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The Let’s Do Lunch plan calls for you to try to eliminate eating potatoes, rice and foods made from flour. This means no rolls, buns, bagels, pasta, crackers and bread. In their place, you’ll be eating high-fiber beans, corn, popcorn, peas, carrots and Corn Thins. (You’ll love Butter-bean Potato Cakes!)

“But”, you may be grimacing, “there’s a problem with beans…” Yes, I know. And there are a couple of solutions. Beano is a product you can get at your favorite health-food store and many grocery stores, and call your doctor for approval to purchase Probiotics. For those who don’t like beans, you can’t even taste them in most of the recipes.
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If you crave cereal for breakfast, eat as little as possible and eat only whole grain with no sugar or cane juice in the ingredients.
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Remember:

· Fresh fruits and fruit smoothies for breakfast speed up your metabolism.
· If fruits don’t satisfy you, or if you just don’t feel like fruit, then eat other acceptable breakfast foods and recipes.
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At lunch, eat heavy proteins like extra-lean red meat, chicken, turkey or fish, along with all you can eat of acceptable soups, salads and vegetables. It is imperative that you eat a generous portion of heavy protein. Heavy protein will keep you satisfied longer, so you don’t get terrible cravings for snacks in the afternoon and become tempted to eat all the wrong foods at dinnertime.
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Remember:

· At dinner, first eat as much fresh fruit and/or fruit smoothies as you want - although canned or frozen fruit is acceptable (no sugar in the ingredients)
· If fruits don’t satisfy you, or if you just don’t feel like fruit, then have at the other acceptable dinnertime foods and recipes – eating as little heavy protein as possible.
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Why limit heavy protein at night? Think about it: Which is better, lying dormant in bed all night with only fast-digesting, nonfattening foods to metabolize, or lying there with your stomach full of slow-digesting foods that will turn mostly to fat in a dormant body? (Again, you will love Butter-bean Potato Cakes.)
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There are many people whose time prevents a big heavy-protein meal for lunch. There are also days when for one reason or another you don’t have lunch at all. And, there are those special dinners where heavy protein will be served. On those days, switch your big heavy-protein meal to dinner.

On your “switch” days, eat no fruit and limited heavy protein at lunch – eating all you want of acceptable soups, salads and veggies, and emphasizing foods and recipes with beans, corn, peas or carrots in them (again, you can’t taste the beans in almost all of the recipes).

Then, just prior to having your big heavy-protein dinner, eat all the fruits and/or fruit smoothies you can.
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· When your big heavy-protein meal is going to be eaten at dinnertime, eat no fruit and limited heavy protein at lunch – just eat other acceptable soups, salads, veggies & recipes.
· Just before eating your big heavy-protein dinner, eat all the fresh fruits and/or fruit smoothies you can.
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I strongly believe that processed sweet carbs (refined-sugar foods) turn into pure fat in your body. Also, eating them can cause terrible hunger cravings an hour or two later. Why? Because they are so easy to digest that they spike your blood sugar.

Conversely, eating as much as you want of unprocessed sweet carbs (fresh fruits and fruit smoothies) will force you to become less hungry and start eating less. Why? Because fruits are harder to digest than processed-sugar foods, and therefore they stabilize your blood sugar.

Further, because your body can’t tell the difference between sweet carbs, the unprocessed ones eliminate your cravings for the processed ones.

Granted, there are some people, such as those with colon diseases and diabetes, who may not be able to eat as much sweet fresh fruits and fruit smoothies as suggested here. Consult your physician. You may be able to eat more fruit of restricted types than you think. If your doctor says “no fruits of any kind”, just do the rest of the Let’s Do Lunch program.
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While reading the Tips, keep in mind that there are foods mentioned that are the “lesser of all evils”…foods that are necessary in order to keep you away from cravings – foods like fat-free cheese, condiments, diet sweeteners and butter substitutes.
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The truth is, you can eat this way forever (including all the acceptable heavy proteins you want whenever you want them) and still lose every pound you want! Why? Because Let’s Do Lunch foods and recipes stabilize your blood sugar, forcing you to start eating less.
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Stark Reality #1: Purchasing Food to Lose Weight is all about reading the INGREDIENTS!

When you purchase a brand of food listed in Chapter 8 (Stocking Your Shelves), there is no need to read its “Ingredients”. However, if you are thinking about buying an acceptable food, the brand Not listed in Chapter 8, the “Ingredients” of that food are the first thing you read in making your decision as to whether or not to purchase it.

If one of the first three ingredients listed is sugar, or another name for it, then you simply don’t buy it. Words like “cane juice”, syrup, glucose, sucrose, etc., mean “sugar”. Come to our Message Boards at www.letsdolunch.com/boards, do a simple “Register” and then print out the list of words that food manufacturers use to dupe you into thinking there is no sugar in the ingredients. Read the ingredients, and be wise.

If there is a question as to whether a particular food is acceptable, just come to our Message Boards and post a New Topic, listing its ingredients. Our Food Police will get back to you with a yes or a no.
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Stark Reality #2: Processed-sugar Desserts are Out.
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Indulge yourself by purchasing an inexpensive Ninja blender and making Let’s Do Lunch “Ice Cream”, or “Hot Blueberry Pie” (no Ninja necessary).
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Carrots and other raw veggies are nice. You can eat all you want and dip lightly in a mixture of Greek yogurt and low-sodium onion-soup mix.

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God bless and enjoy,

Roger Troy, author of Let's do Lunch (amazing reviews at amazon.com, made The 700 Club's "Top Highlights of the Last 50 Years!", called an "International Sensation", a "Smash Hit" and the "Most Buzzed-about Weight-loss Book of the Year!" by FIRST Magazine (for women)

Hi Roger ... Question...

Is it possible to lose weight on this diet by eating ALL LDL foods whenever throughout the day?
For example, having meat with fruit and beans at all thee meals while snacking on other acceptable foods in between meals? Pretty much just cutting out ALL bad carbs like pasta, rice, bread, etc.

hi roger!can;t wait for LDL to be on Dr. Oz!