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How Far Are You Willing To Go?

July 6, 2009 By 4 Comments

It amazes me sometimes how far people are willing to go to be thin.  I hear it all the time.

  • Crazy diets which involve ridiculous eating plans
  • Insane exercise plans which are clearly unsustainable
  • Popping pills which either do nothing or artificially change your metabolism
  • Smoking cigarettes (Yes, I actually know someone who doesn’t want to quit smoking because she’s afraid she’ll gain weight).
  • Surgery
    • Liposuction, a procedure where they literally poke a hole in you and then vacuum out fatty tissues
    • Stomach stapling, a procedure which restricts your eating

And now, here’s a new article from Forbes.com showing two new ways in which our wonderful diet industry is going to help you in years to come.  First we have:

researchers inserted a molecular shunt into the liver cells of 94 mice

That sounds promising, doesn’t it?  Luckily, the researcher adds,

Still, genetic engineering has not yet been used to successfully treat people, so any anti-obesity treatments using molecular shunts are years away, Liao said.

And next we have:

researchers added leptin receptors to a particular type of neuron (pro-opiomelanocortin neurons) in the hypothalamus of the mice’s brains

Really?  Is this the future of weight loss?  Genetic engineering and brain modification?  I’m sorry, I know we all want the easy answer, we all want that magic bullet that will make us thin and healthy without any of the effort.  A pill or a treatment that will enable us to eat all the ice cream we want while still having six pack abs.  I know, I understand, I want it too.  Unfortunately, the best, safest and healthiest ways to lose weight and stay fit are still:

  • Eat healthy
  • Eat in moderation
  • Be physically active

No need for pills, surgery, genetic engineering or brain surgery.  Just those three things.  It’s a secret that everyone knows but refuses to admit.  Eat less junk food, eat more veggies, move around more.  Nothing else is needed.  No, it won’t work in 3 days and no it won’t work without a bit of effort and sacrifice on your part, but it will make you healthy without the associated risks of the procedures described above.

So if you’re thinking about any of the procedures above, do me a favor.  Try to do the following three things first.  Try them for just a month and see how you feel.

  1. Find something in your eating habits that you can cut out.  It could be the double latte in the morning or the late evening candy bar.  Whatever it is, identify something unhealthy and cut it out completely.
  2. Add one serving of vegetables to your diet.  Healthy vegetables, like tomatoes, spinach, cucumbers, peppers and so on.  Eat them raw if possible.
  3. Commit to 30 minutes of walking a day.  No excuses, no canceling on account of rain.  Just get out there and walk.

Make it your very own 30 day challenge.  If you can do this then you can lose the weight in a natural and healthy way.  Sure, it may take a bit longer than stomach stapling but at least you won’t have to go through surgery!  And if you can’t do this for 30 days, then I apologize but you don’t need stomach surgery or genetic engineering, you need a life change and a motivation boost.  I just hope you get it before it gets you.

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If you’re interested, here’s the article.  Also, note the ending:

“Until we get a very clear understanding of the way that all of these compounds work together, we need to accept the fact that diet and exercise is the only well-proven, safe, side effect-free approach to weight and glucose control,” Weiss said.”

Filed Under: Editorial, Motivation, Weight Loss

The Problems With Body Image

May 22, 2009 By 3 Comments
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Body image

Over the next few weeks on 60 in 3, I’m going to write a series of articles about body image, what it means, how important it is, the kind of problems it can lead to if badly handled and my own struggles with it.  I wanted to start out this series with the following video:

It’s from the Dove evolution campaign and it’s a bit old (2006) but I think it makes an amazing point.  What we see today as the “ideal” body image is nothing but a manufactured illusion.  Take a look at this video and see the transformation this woman undergoes.

Some of this transformation was done through makeup, some through technology.  Either way, she is made into something that is impossible for her to achieve on her own.  This is a model, someone picked for beauty, and yet even she must be artificially transformed into something she could never be.  This is what we’re sold every day.  This is what our children see every evening.  This is what we’re told we should look like.  Women get more of this than men, but men get enough of it too.  One look at some recent action movies (300 anyone?) and we can easily see that men too are bombarded with artificially enhanced images of the “ideal” male physique that they must aspire to but can never achieve.

