Weight Loss Taboos and Energy Balance: A List of Absolutely Forbidden Foods and Chinese-Style Scientific Diets

Rice and flour (including cold noodles, ramen, pasta, and all processed flour-based foods). However, it's not necessary to strictly prohibit flour intake. For example, the small amount of starch in the outer layer of fried foods will not have a significant impact. Millet, sweet potatoes, and taro are mainly composed of starch and should be strictly avoided. When eating mixed dishes containing these foods, observe them carefully, but do not overeat them.

This includes sugar, honey, pastries, sweetened beverages (juice, cola, soda, etc.), ice cream, and lactic acid bacteria drinks. Important points to note regarding sugar intake are as follows: 1. People who normally enjoy sweets may experience dizziness, vomiting, and other symptoms of sugar restriction when starting the nine-category diet. Please be patient for about a week; your body will adapt to this sudden change and return to normal. If symptoms persist, you can gradually start by restricting condiments. 2. A small amount of sugar can be added when cooking sweets. 3. Coffee or black tea can be drunk freely without sugar. Water and tea are also not restricted. 4. Chew less gum. Remember that one piece of gum contains about half a teaspoon of sugar. 5. You can eat sweets one day a week. However, moderation is key.

All alcoholic beverages, including beer, whiskey, wine, brandy, sweet wine, and rice wine, should be strictly prohibited. No snacks are allowed during the day, and water intake should be minimized; work should continue throughout the day. If pork chops are served at the banquet, physical activity should be maximized. Upon arriving at the banquet venue, refrain from eating or drinking alcohol. If the banquet is Western-style, even if the dishes meet the nine categories, do not eat them. If there is no opportunity to eat before the banquet, try to choose foods from the nine categories during the banquet. After returning home from the banquet, immediately take a bath to burn off the alcohol and energy through sweat. The next morning, after waking up, jump rope, take a walk, run, or do gymnastics (preparation exercises are preferred). If you strictly adhere to the above points, alcohol will be eliminated from your body quickly, thus achieving weight loss. In other words, eliminating alcohol, which forms energy, from your body as quickly as possible is a way to control weight gain.

If you consistently go without food or don't get enough nutrition, you're more prone to catching colds or headaches. When you have ample nutrition and are working hard, you suddenly burn through energy. This is a great time to lose weight. In other words, having the nutrients to produce physical strength and labor, but lacking energy, is a good time to lose weight. At this time, even a brief warm-up exercise followed by a bath can help burn excess fat accumulated in the body. After exercise, we often have the habit of eating snacks or drinking beverages. If the amount is small, while it won't cause weight gain, it also won't help with weight loss. It's important to understand that energy and nutrient balance are related. After exercise, even without eating, the body will balance its energy levels on its own.

The nutrients we ingest circulate in our bodies after twenty hours. We need one nutritionally adequate meal each day. While it's true that skipping meals can lead to weight loss, I want to reiterate one point: the goal of weight loss is to remove excess fat, not to weaken muscles, bones, or internal organs. Your current appetite and physical condition are the result of food consumed twenty hours prior. There should be at least six hours between meals. This six-hour interval is not a strict limit; any interval longer than six hours is acceptable. Please adjust accordingly. You should have at least six hours of work after meals. This work should primarily consist of physical activity (external force) until you feel hungry and want to eat, but do not eat.

There are two reasons for actually working more than six hours: First, to eliminate the excess calories stored in the body. Many foods contain small amounts of starch or sugar. These starches or sugars are easily stored as subcutaneous fat. Working for six hours helps to burn off these remaining starches or sugars. Second, food needs to be fully digested in the stomach, and the intestines need to perform internal motility to absorb nutrients. Furthermore, eating before bed is most likely to cause weight gain. However, as long as the total working hours between dinner and bedtime, and between waking up and eating the next day, exceed six hours, weight gain will not occur. Of course, sleeping immediately after dinner or eating immediately after waking up without working will certainly lead to weight gain.

The following three recipes all contain complete nutritional components and will not cause weight gain. 1. Eight Treasure Vegetables. Ingredients: 100g pork, 1 carrot, 3 shiitake mushrooms, 100g squid, 2 scallions, 2 cabbage leaves, 500g bamboo shoots, vegetable oil, salt, soy sauce. Preparation: Slice the pork thinly. Slice the bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, and carrot into thin strips. Slice the scallions diagonally and cut the cabbage into small sections about 5cm long. Finally, cut the squid into pieces 5cm long and 2cm wide. Heat 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a pan, then stir-fry the pork, squid, carrot, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, scallions, and cabbage in that order until cooked. Add 1 tablespoon of salt, seasonings, and 1 cup of soy sauce. Done!

2. Stir-fried Chicken Liver with Green Peppers. Ingredients: 6 green peppers, 150g chicken liver, soy sauce, oil, sugar, ginger, garlic. Preparation: (1) Remove the seeds from the green peppers and cut them into 4 pieces. Rub the chicken liver with a tablespoon of soy sauce. (2) Sauté the green peppers in oil, then stir-fry the chicken liver. (3) Put a tablespoon of oil in the pot, sauté the garlic, then remove the garlic. Then sauté the ginger slices, and add the liver and green peppers, a large cup of wine, two tablespoons of soy sauce, sugar, etc. When there is no water in the pot, turn off the heat and serve immediately. 3. Clam Soup. Ingredients: 60g clams, 2 eggs, 2 shiitake mushrooms, scallions, ginger, vegetable oil, salt, pepper, MSG, soy sauce, green peas. Preparation: 1. After the oil smokes, add the sliced ​​scallions and shiitake mushrooms, then add the scallions and sauté for a while. Then add the clams and stir-fry until cooked. 2. Crack the eggs into the pot and turn to medium heat. When the egg liquid solidifies, pour in the soup. 3. Add MSG, salt, pepper, and other seasonings (to taste). 4. Spread the green peas out.