We are all human and it is natural to have a good appetite and enjoy your
food. Food is one of life’s great pleasures. Luckily, some of the most delicious
things to eat are also good for you, and natural beautifiers. Good eating is a
good idea! I don’t think it is ever too late – or too soon – to get a proper
diet in place. Here are my suggestions:
1 Losing weight is about calories.
If you eat fewer calories than your body needs, you will lose weight.
HOWEVER …
Never choose low-calorie cereal bars, cakes or snacks, just because you
looked at the packet and it said “only 94 calories” If the item is not fresh
and natural, it has no place inside your body. The calories you eat must be
from fresh food only.
2 Eat bite-sized portions of food. Think of finger-buffet portions.
3 A meal should be no more than ten mouthfuls. Count them. Hunger
passes with the first mouthful. Nourishment is satisfied after about ten
mouthfuls. If you have counted twenty mouthfuls and are still only halfway
through your food, you are eating too much.
4 Successful weight loss and body maintenance depends on nutrition.
Your body needs certain nutrients and vitamins and minerals in small
amounts, and it does not know where they came from. Feed yourself –
forget the notion of eating. Eating is the process of putting food into your
mouth and chewing it. Feeding is how you maintain your body in perfect
health, by giving it what it needs for growth, maintenance and repair.
5 Choose only natural food. Every minute you are reading these words,
your hair is growing, cells are dying and new ones made, your heart beats
and so on. It cannot do these vital tasks on a packet of crisps and bag of
sweets. Never get hung up on the food you choose, but make sure it is
something that feeds you and is natural. For example, we know what a
fish, an apple, a piece of meat, a slice of toast is. We do not know what
went into a bag of fizzy fish sweets or microwaveable curry. If you
do not know what is in it and it was cooked before you bought it,
DO NOT EAT IT.
6 Make others respect you. Being made to ‘work through a lunch hour’
is unacceptable and meal times are easily incorporated into a working life.
I stop for lunch every day and it has never harmed my career.
7 Make the best of things. If you are on a journey and you simply can’t get
out of buying a sandwich at a service station, don’t worry about it. Find
an apple somewhere, or a banana. Buy a pint of milk, perhaps. With a bit
of common-sense, imagination and determination, you can manage your
diet and not become the victim of someone else’s idea of what you
should eat.
source: CRASH DIET MONICA GRENFELL