I’ve always said that looking good is a perfectly fine goal to use as motivation for being healthy.  However, like many things, this can be taken to an extreme which is both unhealthy and unrealistic.  That’s what I’d like to talk to you about in the next few weeks.

In the meantime, check out that video.

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Free KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) Coupons and Oprah

May 6, 2009 By 6 Comments

The following is an editorial about the current (and sad) state of our American role models.  For those who are a bit sensitive about the topic, feel free to move on to another article.

Someone emailed me a news story about Oprah giving away KFC coupons.  Now I’m going to ignore the controversy mentioned in the article about poverty and race and the economic implications of KFC coupons; none of that is really a topic for 60 in 3.  However, I will say this, as someone that people look up to, as someone who claims she is dedicated to furthering children and their education and health, as someone who has fought her own weight and health issues, is this really the best Oprah can do?

Now if you’re an Oprah fan, forgive me, I don’t mean to just pick on her.  Yesterday, our very own president made a big deal out of going to a local burger place with his VP.  Maybe it’s the cynic in me, but I tend to think this was just a bit of showmanship, a chance to cast the president as “the common guy”, and maybe this is Oprah’s way of doing the same.  However, I just fail to understand how these people who should be setting a good example for the “common man” are instead sinking down to the “common man” level.

The Common Man

Since when is the “common man” a beer chugging, burger eating, KFC ordering role model that we all look up to?  Why is it that people who are considered thought leaders and role models need to sink to the “common man” level in order to appear cool and approachable?  Here’s a thought, why don’t they lead instead of follow?  Why don’t they set new trends instead of sinking to old lows?  Why does every politician need to have that one press conference in the diner to show himself swilling a beer or eating donuts?  Is this really what we’ve sunk to as a nation?  Have we really gotten to a point where we don’t trust people unless they’re willing to kill themselves with unhealthy food?

Why is eating junk food a badge of honor?  Why is promoting crappy health considered a way to ingratiate yourself with the common American?  I want leaders who lead, not follow.  I want people to look up to those with better habits and seek to emulate them, not envy them or seek to pull them down.

Let’s Start A Trend

Let’s tell our role models, in entertainment and politics, that we want better examples for ourselves and our children.  Let’s tell them that we’re happier watching them eat a good salad and working out than we are watching them consume donuts and fried chicken.  Let’s tell them that we want our children to grow up in a nation with positive role models, with leaders who excel and stand head and shoulders above the rest, not leaders who seek to emulate the “common man”.  Heck, I don’t want the “common man” as my leader or role model, I want the “extraordinary man (or woman)”!  To hell with common.  If I wanted common, I wouldn’t need a role model.

How about Oprah give out free coupons to your nearest farmers market?  How about we hear more about Hillary Clinton’s healthy breakfasts and less about Bill Clinton’s fondness for McDonalds.  How about we see less sports stars with drug habits shilling for major beer companies and more sports stars advertising for things like exercise and good health?

These are your role models folks, they’re doing this because they think they have to.  Let’s tell them otherwise.  Let’s tell them that a talk show host who claims to care about health care shouldn’t promote KFC.  Let’s tell them that a president who claims to care about global warming shouldn’t promote burgers.  Let’s tell them that senators worried about obesity shouldn’t promote donuts.  Let’s tell our local sports teams that we prefer our athletes to be drug free so that our kids don’t grow up thinking it’s cool to wreck their bodies in a quest for better performance.

If these people want to be our role models and leaders then they should act like it and show us some good habits to emulate.  Lead, don’t follow!

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End of rant!

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Thank You To My Friends

April 24, 2009 By 3 Comments

The following post is a very personal one for me.  Feel free to ignore.  60 in 3 will be back to the usual fitness and health tips next week :)

Mother’s day is coming up and various commercials are constantly reminding me to be thankful to my mother for all she has given me, preferably by buying her something expensive.  While I’m still considering the best thing for my mom, this did remind me of something.  We have a day for appreciating our partners (valentine’s day) and a day for appreciating our parents (mother’s and father’s days) but what about our friends?  What about all those wonderful people in our lives who help us shape who we are?  When do they get thanked?  When are they appreciated?

