Eat SANE with SANESolution! SANE is a set of principles which means you can leave the dreaded checklists at home. Customize and optimize your sanity to meet all kinds of personal goals by eating SANE.

Eat SANE Enjoyably

When you eat with our program, there is no goal that is out of reach. So ask yourself about your personal goals when you’re evaluating your eating habits.

Not surprisingly at all, when you eat, the desire to eat non-SANE foods goes away and the proof is in our success stories!

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Do you think lethargy, lack of energy, or mild depression is normal before going SANE? That’s the everyday experience of most yo-yo dieters unfortunately but – fortunately for you, we have the SANESolution!

Eat SANE With Jonathan Bailor:

Some of Jonathan’s typical meals:

  1. Hard-boiled eggs with salt and hot sauce, a vegetable smoothie, and possibly a few desiccated beef liver tablets to meet maximum protein SANEity.
  2. A smoothie made with coconut flour, chia seeds, shredded unsweetened coconut, cinnamon, whey protein powder, vanilla extract, peppermint oil extract, some xylitol, non-dutched cocoa powder, unflavored gelatin, and guar gum. Add ice to make an ice cream-like treat.
Focus on WHAT you Eat vs Crazy Calorie Counting

Focus on WHAT you Eat vs Crazy Calorie Counting

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Introduction

Despite the fact that every lasting healthy lifestyle (whole foods, paleo, vegetarian, low-carb, low-glycemic, Mediterranean, etc.) focuses on what we eat rather than how muchwe eat, the mainstream still seems to insist that if we just counted our calories more conservatively, we could end the obesity epidemic. The proven fact is that calorie-counting approaches fail 95.4% of the time. That’s a higher failure rate than quitting smoking cold turkey. [1 – 4]

Focus on WHAT you Eat

  1. Just Breathe Less

    Blindly eating less to cure obesity is like breathing less to cure allergies. It may offer temporary “relief” but ultimately fails because it is masking symptoms rather than fixing causes. Will eating only 1,200 of anything cause you to lose weight? Yes. So will cutting off your leg. That doesn’t mean either is a good idea. Counting calories is­­ a euphemism for starvation. It’s the definition of an eating disorder. [5] And the sooner you are able to free yourself from oppressive calorie myths, and instead enjoy eating more—but higher-quality food—the sooner you will live your best life. Shifting our focus from calorie quantity to food quality is easier said than done considering the constant barrage of calorie myths we’re hit with daily. To help you free yourself from disproven calorie math, here are more of my favorite common sense reasons calorie counting cannot be required for long term health and fitness.

  2. Nobody Knew What A Calorie Was BEFORE the Obesity Epidemic

    If we need to constantly count calories to avoid obesity, then how did we have about ten times less obesity before anyone knew what a calorie was, let alone count them? [6 – 8]

  3. Every Other Species Avoids Obesity Without Counting Calories

    If we need to constantly count calories to avoid obesity, how does every other animal on the planet avoid obesity even though they cannot count?

  4. We Don’t Need to Count Anything Else We Eat

    If we need to constantly count calories to avoid obesity, why don’t we need to count everything else? What about Vitamin C in and Vitamin C out? How about Zinc in and Zinc out? And what about counting the other 18 minerals, 12 vitamins, 9 essential amino acids, 8 conditionally essential amino acids, and the 2 essential fatty acids?

  5. No Other Life Sustaining Bodily Function Needs to Be Counted

    If we need to constantly count calories to avoid obesity, then why don’t we need to “count” blood sugar to avoid diabetes? Or what about “counting” blood pressure to avoid hypertension? And how is it that when we take more water in, more water out happens unconsciously? 

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    It Is Impossible to Count Calories In

    The only way to actually count calories in the real world would be to only eat food that has nutrition facts labels on them. Even in this impossible case, these labels have a 10% margin of error. [9] While this may not seem like a big deal, considering that the average person eats about a million calories per year, and 10% of a million is 100,000 calories margin of error, which translates into 30 lbs. worth of body fat, couldn’t we each gain 30 lbs. of fat per year even after counting every calorie we ate due to measurement error?
  7. It Is Impossible to Count Calories Out
    If we need to constantly count calories to avoid obesity, then how do we accurately account for the 400 to 700 calories our liver burns daily? Or what about the 200 to 400 calories we burn digesting food daily? And how do we count the 100 to 700 calories we burn per day building and repairing bodily tissue? 75% of the calories we burn every day have nothing to do with exercise, walking, or anything measured by any expensive fitness gadget, so how are we supposed to accurately and practically keep track of these? [10 – 12]
  8. The Flat Earth Theory of Weight Loss
    Counting calories is the flat earth theory of weight loss. It’s reasonable. It’s intuitive. But it is wrong once we understand modern science. The research is clear and the common sense is undeniable. Every single society and species that ever existed that focused foods found directly in nature—vs. processed low-calorie edible products—stayed slim without counting calories. Similarly, when cultures or creatures start eating processed edible products, they start seeing increasing rates of obesity and diabetes.

