The Relationship Between Inflammation And Weight Loss + A 3-Day Reset

Have you ever spent a day saying, "That's it! I feel gross. I'm going to get serious and start eating clean!" So you start with your healthiest regimen of smoothies, turkey burgers, and cauliflower. The next day you step on the scale and say, "How have I gained weight after all this clean eating?"

Inflammation is an essential part of the body's healing system. Your immune system attacks2 anything in your body that it recognizes as foreign—like bacteria, viruses, pollen, and yes, even compounds in healthy foods. Choose the right foods, and you can reduce your risk of illness and reduce inflammatory-related weight gain. Consistently pick the foods that don't work for your chemistry and you can accelerate the inflammatory disease process, not to mention gain weight. The foods that can be highly inflammatory may surprise you; it can be foods like black beans, asparagus, oatmeal, and Greek yogurt.

When you eat foods that don't work for your chemistry, your histamine and cortisol levels start to rise. This means you will have short-term water-weight gain from the heightened histamine response and long-term fat storage from the raised cortisol. Elevated cortisol levels also mean that you're also more likely to be stressed out and this will negatively affect your hormones, like progesterone and estrogen. These constantly fluctuating hormones will attack your master gland of metabolism, your thyroid. It's hard to believe that a healthy food like strawberries can create this domino effect in your body, but if strawberries don't work for your chemistry, some version of this is likely to happen in your body. When you find the foods that work for your body, you lose weight easily and feel better. In fact, I have seen positive changes in as soon as three days following a low-inflammatory diet and up to 10 pounds of weight loss.

Well, aside from weight gain there are simple signs that your body is saying "Please don't feed this food to me!"

One simple sign is to note how you feel after a meal. Are you gassy, bloated, or tired? Do your joints hurt; are you suddenly sad or irritable? That's a sign that something you ate at your meal didn't work for your chemistry!

After eating this way, see how you feel. Are you bloated at the end of the day? Do you have more gas than usual? Find out which foods from this list are causing your symptoms by noticing how you feel after each meal. Alternatively, are you feeling amazing? Your body will tell you everything you need to know.