THE ALL TRADER JOE’S DIET

After every winter and the holidays, I feel like a bloated hippo because I’m usually 10 to 15 lbs. overweight from stuffing my face with mash potatoes, pie, pierogis and drinking too much eggnog, wine and beer. So once or twice a year, I do a 4 to 6 week program where I lose the weight by eating right, not drinking alcohol and exercising and then friends see me with a much improved body and sometimes six-pack abs (which immediately disappear after my first beer) and ask me what diet I did.

Just about all the diets are the same (Atkins, Paleo diet, Keto diet): LOW CARB, NO SUGAR. It’s really kind of hard to do those diets since our society sells so much packaged and processed crap (some of which tastes awesome!)

But that is why I love Trader Joes! They have a lot of low-carb options, the staff is ridiculously friendly and it is inexpensive. So THE ALL TRADER JOE’S DIET is just a list of low-carb, low sugar foods and recipes that I know work on diets and I thought I’d share them. I’ve done this the last 7 or 8 years without fail and afterwards my body and mind feel silly amazing and I don’t bitch at people, I sleep great and people comment about what a nice guy I am.

PLEASE NOTE: that In NO WAY is this sponsored by or have anything to do with Trader Joes the company (I’m just a fan.) And I am not a doctor, dietician or physical therapist so if you have medical or physical concerns for God Sakes don’t listen to me. I just thought I’d share this and maybe it would help someone else (plus I can now pull up my grocery list on my phone.)

THE ALL TRADER JOE’S DIET MEAL PLAN

DRINKS
Drink a lot of water. Drinking cold water before a meal will help you lose weight. A study showed drinking 2 liters in one day helped lose 96 calories. I keep an empty glass bottle of water that I fill from the tap through my Culligan FM-25 faucet filter because I like drinking out of glass and chug the thing. You can drink the Trader Joe’s Sparkling waters that come in a variety of flavors but I felt guilty about throwing away 10 plastic bottles a week so I bought a SodaStream and you can buy Stur flavors on Amazon to squirt in that are made from Stevia.