Dr. Samuel Colby's G.E.T.S. Diet

The concept of this new diet is bringing together a calorie restricted diet, with the aid of Juice Plus Nutrition, Chia Seeds for satiety, and Be Trim tea to help curb your sugar addictions.  Fruits, vegetable, rice, and beans will be our staple. Lean meats from the sea and air will be more like a "side dish" to meals. Taking juice plus capsules is a clinically proven way to acquire vital nutrition without the unnecessary calories and sugars that accompany 8-13 servings of fruits and vegetables. Chia seeds are packed with omega-3 fatty acids and the seeds expand to about 10 x their size! The expansion of the seed is what will give you the feeling of "fullness" throughout the day. Be Trim tea is a special blend of herbs derived from Ayurvedic Medicine and is also calorie free.On the 7th day you have a nice day to relax and eat the foods of your choice. This will help balance and reset your body for the start of another successful week of diet and exercise!

Juice Plus+® is whole food based nutrition, including juice powder concentrates from 17 different fruits, vegetables and grains. Each ingredient is specially selected to provide a broad range of nutritional benefits. Juice Plus+ is a complement to a healthy diet. Juice Plus+ is the simple, convenient, and inexpensive way to add more nutrition from fruits and vegetables to your diet, every day. Juice Plus+ is supported by clinical research conducted by researchers at leading hospitals and universities around the world and published in peer- reviewed scientific journals. Juice Plus+ is recommended by thousands of doctors and health professionals around the world.

Say good-bye to those false feelings of hunger. With herbs and spices like Gymnema Sylvestre, Fennel Seed, Cinnamon and Cardamom, Be Trim Tea is a flavorful, all-natural way to help balance fat and sugar metabolism and curb snack cravings, day or night. Spice Wise Spices are ingredients in many synergistic ayurvedic herbal formulations, and an ayurvedic expert, when giving you advice, is as likely to recommend specific spices to include in your diet as to suggest herbal supplements for you to take. Fennel is extremely good for digestion. It acts as a general toner for the digestive system, and is particularly good for enhancing Agni, the digestive fire, without aggravating Pitta. In India, eating a few toasted fennel seeds after a meal is a common practice, both to aid digestion and to freshen the breath. In ayurveda, cinnamon is used to balance the digestion and to pacify stomach disorders. Cardamom is tridoshic (good for balancing all three doshas), but people trying to keep Pitta in balance should eat it in smaller amounts. Cardamom is considered an excellent digestive, especially beneficial in reducing bloating and intestinal gas. Be Trim tea contains a natural 3-fold action: 1. helps curb and balance appetite. 2. slows absorption of carbohydrates to moderate quality and quantity of fat cells. 3. helps balance fat and cholesterol metabolism. The precise blend of gymnema and indian kino helps balance fat metabolism. This blend also helps decrease sugar cravings. Suggested use is to drink tea after meals.

Chia seeds provide fiber (25 grams give you 6.9 grams of fiber) as well as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, copper, iron, molybdenum, niacin, and zinc. Another advantage: when added to water and allowed to sit for 30 minutes, chia forms a gel. Researchers suggest that this reaction also takes place in the stomach, slowing the process by which digestive enzymes break down carbohydrates and convert them into sugar. Chia has a nutlike flavor. You can mix seeds in water and add lime or lemon juice and sugar to make a drink known in Mexico and Central America as "chia fresca." As with ground flax seeds, you can sprinkle ground or whole chia seeds on cereal, in yogurt or salads, eat them as a snack, or grind them and mix them with flour when making muffins or other baked goods. I find them tasty and an interesting addition to my diet. Chia is undergoing something of a renaissance after centuries of neglect. It was a major crop in central Mexico between 1500 and 900 B.C. and was still cultivated well into the 16th century, AD, but after the Spanish conquest, authorities banned it because of its close association with Aztec religion (Indians used the seeds as offerings in rituals). Until recently, chia was produced by only a few small growers, but commercial production has resumed in Latin America, and you can now buy the seeds online and in health food stores. Because of its nutritional value and stability, chia is already being added to a range of foods. Research has shown that adding it to chicken feed makes for eggs rich in omega-3s. Feeding chia to chickens enriches their meat with omega-3s; fed to cattle chia enriches milk with omega-3s. Chia can also be added to commercially prepared infant formulas, baby foods, baked goods, nutrition bars, yogurt, and other foods. Another bonus: insects don't like the chia plant so it is easier to find organically grown varieties. I expect we'll soon be hearing much more about chia and itshealth benefits. Andrew Weil, M.D.

I developed this diet with the goal of restricting unnecessary calories while promoting optimum nutritional values to a 1,000 - 1,500 calorie diet. Most of us are accustomed to a 2,000-4,000 calorie diet with the hopes of attaining 1,000 high quality calories.  Most of my clients are in the race to burning more daily calories than they consume in order to shed that unwanted body fat. Most diets that are restrictive will sacrifice vital nutrition in order to limit calorie intake. My diet will allow you to receive the whole food nutrition from 17 fruits and vegetables without the calories. Chia seeds will be used to give the dieter the feeling of "fullness" while on such a low caloric intake.  And finally Be Trim tea will be used to silence sugar cravings that eventually push us off the "diet wagon." I'm very excited about the success stories that will be told at the end of this year!

Let's get healthy now!