Eating tips for non dieters

These little "rules" will help optimize your nutritional awareness and perhaps aid in weight loss. If you can adopt one rule, maybe you can adopt two, than three and more, and before you know it you have revamped your eating habits. Also check out my more detailed nutritional check list on my website that you can download and go through every night to help with smart eating. I hate calling it weight loss. Let's just say; smart eating and no greediness.

Here we go: for starters, don't skip meals, ever! Must have the main three and two little meals or snacks in between - this is the MINIMUM! Yes, I eat 5-6 times a day, sometimes more. I might snack on fruit, apple, nuts (macadamias or walnuts or almonds), figs, ginger, veggies, cottage cheese or yogurt, whole grain cracker, tuna, etc. Try to stay away from low fat and fat free and sugar free. If these were labeled "chemical laden", or "slightly poisonous", than you wouldn't touch it, would you? Well, guess what? They are... so eat real and eat small. Get smaller serving plates for your home. Seriously, get smaller plates and bowls. Your portions will shrink automatically. Do not eat anything out of the package, put it in a small bowl or on a small plate and stop there. Drink a little water before you start eating and after. Also drink water at bedtime to aid the digestion of your food and keep hydrated through the night. You will not have cramps and headaches and dry mouth when you wake up. You may have pee pee in the middle of the night but it's worth it. Have water at your bedside too. Eat proteins and complex carbs and fats all, but try not eating anything sugary (including fruit) after 6 pm. Do not eat up to two hours before bedtime. If you feel hungry grab a few nuts or a few crackers only. Try and clear up your liquids, that is: drink water only!!! Drop the soda, the juice (maybe 4 oz a day) and even the milk. One glass of milk a day is enough, you can get calcium from other dairy such as cottage cheese, regular cheese and whatever else squeezes out of cows (yumm!). No fried foods! No desserts! Did you know that dessert is NOT part of a complete meal, it never was till the all American cafeteria food makers made it so, probably because it's cheap to throw some puddin' into your daily calories. There are lots of dessert alternatives, such as fruit, fruit smoothies (sherbet, not the milky kind), but if you really have to, get a piece of chocolate withouth the crap in it, just plain chocolate. By the way, peanuts are not the greatest either and they're not even nuts. Look it up. Soy, in higher quantities, is even bad for you. So don't substitute.

See, this is my philosophy (and that's my big word for the day); if nature wanted us to drink soy milk she would've made bean cows. There's no such thing. If nature wanted us to have sweets without sugar we wouldn't have sugar at all. We wouldn't know sugar. Sugar would be an element on a distant start that we hoped one day to reach with our high powered machines. Maybe sugar would be a fuel, it wouldn't be for consumption. OK, I digress, you get the point! Don't inflate, polish and recolor the fruits and vegetables, don't spike the animals with hormones and don't take the good tasting stuff out of food - eat less of it! Eat with measure and eat colorful! Unlike like the Britt's...lol, the only color on their table is beige. Eat lots of fish or take fish oil! Unlike the Cubans. The only condiment they use is frying oil! Ok, I stop poaking fun, I told you that I grew up on lard...ewh!
Eat enough, not as much as you can! Separate your food when dining out and put it in a go box right away - eat half of what they serve (except if you are in the Cheese Cake Factory, than eat a quarter portion). Be happy but not fat - go see Wall-e!