Eat Simply 2000

Recognize that your diet may be a habit formed by years of exposure to advertising. Milk does not, in fact, do a body good. Nor is beef real food. If you're like me, you can eliminate both of these from your diet and have no regrets and no ill effects. In fact, you'll feel better. Less weighted down by fat and that feeling that you have a brick in your stomach.

How can you start? Reduce and substitute. Stop buying beef, butter and cheese. When you eat out don't order beef and ask for no cheese or have it on the side and only eat a little bit. Try soy milk. Try rice milk. Try vegi burgers. Grill marinated portobella mushrooms for a rich, "meaty" dinner.

I used to be a cheese fiend. Now I don't even miss it. Every now and then I'll have some, but where I would have eaten a chunk the size of a pack of cards, now I have a nibble the size of a cherry and I'm sated.

Those three dietary changes alone - cutting out almost all the beef, butter and cheese in my diet - are probably responsible for at least 10-15lbs of the weight I've lost in the last year and a half. Plus I feel much healthier and more alert.

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Eat Simply

Recognize that your diet may be a habit formed by years of exposure to advertising. Milk does not, in fact, do a body good. Nor is beef real food. If you're like me, you can eliminate both of these from your diet and have no regrets and no ill effects. In fact, you'll feel better. Less weighted down by fat and that feeling that you have a brick in your stomach.

How can you start? Reduce and substitute. Stop buying beef, butter and cheese. When you eat out don't order beef and ask for no cheese or have it on the side and only eat a little bit. Try soy milk. Try rice milk. Try vegi burgers. Grill marinated portobella mushrooms for a rich, "meaty" dinner.

I used to be a cheese fiend. Now I don't even miss it. Every now and then I'll have some, but where I would have eaten a chunk the size of a pack of cards, now I have a nibble the size of a cherry and I'm sated.

Those three dietary changes alone - cutting out almost all the beef, butter and cheese in my diet - are probably responsible for at least 10-15lbs of the weight I've lost in the last year and a half. Plus I feel much healthier and more alert.