I'm shaking my head at this advice

Ok so a friend of mine on Facebook wants to lose weight. Through all the 'advice' she's been given on the post....some of it makes me scream & shake my head.


" As a vegan.. I maintain my weight and even lose weight naturally! Losing the dairy and eggs is a must. Dairy and eggs will MAINTAIN your weight making it impossible to lose. Dairy clogs arteries anyway so it is not healthy.. Plenty of raw fruits and veggies have calcium in it so you wont lack that. Almond milk to replace Cows milk.. Avoid all refined foods such as white rice white pasta white bread white allpurpose flour white sugar and white salt (including sea salt).. Himalayan pink crystal salt has 84 minerals in it.. Every mineral that the body needs for optimum health.. Use organic sugar cane sparingly.. Avoid bread at all costs during weightloss.. It is glutenous and has the wrong type of carbs.. You need "complex carbs" from raw fruits and veggies.. Eat a handful of each per day (almonds sunflower seeds and a mix of brazilnuts with walnuts) .. Nuts are not high in saturated fat.. They are over 80% monounsaturated fats which lowers cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Try eating veggies raw.. When you cook food you make it acidic and we need an 80% alkaline intake and 20% acidic and most fruits are naturally acidic.. Lemons limes and grapefruits sound acidic but turn to alkaline when consumed because of the low sugar content in these 3 fruits.. Squeeze half a lemon in your morning water on an empty stomach everyday! This is what everyone should consume before they eat anything for breakfast. Avoid fish unless you have mercury/radiation free fish in Oz then eat 2 salmon steaks per week no more than 250g each.. Eat a 300g piece of chicken breast or grassfed beef per day.. One portion a day is plenty and make one of your meals a large raw salad and add guacomole and a touch of olive oil as your salad dressing. Avoid any processed foods and avoid anything in a can. Also.. A couple homemade smoothies/juices are very important as well.. One should be half carrot and half apple.. The otger should be 2 kiwis and a bunch of your favorite veggies inckuding 3 leaves of kale or collard greens/spinach. I spent my whole half hour busride telling you all this because I am a health advisor and a nutritionist by trade. "


" Avoid pharmaceuticals including weightloss pills like Duramine. Like Thomas said.. Your body will produce its own fat to protect you when you begin to starve yourself and its the wrong type of fat. Avoid microwaves.. It changes the DNA of the food which is not recognized by the human body. Red meat and poultry sparingly is okay.. As long as it is no more than a 200g portion per day (I mentioned 300g before.. That was a typo) -- also I noticed you said you had a Gatorade.. Try your best to consume smoothies and water only for fluids. It is very important. Naturally, a vegan diet will help you lose weight without exercise if you consume between 1800-2200 calories a day. If you consume less than 1800 calories a day.. Your body will maintain your weight, if not gain. No soda.. No pop.. No fizz. Anything with a sugarfree label or a DIET before its name has Aspartame in it. A chemical sweetener that contains formaldehyde and causes neurological problems. Avoid fat-free and sugar-free labels. Your body needs fat, but corporations fail to tell us we need the RIGHT FATS.. Avocados and nuts.. Mainstream likes to say theae are not that good when you consume a lot lol.. That is a big joke.. Eat 100g of nuts/seeds per day.. Preferably alkaline nuts such as almonds and brazilnuts. Add a tablespoon of each seed (hemp seeds, flax seeds, and chia seeds) in each meal on top of cereal, pasta, sauce, soup, salad or even in veggie dips.. Hemp seeds have the highest plant protein ratio than all the other plants in the world. 3 grams of hemp seeds has 1 gram of protein and I consume 60g a day giving me 20 grams of protein per day! Thomas Goodine makes a lot of valid points except I do not believe in nutritional facts. Get a calorie counter.. Such as myfitnesspal.com is a great site. Add the foods you eat and it calculates it for you. I just do not think Nutritional Facts on a box are that accurate, it is deceptive in some way or another."



The whole "eggs & dairy will maintain your weight" and the "1800calories will maintain your weight & you will not lose, you need to eat more than that"


:explode: :explode: :explode:


Sorry



I just pointed her to here, told her to make an account & exercise. Simple enough.



Avoid eggs? Avoid dairy? serious? anything below 1800 cal & you will NOT lose weight????