Eating better is easier than you think

As I mentioned earlier, I do read some of Dr. Weil's stuff now and find it to be rather helpful. Take this article for instance:

Stocking the Pantry

He has great suggestions for cooking ingredients that you should always have on hand.. and most are not that outlandish at all. He covers oils, pasta, herbs, etc. and makes recommendations of "more healthful" choices.

As I feel my family is eating very healthy right now, we have decided not to use the food recommendations in "8 minutes". We found them to be rather limiting and we feel that we are doing a good job on this front... using many of the ingredients that Dr. Weil suggests above.

My single biggest tip on eating healthy is to do it in small bite sized chunks (pun definitely intended). Pick an area of your diet or an ingredient you want to get rid of and just start with that.

My family first started with removing trans fats from our diet. We read a few years back on how bad they are for your health and decided to remove them completely from our diet (easier said than done as they are in everything!).

I am currently working on a more detailed post regarding trans fats (or partially hydrogenated vegetable oils as they are listed in the ingredients of foods), so I don't want to get too detailed here.

So, look at your pantry.. look at Dr. Weil's suggestions and pick just one thing to improve upon. Then later down the road pick a 2nd item to add/remove. Before you know it you will be much happier with your diet and I bet will start to feel better and lose weight as well.