  9. Just Frown Less and Smile More

    Ending obesity is not about eating less or exercising more just like ending depression is not about frowning less and smiling more. Both health and happiness are about quality, not quantity. They are about filling ourselves with so much good that we don’t have room for bad. It’s what we did prior to the obesity and diabetes epidemics, and it’s what we’ll do to end them. No math needed.

  10. Food Is More Delicious Then Math

     

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2. Summerbell CD, Cameron C, Glasziou PP. WITHDRAWN: Advice on low-fat diets for obesity. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Jul 16;(3):CD003640. Review. PubMed PMID: 18646093.
3. Pirozzo S, Summerbell C, Cameron C, Glasziou P. Should we recommend low-fat diets for obesity? Obes Rev. 2003 May;4(2):83-90. Review. Erratum in: Obes Rev. 2003 Aug;4(3):185. PubMed PMID: 12760443.
4. ” A word about quitting success rates .” American Cancer Society :: Information and Resources for Cancer: Breast, Colon, Prostate, Lung and Other Forms. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2011.
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10. Wang Z, Heshka S, Zhang K, Boozer CN, Heymsfield SB. Resting energy expenditure: systematic organization and critique of prediction methods. Obes Res. 2001 May;9(5):331-6. Review. PubMed PMID: 11346676.
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A Calorie is NOT A Calorie

Bottom Line: A Calorie is NOT A Calorie In Real Life


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A Calorie is NOT A Calorie Big Ideas

  1. A Calorie is Not a Calorie

    “Attacking the obesity epidemic will involve giving up many old ideas that have not been productive. ‘A calorie is a calorie’ might be a good place to start.” – R.D. Feinman, State University of New York

    Beyond battling our basic biology, calorie balancing is bound to fail us because a calorie is not a calorie. The difference in calorie quality is really important. That’s because the quality of the calories we eat influences our hormones. Those in turn determine our set-point. We can control our weight, just not the way you have been led to believe.

    The Calories In – Calories Out theory of weight control depends on the assumption that our bodies work like balance scales. Balance scales do not measure quality. On a balance scale, a pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of lead. Quality is irrelevant. So on a balance scale, 300 calories of vegetables is the same as 300 calories of pasta. The only problem is that the body is not a balance scale.

    Let’s look at the issue another way. Breathing in smoke-filled air for thirty years does something different to our respiratory system than breathing in the same quantity of fresh air. In the same fashion, putting 2,000 calories of low-quality food into our fat metabolism system does something different than putting in the same quantity of high-quality food. Quality counts. Our bodies do not work like balance scales.

  2. Introducing the SANE Solution

    The quality of calories depends on four fascinating factors:

    1.  Satiety – How quickly calories fill us up and how long they keep us full
    2.  Aggression – How likely calories are to be stored as body fat
    3.  Nutrition – How many nutrients—aka protein, vitamins, minerals, etc.—calories provide
    4.  Efficiency – How many calories can be stored as body fat

  3. SANE vs. inSANE

    The more Satisfying, unAggressive, Nutritious, and inEfficienct a calorie is, the higher its quality. The more SANE it is. The more body-fat-burning hormones it triggers. The more it unclogs our metabolism and prevents overeating.

    The more unSatisfying, Aggressive, not Nutritious, and Efficient a calorie is, the lower its quality. The more inSANE it is. The more body-fat-storing hormones it triggers. The more it clogs our metabolism and encourages overeating.

  4. It’s SANE to Eat Large Amounts of the Right Food

    The more we understand the four calorie-quality factors, the more clearly we will see how eating more high-quality SANE food is the only practical way to burn body fat long term. When you stay full of SANE food, you will not have any room for clog-causing inSANE calories. When we are totally full from a super-sized SANE supper, skipping the sundae after isn’t a burden. It’s a blessing in disguise. By staying full of SANE calories, we clear our clog, drop our set-point, and enable our fat metabolism system to burn body fat for us automatically.

    “…for the vast majority of people, being overweight is not caused by how much they eat but by what they eat. The idea that people get heavy because they consume a high volume of food is a myth. Eating large amounts of the right food is your key to success…” – Joel Fuhrman, Doctor and Author

    Sound too good to be true?

  5. It’s InSANE to Claim “A Calorie is a Calorie”

    Whether a calorie is high-quality or low-quality depends on where it fits on the SANEity spectrum.

