Why is the individual who eats whole grain bread better than the person who eats white bread? As a nutritionist, I am certainly not a fan of hydrogenated peanut butter on white bread, but I know plenty of intelligent, healthy people who hate natural peanut butter and love mushy white bread. And you know what? They are perfectly capable of making other healthy food choices, as well as good decisions in the other parts of their lives.
These "good" and "bad" assumptions on food choices are a total waste of our energy. When you eat the yummy chocolate cake at your birthday party and suddenly feel like a bad person for doing so, you feel guilty. You doubt your food choices and these misguided judgments spill over into the rest of your life. After all, if you can't trust yourself to make good food choices, can you trust yourself at all?
Let's stop this craziness! What about thinking of food choices as simply "healthier" or "not as healthy"? "Essential" or "nonessential"? It is a fact that it's healthier to choose whole wheat bread over white bread, since there are more nutrients in the whole grains than in the refined flours. In reality, the TRUTH is this has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kind of person you are, your character or, (if I may use this term), "badness." I believe that if we allow ourselves to relax, we will ultimately create a balance and most of our choices will be ones that fall into the healthy column. And, more importantly, we will also learn to trust ourselves in making good decisions in the other areas of our lives.
Becoming "at peace with food" is a journey that involves developing a new relationship with food. Instead of being marked by frustration and disappointment, by fear and competition between you and the food you eat, food will take its place as one of the many activities in your life, along with family, friends, working and being active. And, like these other activities, it should be pleasurable.
In order to become truly at peace with food, you need to learn about yourself and why you have the relationship you do with the food you eat. Like all relationships, your relationship with food took time to develop, and it will take time to change.
And that's the truth!
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"How many calories should I eat each day in order to lose weight fast?"
Some weight loss counselors may tell you to eat 2,000 calories per day if you weigh a certain amount (and if you describe yourself as "active").
But this is a RIDICULOUS way to try and lose weight, and we'll explain why below.
The truth is that it's quite ridiculous to follow a specific calorie limit each day, since every person has a different metabolism level.
You cannot judge your metabolism by your activity level either, since there are plenty of people with higher activity levels but who are overweight nonetheless (due to a slower than normal metabolism).
For example, if you take 2 people who weigh 165 lbs and who have the same activity level each day, then there is no guarantee that their metabolisms will be operating at the same general level. In fact, it's quite possible that one person's metabolism will be nearly twice as fast as the other person's metabolism.
Also, there is another reason why following a specific "daily caloric guideline" is a waste of time.
You see, your body doesn't burn calories on a "per day" basis, your body burns calories on a "per meal" basis. Your body doesn't burn calories based on what time the sun rises and sets, it burns calories throughout the day as you eat them.
This means that following some arbitrary "daily caloric guideline" is not going to make you any thinner, since you must actually learn to spread out your daily food across more than 3 meals per day in order to lose weight fast.
To speed up your metabolism you must eat more often, not less often. You must eat more than 3 meals per day, and you must not follow some arbitrary caloric guideline each day. Also, it's quite easy to figure out how big your food portions need to be when trying to lose weight, and it has nothing to do with counting calories.
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