can play around with portion sizes and additional snacks.)
Think of this programme as a great first date that will lead to a new
relationship between you and food—an invigorating, delicious, lifelong bond.
You’ll fall in love with foods that satisfy and energize while you leave behind
calorie-dense junk that packs on weight, hurts your health, and generally makes
you feel lousy. In the end, this way of eating—started now and continued for
good (see chapter 16 for day twenty-two and beyond)—will help you normalize
your weight and recalibrate many of your body’s systems.
This is the way to let food fix it.
Why twenty-one days? That timing gained some traction in the world of
behavioural science starting in the 1960s, and it has remained a commonly
accepted period for making changes and ingraining them as habits. Because we
can’t just get rid of bad old ways; they need to be replaced by good new ways,
and rewiring your neurons takes a few weeks.
Here’s what you can expect from these three weeks: You’ll eat way more
vegetables than ever before and make friends with all the FIXES foods from
chapter 2—several per meal, in fact.
You’ll eat foods that have been shown to reduce cravings on a chemical level.
(Remember page 159, where you learned about fatty acids that signal to your
brain to quell can’t-stop-eating urges? Those show up here.)
You’ll pull way back on added sugar and retrain your palate so you don’t even
miss it. You’ll replace guilty pleasures with foods you feel good about (no need
for those little sugar-plus-fat bombs that drop out of the vending machine at
three P.M.). You’ll eat healthy fats—more than you thought were “allowed” and
enough to keep you happily satiated.
You’ll also cook more from scratch, and find it surprisingly easy. You’ll
discover flavour-boosting kitchen tricks that prove vegetables can dazzle your
taste buds without being deep-fried, coated in goopy sauce, or otherwise stripped
of their nutritional value. (See the next chapter for the delicious recipes.)
My plan brings whole foods to the forefront, because they’re more of a home
game to the body. Remember the big lesson from chapter 2: Your cells and
organs immediately recognize and understand what they’re dealing with. Unlike
highly processed food, your body knows exactly where to direct the nutrients in
whole foods to promote your overall well-being. Plus, they’re more filling, more
flavourful, and less padded with the junky stuff that puts weight on your body.
With more than thirty delicious, filling, and easy meals to choose from (all
with superfood ingredients), you will not only find recipes you like, but you’ll
also redefine culinary pleasure for yourself. Most important, you’ll start
reversing any damage caused by your old, less-than-ideal ways of eating.
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