April 30th, 2009Don’t Eat So Many Calories
Don’t eat so many calories
I was inspired by two of Michael Pollan’s books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, to try to radically change my eating habits. I had just started a normal “don’t eat so many calories” diet when I read them, so I thought I would experiment. I’ve followed the “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” dictate and also followed his shopping advice. Basically I haven’t eaten anything that I haven’t cooked from base, organic ingredients (whenever possible). I’ve eliminated all soft drinks - diet or HFCS filled. Avoided fast food. Reduced my meat intake to no more than 4oz per day with red meat only one day a week and several days a week all vegetarian. Eat three or four pieces of fruit a day and greatly increased my vegetable consumption.