The Simple Max Diet isn't really even a diet. In fact, we call it an undiet. It's particularly effective for children and people who have newer issues with weight and poor health who simply need to clean up their act. The simple plan is especially helpful for people who work in an environment where it is very challenging to make good food choices 100 percent of the time.

The simple diet works like this: Simply eat as often as possible from anything on the Max food list while being aware of the "carbohydrate" issue. There are two simple steps.

1. The 80/20 rule--The first, basic step to cooperating nutritionally with Maximized Living is to eat all or the majority (80 percent good, only 20 percent bad is the 80/20 Rule) of your meals off the Max food list.

2. Eat your carbs early; eliminate your carb addiction-- Eat carbs in the morning or in the early part of the day.

One of the fiercest enemies to good health and a lean body is unused carbohydrates. If you eat a bowl of pasta and some bread at night, you've just eaten enough carbohydrates to run a marathon. Instead, you go to bed and these unused carbs wreak havoc on your glands. The abundance of sugars they create overwhelm the insulin mechanisms necessary to absorb them, and they end up stored as fat. All this results in you getting up in the morning feeling more tired than you were when you went to bed.

In the morning, it has typically been six to twelve hours since you have fueled up, and you still have an entire day ahead of you. Therefore, energy foods can be used up. Keeping the majority of your carbs in the morning gives you ample time to burn what you've taken in and leaves little left over for storage in the gut or butt.