Kahunka's Reverse Your Girth Diet
A no-nonsense Strategy to achieve a sexy lean body and KEEP it!! - by Kahunka
There I was, pigging down a a few sirloin burgers and nearly an entire six pack of beer over the course of an afternoon at a friends birthday pool party when the thought crossed my mind whether or not I was being a good example to the readers of my site.
After all stuffing yourself with alcohol, potato chips and barbequed red meat is a unhealthy thing to do.
So I've decided to come clean and let you in on my diet secret and even show you a practical plan you can follow if you want to do the same thing.
I call this amazing fat-melting, body building diet my...
"Reverse your Girth" Diet"
You see most (meaning 90% or more) of the time I eat stuff like plain oatmeal with rice milk, skinless chicken breast cooked in pure coconut oil, stewed tomatoes, lots of vegetables, fruit, beans, brown rice protein, sushi, the muscle pizza and the living foods shake.
Now this is important....
I don't have the "I can never eat this or that" attitude about food. In fact once a week or maybe a couple of times over the course of a few weeks I will eat whatever I want and how ever much of it I want.
I think as soon as you say "I can never have," you will "always want."
For me it's easier to eat healthy most of the time when I know that I can eat whatever I want a "little" of it.
(1) First thing to do is change your belief of what a "diet" really is. Most of us think a "diet" is something you do when you reduce the amount of food you eat and eat unpleasant tasting foods for the sake of weight loss.
Nothing could be farther from the truth!
My friend we are always on a "diet" and you can just as easily be on a junk food diet as a salad and tofu diet. A diet is just the foods you habitually eat, good or bad. So you can't ever "go" on a diet because if you where ever "off" of a diet for too long, you'd be dead!
The key to the Reverse Your Girth diet is a gradual shift of your eating habits done at a pace that is right for you.
Here's the next step...
(2) Instead of trying to change your diet all at once, decide to set aside just one single solitary day out of the week to eat healthy. This means, cutting out the junk like...
White sugar and anything with "ose" in it like fructose, sucrose etc.
White Flour and any products with white flour in them
Trans fats and anything that contains them
Hydrogenated fats and anything that contains them
Anything with the cancer-causing sodium nitrate like lunch meats
Common table salt and foods with excessive sodium
...and maybe following a proven diet like the Mediterranean diet....just one day a week.
The rest of the week eat whatever your heart desires until you feel you are ready to...
(3) ...expand your healthy eating to two days a week. The rest of the week you eat whatever you want but on those two days, commit to really enjoying the experience of eating healthy and start "thinking" about the great changes taking place in your body.
Start collecting healthy tasty recipes to make on your healthy days and pretty soon you'll discover that eating healthy IS tasty after all.
Stay at this level as long as you want and when you are ready, (4) commit to three days of eating healthy.
The rest of the week you can.....OK so you get the point.
Don't EVER think "I can't eat this anymore or I can't eat that anymore" because on the Kahunka "Reverse your Girth" diet you can eat whatever whenever (yes, even at night ;o))
BUT just not on your healthy days.
(5) Soon your healthy days will greatly outnumber the unhealthy ones and you will never feel you are being "deprived" of your favorite unhealthy foods because if you follow this diet correctly, you gradually replace them with new healthy ones.
As you'll discover, the better feeling and the better looking your body becomes, the less desire you will have for the unhealthy foods.
As with everything I share at Kahunka, there are no absolutes here and this diet strategy IS THE EXACT STRATEGY I use in my life, it may not work for everyone.
My intention with this site and what I share is never to tell you how "it is," "how it should be," "how you should do this or that" and so on, rather to only offer ideas that may take hold in your thinking and grow into a powerful positive influence in you life.
There are way to many "experts" that tend to think that their way is the only way.
You can adjust all the parameters to make this idea resonate with you. For example maybe on your healthy days you only choose to completely cut sugar and salt and maybe you stay at one day a week for two weeks or three...it doesn't matter.
The point of this strategy is to gradually, at your own pace, change your eating habits.
Remember that every bite you take takes you toward or away from your fitness goals.
Consider implementing this idea today as I believe it will grow into a powerful pain-free way for you to adopt healthy eating habits.


















I appreciate your enthusiasm for a healthy life and your willingness to share ideas that will promote the same. I have been trying to do the same in a deliberate way for three years now and have seen much more success in improving my diet and improving my body than I would have imagined possible when I first started. (I've gone from 155 lbs. and little muscle definition to about 185 and some real definition.) In describing your diet though, I'm curious what your daily caloric intake is on average? I have always struggled with adding bulk and find it difficult at times to eat healthy, to maintain weight, and to do something other than eat all day. Suggestions?
