Prep - Day 4

A word about fruit

While I'm waiting for the Maqui Juice to arrive in the mail, I thought I'd talk about Suzanne's guidelines regarding fruit.  This information is new to me, as I've never seen it in any other diet plan before.  But, it does make sense to me.

Suzanne recommends that you eat fruit on an empty stomach, and that you eat it alone.  Fruit is full of sugar, and it is classified as a carb.  If you eat fruit alone, you're giving your body time to absorb it, or work it off, so it doesn't get stored as fat.  If you eat something with fruit, her research claims that the body cannot absorb that much at one time, so it will store some of it as fat.  In other words, you won't lose weight.  So, here are her guidelines:

1. Eat fruit alone.  That means, no foods.  Even yogurt, ice cream, sherbet, or milk.  So, if you're going to make a smoothie, she recommends fruit with a little splash of fruit juice, and ice if you want it slushy.
2. When you eat fruit, wait 20 minutes before eating a carb meal.  And one hour before eating a protein/healthy fat/veggie meal.
3. If you don't have fruit for breakfast, eat fruit at your morning or afternoon snack.  It is not recommended to eat fruit during lunch or supper.
4. Fruit is not recommended after dinner as a dessert.  However, if you are in Level 1 or Level 2 of her plan, Suzanne says it's okay to have berries occassionally for a dessert snack.  But be sure to wait two hours after eating dinner.  This gives your body time to burn off what you ate for dinner.
5. When eating fruit as a snack or an occassional dessert, wait 2 hours after a meal.

These guidelines are going to take some getting used to, but I'm anxious to see if they make a difference down the road.