Status Updates From Food Rules

Break the rules once in awhile. Obsessing over food rules is bad for your happiness, and probably for your health too. Our experience over the past few decades suggest that dieting and worrying too much about nutrition have made us no healthier or slimmer; cultivating a relaxed attitude towards food is important. Everything in moderation.

Compost your food; plant a vegetable garden if you have the space, a window box if you don’t

Treat treats as treats. There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. Some people follow us so-called S policy: no snacks, no seconds, no sweets – except on days that begin with the S.

Leave something on your plate

Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does

Do you eating at a table. If we eat while we’re working, or watching TV or driving, we eat mindlessly – and as a result eat a lot more than we would if we were eating at a table, paying attention to what we’re doing.

Limit your snacks to unprocessed plant foods try to eat fruit fruits, vegetables, and nut nuts.

Eat meals rather than snacks

Order the small when eating out