Now I’m not a big fan of commercialism and I believe that the good things in life should be appreciated every day, not just once a year, but I do think it’s nice to have extra special days in which we appreciate just one thing and really consider how important that one thing is.  Which is why I’m declaring April 24th to be “Friends Appreciation” Day!  I’ve been through a lot in the past 7 years and I would not have come out of it nearly as happy without all of my friends.  So without further ado, here’s to you:

Thank you Dave for sharing a brain with me, for coming over to support me even when you didn’t know or agree with what you were supporting, for watching awful movies with me and for being my original hiking partner even when they turned up the gravity on Mission Peak and that cow chased you.

Thank you Greg for being my own person technical support for 60 in 3, for teaching me the basics of PHP, MySQL (my sequel!), for being my workout partner even though it meant waking up every day at 5:30am and for being OCD enough to spell check most of my articles.

Thank you Donald for being my original running partner even though your walking speed was faster than my running speed back then.  And thanks for coming back safe from Iraq.  You’re way too nice for the rest of us.

Thank you Rui for being willing to walk the dog with me every night at 10pm and for going with me to the gym at the oddest possible hours.  Thank you also for tolerating my occasional late night rants about various topics.

Thank you Jason for tolerating me despite my occasional impatience and thank you also for providing me with an example and an inspiration.  Your recent weight loss and diet changes are amazing and I am truly impressed.

Thank you Sasha for being you.  I can’t say anything more because if I do so this post will be blocked by various profanity filters :)

Thank you Tilla, Cheryl, Tiffany, Shannon and the rest of the Gal2k crew.  You girls took a socially maladjusted engineer and turned him into the shining beacon of fashion and style you see before you today.  Thanks for seeing the potential underneath those ratty shirts and surly manners.

Thank you Christine for teaching me how to move from walking to running, and I mean that in a variety of ways only one of which is jogging.

Thank you Georges for teaching me about self esteem and respect.  The one last lesson I needed to learn to become a whole person.

And thank you to all of you, assuming you’re still reading this, who have listened to me struggle with a variety of issues over the past two years.  It’s been an amazing journey but I’m glad to be here.  I’ll close this post with a quote taught to me by the newest person to inspire and teach me:

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as in caves.  I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead.  I believe in such cartography.”  -Michael Ondaatje

I believe in it too and thank you all for being a part of my life.

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Got a friend or an inspiration you would like to thank?  Feel free to add it in the comments or better yet, talk to them in person like I intend to do :)

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Sinful Indulgence

March 16, 2009 By 14 Comments

Anyone here know what Lindt truffles are?  I’ll give you a hint, they’re like a small package of sin, dipped in temptation and then wrapped up in a bit of hedonistic pleasure.  Yes, they’re that good.  A single bite into one of their milk chocolate truffles and I close my eyes in sweet surrender to the chocolate gods.  There’s that moment when I bite deep into the truffle and the creamy filling spills out in all its chocolaty glory that’s like…. well, you can guess what it’s like.  :)

Yes, I love Lindt truffles.  They are to me the epitome of candy.  You may or may not agree and that’s your right.  Certainly different people have different tastes.  However, what you all can probably agree on is “why the heck is he talking like this about chocolate on a fitness website?”  And the answer is, this is EXACTLY the way I should be talking about chocolate on a fitness website.  In fact, if I didn’t talk like this about chocolate then I should be worried.

Let me explain.

Deprivation Sucks!

What comes to mind when I say healthy eating?  Is it tasty vegetarian meals?  Is it wonderful salads filled with zest and flavor?  Nope, of course not.  Most people, including myself sometimes, think of bland lettuce, horrible rice cakes, endless baby carrots, no more steaks, no more chocolate and no more ice cream FOREVER!  You think I’m kidding and maybe I am exaggerating a bit, but not by much.  Really, healthy eating has quite a few negative connotations in peoples’ minds and very few positive ones.  People are not willing to look at healthy eating with an open mind and consider the possibility that we may enjoy it.  We choose instead to focus on the bad side of healthy eating and convince ourselves that we’re going to hate it.

So first of all, let’s get rid of that myth.  Healthy eating can be very tasty.  There are hundreds of recipes out there for healthy breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks that you will enjoy just as much as those steaks and ice cream.  In fact, once you open yourself up to the idea, I’m guessing that you’ll find a healthy diet to be far more enjoyable than your previous unhealthy one.  Because, not only will you be healthy, but you’ll also gain a greater appreciation for those sinful indulgences like chocolate.  You’ll start talking about Lindt truffles as a religious experience and not as a guilty mid morning snack.

