We are very food conscious here.  We diet, eat healthy, discuss tasty low calorie food ideas, empathize when we gain weight over the weekend and are generally supportive of each other in our quest to be fexy (fun + sexy).  We often give each other tips on how to hold the course.  Given that this is part of our culture, I thought I would share some of my favorite tips out of the book by Michael Pollan, Food Rules An Eater’s Manual.

The book is broken into three parts:

What should I eat:

1. Eat food – don’t eat edible foodlike substances.

2. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

4. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

5. If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.

What kind of food should I eat?

1. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

2. Eat sweet foods as you find them in nature.

3. Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.

4. “The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.”

5. Have a glass of wine with dinner.

How should I eat? (not too much):

1. Pay more, eat less.

2. Stop eating before you’re full.

3. Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.

4. Eat slowly.

5. Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.

This book has simple eating tips.  I recommend it.  It’s not as easy as pie to implement, however.  We are also supportive when we bring chocolate to meetings.  You can have moderation in your moderation.

What are your favorite food rules?

Pollan, Michael. Food Rules, An Eater’s Manual. Penguin Books, 2009.