I'm making my way through a stack of books, all of which I am trying to read at once which gets confusing, but I can't help it - they are beckoning me! I am obsessed with Tired of Being Tired. Every page seems to hold a new revelation that changes the way I look at health and food and life in general. That sounds a bit grandiose, but it's true! It's motivating me to try and eat only real, whole foods and no "fake" processed foods. "Whole" foods includes full-fat products like milk and cheese, which never occured to me before. I'm going to give it a try, and I'm excited to see if makes some positive changes in the state of my overall health.I'm also reading: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Too Close to Call by Jeffrey Toobin, and The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett. I'm very much looking forward to staying inside this cold, crappy weekend and reading my brains out!
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I was brought up only on whole foods. I truly believe that most of the worlds illnesses have come from processed food. I have been eating whole foods for so long that I actually get sick when I eat something processed. Isn't that wierd? Stick with it and you will see not only your body transformed but your mind as well. You will feel absolutely great!
Wow. I ate full-fat plain yogurt today for the first time. I felt like I was eating something from another planet! The full-fat thing is still kind of weirding me out. I can't see how I won't gain 50 pounds from eating full-fat dairy. I will say the full-fat yogurt filled me up after about 5 spoonfulls, whereas I can eat buckets of fat-free yogurt, so I guess full-fat is a kind of naturally built in portion control.
Oh, and I have this memory of lots of big, screw-top jars in your kitchen with various kinds of flours and other whole-food ingredients and having no idea what anything was because it wasn't in a box or a bag with splashy colors from the grocery store! That is pretty cool, to have been eating that way as a kid. I now see why my kitchen full of Little Debbie's was so popular!
I eat full fat in just about everything, and I weigh in at a normal weight. The key is moderation. But you do eat less when you eat the real stuff. Yeah, we had some wierd stuff in our kitchen. I had to go to other people's houses if I wanted junk food. Hostess and Little Debbie were forbidden. When I asked my mom for a snack she told me to have a Matzo with peanut butter! Shit! Passover is right around the corner. I am so sick of Matzo! We were Catholic for Christs Sake! A sucker for a deal she got them 50% off after passover...
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