What you do, or what you don't?

In mental nutrition there is this underlying battle with "I should eat this," or "I shouldn't eat this." Alas you forget you must eat something to sustain your existence if you don't eat this you'll need to eat something. So what will that something be?

I have been asked, "Can I drink iced coffee? What's bad about it? Like, I don't want to get fat, so I don't drink too much. Is the caffeine going to kill me? What are the immediate problems?" The short sightedness of the impact of nutrition is a whole other topic.

Am I right to say that when we are talking about "bad foods" like sweets and chocolates we join the don't eat group. But when we are talking about the do eat group it's healthier items? There seems to be this big categorization of do's and don'ts when it should be a sliding scale of rarely to more often.

When you are looking at nutrition though, it's a big picture. You may start a gluten-free diet (avoiding foods that contain gluten - a protein found in many grain products) because your friend did it and it helped them lose weight. The reason they are losing weight may not be because they are not eating gluten, but it may be because they are eating more vegetables and less simple sugars (sweets, candies).

That's one of the hard issues with changing your diet, is it is rarely just changing one thing. Even if you are solely making the change that you are not eating chocolate, now you will find something else to eat for dessert (maybe fruit). And your awareness of what you eat increases because you've made the goal of no chocolate. You may even use the sentence, "Well, I'm not eating chocolate so I can eat ________."

So this was just a thought I figured I would share. For you, is it what you eat or what you don't eat? Is your glass half empty or half full? Has it worked for you to become healthier or would changing your thinking change your health?

Let me know what you think!

-Eat Wise