Looking to lose weight? It’s simple!! Get rid of everything you thought about nutrition and adopt a diet aligned with our biological design and historical eating habits: prioritize fruits, veggies, potatoes and other starchy vegetables, whole grains, beans, lentils, and include some nuts and seeds. For their high fat content, the nuts, the seeds, and the fatty fruits like avocado, olives, durian, etc are the only whole food plants we should restrict! Other than that, no need to restrict. 

The key is to  EAT AS MUCH AS YOU CARE FOR, never cut calories down, never skip meals! Eat when hungry and aim for satiety at every meal – thus don’t leave the table before you get full. 

You will become healthy. AND WILL LOSE WEIGHT! Not becouse of some kind of calorie deficit. But because you removed all the CALORIE SURPLUS that comes with those foods everybody in our society indulge in. By eating to reach satiety of these High-Carb Low-Fat WHOLE foods (again, they have FIBER and WATER to dilute the overall calories of the meal) you end up with around 800 calories per meal. Multiply by 3 or 4 meals a day, you have just enough to fuel your body.

On high-fat diets, like the one you have right now, people are having over 1000 calories per meal and eat over 5 times a day. Here you have it. All that surplus of calories, once removed, make people lean down.

And you will have the energy and the mood to start moving more. 

This is the recipe! 

Let’s gain some perspective with an analogy!

Imagine taking a zebra and feeding her a diet consisting of cheese, meat, eggs, lard, butter, refined plants (flour, refined sugar, oil, margarine), and high-fat plants such as nuts, seeds, and fatty fruits. Predictably, she would gain weight rapidly, and her health would deteriorate. 

Now, consider the solution to help her lose weight and reverse those chronic diseases. Would you suggest moderating her intake of these fattening, unhealthy foods? Would you say she needs to eat smaller portions and move more?

Of course not. The solution is to put her back on her natural diet: grass.

Some might argue that returning the zebra to its natural diet of grass is too restrictive. 

However, who are we to judge? If a higher intelligence designed that animal to thrive on a specific diet consisting of only one food group, maintaining leanness and health, our opinions on the matter are of no importance.

While we’re not advocating for humans to consume grass like zebras—thankfully, we have a more varied menu—it’s crucial to recognize the commonality. 

Both humans and zebras are herbivores, designed to thrive on plant-based diets. WHOLE food plant-based diets. With LOTS of FIBER and low-fat content.

In a manner similar to the zebra simulation, people today consume a wide array of items available on the market: animal products, refined animal products, fatty plants, and highly processed plant materials. On top of having artificial “foods” nowhere found in nature, people like to eat as omnivores. And they like to indulge in fats. 

At no point in our history we had such a great intake of fats and animal products. In developed countries people have over one third of their daily calories from animal-based foods!!!

The challenge lies in the fact that this doesn’t align with the optimal nutrition for our species. Excessive fat, too much protein, too dense proteins, no fibers, too few vitamins, lack of antioxidants, etc.

The solution, therefore, is NOT to moderate the intake of those foods. Just as you wouldn’t suggest portion control and a ‘eat everything in moderation’ approach for the zebra, the optimal path is to completely avoid such items.

Instead, we should avoid them completely and return to our most optimal diet: whole plant foods, rich in fibers, natural sugars and water, while being low in fats and proteins.

What if we’ve got it wrong? There’s a narrative urging us to believe we’re omnivores capable of consuming anything. This perspective not only pushes harmful foods but also keeps us hooked on pills, drugs, and medical interventions. Additionally, it perpetuates a lifelong struggle with weight, turning us into the perfect customers for the diet industry, constantly battling extra pounds, experiencing temporary success, but never achieving lasting results.

The truth is as simple as that: we are not omnivores. Our physiological features and biology point toward the same conclusion: we are plant eaters!!! We are not omnivores!

We have:

• elongated fingers like a frugivore to pick up fruits from the trees – omnivores don’t need that feature, they have very short toes;
• soft and blunt nails like a frugivore – omnivores have strong, hard, and sharp claws;
• small mouths like a frugivore – omnivore animals have prominent, elongated snouts because they use their mouths to kill the prey and provide dinner;
• flat and broad molars like any other plant eater, for grinding the fibers – omnivore animals have serrated, sharp carnassials that act like scissors to cut flesh, tendons, and skin and to break bones;
• short and flat incisors – omnivores have sharp and pointed incisors;
• small canine teeth – omnivores have elongated and pointed canines with sharp tips (and in some cases of the carnivore animals, the canines have bladed edges). This is the main weapon to kill the prey;
• our in-built cholesterol production, like any other herbivore – omnivores rely on food to provide them with cholesterol. They have detoxifying systems to eliminate the excess; we don’t; we store it;
• we rely on food to get vitamin C – omnivores produce their own vitamin C.

