O.K. You've been researching a better way to eat: necessary vitamins and minerals, disease fighting foods and lifestyle changes to make. And now... You're overwhelmed. You can't remember which food to add to what to absorb more of a specific nutrient. Or, how much you need in a day to protect you from that family history of that disease. Your brain is starting to smoke. That can't be helpful.
It's O.K. Relax. Start somewhere.
We do not recommend a fast change. We are big believers removing negative emotional attachments to your food. Diets create guilt and a feeling of forbidden things. Never good.
You should LOVE your food!
We are very fortunate to have the abundance that we have.
Now...
Slow down.
Plan meals.
Enjoy cooking- (always with a glass of wine)
Enjoy your meals.
Eat things that satisfy.
Think, "How can this taste so good?!"
But how.
Your taste buds are affected but things you eat and are accustomed to.
Corn syrup kills your taste buds, sugar makes them very insensitive to natural sweetness- lactose in milk, a ripe strawberry.
The more refined, processed and fried food you eat, the less real good whole food actually tastes like anything to you.
So if you go cold turkey then an oily crunchy fresh pecan tastes like nothing.
You must take baby steps.
Change out items one by one.
Switch from canola to Olive Oil. Toss your margarine and get crazy good grass fed butter.
Roast your own potatoes with lots of olive oil, salt and garlic and stop buying those french fries.
Soon those old terrible foods will taste... well... terrible.
Go read Sugar, Salt, Fat for a wake up call. These poor foods create a craving for more. Downward spiral anyone?
And, go easy on yourself.
You are not going to fix this poor eating culture overnight.
It would create too much stress and you'd feel like you were missing out on too much.
Find new foods you LOVE. Then incorporate them into your week.
Have them available. Stop buying those potato chips and start buying those nuts you love.
If you don't do it for life, then it won't work.
No crazy diets here.
Just good whole Fightin Foods!
Surround yourself with them.
Learn to cook really good things with them.
Have them ready to snack on. Starving desperate people eat anything. Plan ahead.
Keep Fightin!