    High-quality calories are on the healthy end of the SANEity spectrum. They areSatisfying, unAggressive, Nutritious, and inEfficient. They fill us up quickly and keep us full for a long time. They provide a lot of nutrients, and few of them can be converted into body fat. Even better, they trigger the release of body-fat-burning hormones, clear clogs, and lower our set-point. In short, they are SANE.

    Low-quality calories are just the opposite. They are on the unhealthy end of the SANEity spectrum. They are unSatisfying, Aggressive, non-Nutritious, andEfficient. They trigger the release of body-fat-storing hormones, cause clogs, and raise our set-point. In short, they are inSANE.

  6. Eat SANE and Lose Fat

    In all of the studies that follow, everyone ate the exact same quantity of calories, but one group’s calories were of much higher quality (were much more SANE) than the other groups’:

    • University of Florida researcher J.W. Krieger analyzed eighty-seven studies and found that those people who ate SANE calories lost an average of twelve more pounds of body fat compared to those who ate an equal quantity of inSANE calories.
    • C.M. Young at Cornell University split people into three groups, each eating 1,800 calories per day, but at different levels of SANEity. The most SANE group lost 86.5% more body fat than the least SANE group.
    • In the Annals of Internal Medicine, F.L. Benoît compared a reduced-calorie inSANE diet to a reduced-calorie SANE diet. After ten days the SANE diet burned twice as much body fat.
    • Additional studies by researchers U. Rabast (1978,1981), P. Greene (2003), N.H. Baba (1999), A. Golay (1996), M.E. Lean (1997), C.M. Young (1971), and D.K. Layman (2003) all show that people who ate SANE calories lost an average of 22% more weight than those who ate the exact same quantity of inSANE calories.
  7. Calories Aren’t All that Matter… Ask Anyone Taking Insulin

    “Insulin has profound metabolic effects in the determination of body weight…” – B. Dokken, University of Arizona

    The critical effect hormones have on body fat has been well known in scientific circles for a long time. Especially the hormone insulin. Three quick examples:

    • A study in the journal Diabetic Medicine found that giving patients the hormone insulin “is associated with weight gain,” specifically, “an increase in trunk [belly] fat mass.
    • The journal Diabetes and Metabolism reports: “Most studies report an average 13.2 lb. weight gain during the first year following the initiation of insulin therapy.” The journal went on to conclude that when it comes to taking shots of the hormone insulin “weight gain seems mandatory.”
    • In the journal Diabetes an aptly title study “Intensive Insulin Therapy and Weight Gain in IDDM (type 1 diabetes)” revealed that after only two months, “Body weight increased ~6 lbs. with intensive insulin therapy as a result of an increase in fat mass.”
  8. But Are You Exercising Enough?
    Note that there’s no mention of “eating too much” or “exercising too little.” That’s because calories aren’t all that matter. Hormones matter a lot. Hundreds of millions of diabetics have proven this for years. And that’s why long-term fat loss and robust health isn’t about eating less of a hormonally-poor traditional diet and doing more hormonally-irrelevant traditional exercise. These techniques may mask our hormonal breakdown, but they do not fix it.
  9. Forget It
    Forget counting calories. Long-term fat loss and robust health isn’t about eating less of a hormonally-poor traditional diet and doing more hormonally-irrelevant traditional exercise.
  10. Remember It
    Focus on eating more hormonally-helpful SANE foods, and doing less, but hormonally-helpful eccentric exercise. Eat more and exercising less–smarter. Sure that seems like the opposite of what we’ve been told to do, but isn’t it about time to get the opposite of what we’ve gotten?
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Simplifying Nutrition Labels

How to Do Less Math and Eat More Food: Simplifying Nutrition Labels

Simplifying Nutrition Labels Overview

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Have you ever wondered what the vitamin and mineral percentages on nutrition labels actually mean? Ten percent of vitamin A. Hmmmm. Is that good or bad? Ten percent for a child? Ten percent for an adult? Ten percent for a woman? Oh gosh, I thought I was grocery shopping not taking a math test.   These are wonderful questions to ask, because otherwise we may assume double-digit percentages mean the food is nutritious, and sadly, that’s frequently false. For example, let’s say you want to mix it up a bit during your next trip to the grocery store, and are looking to boost your calcium intake. You spot some goat’s milk, and consider giving it a whirl. You grab the carton, flip it around and see this label: 30 percent calcium. Traditionally you may consider this a “good source” of calcium. But is it? Should you give the good old goat a go? Maybe.

The Top 10 Big Ideas Simplifying Nutrition Labels

  1. How Many Calories Will I Eat Along with That Nutrition?

    If I told you that 10 doughnuts are 10 times as nutritious as one doughnut, why would you think I was bonkers? Because you know that while you will get more nutrition in 10 doughnuts than you would in one, you will also get 10 times more low-quality calories, and that’s not worth it. You know that when looking at nutrition we have to also look at the number calories coming along with the nutrition.

