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"Indiana Jones" Nutrition - Your "Treasure Map" to Health and Weight Control
From: The MetaTyping Nutrition Blog
Posted: Tuesday July 8, 2008
Greetings,
I hear from a lot of people who become very excited to learn about metabolic typing. It makes a lot of sense to customize a nutrition and diet plan just for their unique body and mind. They can't wait to take their metabolic test, find out their metabolic type, and get the food charts and reports that will have them eating right to improve their health and control their weight.
But, you may be surprised to know that Metabolic Typing is NOT just about taking a test, NOT just finding out your metabolic type, and NOT just about eating from your food chart. There is something MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than tests, profiles and food charts.
Metabolic Typing is REALLY about learning a new way to listen to your body, understand what it's telling you, and then communicating with it through food. With Metabolic Typing, you'll learn a WHOLE NEW WAY to relate to food ... and this WILL change your life for the better.
So you'll need the right mindset for that to happen. What this means is that you'll begin to look at food in an entirely different way. You'll begin to see the effect that different foods have on your body. You'll notice how some foods may have you looking and feeling great. You'll notice how other foods have you feeling irritable and bloated. And you just may discover that eating all those carbs you've been eating puts on weight, or that eating all that protein results in a lack of energy. You begin to notice how important food and food combinations are to your goals of improving your health and controlling weight.
When you first receive your test results and your food chart, you should first eliminate from the chart those foods that you know you are allergic or sensitive to. You may also find foods that you just don't like, and you know you won't eat them. After you eliminated those foods, now you can begin to develop the right mindset. How do you do that?
One way to begin is to begin to think of yourself as a scientist, or a researcher. Or you could think of yourself as an explorer or adventurer, like Indiana Jones searching for lost treasure. BUT, the "lost" treasure you are searching for is your health and ideal weight.
So, begin with the Ideal foods on your food chart ... and start experimenting. As part of your metabolic profile, you also received your ideal metabolic ratios (percentages of protein, fats, and carbohydrates). Begin experimenting with your ideal foods, starting with the ideal ratios given.
Remember though - you don't need to count calories or actual percentages. You should just start by guessing - that's how this adventure starts. What you are searching for is your "lost treasure" - the right foods in the correct ratios that give you the results you are looking for.
Of course, all good researchers and adventurers have tools they use on their quest. Scientists have their test tubes, Indiana Jones has his maps ... and you have your DCR and DSJ! Included with your MetaTyping Nutrition Plan are two tools called the Diet Check Record (DCR) sheets and the Diet Symptom Journal (DSJ). Theese two tools are the two most important sheets of paper in the whole plan!
Let me repeat that.
The Diet Check Record (DCR) and Diet Symptom Journal (DSJ)
are the TWO MOST IMPORTANT TOOLS in all of Metabolic Typing.
Your metabolic profile isn't! Your food chart isn't! It's the DCR and DSJ sheets!
The DCR is a sheet that you can use to list all foods and drinks you had for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for one day. It also has a list of questions you can use to check your reactions to this food - either good reactions or bad reactions. These questions cover appetite, satiety and cravings; energy levels; and mind, emotions and well-being for each meal. After 1-2 hours after a meal, list your foods and drinks for that meal and put check marks beside the questions that describe your experience for that meal or snack.
The DSJ is a sheet where you can also list all foods and drinks for meals and snacks for one day. For each meal and snack, you record your symptoms BEFORE eating and then 1-2 hours AFTER eating, including any new symptoms. You can compare your "after" symptoms with your "before" symptoms, and circle the correct descriptions listed to see how well the food worked for you.
Here's how to use these two important tools:
- Make a copy of the DCR and DSJ sheets for the day.
- Right BEFORE you eat each meal, fill out the "before" column in the DSJ.
- Now eat the meal. (Hint:Start with extremely simple meals - that is, simple combinations of protein, fat, and carbs with no processed foods.)
- Now wait for 2 hours to pass after you've eaten.
- After 2 hours, fill out the "after" column in the DSJ, and fill out the DCR sheet.
- Use these sheets for each meal and snack, every day.
- Observe the results.
- If you find a food or meal combination that didn't work (produced negative results on the DSJ and DCR), don't eat the food or combination again!
Cross it off your food chart.
- If you find a food or meal combination that did work (produced postive results on the DSJ and DCR), great! You've found a "keeper"!
- With each day ... experiment, experiment and then, experiment more!
But like a good researcher, keep track of your results with the DSJ and DCR sheets.
Eventually, once you've used the DCR and DSJ enough, you won't need them. You'll have developed the the right mindset for success that lets you listen to your body and almost instinctively know what it needs. At that point, you'll have developed the mindset that will help you improve your health, control your weight, and maintain a healthy lifestyle ... for the rest of your life!
Wishing you the best in health and longevity,
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