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Two teaspoons of ground flaxseed on your cereal is also useful.Д©. glasses of water per day added to your meal plan will help. If constipation is a problem, eight 8-oz. Other sources of protein include tofu, tempeh, beans, chicken, fish, low-fat ricotta and low-fat cottage cheese.ДЁ. Red meat should be limited to three to five times per week. For those with elevated cholesterol levels, limit eggs and red meats to three times a week.Д§. This meal plan may help alleviate elevated triglycerides and elevated cholesterol levels caused by excessive carbohydrates and fats. Never use cornstarch or other thickeners.Д¦. If juice is used, include it as part of the measurement.ДҐ. If fresh fruit is not available, use frozen fruit or canned fruit packed in water or in its own juice. It is absolutely necessary to read all labels.Д¤.

Low calorie, lite, light, sugarless or sugar-free on a product label does not imply that the manufacturer has not added sugar in one of its many other forms. Check all labels regularly as manufacturers often alter ingredients.ДЈ. The 3 grams of sugar naturally occur in the tomatoes. For example, the label on a can of tomato paste may list tomatoes as the only ingredient and yet under the 'Nutrition Facts' section it may list 3 grams of sugar. Do not confuse this with the 'Nutrition Facts' section, which may list naturally occurring sugar. Look for hidden or additional names of sugar, flour and wheat in the 'Ingredient' section for the label on all packaged or canned foods, drinks marinades, dressings, and spices, including salt. Since this is NOT a diet, wide variety and attractive presentation of your meals will help you stay abstinent. Invest in measuring cups, measuring spoons, and a good scale. Eating added volume or restricting is often the beginning of the relapse process. Eating larger of smaller quantities of food than recommended on the food plan can cause the physical craving to reappear and can lead us back into the disease of food addiction. To guard yourself against the tendency to rationalize, it is suggest that you discuss any additions or subtractions you may think are necessary with a sponsor or someone in the program who is abstinent.ДЎ. It is our experience that deviations recreate our old food problems. One of the obstacles you may encounter in early recovery is the temptation to alter the food plan to suit yourself. But we who walk this path of recovery know that this program of eating is unique. Of course, to the new recovering person, this appear as another diet. With honesty, an open mind, and willingness to share our experience, strength and hope, we can recover from this disease-ONE DAYВ ATВ AВ TIME. Feeding our bodies with a plan of sound nutrition will allow us freedom from the insanity of this disease. We ask for help from our Higher Power to abstain from those substances we find ourselves craving, ever mindful of our addiction to sugar, flour and wheat. The most important thing is to maintain close contact with one's sponsor and remain totally honest about what we are eating, how much we weigh, how our bodies are functioning, and how we are feeling physically. Although unusual, if weight loss or failure to gain continues over time to an inappropriate level, any changes needed to stabilize one's weight should be developed with the assistance of a sponsor, physician or other qualified professional. This guide is intended to focus on recovery for food addicts as a whole rather than to address specific situations that arise in recovery. Nonetheless, we would like to address the question of what to do when a person following the food plan continues to lose weight after reaching a healthy weight or when a person who is underweight when they begin the program fails to gain.

Most food addicts do achieve and maintain a healthy weight by following this plan. However, it does reduce fat intake to an appropriate level.

This is not a reducing diet because it is not severely restricted in terms of basic food groups. The food plan eliminates the basic components of our binge foods: sugar, flour, wheat and inordinate amounts of fat (sticky, greasy, pasty foods).

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The food plan is a way of eating that is free from eating sugar, flour and wheat. The most important aspect of maintaining abstinence is to totally eliminate sugar, flour and wheat from our daily lives. To maintain abstinence, an open mind will be required while our bodies heal and our needs change. Eating the prescribed food plan also offers us a chance to heal our organs and learn the basic fundamentals of healthy eating. This initial food plan has been the most successful for our members to obtain abstinence, enabling them to begin to have clear thinking.