The Rules by Which I Eat

I am about to explain to you what I eat but mostly what I don't eat.  This is not a "Diet", this is how I eat all the time. As a result I have lost weight and kept it off.

I eat the healthiest, nutritionally rich foods that I can buy.
I always read the labels of what I am purchasing to make sure the there is nothing artificial, no preservatives and no words that I can't pronounce or don't know what it is.  The first time I did this I was so surprised at how much our food is chemically processed! This is cancer causing crap!

I do not eat sugar. I use a little bit of real maple syrup or agave for a sweetener.  I do not eat white flour.  I do not eat a lot of whole wheat flour just because it bloats me, I don't process it well.

I do not eat dairy products mostly because of how it is processed (Dairy will have it's own post) I call it chemical soup. I don't eat food with more than 1 gram of saturated fat per serving. I eat some fresh caught fish and maybe some venison but never commercially raised beef or chicken, too many hormones among other things.

After I tell people about my diet of what I won't eat, they usually respond with, "Well what do you eat?" or "I could never give up my ice cream".  And the people who usually respond to me negatively are almost always obese.

I eat fresh salads, fruits veggies, roasted root veggies, rice, potatoes, fish, homemade mexican, homemade asian, homemade indian and vegan desserts (without white sugar).

I will post some recipes for sure!

As a result I feel better.  I have lost a lot of weight and my cholesterol is way down.

One of my biggest issues prior to changing my diet was that I was always hungry.  It was so hard to do a calorie reduction diet because I thought that I was starving all the time.  What I now realize is that I was starving, nutritionally.  My body was not getting what it needed just trying to fight off the chemicals that I was ingesting.  As a result I ate more crap to stop the hunger which is a never ending cycle that ends up in obesity and serious health problems.

They way I eat now I am not hungry all the time and when I eat it takes little to fill me up so I eat less.  Keep in mind that it did take my body a little while to adjust to this healthy way of eating and the weight came off slowly.