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Want to Lose Weight? Then Eat!
A Culinary Kata that will change your approach to eating — plus 5 simple recipes
A great moment in Woody Allen’s classic 1973 film Sleeper was when the doctors overseeing the patient’s progress marveled at his request for breakfast: “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.” Having woken up 200 years after going in for routine dental surgery, the movie’s hero played by Woody Allen himself, awakens in the future. The doctors chuckled at the silly beliefs of the past civilization.
“What? You mean, there was no deep fat…or steak or cream pies? No hot fudge?” The doctor asks her colleague incredulously.
It is estimated that 45 million Americans go on diets each year and spend $33 billion trying to lose weight. This is utter madness if you ask me. Staying relatively thin requires dedication to your kitchen, to the process of preparing food and there is no reason that this dedication can’t be delicious. Losing weight is not easy once it has been piled on. Bad habits form. We become not only more sedentary but also in the way we eat — and oh-so often overeat — and with every passing day the unneeded girth becomes more petrified, determined to become as much a part of us as our smile.
Follow the advice below, mix it up with regular exercise — at least try to walk a…
