Eat more, not less

As you start your resolutions for 2012 forget about cutting everything you ever loved from your diet!

Removing comfort food is a tough way to start a new eating regimen.  Considering most are coming down off of an eating extravaganza for the past two weeks.  People feel overwhelmed and ready to quit by week 3.  Especially if you have decided to take on some new extreme diet that a certain doc has developed.  Feeling tired, frustrated, and deprived - quitting will be inevitable and I don't blame you.  

This year let us switch gears and instead of focusing on what you cannot have - LET US FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN HAVE!

The average Canadian diet already lacks most "good foods" and by "good foods" I mean the foods that really keep us healthy.  Foods such as those in our previous post that follow along the acronym GOMB.  (click here to review).

[Take this one very simple idea home with you: If you eat more of the good stuff, why would you have any reason to fill up on the bad stuff?]

By the time you finish filling up on your real meal - you are less likely to eat the garbage.  And by garbage - I really mean garbage as sugar is not doing much for your body (THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN "ESSENTIAL SUGAR").

Let's start by adding food in where we see opportunities.  There are 100's of opportunities each day to eat well.

At breakfast:  

Add some of the following on the side of your fluffy/white cereal:

Asparagus, Almonds, Broccoli, Bacon, Avocado, Eggs, Beef. 

At break time: 

Add in peppers, apple, or nuts along with your doughnut (but eat in the order given).

At lunch:  

Eat your protein first with vegetables.

At dinner:

Eat a second serving of beans, salad, and protein (I know you have added) before you go after your usual meal of pasta.

If you add all the good stuff in - there will be no room for the bad stuff to creep it's way back!

As you move forward this January - FOCUS ON ADDING THE GOOD STUFF IN.  We will fine tune the ugly later.