Vegetables are mandatory in order to prevent disease and inflammation, but they do come with side effects: gas, bloating, digestive difficulties. With time your body will get accustomed to the fiber rich, hard to chew down veggies by manufacturing just the right enzymes to facilitate the problem, but it takes time!

Eating veggies raw is really asking for problem. I don’t care about those who believe raw food is the best: in order to reap the benefits of a faster metabolism you got to get used to eating a lot. Volume that is! So, how the heck will you be able to do that if all you do all day is fart and pass gas? LOL

I get this question a lot: “do you get bloated from the fiber and veggies?” My answer is AFTER I EAT A BIG MEAL LIKE WHEAT BRAN PORRIDGE or MY BIG DINNER, of course I have a big stomach! If that is what you mean by being bloated, yeah. It goes away after a couple of hours. I don’t mind because it does keep away hunger. Which was the whole point with overeating vegetables….

Just like you must be patient in the gym and you ought to go train to shape up, you cannot have the cookie and eat it too. Eating lots of veggies will fill you up. Yes you will feel all puffy maybe. BUT you will get leaner by being capable of staying committed to not eating junk!

The whole idea about fighter diet is you eat a tremendous amount of veggies. The reasons are many but the strongest ones are appetite control, the luxury of being able to eat yourself full every day AND it reduces the harmful effects a high protein intake has on the body: increased acidity. Since a lot of protein is needed to build muscle AND it helps burn calories, you do want to minimize the consequences of such a diet style. Vegetables are key.

Also, there are different ways on how to approach the whole eating issue. If you have a tendency to get too hungry during the day, you should prevent it from happening by eating veggies at many of your meals. If you have no problem staying on track all day but fail easily at night, then you want to have all your veggies at night so you can feast on it until you’re good and more.

I feel that in general people are so concerned with being perfect, flat stomach all the time but then they cannot keep it up and gorge on the junk food or sugars. Instead, if you let yourself EAT and are OK with having your stomach full with fiber, veggies and water, you will get leaner in the long run. Stuffing yourself does not make you fat. Eating high caloric food makes you fat. So, bulky low calorie veggies that really adds volume to your belly after a meal will NOT equal fat gain. Au contraire! veggies trick your brain into thinking it got more calories than you actually did. The brain senses fullness! If yo are full of fiber or full of crap, the brain does not see the difference.

I would not worry about that tiny waist people…. Listen… I do photo shoots all the time. I eat tons of fiber and veggies. I look pregnant every night. I don’t mind. I just stay away from the noodles and fiber the day before a shoot!