Here's what I've learned from Michael Pollan's two books this year (The Omnivore's Dilema and In Defense of Food). If we want to avoid "western Diseases" (heart disease, cancer, strokes diabetes) we have to get off the American/Western diet plan and adopt a different cultural way of eating. Its not only what and how much we eat, it is also important to focus on how and why we eat. The "culture" of our eating is as important to understand and to change as well.
Here are the new rules of engagement:
1. We are committed to eating as much organic, pasture raised meat and dairy and produce as possible.
2. talk to a nutrionist about whole milk vs skim. Skim may lack some key micronutrients and the fat thing is a big controversy now.
3. We will not buy for consumption in our house ANYTHING that has more than 5 ingredients, or that has any ingredients that are unrecognizable or unpronounceable.
3. We will completely eliminate partially hydrogeneated fats and high fructose corn syrup from our in house diets. They are both toxins and no amount of consumption of them is safe or permissable
4. We will increase the amount of "whole" foods in all our diets and avoid highly processed foods, especially white flour, sugar and white rice.
5. We will avoid corn amd soy based products which are the new monoculture that predominate most ingredients and are completely taking over the food supply. Soy is especially scarry for girls.
(We have to find alternative vegtable oils that are not soy based to cook with!)
6. We will all increase the natural sources of Omega 3's in our diet and find ways to reduce the omega 6 sources from our diets. (.more leaves, less seeds, more fish, less meat, less animals that eat seeds, more animals that eat leaves).
7. Don't eat anything our great grandmothers would not recognize as food! (Including smart balance and any "new" healthier products). Go back to olive oil and butter!
8. Avoid foods that make health claims.
9. Shop the perimeter of the supermarket and stay out of the middle!
10. Buy local, organic, sustainable food from markets wherever possible and avoid supermarket food altogether.
11. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
12. You are what you eat eats!! Animals' diet matters as much as the animal you are eating. Eat wild, organic all natural animals only.
13. Buy a freezer and stock the right kind of food
14. Eat like an omnivore. Find new species, not just new foods to add to your diet.
15. Eat well grown food from healthy soils. Processed organic food is little better than other highly processed food (organic oreos?!)
16. Eat wild food whenever possible. Higher in omega-3s
17. Live a healthy life and be the kind of person who takes supplements, but don't take any of them other than one multivitamin a day for older adults.
18. Eat more like a "culture". French, italian, greek, or mediterennean. Find a food culture to adopt and follow. Look to long histrical based food traditions and cooking methods as a guide. They are time tested.
19. Regard nontraditional foods with severe skeptisism. Novel, health, innovative, engineered food is dangerouis!!
20. Eat less. Pay more. Choose quality over quantity
21. Find a way to eat less: no seconds rule of the French: eat till you are 80 percent full: leave something on your plate: use smaller serving dishes: don't keep the food out on the table or nearby: don't snack: don't keep food in your office: don't drink your calories. Read the book "Mindless Eating: Why we eat more than we think" by Wansink.
22. Eat Meals: three a day. Less to no snacking/grazing. Try not to eat alone. Don't eat while watching TV. Eat all together and make it a cultural event as well. Try not to eat in your car.
23. Eat Slowly: slow food movement. Cook. Relish. Plant a garden.
Bottom line:
"Eat FOOD, not so much, mostly plants"!
Is everybody with me!!!!!!!!?????
---
This diet is insane and not healthy! When you are done with this sicko, go on the Gary Korn diet plan. I'll give you the same phone and email support, no dandelions required. All you have to do is follow the following rules for guaranteed success:
1. 30 minutes a day of some kind of exercise. Anything that gets you sweating counts. Minimum of 4 times a week.... Trainer, treadmill, take a walk outside, walk 18 holes. If we can't move that min amount each week-we really have no reason to be alive.
