People are getting fatter, it seems, by the minute. Obesity, even amongst children, is becoming a global pandemic. Over the past few years, Berni Dymet has lost 25 kgs – that’s 55 lbs – in weight. And is effortlessly keeping it off.   Secret Number 1 Are you ready for secret number 1? Here we go. Back in the 1800s we ate about 7 kg (that’s 15 lbs) of sugar a year. Today, that’s topping out at 70 kg (or 150 lbs). The crazy thing is, we kind of think that’s normal, but before the early 20th century, the only way you could get sugar in your diet at all was to fight the bees for some honey (there was no farming or mass production the way there is today), or to be near an apple tree when it was in season (once a year), or chew on a log called sugar cane because 99% of it’s log, and only 1% of it is sugar. What we consider normal today, in a historical perspective, is grossly abnormal. It’s our high consumption of sugar and other refined carbohydrates that’s very clearly at the heart (pardon the pun) of so-called western diseases of obesity – cardiovascular disease (that’s heart attacks and strokes), and diabetes. In fact the research shows that within 20 years of a western diet high in refined carbohydrates, making it into a country, almost like clockwork, heart disease, stroke, obesity and Diabetes simultaneously appear, but don’t just take my word for it. If you’re online, go to YouTube and watch the video “Bitter Truth” by Professor of Paediatrics, Robert Lusdig. The high refined carbohydrate intake isn’t just killing us and disabling us. It means that in many countries now, childhood obesity (previously unheard-of) is a pandemic. So here’s my number 1 secret for losing the 25 kg which I have lost, and am now able to keep off without ever having to think about it: I have as completely as possible removed both sugar and other refined carbohydrates (white flour, peeled potatoes, white rice) from my diet, and I know you might think that I’m crazy, but hear me out. When I came to the conclusion that refined carbohydrates were at the heart of my problem, my wife and I went through our pantry and we removed everything that contained refined carbohydrates: Barbecue sauce, 42% sugar by weight; the breakfast cereals were 35% sugar; fruit juice (see I thought fruit juice was healthy); cakes; chips; chocolates; cookies; white bread; Thai sauces – pretty much anything and everything that had been refined and prepared by someone else, and do you know? There was almost nothing left. It was really demoralising – I mean really, and the first week for me was hard not having any sugar, ‘cos I was addicted to the stuff. I used to kid myself that I wasn’t, but actually I was. The researchers bred rats without taste-buds, and they put two clear fluids in their cages: One was water with sugar, the other was water with cocaine, and each rat became addicted to the sugar solution. The change in our diets was radical because just about everything out there has sugar and flour in it. We became a bit like our friend Bill who’s a Celiac. He always has to check everything before he eats, and now, we’re kind of the same. I check the label; I ask the waiter, and I will not allow refined carbohydrates to enter my mouth. Now I know, I know; you think I’m nuts. Well let me tell you what happened. The weight just fell off me. Now let me tell you: I still eat butter, cheese, bacon – all the high-cholesterol things that traditional medicine tells you is bad for you. I’m going to talk more about that a little bit later, because my doctor is over-the-moon with my blood test results. I eat as much as I want whenever I want, and I lost 25 kg (that’s 55 lbs). It was the moment I removed all those refined carbohydrates. Look, the withdrawal of sugar lasted about a week, and then I was fine. But when I removed those refined carbs, I lost my appetite; I just wasn’t that hungry anymore, and here’s the science behind that. When you eat refined carbs with a high glaecemic index, your body digests them very quickly. In an instant, your blood sugar spikes, so now your body’s pumping insulin into your bloodstream because insulin is the stuff that processes the blood sugar into energy, and the surplus into fat. A spike in your blood sugar produces a strong insulin response, and the insulin is so effective in mopping up your blood sugar quickly, you’re left with a really low level of blood sugar, and what does that tell your body? It says: ‘I’m hungry!’ What’s your response? You eat. You go for something that’s going to give you a quick fix, so your blood sugar pumps up rapidly again, and down again and up again and down again ... Your insulin is pumping way too high, and right there, you have the beginnings of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and Diabetes. As soon as you remove the spikes, most of your hunger goes away. That’s the reason I can eat whatever I want whenever I want – because I now want less food and I want it less frequently. And that my friend, in a nutshell, is how I lost 25 kg. And have for the first time in my life ever kept it off without trying. All I do is I avoid refined carbohydrates. I don’t have to think what I eat; how much I eat; when I eat ... That’s easy to do. I walk past those sweet muffins at the café which they put right at eye level to look and to smell stunning, and do you know? There’s not a single twinge of desire in my body to have one because I’ve broken the addiction to the sugar and the carbohydrates. I no longer need the fix, so I look at that, and I don’t want it. I’ve been through the withdrawal, and the desire is gone. Now what I’ve just told you may sound completely counter-intuitive. How can the guy still be having bacon and eggs for breakfast, and losing weight? But the truth is, almost every truth is counter-intuitive. Hey; love your enemy. Take up your cross. Blessed are the meek. Those things are all counter-intuitive, and yet it’s true. But God’s also given you and me a brain, and I don’t want you just to take my word for it. Here are three sources that I access frequently to wrap my mind around the rights and the wrongs of what to eat: The first is the book “Sweet Poison” by lawyer and author David Gallesby, who like me was grossly obese, and given his gifted legal mind, he applied his forensic investigation skills to understand what was going on with his epidemic of weight-gain, and how to lose weight. The second is that YouTube video by Professor Robert Lusdig called “Bitter Truth” (it’s right there on YouTube), and finally there’s a fantastic blog and website by a brilliant young doctor, Peter Attier. The site is called www.eatingacademy.com All 3 are brilliant, and if you’re a person whose lifestyle and waistline and blood sugar tests and blood lipid tests aren’t what they should be, my friend, it’s time for you to wrap your mind around this stuff, and do something about it because next month, next year, could be too late. My secret number 1 for losing 25 kg is this: Get rid of the sugar and other refined carbohydrates in your diet, and watch the weight fall straight off you.   Secret Number 2 When I reduced the sugar and refined carbohydrates in my diet, not only did the weight come tumbling off without me having to starve myself or go hungry, but my blood cholesterol and triglycerides (those things that tell you whether you’re at risk of heart attack or stroke) – they improved so dramatically, it had my doctor asking, "What have you done?" See, for years, he’d been telling me to reduce my cholesterol by going on a low-fat diet: Limiting dairy products (no more than 2 eggs a week) – the traditional things that doctors tell you to do, and for years I’d been trying to do that, but it just didn’t work. In fact, I’m not the only one. The whole idea o...

Released on 20 Jun 2021