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1. Eat MORE and primarily Vegetables! (list below)

2. Eat MORE extra lean to moderately lean Animal Proteins (some higher fat options are included below but extra to moderately lean preferred).

3. Minimize or Avoid fruit, beans, nuts, seeds and whole grains (these foods have the most nutritional calories and are suitable for kids, teenagers, young adults and athletes; not for those wanting to lose weight)

4. AVOID Refined Sugars or Refined Carbohydrates! (Beverages included)

5. AVOID Alcohol!

6. Drink Water, Coffee and/or Tea only.

Best Vegetables List:

Artichoke, Artichoke hearts, Asparagus, Baby corn, Bamboo shoots, Beans (green, wax, Italian) Bean sprouts, Brussels sprouts, Broccoli, Cabbage (green, bok choy, Chinese) Carrots (raw), Cauliflower, Celery, Cucumber, Eggplant, Greens (collard, kale, mustard, turnip) Hearts of palm, Jicama, Leeks, Mushrooms, Okra, Onions, Pea pods, Peppers (sweet or hot), Radishes, Rutabaga, Salad greens (chicory, endive, escarole, lettuce, romaine, spinach, arugula, radicchio, watercress) Sprouts, Squash (cushaw, summer, crookneck, spaghetti, zucchini) Sugar snap peas, Swiss chard, Tomato, Turnips, Water chestnuts, Yard-long beans.

Protein Sources:

*Fish and Seafood: Albacore tuna, herring, mackerel, rainbow trout, sardines, salmon, catfish, cod, flounder, haddock, halibut, orange roughy and tilapia; Shellfish including clams, crab, imitation shellfish, lobster, scallops, shrimp, oysters.  *Poultry (without the skin) and Eggs: Chicken, turkey, egg whites or whole eggs. *Beef trimmed of fat including: chuck, rib, rump roast, round, sirloin, cubed, flank, porterhouse, T-bone steak, tenderloin *Lamb chop, leg, or roast. *Pork tenderloin or chop.

Best Fruits List: (snack between meals, if necessary, for those with a sweet tooth)

Berries, cherries, pears, apples, grapefruits, peaches, apricots and plums.

Many exercise participants, as well as personal trainers who train them, believe that intense workouts lead to success, but unfortunately for those who subscribe to this precept, it’s frequently incorrect; it’s not how much, or how hard, we can exercise at one time that matters, it’s what we can recover from consistently (physically and mentally) that really matters to our long-term success.

Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth: Our minds don’t work the way we think they do. We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we’re actually missing a whole lot.

Chabris and Simons combine the work of other researchers with their own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, they explain:

• Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail
• How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it
• Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes
• What criminals have in common with chess masters
• Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback
• Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters

Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We’re sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we’re continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement.

The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it’s much more than a catalog of human failings. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.