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what is Food Optimising?

Food Optimising is unique. What other weight loss programme gives slimmers the freedom to eat as much as they like and still lose weight?

Food Optimising is the most generous, flexible and enjoyable weight loss system that exists today. Behind the easy-to-follow plan is a unique and advanced synergy of nutritional, physiological and psychological principles that, together, offers the most effective way to lose weight - for life.

It's no secret that the body must take in fewer calories than it expends for it to burn stored fat. This is a scientifically proven fact on which all weight loss programmes are based. Where Food Optimising is revolutionary is in just how easy and comfortable it makes achieving this for slimmers.

Food Optimising is based on the energy density of foods; those that are low in energy density and high in nutrients are available to eat freely. Staple foods like pasta, lean meat, rice, fish and fruit and vegetables. Those that are high in energy density and low in nutrients are available in moderation, such as biscuits and alcohol. By guiding slimmers to choose more low energy dense, highly nutritious staple foods that provide the greatest appetite satisfaction, Food Optimising automatically limits calorie intake while guiding slimmers to make healthier food choices that are beneficial to weight loss and overall good health.

There are three key principles to Food Optimising that take care of a slimmer's physiological, psychological and practical needs for successful long term weight loss:

Free Foods

Free Foods are the ground-breaking heart of Food Optimising. They turn conventional dieting on its head and liberate slimmers from the restrictions and deprivations of calorie counting regimes.

Free Foods are low in energy density and high in their ability to satisfy appetite quickly and for longer. There are more than 400 Free Foods, all healthy everyday foods like pasta and potatoes, lean meat and fish and fruit and vegetables, that can be eaten in unlimited quantities - without weighing or measuring - to provide slimmers with the freedom and choice they need to take 100% control of what they eat, when they eat and where they eat.

Flexible Syns

If extra Syns are needed for a special occasion, that's OK too. Flexible Syns are another way in which slimmers are put in control of their weight loss campaign. Flexible Syns empower slimmers to accept that the occasional over-indulgence doesn't mean that they have failed. It gives them flexibility for those times when they need more than their usual Syn allowance, providing a great psychological advantage. So long as they keep counting, Flexible Syns enable slimmers to stay aware and in control and an extra fifty or a hundred Syns one day is an awful lot less damaging than what happens when they stop counting altogether.

Like Free Foods and Healthy Extras, Syns are there to provide optimum choice power and flexibility for practical, realistic and successful long term weight management.

Healthy Extras

Food Optimising is in line with all eight Government guidelines for healthy eating.

To ensure that slimmers have the full complement of nutrients needed for optimum health, Food Optimising includes an extensive choice of almost 400 hundred Healthy Extras. These include normal everyday foods such as dairy products, bread, cereals and nuts to ensure a balanced intake of essential vitamins, minerals, calcium and fibre.

The latest research shows that calcium may play an important part in helping the body to metabolise fat, so Food Optimising has been advanced even further by allocating slimmers an additional Healthy Extra choice to boost calcium intake and make healthy eating and weight loss even easier.