Buy only on the outside Aisles of the Grocery Store

You have to be eagle eyed when it comes to shopping at the grocery store.

I watched this documentary which said you should only purchase food from the edges of the grocery store (where the fresh produce is kept ) and avoid the whole interior of the store where preservatives are used or where the food is not really food anymore.

I have been doing so well with my rebalancing that I decided to have some "natural" vegetable chips with my broccoli soup yesterday. They tasted wonderful but this morning when I jumped on the scale, my weight had gone up three pounds! One handful of chips and three pounds of retained water. Amazing!

That is what happense when I introduce preservatives/salt into my diet.

Luckily, I know this will go away in two days (for me) and that I need to put this food on my do not eat because my body is not happy with it list. Anything which makes me retain water like that is not healthy for my body.

If you find yourself retaining water, experts suggest you:

1. Drink more water to help your body flush out the water retention.

2. Eat foods with potassium such as Avocados or Tomatoes

3. Drink Hibiscus or Fennel Tea.

4. Eat dark leafy vegetables for Magnesium which helps reduce swelling/water retention.

5. Avoid processed foods.

Good luck today! I'm going to be downing lots of water & tea and focusing on how healthy I feel.

The scale is important for this competition but my overall happiness is important all year round and, I'm very happy this Sunday morning eating the metabolic balance way.

ps. Len the metabolic balance coach who started this bet challenge wrote a post today. You can read what he wrote here.

Cee

01/10/2016 10:05AM

Great all-round advice. Thanks!

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Cee, I find grocery stores a huge challenge. As a foodie, I love trying new things but as a metabolic balancer, my body isn't very approving of my experimentations :-)

PDXJael

01/10/2016 7:11AM

That's a really great principle to follow generally. Most of the time I only venture "into the aisles" for very specific items, like herbal tea. It's funny, after a while you don't even know where things are in there anymore!

I grocery shop with my best friend who loves to see what is new at the grocery store so we usually go up and down each aisle.... this means I see all those crazy products that Sylvia talked about and sometimes I think "Oh, that must be healthy." which is probably cudos to the different marketing agencies. Luckily 2 pounds dropped last night. I peed all night long. Another reason not to eat food with too many chemicals in the ingredients.

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