CHAPTER THREE
Second Day, Diet-Day
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When you get up in the morning, eat absolute nothing because you will not be hungry. Have your favorite beverage for breakfast while reading the paper or doing whatever you do in the morning. Keep your meal restricted to coffee, tea, or water. Use no sweetener at all in your drinks, if possible. However, if you just have to have something sweet, use an artificial sweetener. Finish your beverage and go to work, either in the home or outside the home. Drink water throughout the day whenever you get thirsty. The amount of water you drink may depend on your activity level.
All of the nourishment you consumed the day before will be still with you in the morning when you wake up. During the night your body will have balanced your energy level and shut off your appetite. You should be able to go all day without eating.
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However, if your appetite is so strong that you just have to eat something, first delay eating as long as you can. Then have up to 600 calories in healthy snacks such as cheese and bread, toast and jam, or soup and salad. Then try to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep. If you consumed more than the 600 calories, you failed the test. Try it again another time.
If you ate nothing at all before bedtime or kept the calorie count low, you are almost there. Also, if you can get up in the morning and not rush into the kitchen and eat breakfast right away, you have made it. You’re in! Congratulations and welcome to the “Skip A Day Diet Club.”
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If you followed the instructions to the letter except for eating only the food necessary to take medicine, you are a good candidate for the Skip A Day Diet. Before you learn to use, refine, and adjust the diet to suit your specific needs, read the following overview to understand what happened during the two-day test period.
During the first day, you ate enough food to provide your body with a full, balanced nutritional allowance. You had the correct ratio of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. As you filled your stomach by eating the three meals, your body processed some of the food to provide energy for that day. At bedtime your stomach was still full.
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While you were sleeping, your body processed the rest of the food and stored the nutritional content, so that it would be distributed to different areas based on the needs of your organs and muscles. It also prepared other reserve nourishment needed for the next day’s activities. If some important nutrient was missing from your meals, the body made it and stored it along with the carbohydrates, fat, and protein.
If you did not eat enough fat for the next day’s activities, the body drew on its stored fat and placed it into the reserve so that it would be available for the next day, which was diet day. This brought your twenty-four-hour reserve energy level up to full. The balanced meals you consumed the day before and the fat released into your system during the night was enough to give you another full day’s reserve. Nutritionally, you were still full the next morning when you woke up on diet-day.
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All the food you ate the day before was enough to allow you to skip a day and take you through the diet period. You only needed to drink water. There was no need to eat again until your food reserve ran low during the third day.
Now that you know how the Skip A Day Diet works, you need to learn how food interacts in the body while providing nourishment. To build a more efficient weight loss program, learn how to use this diet with different foods, exercises, and other activities that will allow you to lose weight faster.
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The rest of the book explains nutrition and exercise relative to the Skip A Day Diet. It also explains the volume concept and suggests basic meal plans to help you lose weight faster. When you master the Skip A Day Diet, you will be able to lose weight at a slow, constant rate. To improve your health, study the material on exercise and nutrition. It will help you understand how the Skip A Day Diet and exercise can work together to help you lose weight.
============================================All of the nourishment you consumed the day before will be still with you in the morning when you wake up. During the night your body will have balanced your energy level and shut off your appetite. You should be able to go all day without eating.
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However, if your appetite is so strong that you just have to eat something, first delay eating as long as you can. Then have up to 600 calories in healthy snacks such as cheese and bread, toast and jam, or soup and salad. Then try to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep. If you consumed more than the 600 calories, you failed the test. Try it again another time.
If you ate nothing at all before bedtime or kept the calorie count low, you are almost there. Also, if you can get up in the morning and not rush into the kitchen and eat breakfast right away, you have made it. You’re in! Congratulations and welcome to the “Skip A Day Diet Club.”
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If you followed the instructions to the letter except for eating only the food necessary to take medicine, you are a good candidate for the Skip A Day Diet. Before you learn to use, refine, and adjust the diet to suit your specific needs, read the following overview to understand what happened during the two-day test period.
Test Results (Overview)
During the first day, you ate enough food to provide your body with a full, balanced nutritional allowance. You had the correct ratio of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. As you filled your stomach by eating the three meals, your body processed some of the food to provide energy for that day. At bedtime your stomach was still full.
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While you were sleeping, your body processed the rest of the food and stored the nutritional content, so that it would be distributed to different areas based on the needs of your organs and muscles. It also prepared other reserve nourishment needed for the next day’s activities. If some important nutrient was missing from your meals, the body made it and stored it along with the carbohydrates, fat, and protein.
If you did not eat enough fat for the next day’s activities, the body drew on its stored fat and placed it into the reserve so that it would be available for the next day, which was diet day. This brought your twenty-four-hour reserve energy level up to full. The balanced meals you consumed the day before and the fat released into your system during the night was enough to give you another full day’s reserve. Nutritionally, you were still full the next morning when you woke up on diet-day.
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All the food you ate the day before was enough to allow you to skip a day and take you through the diet period. You only needed to drink water. There was no need to eat again until your food reserve ran low during the third day.
Now that you know how the Skip A Day Diet works, you need to learn how food interacts in the body while providing nourishment. To build a more efficient weight loss program, learn how to use this diet with different foods, exercises, and other activities that will allow you to lose weight faster.
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The rest of the book explains nutrition and exercise relative to the Skip A Day Diet. It also explains the volume concept and suggests basic meal plans to help you lose weight faster. When you master the Skip A Day Diet, you will be able to lose weight at a slow, constant rate. To improve your health, study the material on exercise and nutrition. It will help you understand how the Skip A Day Diet and exercise can work together to help you lose weight.
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