The Skinny Kid

United Press International - Consumer Health - Eat To Live: Rice the new weight-loss food

Before you reach into the freezer for that carton of ice cream, they don’t give you license to go mad with your favorite candies and potato chips. You can only consume them at specific times of day in carefully calculated amounts. Otherwise, you will put on weight.The carbohydrates you consume must be fat free or low in fat. Fat slows the serotonin-making process. Besides, it makes you feel lethargic, and the sofa and a bowl of potato chips will develop an irresistible appeal. Nor should they contain protein because it interferes with the brain’s ability to make serotonin.

You have to eat the right foods at the right times. This will be when your serotonin levels are naturally lower, which seems to be late afternoon or early evening, when people can tend to crave a quick boost from a gooey lemon bar, a hot chocolate or a sandwich.

While you can’t have those, you can have a fat-free cookie or a few pretzels. Then later on for dinner, the authors write on buzzle.com, you can “dine on low fat carbohydrate dishes like pasta marinara sprinkled with parmesan cheese or a large bowl of butternut squash soup with crusty bread followed by fat free hot chocolate and vanilla wafers. This afternoon and evening comfort food soothes the appetite and makes you feel good when otherwise you would suffer from cravings and a bad mood.”

I’ve found that a CRON plan will give you the right mix, as nothing is explicitly cut off but getting the nutrients needed requires balancing out the major food groups.