Leslie’s story (in her own words):
I lived in Australia for quite a few years and the food there was very healthy. I was trim and taught.
I moved back to Georgia 8 years ago and ate so much BBQ, fried okra and Krispy Cremes (yep, I was making up for lost time) that I gained 35+ pounds within a couple of years. I am heath-informed and have always eaten a healthy diet but throwing those things on top pushed me into fat-girl territory.
I decided one day last spring to only eat fruits, nuts, vegetables and meat (grass-fed & pastured) and organic cheese & eggs….plain and simple….no wheat & no sugar, and nothing processed or packaged. I didn’t measure or count calories…I just ate.
I dropped 30 pounds in 4 months without changing my lifestyle…just what I was eating. I am nearly 50 and I thought it would be impossible to shed the weight but by eating only clean, organic food and nothing ‘processed’, the weight just melted off.
And here comes the plug…I shop at Earth Fare and the Athens Farmer’s Market for all those great foods. What a great selection of healthy and clean food we have here right in our own little community!
You don’t need to shop at Earth Fare to get healthy…
Just use common sense when shopping and eating.
I agree with Michael, but then again Earth Fare makes it a little easier to shop healthy sometimes! I find I don’t have to read the labels quite as much as when I go to the grocery store to shop. It is for that reason, and a few others, that I am a huge EF fan!!
One question… why are so many cutting out wheat?? Whole grains provide so many essential nutrients as well as vegetables, fruits and organic dairy and meat. I guess I am just a grain fan… I love to grind my own wheat flour, cornmeal and even bean flour.
Hope,
I think the no wheat thing is a result of personal preference/personal nutrition belief. Their is so much “information” out there that many people take certain things they read to be gospal truth and ignore others. Everybody does it to a certian degree.
I agree with you though. Grains are a very important part of a healthy diet. Just ask David from the Old Testament.
Organic diary is overrated though. Nearly all milk commercially available (at least in the areas I’ve lived) comes from artificial hormone/steroid free cows.
I think the wheat thing is two fold:
(1) People with sensitivities to gluten, a protein found in wheat, find it difficult to process. They can have other whole grains though.
(2) So much of the wheat products out there are refined, and they are easy to overeat. When you cut those out, it probably makes a huge difference. If you have whole-grain (unrefined) carbohydrates though, it fills you up fast. I find it very difficult to overeat them.
I think it all comes down to the fact that everyone is different, and everyone processes food differently.