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Seasonings help you make food a more delicious and exciting part of your life. I know that sounds strange for a weight-loss book. But this isn't any ordinary book. After hearing from so many fans of my walking book and videos who struggle with overeating, I realized there is a fundamental problem with many food diets. They are about rejection, about denying yourself enjoyment. And that is a very tough
Dried Beans row to hoe. I thought about what methods I use to keep myself eating sensibly, and I realized that the secret is learning to love food more, to approach it with reverence and celebration. Anything approached with reverence is less likely to be abused. Think
Frozen Beans about the act of saying grace before a meal. Partly this is to give thanks to God for providing the food, but it also serves to get our attention, to make us more conscious of the goodness of the food. I even think it makes food taste better. And I believe this act of developing a more intentional relationship with food-loving it, savoring it, and not taking it for granted-can actually make us eat less and enjoy it more. We like to
Frozen Vegetables think that we already eat intentionally. Unfortunately, most of us are in a lot less control than we'd like to be, even those making a concerted effort to diet. Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar. You did
frozen foods the weekly shopping a couple of days ago and loaded up on healthy food, straight out of the low-carb diet book you've been reading. Tonight, you'll make chicken breasts with sun-dried tomatoes and broccoli on the side, plus a salad. A healthy meal for the whole family! Despite
Dehydrated Vegetables your best intentions, though, things don't go as planned. You run a little late at work. By the time you get home, it's nearly six o'clock. The kids are starving. You're starving. Everyone needs a nibble while you start dinner. What's ready to go? Chips. Maybe
Kidney Beans cheese and crackers or honey-roasted peanuts. Within minutes, an entire tub of peanuts and a two-liter bottle of Coke have disappeared while you pulled ingredients out of the fridge. Now
Sweetener it's almost 6:30 and you've got to bake chicken breasts; wash, chop, and steam broccoli; dice sun-dried tomatoes; and so on. You're looking at an hour until dinner. And your son has a basketball game in thirty minutes. Even the prospect of washing and spinning the lettuce seems like a pain.