assert your preferences for how you want to eat and live, no doubt others will do it for you by most
likely serving food that keeps you as diet trapped as they are.
The most successful healthy eaters have/had the same or similar issues to deal with as you do now.
Forego thinking about all that the other person has going for them, because they most likely had to
create that skill and get grounded in a new experience. You can do it too.
This is the mantra of Nutrient Rich® healthy eating:
Real food is your health food,
Healthier food is your “junk food”
And junk food goes in the garbage. (Really there is no such thing as junk food. There
is junk and there is food)
Healthier foods—packaged foods that are not made from whole, plant-based nutrient-rich foods—
are your new junk foods. That doesn’t mean they are totally junk, but with all the refined and added
salt, oil and sugar, and even manmade synthetic chemicals in many “healthier” foods, they are
simply “better” junk food.
REAL totally nutrient-poor junk food like Twinkies doesn’t even need to find its way into your
kitchen and body to begin with. You can at the very least eat better junk.
If you have a need (psychologically driven, or due to withdrawal symptoms) for a junk food, simply
go to your local health food store and buy one of the many bars, cookies, crackers or shake mixes
that are not made from whole, plant based nutrient-rich foods.
Who needs Twinkies when you can have a white-chocolate-flavored food bar?
Someday, you may find you can even make your “treats” nutrient-rich. With all the amazingly
delicious vegan food bars and smoothie mixes and green drinks created by real-food entrepreneurs
who maintain nutrient rich standards, free of animal products and refined ingredients, these may
be a treat enough.
But if you really want junk food, just go to the health food store. Eat better junk.
Who needs Twinkies? Just put them in the garbage. Do you really need this in your body?
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