Introduction

I am fat. I used to be fatter. I lost one hundred pounds over the course of the last year. I did not this not by huffing and puffing or doing any exercise but by just learning to eat right. I've gained a lot of it back now. But now that I know what food is about I can start over and lose it again. I used to think I had to diet, and that meant watching calories and that would be impossible. I loved compensatory eating, and I thought it was making up for the pain I suffered in life. I thought it was impossible to lose anyway. But now I know better and it is all the result of changing my relationship to food.


The thing that helped me the most was the psychology of not having to diet. Realizing that watching calories is not where it's at. I'm not saying you can gorge on sugar but look, if you learn to eat right, that does require a life style change, but when you get it it's a revelation. Get your nutrition fixed up your thinking changes. This is why I call it "you NOT on a diet." You don't' need to diet. You need to find a new way of life. It does not have to be a hungry way of life. It doesn't have to be a starving way of life. YOou don't have to agonize because you can't eat good food. Once you get your palate unjaded you realize nutrition tastes good and junck tastes bad! You have gotten so into the tastes of sweet, salt and grease that you can't taste real food anymore. When you learn to taste it again it's amazing how food comes alive and you realize how bad tasting junk food really is!

Food is information. It tells your body what to do. You eat crap it is the same as sending the little men a message saying "screw up the body now." Good food is a message that says "make it work the way ti should now." This is not only about weight but you will be more resistant to disease, your body can heal itself of some diseases. The point is to eat nutrients because they will enter your blood stream more slowly. Slow means your body is taking out the nutrients to burn as energy and to fund the body in terms of chemicals that fight cancer and so on. Things that enter the blood stream slowly cause the body to burn fat stores. Things that go right to the blood stream are stored as more fat. The determining factor is nutrition. It is nutrients that make the body take longer to digest. So that's why Honey is better for you than sugar. Refined sugar has the nutrients taken out. Honey is not refined it has the nutrients. they may take out the comb, which might be good for you, and pollen which is good for you. But that's the only refining they do to honey, so it takes longer to enter the blood stream and you get more nutrients.


I am not an expert but I read the experts. I'll be sharing nutritional information and also talking about recipes and just generally celebrating good food.