thumb is that if it has more than three ingredients, it goes.
2. Go a Few at a Time
Jump in and clean out the fridge for Dr. Oz's You On a Diet, and you may find some of your favorite foods are just plain gone. For decades, food manufacturers have made these processed foods. This means you may have been enjoying a "coco lumps for breakfast for 30 years or more and may find the habit is tough to break. Find a look alike for all your favorites and substitute, for example, your "coco lumps" cereal may look amazingly like coco powder covered chopped pecans. With some fresh chopped apples, just a touch of maple syrup and some milk, you get a look alike breakfast that has not been through the ringer of processing. You also get a taste of the past in the coco powder. Select your absolute must haves and develop replacements for each one at a time. For instance, try naturally sweet alternatives to sugar on your breakfast cereal, such as bananas, chopped apples or raisins. That way you won't feel as though you are missing out on your personal history. In actuality, you are changing it for the better.
3. Assess the Situation
Single ingredient foods are the best thing going for your body, because your body knows how to properly process the food. Look at your cupboard and the ingredient list of the food you have stashed. If you see a list containing a dozen or more ingredients in every other thing you pick up, you need to make some major changes. These chemical conglomerates of food additives were approved individually by the FDA, so who knows how they affect you when lumped together. Also, toss the ultra refined foods, the foods that have been through more processes than your computer system. These foods include nearly anything not naturally white, like flour, sugar and bread. The bleaching these foods go through may be great for your clothes, but do you really want to be eating it? So clean out the unhealthy foods, shop the outside aisles of the grocery store and leave the food processing to your body.
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