The More Real Food You Eat, The Less Food You Will Eat

FOOD DIARY

Dinner time! I made this dish here, an Indian-style braised-cauliflower with a Basmati rice pilaf and toasted slivered almonds on the side. It was soooo good, all four of us ate it, and I had two helpings.

So right now, I am so sated by all the nutrient-dense foods I've had today that I don't even have room for the carrot cake that my wife somehow dropped out of her ass when I wasn't looking. I don't even know when she made it, I didn't see her do it. She's quick and sneaky like that. And she's not even supposed to make anything on Mother's Day, but there you go (shrug.)

Here's the cake which I am too full to eat right now:

And now for another Veggie Daddy Fun Fact:

The more nutrient-dense foods you eat, the more sated, full, you will actually feel, so much so, that you can't even eat a piece of carrot cake even though you only had a few pieces of apple and peanut butter for lunch, as in my case today. (I also had another peanut-butter and chocolate muffin on the way to Cost-co. Yes, we shop at Cost-Co. The horror, I know.)

But it's the truth. When your body gets the nutrients it needs, as opposed to many of the empty calories I used to eat with all of the processed non-foods that I see so many people throw in their grocery carts, that I used to throw in our grocery cart for years, your body will send a signal to your brain that you are done, finito. And you will eat LESS.

Tonight, I enjoyed the dinner so much that I think I ate to 90-95% of my capacity, most likely because I skipped lunch and thought it'd be fine to eat a bit more for dinner. Though, when it comes to eating, I know I shouldn't listen to my brain on an intellectual level but on a physical one. Nevertheless, eat more I did, and now I'm done. Totally sated. So stuffed I can't eat home-made carrot cake. Even though I hardly ate any lunch. Which leads me to my...

Veggie Daddy Conclusion:

If you want to lose weight, eat more real food, and thus you will automatically eat less.

This is true for me anyway because I have been (mostly) a vegetarian for the past ten years and ate loads of processed food for all those years. I couldn't gain any weight, no matter how many cookies I ate, but I also never seemed to feel full. I was always hungry, constantly. And now I know why: I was eating empty calories, my body wasn't getting what it needed, just what it thought it wanted, er, craved.

I craved cookies, ice-cream, butter, cheese, I ate eggs, drank milk with my cookies, and I always complained to my wife how the vegetarian dinners never seemed to be substantial enough for a growing boy like me. (I weigh 140 lbs. and I'm 6 feet tall.) I was always hungry. And whenever we went to the grocery store, I'd throw in lots of shit in the cart, and our grocery bills were always more when I went shopping with her. Lots more. That's rarely the case now. On both counts. I eat way less and we spend way less, and I feel more sated than I ever have in my whole life.

This is why I am writing this blog, to just share what I have/am discovering. I think it is amazing and I would like to pass it on.

So, the more real food you eat, the less of it you will eat, and so you have no choice but to lose weight. You don't even have a choice on the matter because your body, once sated, will not let you go past the mark. Perhaps this is what Buddhists mean by enlightenment. Once we become conscious/enlightened to the essential Buddha-nature that surrounds us everywhere, it becomes almost impossible not to see what lies down in the murky depths, what has always laid down under the murky depths of what we call reality, which is really just The Matrix, you know. I digress...

At Cost-Co, here is what we bought:

Canola Oil

Soy Sauce

Dempster's Ancient Grains Bread (processed)

Carrots

Red Grapes

Fry's Cocoa (processed)

Larabars (processed)

Gala Apples

Raisins

Dried Mangoes (processed)

Pistachios (the label of which says allergy warning: contains pistachio nuts)

Butter Lettuce (not to be confused with butterface)

Pineapple (Grill 'em and top with ginger ice-cream)

Avocados

Bagels (processed)

Dried bluberries (processed)

Bill total: $130

We also went to Dominion, bill total: $81.

So we're spending $210 this week on food. We have spent an average of $700 on food for the past three months for a family of four. This average also includes anything else you care to buy at Dominion that is non food-related, like cleaning supplies, toiletries and the like. (We don't every buy cleaning supplies, though, highly toxic and a big waste of moulah.)

So, $700 a month for a family of four, shopping at Dominion, Cost-Co, and sometimes Sobey's.

The only reason I mention this is because I want to dispel any myths right now about how it costs so much to eat real food. As you can see, this is clearly not the case. By the way, do you know how much you're paying for food each month? If not, I strongly encourage you to try it out. It was pretty revealing for me.

Eat B(right),

Veggie Daddy