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Extra virgin olive oil

30 mls before a meal can make you lose weight as well as having endless health benefits like less likelihood of getting cancers and other diseases. My doctor explained to me today there is something in extra virgin olive oil that is unique and powers the body. He had patients use olive oil drinking it before mrals and they had some remarkable results.

You can also sprinkle it on salads etc.

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I'm Italian and extra virgin olive oil is a staple in my kitchen. I add it to everything to soften my food. I use it instead of mayo or ranch etc. good calories.

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I use it a lot and believe it to be a very healthy oil Not sure I could drink it thought. Ugh...

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The key is not to do low fat, no fat. Olive oil is one of several "good" fats - grassfed butter, coconut oil, macadamia oil, others. Too many people cut fat out and you need good fats along with your Protein. Just avoid the high carbs!

Nothing special about drinking olive oil at a certain time, other than it might fill you up to prevent carb binging.

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I completely agree about the healthiness of EVOO and of not doing the low/no fat bandwagon!

Even though I was eating low calorie and no starchy carbs, i seemed to have stopped losing. My daughter convinced me to change up the macros in my diet to have more fats like evoo and even lower carbs (no more fruit except occasionally, and fewer Quest bars, etc). My carbs went from about 55 per day to under 35 and my fats went up about 50%.

I began losing again after just three days of eating this way, and i feel more satisfied too.

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Having explored just about every diet on the planet, except the grapefruit diet, I can report that this concept (in diet diet form) comes from one called the Shangri-La Diet, developed by Seth Roberts. For info see: http://sethroberts.net/.%C2'> I've read that many people have had success but I don't believe there have been any formal trials, so the levels of success seem to be mostly hearsay. @@AussieSam you'll have to let us know if you have success with it.

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So far my first day doing it and my body feels fantastic I havnt felt this good since surgery 6 years ago. Also I feel like I had 4000 calories when I only had 1200. Also I trained like a monster at the gym. This oil is the bomb.

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@@AussieSam

30 mls of extra virgin olive oil is about 240 calories - if you drink that before 3 meals a day that's 720 calories a day, do you count that toward your daily calorie goal? Or do you not worry about that?

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I'm a cook and love olive oils -- there are some really good ones out there. Don't know about Australia, but here we buy California organic olive oils due to the strict enforcement of regulations. Used to buy Italian, Greek, Spanish, etc. but there have been issues around misinformation, blending, etc. So get the good stuff and enjoy!

Also you are reminding me how much I love flax seed oil and that it helps with my joint pain, which is up right now for some reason. I'm going to go take some. I like to mix flax seed oil into ground flax seed to make a little paste -- delicious.

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Hi Lisa I didn't count this with my calorie amount as my doctor told me not to. I want to see for a week if it would make me lose more weight. I will keep you all informed. Also funny how I burned double the calories at the gym.

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Hi bandstand not all oils will do the job try and use extra virgin oil oil a lot and buy the bottles that come in a dark colour as they are the best. Flaxseed oil is also not bad.

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How did you do with this?

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Hi Lisa

Funny you mentioned this as I been wanting to give an update on this after a seven day trial. First thing is I felt like my energy levels were double that of what it was before. I did manage to lose 7lbs this week. I'm not sure if it was because of the evo or the extra hours I put in exercise. But it did give me an enegy boost.normaly I'm going at 3 to 4 lbs a week.

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You just drink it? Don't mix it?

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Yes just drink it before a meal.

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