Do you want to lose weight or feel healthier? Then Dr. Oz challenges you to a nine-step program that may get you to rethink your entire diet; from what you buy at the grocery store to when and how you prepare meals. He claims that following this diet can help you to completely change your eating habits, create a healthier lifestyle for yourself, and reboot your body.
Throw Out the Top 5 Food "Agers"
The first step in this diet is to implement Dr. Oz's "Rule of 5." This entails going to your fridge and reading the labels on all of the food in there. Check for the following five ingredients: simple sugar, syrup, white flour, saturated fats, and trans fats. If one of these is listed as one of the first five ingredients on the food label, then throw that food item out. The reason is that these are the foods that contribute most to aging, says Dr. Oz. Because food labels list ingredients in descending order by weight, the most prevalent ingredient is first and the least is last. Therefore, if sugar, for instance, is listed as one of the first five ingredients you know that that food contains a lot of sugar.
Stock Up on Healthy Foods
The second step of the Dr. Oz diet is to go grocery shopping and stock up on foods that are filling and nutritious. You should concentrate mainly on fresh produce, lean protein and whole grains. Dr. Oz recommends shopping from the inside of the store out, so that the heat and bacteria have less time to grow on your produce before you get it home. Some healthy foods that Dr. Oz recommends buying include: oatmeal, whole wheat pasta, olive oil, low-sodium soy sauce, walnuts, raw almonds, dried apricots, cinnamon, tea, dark chocolate, eggs, chicken breasts, low fat yogurt and unlimited amounts of fruits and vegetables.
Cut Calories and Reduce Portion Sizes
The third step involves cutting 100 calories a day from your diet, and Dr. Oz says that this can be easily achieved by omitting one soda or two cookies a day. The fourth step is to set your table with smaller plates to reduce your serving size naturally. And prepare some healthy high-fiber snacks, such as nuts and edamame, to have on hand for when hunger strikes.
Enlist a Friend and Learn to Relax
Step five involves enlisting a buddy to follow the diet with you and to make a pact to talk for five minutes a day, to keep each other on track. For step six, Dr. Oz advises you to start practicing some relaxation techniques such as deep breathing or yoga to help you fight off cravings. This is an important step, especially for people who are emotional eaters. Women Fitness, a website dedicated to helping women lose weight and get healthy, says that yoga can relax you and reduce your anxiety, both of which can help to reduce your likelihood of overeating.
Weigh Yourself and See a Doctor
For step seven Dr. Oz recommends making a doctor's appointment for one month from this day, to get your health stats checked out. For step eight he says you should go public, and let others know about your diet. The benefit of this is to provide you with a sense of pride for your weight loss efforts, and it will also create social pressure for you to stick to it. The ninth and final step is to weigh yourself and measure your waist, and continue to do so on a weekly basis to track your progress.
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