Healthy Food Chart

I found Jon Gabriel's book and CD late last year. To me, it is the missing link. I have tried just about everything including many diets, weight watchers, Jenny Craig, Tony Ferguson, etc etc. I even had lapband surgery twice many years ago, and still have an adjustable band in place, but enlarged to the maximum. That is the only way I could keep food down.

There is far too much focus on food and diets, and way too little attention paid to the psychological aspects of obesity. Much of what we read is rubbish - losing weight is too hard, you must diet. Energy in, must be less than energy out. You must be greedy. It's in your genes. You must exercise. If you like a food it must be bad for you. You need to be punished, and on and on.

Jon's book was the first thing I found that made any sense of the whole debate. Obviously, what we are doing about obesity is not working. Yet we insist on doing it, and we continue looking for the magic pill or gene or protein or discipline, instead of looking into our minds.

I believe Jon has the answer for most of us, if we would take his theories seriously.

While his book is a great source of information, his meditation CD is the key to success. I find it fabulous, but thought his approach was a little off-beat. So, now I also use the nevereverdiet guided meditation program as well.

I have to admit that I am completely single minded about the gabriel method.

One thing to watch out for is that the weight loss is not steady - at least not for me and hubby. We dropped some, then spend long periods on a plateau. That is when most of us would give up or say that it does not work. Nevertheless, I have dropped 30kgs in a little over 6 months. Hubby is not as dedicated as me, but has lost about 15kgs. We both have about 20kgs or so to go, and we are happy to be persistent and patient and let it happen. It is no ordeal at all.

We do not "diet" but we have added more healthy foods to our routine. We start the day with fresh lemon juice and several glasses of water, then have a big yoghurt based breakfast most days (including fruit, nuts and ground seeds), a salad or such for lunch, and some snacks during the day. We are usually not hungry at night, and skip dinner most days, or have something light.

Our food bill has dropped dramatically, and we have very little waste - mostly fruit skins.

Anyway, I have raved on enough! Good luck with your goals.

Love Marie