A Moment To Savor

Think back to that description I gave of the chocolate eating experience.  To me, that’s a little slice of heaven, a moment to savor and enjoy.  Now guess what happened when I walked into the Lindt outlet in New York a few days ago?  I bought a bag full of these truffles and took them back to my hotel room.  I eagerly spilled them all out of their bag, sorted them by flavor (yes, I’m a little CDO which is just like OCD only the letters are in the right order!!!) and started eating.

The first truffle was chocolate nirvana.  White chocolate outside with a creamy white chocolate filling.  Flavor everywhere.  Senses overwhelmed by the richness and sweetness of the chcolate.  Taste buds overloading on sensation and brain succumbing to pure pleasure.  The second truffle was almost as good.  My taste buds were a little overwhelmed by the first chocolate but still aware enough to note the difference in flavors since this one was a milk chocolate truffle.  My head was still buzzing and my eyes closed as I focused on the unadulterated joy of consuming chocolate.

The third truffle was a little plain.  Sure it was sweet and yes it was very creamy but where was the richness?  Where was the chorus of angels singing in my head as I nibbled on chocolate and drank in the dark and sensual flavor of the filling?  Well, maybe it was just the dark chocolate, let’s try another white chocolate one to be sure!  I bite into this fourth truffle and… well, it’s nice, but there’s nothing else.  No heavenly choir, no blind lust, no emotional catharsis, nothing :(

What’s my point?  Well, the point is that even with things as exceptional as Lindt truffles, too much of a good thing becomes something quite ordinary.  Having too many of these chocolates at once made them less tasty.  Having them too often would do the same.  Instead of a rare sinful indulgence, they would become common place.  Their special quality would be cheapened and I would be left with nothing but empty wrappers and guilt.

The same applies to many other things by the way.  Take your morning coffee as an example.  How many of you feel like something a monkey flung out of a cage until you get that early morning latte?  Are you really enjoying it or are you barely existing until you drink it?  Is it your caffeinated nirvana which puts a smile on your face or is it a daily caffeine pill without which you are miserable?  Personally, I don’t drink much caffeine.  Whole weeks can pass without me touching a diet coke.  Which means that when I do consume caffeine, I really feel it.  Rather than reducing caffeine to a daily (or hourly!) addiction without which I am lost and grouchy, I savor the rare occasions during which I consume it and enjoy the side effects.

Again, what’s my point?

Rare Pleasure Vs. Every Day Habit

My diet is relatively healthy.  I am mostly, although not completely, vegetarian.  I don’t eat much candy or junk food.  I don’t consume much caffeine or any liquid other than water.  The foods I eat are wonderfully tasty and very filling.  At the same time, I do sometimes indulge in things like Lindt truffles, a caffeinated soda or something like sushi.  By eating this way I get the best of both worlds.  I have a healthy diet filled with great food AND I get those amazing eating experiences that only come by once in a rare while.  In other words, I get to enjoy my virtuous lifestyle and I derive far more enjoyment from the occasional sinful pleasure.

That’s the reality of a healthy lifestyle.  It’s not a lifestyle of deprivation, it’s not a lifestyle of scarcity and constant hunger.  It’s a lifestyle full of pleasure made even better by not being commonplace.  It’s a lifestyle where every day feels good and some days feel incredible, because that’s what you get when you make an everyday occasion into a once in a while pleasure.  So you can take your steak every day and your cereal every morning and your dessert with every meal.  These things have become common place to you, they have gone from incredible pleasure to every day necessity.  I’ll gladly trade them for the happiness of health and the pleasure of the occasional indulgence.  I’d rather derive true enjoyment from these things on the rare occasions I consume them.  On other days I’ll be finding pleasure in things like not being out of breath when I climb the stairs, not being unable to see my toes, not being afraid of a heart attack and other such simple pleasures that are a daily part of a healthy lifestyle.

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Thank you to Me-Ander for posting a 60 in 3 article in their latest carnival and to Weight Master blog for doing the same in their latest weight loss carnival.