2. Eat mostly whatever you want. Stop worrying so much about what you eat (with the exeptions of number 3 below) and start focusing on how you eat. "Mindless" eating is what causes weight gain. "Mindful" eating causes weight loss. The difference between gaining 5-10 pounds a year and losing or maintaining weight is the difference in how you eat and think about food. To "mindfully" eat-focus mostly on portion control. Never eat out of the fridge or out of containers. Always "see" how much you are going to eat before you start. "Decide" what your portion size is for every meal and snack. When you eat, always plate your food or meal and then take it to the table (away from the serving dishes) and eat. In restaurants, dont let the plate they put in front of you dictate your portion size. Look at it, decide how hungry you really are. Set aside a portion of it and eat the rest. Its like a game. Eat 1/3 or so less of everything and see if you are still hungry. When you start doing it you'll realize that 9 out of 10 times, after eating half as much as before, you are not really hungry. Your mantra here is "not so much!". In restaurants and at home, always try and leave something left over on the plate. Also, eat slower. Put the fork down between bites.
3. No fried food. No white flour, highly processed foods. Whole grains. Less red meat, more fish, fruit, nuts and vegetables. Less dairy. Try and eat way more plants. Instead of protein being the "star" of every meal, make it a supporting cast character and make 2/3 of the plate veggies, plants, slad etc with protein as the garnish or side dish instead of the other way around. Challenge yourself to not eat protein at every single meal (this is harder than it sounds!). You'll feel better, live longer and lose weight if youi eat this way.
4. Specifically for weight loss in the short term only-reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption. No sugar, candy cake cookies etc. Don't eat bread at meals (get rid of the bread basket). You can bring all this back slowly and "mindfully" once the weight starts coming off. Just eat it the same way subject to portion control etc.
5. Eat a big breakfast. Nice sized lunch and smaller dinners. Snack if you are hungry, but don't graze. In weight loss stage, don't snack on carbs like bread, crackers, etc of any kind and dont eat much after dinner (unless you are up really late and are hungry). Snack on fruit, nuts, lean protein only. Portion control concept on snacks is the key as most "mindless" eating happens with snacks. Are you really hungry or just bored? Are you grabbing that snack because you are hungry or because you see it and are in the kitchen? Put out to "see" healthy snack food. Hide the stuff you dont want to eat. If you dont see it, you'll eat less of it. You'll eat more of what you see (I keep "out" fresh and dried fruit and nuts from whole foods, everything else is in the pantry).
Here are the new rules of engagement:
1. We are committed to eating as much organic, pasture raised meat and dairy and produce as possible.
2. talk to a nutrionist about whole milk vs skim. Skim may lack some key micronutrients and the fat thing is a big controversy now.
3. We will not buy for consumption in our house ANYTHING that has more than 5 ingredients, or that has any ingredients that are unrecognizable or unpronounceable.
3. We will completely eliminate partially hydrogeneated fats and high fructose corn syrup from our in house diets. They are both toxins and no amount of consumption of them is safe or permissable
4. We will increase the amount of "whole" foods in all our diets and avoid highly processed foods, especially white flour, sugar and white rice.
5. We will avoid corn amd soy based products which are the new monoculture that predominate most ingredients and are completely taking over the food supply. Soy is especially scarry for girls.
(We have to find alternative vegtable oils that are not soy based to cook with!)
6. We will all increase the natural sources of Omega 3's in our diet and find ways to reduce the omega 6 sources from our diets. (.more leaves, less seeds, more fish, less meat, less animals that eat seeds, more animals that eat leaves).
7. Don't eat anything our great grandmothers would not recognize as food! (Including smart balance and any "new" healthier products). Go back to olive oil and butter!
8. Avoid foods that make health claims.
9. Shop the perimeter of the supermarket and stay out of the middle!
10. Buy local, organic, sustainable food from markets wherever possible and avoid supermarket food altogether.
11. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
12. You are what you eat eats!! Animals' diet matters as much as the animal you are eating. Eat wild, organic all natural animals only.
13. Buy a freezer and stock the right kind of food
14. Eat like an omnivore. Find new species, not just new foods to add to your diet.
15. Eat well grown food from healthy soils. Processed organic food is little better than other highly processed food (organic oreos?!)
