This Picture may seem a little extreme to some of you, but there is really no difference with foods that activate the JNK gene.

The piece of cake will activate the JNK gene just as well as having frozen fish or other foods filled with food preservatives.

When you start to cut out some things you commonly eat, the picture on the left does not need to be you! We promise, well somewhat!!

Refined sugar, starchy carbohydrates like potatoes and white flour need to be a thing of the past, except on your reward days.

Give yourself a reward day after 14-days on the JNK Diet. You will probably find you just do not want to even go back to what you were eating.

As much as possible, cut out:

• Cooking oils

• White flour

• Preservatives in the food

• Limit dairy. You just need to limit the amount of dairy from what you currently consume

• Heavy starch foods like potatoes, white rice etc

• Refined sugar

• What is about to be written is not a paid for advertisement. If you love pizza, Papa John's Pizza thin crust does not usually cause a problem with weight gain on this diet. The other brands tend to create weight gain. Even the barbecue wings from Papa John's has not been a problem. If you like this type of food, try it on your reward day and see how you do. 

• White bread

• Other bread - If you can go without bread you will be ahead on this diet. At least eat a good multi-grain bread, but you should not have much protein from meat when you do. The great Italian dinner with garlic bread will not work. You can squeak by with the Italian dinner, but when you add the bread to the mix, you will gain weight.

There is a lot of theory on eating the same percentage of carbohydrates, fats and protein with each meal. There is the theory of how mankind has only been able to store grains and vegetables for year round consumption for the past 100-years and our genetic makeup could not have changed in that short amount of time, and we are consuming too many of these foods.

Some people really need to watch the amount of carbs they consume and the time of day they have carbs. The same can be said for fats and proteins. We are all different when it comes to what type of food and the combination of foods that make us feel well and stay slim.

A datum to use:

• If the food makes you feel very full, it is the wrong food for you.

• If the food makes you get bloated, it is the wrong food for you

• If you finish a meal and you are still hungry, you either need to eat more or it is the wrong food for you. You do not want to starve the body. Weight loss will stop if you do.

• You should feel the need for additional nourishment around 2 hours after your last meal. This is the time to have a light snack. Try raw veggies, almonds, some fruit or yogurt.