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Approaching Fitness With An Open Mind

March 11, 2009 By 13 Comments

Someone recently asked me why I bothered trying out intermittent fasting.  Couldn’t I see that this is something that wouldn’t work for me?  During their conversation they said “sorry, but that kind of thing would NEVER work for me”.  At which point I asked “How do you know?  Have you ever tried it?”  Of course they had not.  In fact, they never even considered trying it and yet they had such a strong opinion of it.  It reminded me of myself a few years ago.

When I first started thinking about exercise, I had a very narrow image of it in my mind.  Exercise essentially fell into three categories.  First, I thought of weight lifters in the gym.  That’s exercise, right?  Large men with huge muscles popping steroids and bench pressing a ton of metal.   Second, I thought of jogging.  That was clearly exercise in my mind, after all, everyone was doing it and they all seemed so fit.  Finally, I thought of calisthenics of the sorts I would see in the movies.  Drill sergeants telling people to “drop and give me 20 push ups!”  That was exercise to me since those people would always start out of shape but would finish basic training in style, after some sort of musical training montage of course.

So yes, my image of fitness was very limited and that limited my starting point.  It was no surprise that the workout regimen I picked out included a lot of weight lifting, jogging and some calisthenics.  I would lift weights five times a week, jog five times a week and do an army style workout on the weekends.  First of all, that was insane.  There was no way I could keep that workout up both in terms of time and the toll it was taking on my body.  Second, this workout got boring really quick.  I was doing the same thing over and over and over and over.  By the second month I was ready to quit and go back to eating cheetos while sitting in front of a computer screen.

By the way, this monotony also extended to my diet where I thought a healthy meal should consist of a small piece of chicken and some veggies on the side.  Sounds funny now but I ate chicken and veggies for every meal for about a month.  By the end of the month I hated chicken and I couldn’t even look at steamed vegetables.

What Was Wrong?

I made three mistakes which led me down this path.  First, I did no research.  Second, I underestimated the cost of monotony.  Finally, I approached fitness and health with a closed mind.  The first two mistakes were easily fixed but the third took more time.  I’m not going to discuss research and monotony today, those are topics for a different post, but I would like to go over the benefits of an open mind vs. the costs of a closed one.

A Closed Mind

When I thought of exercise, I thought only of weights, jogging and calisthenics.  When I thought of healthy eating, I thought of steamed veggies and chicken.  It’s not that these were the only things I knew, it was more that they were the only things I would accept.  For example, I knew about swimming and had done it in high school, but I thought it was boring.  I knew about the elliptical but I thought it wasn’t as good as jogging, even though I had no real reason to think that.  I knew about salads but I considered them “rabbit food” and didn’t think I could ever like them.  I knew about hiking but thought it was only for nature nuts and didn’t really count as exercise.  What I’m trying to say is that I had a completely closed mind.  I knew what I knew and I refused to consider any other option as viable.

Note that I actually had a lot of experience with some of these things in the past and in some cases I had actually liked them.  When I swam in high school I had always enjoyed it.  When I hiked as a child I considered it a lot of fun.  When I ate salads in the past I always considered them very tasty.  However, my mind was closed.  I KNEW what fitness was and I didn’t think of including anything else in my definition.

Common Mistake

We all do this by the way, not just me.  We all KNOW what’s right for us and we often discard other options without even considering them.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve talked to people and heard “Oh, I could never be a vegetarian” from people who had never tried it,  “I could never jog” from people who had never jogged a step or “sorry, I just hate gyms” from people who had never set foot in one.  For some reason, people have preconceived notions of what they like and dislike.  They are unwilling to try new things and they are unable to imagine the possibility of changing their habits.  They are set in their ways and refuse to change.  In fact, they refuse to even consider the possibility of change.  Their minds are closed.

A Life Not Lived

What would my life be like today if I had retained this mindset?  My guess is that I would have stopped my experiment with health sometime in the second or third month.  I would have gotten bored with lifting weights, tired of the chicken with steamed veggies and sore from all the running.  I would have quit and gone back to my unhealthy life.  Still, it’s even worse than just being unhealthy.  If I had kept a closed mind I would have missed out on experiences like hiking to the top of Masada in Israel and watching the sunrise over the dead sea.  I would have missed out on wonderful dishes and recipes that I now know and enjoy.  I would have missed out on the thrill of a boxing workout, the rush of dancing and the exhilaration of mountain biking.  So many things that I enjoy these days would be missing.