16. Eat wild food whenever possible. Higher in omega-3s
17. Live a healthy life and be the kind of person who takes supplements, but don't take any of them other than one multivitamin a day for older adults.
18. Eat more like a "culture". French, italian, greek, or mediterennean. Find a food culture to adopt and follow. Look to long histrical based food traditions and cooking methods as a guide. They are time tested.
19. Regard nontraditional foods with severe skeptisism. Novel, health, innovative, engineered food is dangerouis!!
20. Eat less. Pay more. Choose quality over quantity
21. Find a way to eat less: no seconds rule of the French: eat till you are 80 percent full: leave something on your plate: use smaller serving dishes: don't keep the food out on the table or nearby: don't snack: don't keep food in your office: don't drink your calories. Read the book "Mindless Eating: Why we eat more than we think" by Wansink.
22. Eat Meals: three a day. Less to no snacking/grazing. Try not to eat alone. Don't eat while watching TV. Eat all together and make it a cultural event as well. Try not to eat in your car.
23. Eat Slowly: slow food movement. Cook. Relish. Plant a garden.
Bottom line:
"Eat FOOD, not so much, mostly plants"!
Is everybody with me!!!!!!!!?????
---
This diet is insane and not healthy! When you are done with this sicko, go on the Gary Korn diet plan. I'll give you the same phone and email support, no dandelions required. All you have to do is follow the following rules for guaranteed success:
1. 30 minutes a day of some kind of exercise. Anything that gets you sweating counts. Minimum of 4 times a week.... Trainer, treadmill, take a walk outside, walk 18 holes. If we can't move that min amount each week-we really have no reason to be alive.
2. Eat mostly whatever you want. Stop worrying so much about what you eat (with the exeptions of number 3 below) and start focusing on how you eat. "Mindless" eating is what causes weight gain. "Mindful" eating causes weight loss. The difference between gaining 5-10 pounds a year and losing or maintaining weight is the difference in how you eat and think about food. To "mindfully" eat-focus mostly on portion control. Never eat out of the fridge or out of containers. Always "see" how much you are going to eat before you start. "Decide" what your portion size is for every meal and snack. When you eat, always plate your food or meal and then take it to the table (away from the serving dishes) and eat. In restaurants, dont let the plate they put in front of you dictate your portion size. Look at it, decide how hungry you really are. Set aside a portion of it and eat the rest. Its like a game. Eat 1/3 or so less of everything and see if you are still hungry. When you start doing it you'll realize that 9 out of 10 times, after eating half as much as before, you are not really hungry. Your mantra here is "not so much!". In restaurants and at home, always try and leave something left over on the plate. Also, eat slower. Put the fork down between bites.
3. No fried food. No white flour, highly processed foods. Whole grains. Less red meat, more fish, fruit, nuts and vegetables. Less dairy. Try and eat way more plants. Instead of protein being the "star" of every meal, make it a supporting cast character and make 2/3 of the plate veggies, plants, slad etc with protein as the garnish or side dish instead of the other way around. Challenge yourself to not eat protein at every single meal (this is harder than it sounds!). You'll feel better, live longer and lose weight if youi eat this way.
4. Specifically for weight loss in the short term only-reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption. No sugar, candy cake cookies etc. Don't eat bread at meals (get rid of the bread basket). You can bring all this back slowly and "mindfully" once the weight starts coming off. Just eat it the same way subject to portion control etc.
5. Eat a big breakfast. Nice sized lunch and smaller dinners. Snack if you are hungry, but don't graze. In weight loss stage, don't snack on carbs like bread, crackers, etc of any kind and dont eat much after dinner (unless you are up really late and are hungry). Snack on fruit, nuts, lean protein only. Portion control concept on snacks is the key as most "mindless" eating happens with snacks. Are you really hungry or just bored? Are you grabbing that snack because you are hungry or because you see it and are in the kitchen? Put out to "see" healthy snack food. Hide the stuff you dont want to eat. If you dont see it, you'll eat less of it. You'll eat more of what you see (I keep "out" fresh and dried fruit and nuts from whole foods, everything else is in the pantry).
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