These collectively indicate an animal with a plant-based dietary design.

Every time this experiment was conducted and scientists took these ‘zebras’–meaning overweight, even obese individuals suffering from all sorts of chronic diseases–and completely changed their diet to a High-Carb, High-Fiber, WHOLE-FOOD, VEGAN, and low-fat diet, they succeeded. The people became lean!!!

Without cutting down on calories; they were allowed to eat AD LIBITUM.

Moreover, it was found that this diet–Whole Foods High-Carb Low-Fat Low-Sodium Vegan–is the only one that effectively reverses heart diseases and diabetes.

No other diet has consistently achieved not only a LEAN body while eating ad libitum, BUT ALSO the reverse of the leading cause of death in the modern world: heart disease.

It’s clear—we can indulge in abundance, eating as much as we desire, as long as it aligns with the nutrition we were designed to consume. This approach not only prevents people from being overweight but also has the power to reverse food-related chronic diseases.

The challenge lies in the perception that a vegan whole-food plant-based diet seems restrictive compared to all the ‘foods’ available in our artificial environments.

Switching perspectives, let’s consider the apparent restriction in a zebra’s diet compared to our ideal one:

grass vs. tens and hundreds of fruits, vegetables, tens varieties of whole grains, and legumes, nuts and seeds, herbs and spices.

The zebra got to eat only one food. 

Remarkably, she thrives on this simplicity—happy, slim, fit, and healthy.

In contrast, we enjoy the luxury of abundance, not confined to a single food source like grass. Our optimal diet encompasses a rich variety, offering countless options. The key is recognizing and appreciating this abundance.

Most people tend to view the glass as half empty, fixating on what they perceive as sacrifices–giving up their favorite greasy foods. And they live very far away from their healthiest and thinnest versions of themselves. Favoring instant gratification over long-term results never helped anybody.

A noteworthy challenge arises when people approach the Whole Food High-Carb Vegan diet with the old and dangerous mindset—cutting portions, eating in caloric deficit, moving more and eating less, harboring misconceptions that carbs are inherently bad or that fruits lead to weight gain. Shifting this mindset is crucial for unlocking the true potential of this dietary approach.

Now you know the truth. There is one diet that fits all. As a single species, we share the same anatomy and biology. 

While our health journeys may vary based on past dieting and health conditions, mostly food-related, the common thread is our shared digestive system. At the end of the day, our similarities outweigh our differences.

The question is:

What will you do with this information?

I’ll tell you what most people unfortunately do:

They dismiss it. Get defensive. They protect the status quo.

In doing so, they unknowingly remain where the food-pharmaceutical-diet industry wants us all to be—fat, sick, and depressed. 

The ideal client.

Let’s say for a moment I’m wrong, and you are RIGHT. Suppose we are omnivores by design.

If you are RIGHT and you get to be you—caught all the time in diets, cutting calories and  managing portion control, having cravings, binging, Yo-Yo, taking pills for cholesterol, high blood pressure, prediabetic conditions, constipation, taking laxatives, struggling with sleep issues, low energy, brain fog, and a caffeine addiction, more overweight decade after decade…

and I am WRONG, but I get to be LEAN, slim, fit, and HEALTHY —with no need for pills, no headaches, no sleep problems, and no health conditions. Enjoying regular and healthy digestion, going 2-3 times daily for number 2, and not relying on coffee—never eating in a caloric deficit, all the time eating in abundance, much like every other animal in the wild…

Well, in that case, being wrong doesn’t sound so bad after all—it’s pretty fantastic.

Being so ‘wrong,’ I shed the extra weight while consuming 2,500-3,500 calories daily. And keep it off for the first time in almost two decades of battling diets, Yo-Yo cycles, and intense cravings and binges. 

Now I NEVER crave. I have no cheat meals. I have had no cheat days in the last decade—no need when you eat your species specific diet. High-Carb, sufficient sugars (natural ones, of course, found in WHOLE plant foods like fruits, veggies, potatoes and other tubers, whole grains, and legumes.)

You only crave sugary foods because your body is deficient in sugars. This is our species optimal source of fuel. Not fat, not protein. We all have a sweet tooth for a reason. Is our best fuel, that is why we crave it so badly.

So, are you in or out?

I’m here to provide perspective and offer effective strategies to identify and overcome obstacles while shifting limiting mindsets.