I was listening to a great friend talk yesterday about the power of programming and trying to get his clients healthy. He’s one of the best trainers and health therapists in the world. To see him is $1500 up front. With that you get 3 hours of his time. He often needs 6 hours just to assess you before he starts to provide his recommendations. His clients include everyone from Anthony Robbins to Madonna and from sports stars to people who just couldn’t find healing elsewhere.

He was discussing how common it was for someone to pay him his $500 per hour fee and then resist what recommendations he tables because what they’ve been programmed with is different than what he’s recommending. Although the basis of all teaching situations is that the student is literally asking to know something they’re not aware of, this simple fact is often lost on most people. My friend says that in most situations his clients waste the first 3 hours trying to hang on to the ideas that were never serving them in the first place. They just can’t understand that their disease, weight gain and dysfunction are from something they believed was true. Things that are “really true” don’t cause disease, weight gain, depression or dysfunction. That’s where any corrective therapy needs to start. 

Most people are great at paying for people to tell them what to do but are not so good at changing their programming. The people who get the wrong results know they’re getting the wrong results and they also know that wrong results can only come from from wrong information……………but often that’s as far down the path as they get. If you want to get a different result, you need to try a different approach………..but that doesn’t stop many people from simply trying to reapply their old programming and hoping that a different result appears out of thin air.

With that, here’s the 10 list of the foods that cause weight gain and disease.

1. All margarine. (most importantly any spread that includes canola, soy, cottonseed, corn. sunflower or safflower oil……that includes Becel) If I wanted to win a competition regarding how fast I could give someone cancer, heart disease and make them sick (from MS to Parkinsons’ and everything else inbetween) I would use margarine and what’s listed in point #2.

2. All commercial salad dressings that also include the oils mentioned above

3. Diet Pop

4. Regular Pop

5. Milk and milk products like yogurt etc

6. Cereals

7. Gluten based grains like oatmeal, many cereals, bagels, muffins, most pastas and yes that includes whole grain breads…………which are often laced with pesticides, made with nutritionally depleted grains, processed at such high pressure and heat that the ingredients become rotten and as mentioned to start, they contain gluten.

8. What you already know as junk foods (chips, cookies, cakes, pastries, muffins, donuts, pizza, french fries, candy, chocolate bars, popcorn, pretzels, all fast foods, most non-organic restaurant food choices, desserts, energy drinks, red bull,/rock star/amp/monster etc, Gatorade, hot chocolate, iced tea, anything you prepare in a microwave  etc ) …..but your list of junk food should now include everything else on this list.

9. All alcohol and that includes red wine. There’s a major mind virus infecting millions regarding red wine and it’s a similar mind virus to one regarding marijuana. I ask my clients to think about a trainer telling me to add wine and marijuana to my diet. Do people really think if I added red wine and smoked weed on a regular basis that I could actually improve my health? Programming is about not noticing when something makes sense or not.

10. Fruit and fruit juice. Although fruit can be a good healthy addition to a diet if consumed after a healthy meal, it’s often consumed as a snack on an empty stomach. If you want to lose weight and avoid the sugar imbalances that facilitate disease in the body……eat fruit after a healthy meal, never consume fruit on an empty stomach and never ever consume fruit juice on a regular basis.

If you’re first reaction is…………..”well, I can’t do that………..I can’t stop living“, I will tell you what I tell all my clients. All the foods above have nothing to do with living, they only have to do with dying. If a client thinks living is directly related to dying (and a very painful, drawn out death at that) then we have programming issues to deal with first before anything else. You can’t get healthy if you think foods that kill you are fun for you and your family.