By Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D., L.M.H.C.
What is a healthy lifestyle and healthy weight balance? What does eating in a balanced way mean? These questions are the core of where we need to start. To help you with the answers to these questions I need to start where you are. And where you are is a guess, so I’d like to share a story first. See if you can ask yourself, “What can I learn from this story that could help me take one small step towards healthier eating?”
When I wrote Not Your Mother’s Diet, I distilled the harvest of my personal struggles and my patients’ struggles, with eating such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder or compulsive overeating along with food addiction, into learning adventures for others. And yet, there are those who still hunger for the truth.
Recently I took my oldest daughter shopping at the Orlando Premium Outlet Mall. As lunchtime approached, we stepped into the food court for a bite to eat. My hunger died, however, when I saw the selection of food from which I could choose. My daughter ordered a submarine sandwich for herself and two bottles of water, one for each of us.
I sat and looked around in amazement at all the people with their plates piled high with fast foods of all kinds. Most had sodas in their hands.
I asked my daughter, “I wonder what I could eat here?”
She said, “What about the juice place? Or there’s Japanese food.”
Previously I had investigated all the food selections and found none adequate for my metabolic type. I realized I’d had a similar problem at breakfast when my daughter served some carbohydrate-based treats I normally don’t eat. I could have tried to make do with what was available at lunch and say nothing. However, it was time for me to speak up.
I shared with my daughter that the protein portion sizes were not sufficient and I needed nutrient-rich carbohydrates for sustenance. Something like baked fish and steamed vegetables would help me last until supper. I explained that I felt sluggish, sleepy, and unmotivated when I ate a diet predominately based on carbohydrates. (Food Addiction is with white flour foods and sugar of any kind.)
Later, my daughter and I shopped for groceries. We picked out a fresh fish selection and her favorite vegetable for supper. That evening we prepared a metabolically balanced meal that left both of us feeling wonderful.
Since I’ve personally cultivated this sensitivity, I find it a gift that I can routinely check how I feel and how my body feels in relation to what I’ve eaten. This is what I teach to everyone who walks into my office. The path of weight balance success is simply choosing to be conscious.
By following The Metabolic Typing Diet, The Food Allergy Cure, The Diet Cure The Body Knows (These books are found on my resource page.) and Not Your Mother’s Diet The CURE For Your EATING ISSUES, bodily aches and pains, emotional irritability, anxiety, and even the depression that most people feel when eating the wrong foods can be alleviated. Plus your eating disorders such as bulimia, binge eating disorder, compulsive overeating, and food addiction are eliminated.
Before you achieve weight balance, you’ll experience dramatic positive changes in the quality of your life and freedom from mood swings and food cravings. This system of weight balance has kindled within me a deep appreciation for the process. It can do so for you too. I constantly experience a profound satisfaction with my practice as I teach these techniques and exercises to my patients every day. They are astounded by their results.
Everyone can experience this freedom in body, mind and spirit. The golden keys, to a healthy weight balance that you can sustain and appreciate for the rest of your life, are in my book. Make the choice that will change your life by buying my book today. |
