Cheesecake Eating Rats

Problem: Eating bad foods causes weight gain, visceral fat, and life shortening health problems.

The habit of eating “bad” is not your fault — high sugar and high carb foods are a staple of the western diet. Supermarkets are often a mine field of unhealthy foods. This post will show you how to eat clean.

Challenge: Eating clean healthy food is hard even when its something I really want to do.

Bottom Line: The answer is to adopt a new way. Practice it over a short period of time (30 days) then simply coast — carried by the momentum of the new habit.

Do you find that although you want to eat right you often don’t? Me too, let us put aside all the guilt and shame associated with this and take a peek at some of the reasons for this.

Fifty years of research done by Princeton professor Bartley Hoebel on the study of food and drug rewards in the mind clearly (to me) shows that sugar is addictive.

Unhealthy foods can make us obese which then requires more food to support the added mass.

Then vicious cycles of (what we perceive to be) failure, guilt, and shame take shape and feed off of each other.

“I have tried many times before!” This time you — “trying” will not be necessary (nor helpful). It has been said that the mind attracts that which it is focused upon.

If we begin with the thought of past failures the subconscious will go to work at once to sabotage us before we begin.

Why should the mind let us re-live pain and rejection — it is just doing its job when it tries to protect you from that.

Thus, you will begin “as if it were impossible to fail” -Dorothea Brande

We will need Tupperware or similar containers — perhaps 10 small containers and two large containers for meal prep.

Chicken, fish, lean beef, ground turkey, deli meat, frozen veggies of all sorts, nuts, snacks with no white sugar and no white flour.

At the end of each day TXT yourself a summary of what you ate. Example: compose a message on your cell phone to your cell number. “today I had eggs for breakfast, chicken and veggies for lunch and dinner, healthy snacks, a messed up and had a sugary fruit drink at the office meeting”

1. Write down your goal

2. Buy Tupperware or similar storage

3. Make a grocery list (on a certain day of the week)

4. Go shopping (on a certain day each week)

5. Prepare Meals for the week

6. Store your meals

7. TXT Yourself at the end of the day

Note: things happen, you can change the deadline for your goal if you need more time, that’s okay.

The only food rules are no white sugar or white flour. There will be trace amounts here and there that’s okay.

The hidden agenda at work for you here is that after 3 to 4 weeks you will have instituted a new habit. New habits are hard to make but easy to live with. This is easy to make and easier to live with.

You will have a new framework with which to can then customize. Whether your goals are body re composition, weight loss, or muscle gain.

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