Sunday Story…the Only 3 Reasons You Really Need to Improve Your Diet

Sometime this whole food thing can appear really complicated. It isn’t unless you choose to make it that way. You can go down the road that says only eat this or that or the one that espouses some weird ”franken-food” processed thing that you shake up twice a day, or count all your calories or count all your carb grams or your fat grams or fiber grams. But it does not need to be that onerous.

Food is simple. Eating food is simple. We seem to be filling some strange need to make it more than that. That science can make food better than nature. I think not.

You can rationalize any food choice you make by the way. Recently I heard this one…”well wine is from grapes and grapes are paleo so wine is OK, right?” Sorry, no dice. But if that reasoning works for you go right ahead and use it. Just understand you are not being completely compliant. I made a raw chocolate banana pie for dessert on Thanksgiving and it was delicious and I enjoyed every bite but because it had honey in it, it was not 100% compliant with the no sugar part of my eating plan. But I did enjoy it. And that is O.K., as long as I don’t make a habit of it.

Just to iterate this simple and easy and cheap way of eating:
Eat meat
Eat vegetables
Eat seeds and nuts
Eat healthy fats
Eat fruit occasionally
Don’t eat sugar
Don’t eat grains
Don’t eat legumes
Don’t eat dairy
Don’t eat processed edible food-like substances

Simple, easy and cheap if you do it right. But if all you do is substitute processed crap for processed gluten-free crap then no it isn’t cheap.

Here are the 3 reasons to do this:

You will feel better
You have no idea how much your body is struggling to process the junk you are putting in it. Grains create an inflammatory response in your digestive system…this, in turn, creates inflammation in your body which is considered the source of most illness and all chronic diseases. The same problem exists for dairy…your body is trying so hard to extract the poor nutritive quality of dairy that it begins to fail miserably at doing the things it should be doing. Sugar acts on the same receptors in your body as the opiate class drugs do. When you do this diet you will have a week or two of withdrawals…just like any other addiction. But this will pass.

You will perform better
When you fuel your body with the nutrients it was made to receive your performance will improve. Whether that performance is on the playing field or just chasing kids around the house you body will start operating the way it was meant to operate instead of spending all of its time trying to get rid of toxins or process crap food into something salvageable for energy. You don’t have to be an elite level athlete to appreciate this. It is not normal for all your joints to hurt when you get out of bed or out of the chair. It is not normal to be tired all the time, it is not normal to sleep poorly and it is not normal to get sick all the time.

You will think better
Your brain function is closely related to how well your digestive system is working. Your brain needs fat to survive…if you could stop all fat ingestion your brain would begin to fail. As it is your brain (if you are burning sugar for fuel) is burning the wrong fuel for proper performance. It is not normal to go through life in a fog of unclear thinking. It is not normal to need caffeine to stay awake. It is not normal to forget simple things. All of these things are symptoms of poor eating choices. Today I was going through Costco and sampled some dark chocolate almond cherry clusters…I had a gut ache in moment and almost immediately felt like my brain was in mud. It passed after about 30 minutes but it was not worth the few seconds of fleeting taste sensation I enjoyed…the chocolate pie on the other hand…

Here is the bottom line:
Eat real food.
Stop making excuses for not eating real food.


Namaste
John
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