Super Foods!

Every day I open the paper to see a full page ad for Super Food crackers and cookies. They claim to be full of good stuff that your body will thrive on. They appear to be marketed to dieters who are looking for a quick fix. (Aren't we all?)

There is no quick fix.

Super Foods are just crackers and cookies with a bit of goodness thrown in. They are still starch. They will still add on the calories. You could replace other starch for them but do you REALLY want to skip a bowl of whole grain cereal, or a sandwich, or rice, or potato, or pasta for a cookie?

I was told last week to go back to SIMPLE eating. Combo foods, including restaurant food it complicated to figure the value in it. Simple eating helps me track what goes in to my body and insures me I am getting all the nutrition I need to be healthy.

After 2 months I am able to gauge what I am eating without referring to my "chart." I look at food in terms of it's value and proportion. I can plan out my day of eating so that at dinner time - there's plenty to eat. There is actually plenty to eat at every meal.

My skin is soft because I drink 64 oz of water a day. My cholesterol went down because I am choosing LEAN meat and eating more whole grains. My body is regular because I eat fresh veggies and fruits every day. I am losing weight because my body is tapping into the stored fat because it knows it does not need to hold on to it. I get ENOUGH calories a day.

I mess up. I fess up. But the diet I am on works for me, so I KNOW it would work for you too. Today I weigh 157. Three and a half months ago I weighed 189. That's 32 pounds lost, an average of 1.5 lbs a week. That's WITH making mistakes along the way.

I went from obese, to overweight, to within 2 pounds of healthy weight, and I did it without eating Super Foods, or just meat, or starving.

KISS - Keep it super simple!