Hi Lacertus – I've never counted calories and believe if you eat the right foods there is no need for it. If I want to gain muscle I eat more of what I'm already eating, workout harder and rest more. In the 20+ years I've been into fitness this has always worked for me.
I don't know enough about you to tell you what you should do to gain weight but one thing to consider is cleansing and fasting.
Give your body a break from being in a state of constantly masticating and digesting food (as a result of eating all day long ie “six meals a day) which uses an incredible amount of your vital energy.
Taking a break from food every so often allows your body to rest and regenerate so when you reintroduce food back into your system you'll more efficiently absorb the nutrients needed to build lean tissue.
If this interests you please do further research before proceeding.
Michael
Thanks for your thoughts Michael. I was always thin and never thought I could add any muscle and so didn't try. About three years ago I bought the book Scrawny to Brawny (by Michael Mejia and John Berardi), and it has changed my life. I learned that I can gain weight, strength, and muscle, I just have to worker harder on the gaining weight part. Others have to work hard to stay lean. I am changed in many ways as a result. I started counting calories though because I thought that I was eating a lot, but when I counted them, I found I wasn't eating as much as I thought. A big pile of spinach doesn't give you many calories. In short, I have had to be careful to eat the right things and more of all of them then I thought.
Since being more fitness aware, I've roamed the web reading, etc. and appreciate your perspective and your positive attitude. My problems were not believing I could and not being willing to work hard to make it happen. But, every day is a small struggle to keep eating enough to maintain my weight. I was just curious if you had ideal quantities of food per day. I've had to work hard eating to gain what I have that the thought of fasting is shocking. I'll read more.
Hi Lacertus:
I have Scrawny to Brawny, a lot of good info in there for sure and as for Ideal quantities of food, they differ for each person so I can't say what's right for you but if you need good cheap nutrition one food you might want to check out is beans.
Buy a cheap crock pot (about $30) and then go buy some bulk organic black beans, split peas, lentils etc.
Put the beans in the crock pot , cover with plenty of water and let simmer for several hours stirring occasionally and then adding some non-sodium based spices of your choosing and let me tell you what you get is a big pot of delicious food you can eat on for the next few day.
Very easy to prepare.
It's an economical way of getting quality whole food calories if that is what you are looking for. In addition beans are full of nutrients, fiber and protein. You can add some carrots, celery, onions and so on if you want to but you don't even need to do that.
The more you eat the more you should work out. Eating more without exercising more too is not good and if you do gain weight it won't be muscle.
I'm going to post an article here about my thoughts on eating.
Michael
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your great ideas. I have a crock pot, but haven't tried your recipe yet. Over the last three years I have eaten a lot more lentils and beans, which I think have helped. I've also eaten more tuna in part b/c of your suggestion, but I haven't made the tuna pizza. I'm not there yet. The lentils are great, but they are an example of being good for you in lots of ways, but not giving you all that many calories. I don't know exact numbers, but to gain weight I have to consume something near 4-5K calories if I am exercising (I try to swim at least a couple times a week in addition to weights). To eat healthy and get that calorie level, I need to eat very often during they day. That's challenging.
I'm not complaining though. I'm very pleased with my progress. But it did make me wonder how often you eat during the day. I'll look forward to your article on eating. Do you have/like the Berardi cookbooks?
Bruce
Hey Bruce I do not have any of Berardi's cookbooks and please be careful with your tuna consumption because of the mercury issue. I actually do not eat a lot of tuna anymore and am considering removing the Muscle Pizza video. It's a challenge finding any food now-a-days that does not have some potential health issue associated with it. Raw nuts like walnuts and almonds are good high calorie snacks, I usually have a big jar of nuts I dip into throughout the day
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Michael
Hi Michael,
I don't like tune enough to be able to eat very much of it. It's OK, but not a favorite. I do though keep a jar of almonds at my desk and eat them throughout the day between meals. I don't have access to my home kitchen through the day so do you have suggestions for other desk friendly snacks that are healthy?
Bruce
hmmmm…walnuts are good too. Consider maybe bananas or apples and goji berries.
I get goji berries at the Vitamin Shoppe. At nine bucks a bag they're not cheap but you could make them last a few days with a little effort.
Seriously happy i stumbled upon this excellent website, will make sure to book mark it so i can visit regularly.
Thanks Burton!