nutrients or fat stores, and as a result they continue to eat even when they are not really hungry.
This happens even if a person isn’t overweight, creating unhealthy bodyfat percentages in people
who may look perfectly fine.
Finally, a plant-based, nutrient-rich way of eating promotes adequate food intake just as it curbs
excessive food intake. It is inherently normalizing. This is also important to your metabolism, as you
learned in Part II, when we discussed the counterproductive starvation cycle of weight-loss-only
diets that drives your body to slow down and store more fat when you deprive it of adequate fuel.
We tend to think of overeating as the only culprit for overweight and obese people, or even for
those few extra pounds we fight off—but under eating wires our metabolism for weight gain as
well.
It’s no wonder that plant-based nutrient-rich eating is proven to support natural healthy weight
maintenance. It just makes sense that when nourishing our bodies with all we need (and not what
we don’t), we will neither compulsively overeat to compensate for deficiencies and feed
addictions—nor will we need to crash-diet our way to metabolic shock and slowdown once we gain
weight from all that toxic load.
Eating 90% or More Plant Based Nutrient Rich, in a way that is optimized for nutrient density, will
enable you to eat large volumes of food, from a diversity of food categories, in great-tasting ways,
only without the addictive substances that drive you to over eat and eat when you are not hungry.
Hunger is the signal for when your body is ready to take in more nutrients and calories, in that
order; hence the reason why the nutrient density of the foods you eat, always takes precedence
over the calorie density of the foods you eat; one determines the need for the other.
Physiologically speaking, the better (more nutrient rich) you eat, naturally, the less you need to or
desire to eat, because your greater need for nutrients than calories to run your body is met. When
you get in tune with genuine hunger, and it’s not a false signal for hunger due to withdrawal from a
toxic load, hunger is a pleasurable experience and you will naturally gravitate to living at your ideal
weight all year round, without the need for excessive exercise.
In Step 4, Lose Weight the Nutrient Rich Way, the natural eating and fasting cycles you’ll want to get
in tune with, will ensure you lose weight naturally.
Success Result #3: Improve Your Health and Performance....................................................................
Improve your health and performance by meeting all of your nutrient needs, and by not
consuming substances that compromise organ function, pollute your cells, clog your arteries, and
sap your vital energy.
This entire book is about improving your health, this Success Result says that a nutrient rich
“healthy” body will also function and perform better.