How to Lose Weight With a High Alkaline Diet
People who are overweight diet to lose the extra weight, but tend to gain it back once they go back to a "normal" diet. High alkaline diet, as opposed to acidic diet, keeps the weight off because it's a diet that gradually makes your body healthy. These steps are guidelines toward a high alkaline diet and a healthy body.
Instructions
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Maintain a healthy pH balance in the body. Ideally, you should consume 80 percent alkaline foods and 20 percent acidic foods. Your body achieves optimum benefits when you eat high alkaline food such as fruits and vegetables.
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Make a list of high alkaline fruits and concentrate on eating them. Lemons, limes and grapefruit are acidic but turn alkaline in the body.
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List out high alkaline vegetables and concentrate on eating just them. Spinach, lettuce, cucumbers, snap peas, celery, parsley and cabbage are some high alkaline vegetables.
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Limit the amount of salt intake, or use Celtic Sea Salt, available in most health food stores, as it is higher in alkaline compared to regular table salt.
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Eat high alkaline grains. Barley, millet, brown rice, buckwheat and spelt are excellent choices. Sprouted grain bread and tortillas add variety to a high alkaline meal.
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Tips & Warnings
To check our body's pH balance use pH strips, available at pharmacies and health food stores.
Even though limes, lemons and grapefruit are acidic fruits when digested by the body, they leave an alkaline ash.
Try to avoid fruit with high levels of sugar like pineapple.
If you are too busy to take the time to make a salad at every meal, try making a salad that lasts for three days in the refrigerator. Each time you are hungry, dish out a nice salad in a bowl, using a dressing of olive oil with lemon juice.
Red meats, chicken and turkey are acidic. Try eating moderate amounts of fish. Even try eating tofu.
Sugar is a big no-no for a high-alkaline diet. It feeds the yeast in your body which thrives in an acidic body. Cutting sugar out of your diet helps increase your body's metabolism as well.
Green juices or green powders infuse the body with all sorts of vitamins, minerals and amino acids while being high in alkaline.
Drink lots of pure filtered water.