    Consider the goat’s milk. We get 30 percent calcium in 150 calories. Let’s put that into perspective in terms of nutrition per calorie. If we moved a few aisles over and picked up some collard greens, we would see that we get more than double that amount of calcium in 150 calories, plus a startling amount of other vitamins and minerals. But what about vitamin A? 150 calories of the milk gives us 10 percent. 150 calories of collard greens gives us a whopping 665 percent. Vitamin C? 150 calories of the milk equals four percent. One hundred and fifty calories of the collard greens gives us 295 percent. You can see that considering nutrition per calorie changes the game a bit.

    Nutrition isn’t about the percentages you see on nutrition labels, it’s about those percentages relative to the calories in the food. That’s why 10 doughnuts aren’t more nutritious than one, and why we may now decide to go with the greens instead of the goat.

  2. What Am I Trying to Do?

    The percentages we’re talking about have to do with “Daily Values” that were developed during World War II to prevent soldiers from dying. Avoiding death is a much different goal than optimal health and fitness. Unless you are satisfied with simply dodging death, making food choices based on “percent of Daily Value” may not be particularly useful for you. A more useful approach might be to ask…

  3. Do I Really Need a Nutrition Label to Know if I Should Eat This?

    In the not too distant past nutrition labels were dramatically less common–and so was obesity, diabetes and heart disease. In fact, the most nutritious foods available frequently don’t have nutrition labels on them. For example, fresh vegetables, seafood, meat, and fruits, etc.

    What if, instead of doing math, we just ate food? I’ll define food as things we find in nature. What if the primary reason nutrition labels exist is because unnatural food-like products are so far from whole food that we have no way of knowing whether they are slightly unhealthy or extremely unhealthy without doing complex math? What if we said that generally speaking, if it doesn’t exist in nature, we would be better off eating something that does exist in nature?

    My vote: More real food, less complex math.

  4. The more fiber the better

    If you have two options to choose from, all other things equal, the one with more fiber will burn more fat and boost your health better than the one with less.

  5. The more protein the better

    Protein is the most satisfying of all the macronutrients and has consistently proved to be a fat-loss super star. But remember, not all sources of protein are the same. You will soon learn why and what to do about it.

  6. The less sugar the better

    Sugar is toxic. Sugar is addictive. If the word sugar, or anything like it (see below) appears on the label, run…your life and long-term happiness depend on it.

  7. The fewer ingredients the better

    Food doesn’t have ingredients. Food is an ingredient. It is a beautiful and perfect whole substance that kept us healthy and fit for the entirety of human history. If it’s not broke, let’s not break it.

  8. The more vitamins and minerals per serving relative to calories per serving t

    If we don’t eat these essential substances, we get sick. It’s a simple as that. Micronutrient sufficiency is one of the most important and least appreciated aspects of optimal health.

  9. If it include sweeteners, hydrogenated anything, or starch, try to avoid it.

    Don’t get fooled by fancy naming. Sugar by any other name is at least as harmful as sucrose (table sugar). Also, “hydrogenated” means poison. Not really, but practically 🙂
    Agave Nectar
    Barley Malt
    Beet Sugar
    Brown Sugar
    Buttered Syrup
    Cane Crystals
    Cane Juice Crystals
    Cane Sugar
    Caramel Carob Syrup
    Castor Sugar
    Confectioner’s Sugar
    Corn Sweetener
    Corn Syrup
    Corn Syrup Solids
    Crystalline Fructose
    Date Sugar
    Demerara Sugar
    Dextran
    Dextrose
    Diastatic Malt
    Diatase
    Ethyl Maltol
    Evaporated Cane Juice
    Fructose
    Fruit Juice
    Fruit Juice Concentrates
    Galactose
    Glucose
    Glucose Solids
    Golden Sugar
    Golden Syrup
    Granulated Sugar
    Grape Sugar
    High-Fructose Corn Syrup
    Honey Icing Sugar
    Invert Sugar
    Lactose
    Malt Syrup
    Maltodextrin
    Maltose
    Maple Syrup
    Molasses
    Muscovado Sugar
    Panocha
    Raw Sugar
    Refiner’s Syrup
    Rice Syrup
    Sorbitol
    Sorghum Syrup
    Sucrose Sugar Syrup
    Treacle Turbinado Sugar
    Yellow Sugar

  10. Simplify: If You Can’t Find It Directly It Nature, Steer Clear

    Doesn’t it just make sense that the only foods available for us for 99.8% of our evolutionary history are what we should be eating? Life is complex enough. Let’s simplify where we can.
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