What Saved Me?

For me, the thing that opened my mind were the people in my life.  It was the coworker who took me trail running.  It was the old friend who took me hiking.  It was the girlfriend who took me dancing and the mom who made me salads.  It was all of these people and quite a few others who introduced new ideas into my thinking.  I resisted as best I could.  I said no many times, I didn’t show up to things, I complained, I rejected.  I did everything I could to avoid new things but they persisted.  They kept asking and I’m really glad they did.  Eventually, I opened up my thinking and I’ve never gone back.

A Simple Plan

it doesn’t take much to open your mind, just two little things, a willingness to try and a persistence to try again.  First, say yes.  If someone asks you to try out something, say yes.  I know, you think you’re going to hate it.  You think you’re going to dislike every minute of this new experience.  You don’t want to try it and you have no intention of enjoying it.  Still, say yes.  Try it just once.  Then, once you try it once, try it one more time.  It takes more than one time to really get to know something.  It takes more than a single experience to see if you’re really going to enjoy a new experience.  The first time you do something you’re brand new at it.  You have no idea what you’re doing, you feel like an amateur, you feel self conscious and you’re not quite sure how to behave.  That’s normal.  Just keep trying.  Try it twice, try it three times and don’t give up until you really know something.  At that point, if you still don’t like it then maybe you should stop, but don’t stop trying after the first time.

If you’re interested, take a look at Steve Pavlina’s 30 day experiment idea.  It’s one way of trying out something new and seeing if you like it.  However, that’s just one possibility.  Bottom line, don’t be afraid to try new things and don’t give up after your first attempt.  Sure, there are some things that are clearly too stupid to try.  Smoking will make you lose weight but I wouldn’t recommend you picking it up just as an experiment.  There’s a difference between having an open mind and being an idiot who’ll do anything without any thought.  However, there’s a whole big world of ideas out there.  Hundreds if not thousands of recipes, exercises, workouts, activities and sports for you to try.  Don’t rule them out just yet.

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What new thing are you going to try this week?  What about next week and next month?

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The Trouble With Orange Juice

January 28, 2009 By 11 Comments

Ahh orange juice, the healthy part of many a breakfast, right?  I mean come on, we’ve all seen the commercials.  Orange juice comes from Florida where the sun is always shining.  It’s full of healthy vitamin C to help you fight colds and it should be consumed every morning to get a healthy start on the day.  Yah, if you believe that, I have some sub prime mortgages to sell you.

Orange Juice 2

What’s The Problem With OJ?

So why am I picking on orange juice this morning?  Three reasons:

Makes Meals Healthy – I’ve seen too many people add orange juice to a plate full of pancakes and bacon as a way of making their meals healthy.  Guess what, adding something to an unhealthy meal does NOT make it healthy.  That also applies to you people who think adding a side salad to a 3000 calorie steak dinner will make your evening healthier.  If a meal is unhealthy then it’s unhealthy and no amount of additions will make it healthier.

Processed Food = Junk – The OJ most of us get comes from Florida, maybe.  However, between there and your table it went through a lot.  It was crushed, pulped, pasteurized, strained, condensed, rehydrated and then packaged up with preservatives to make the shelf life longer.  It has about as much in common with fresh oranges as a McDonald’s milk shake does with fresh milk.  Stop buying processed foods.  You’re paying extra for crap you don’t need.

Stop Drinking Your Fruit – Yes, fresh orange juice does contain some great vitamins.  However, it’s missing so much of the good things that come with oranges.  So many of the vitamins and minerals are left behind.  The fiber is not there, even if your juice is pulpy.  The ability to satisfy hunger without many calories is gone.  You’ve taken a wonderful package of good ingrediants and turned it into orange colored sugar water, which is essentially what fruit juice is.

The Solution

Drink water, eat an orange.  It’s that simple.  You get all the vitamins and those food processing companies get none of your money.  It’s a win / win!  Oh, and if you want to make a meal healthier, eat the orange BEFORE the meal.  The high water content will help fill you up which means you’re likely to eat less of the pancakes and bacon.

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And in case you haven’t figured it out yet, I hate modern food manufacturing.  It’s like an entire industry designed to make us pay more for unhealthier foods.

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