Hello, this is Monica Reinagel and you're listening to the Nutrition Diva

podcast. Thanks for joining me.

Padme wrote to me this week to tell me about a new diet that she's been on and she's very excited about.

According to the creator of this diet, this eight week meal plan will shrink your waste, melt your fat, and give you the body of your dreams.

All the recipes, which Padme tells me are both delicious and quite filling, incorporate lots of spices like cumin, coriander, turmeric, cinnamon, cayenne, black pepper, and more.

And the idea is that all of these spices

speed weight loss by flushing impurities from your body

and supercharging your metabolism.

After the first week, which focuses on detox,

Padme has already lost seven pounds,

and she's absolutely thrilled with her results,

but she does have some questions.

I know I'm going to hit a plateau eventually, she wrote.

Are there specific combinations of spices that work better together?

Or are there other spices that I could add that would rev up my metabolism

even more?

Could I lose weight faster by increasing the amount I consume?

I'm willing to eat an entire jar of turmeric if it will melt away another inch.

Increasing the amount of spice that she's using in the recipes or combining them differently

isn't going to accelerate Padme's weight loss because the spices, as

tasty and nutritious as they may be, have little or nothing to do with the weight loss that

she's experienced.

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