not all the time. And because it’s not about weight loss only, it’s the most stabilizing and
empowering perspective one can have about food.
You can eat whatever you want. It’s your right, period. I don’t want to be your food cop any more
than you want a cop breathing down your neck every time you eat something that is nutrient-poor
for one reason or another. (And I assure you that this will happen, at times, even when you are
committed to becoming a Nutrient Rich® Healthy Eater. When you eat nutrient rich 90% or more
of the time, you’ll naturally be disinclined to eat nutrient-poor, but there will be moments when
that 10% comes in handy.)
To avoid giving up your personal empowerment to make choices and avoid the diet traps that so
many of us get caught up in, you are learning The Great Rule of Eating even before you learn The
Three Golden Rules of Healthy Eating.
Remember and believe:
“You can eat whatever you want. “
“You just can't eat whatever, whenever AND get the results you want.”
Now that we have acknowledged you can eat whatever you want, you must also acknowledge that
you just can’t eat whatever, whenever you want AND get all the results you want. I assure you that
President Clinton knows this and abides by it every day so his arteries don’t become clogged again.
Most people sit down and eat whatever is in front of them pretty much whenever they feel like it.
The fact is that you can get fat following any kind of food plan, even eating healthy, nutrient-rich
foods (for example, if you are eating way too much, at the wrong times, and for the wrong reasons).
But most people are eating whatever foods they come across regardless of quality.
This doesn’t work to get you the results you want.
Everything you eat produced results—ones you want, or ones you don’t.
Changing your eating style and seeing results can seem like something that's way off in the distance.
Eating a small side salad right now will not immediately make you thinner or healthier, in the same
way that eating a Big Mac for lunch will not immediately make you look fatter or feel sicker. But the
truth is neither meal will take much time at all to show its effects.
Is it a contradiction to say that (a) you can eat whatever you want, but then also acknowledge that
(b) you can’t simply eat whatever, whenever and get the results you want?