by Don Gerrard read this recently and said "YOW" what a freeing way to look at nourishment. The idea is to eat what "hums" to you, one item at a time, in the same bowl, every meal. Want rice? eat rice. want chocolate cake? drop it in the bowl. refill as much as you want... your body and your brain will start communicating again about food, rather than dictating to one another. a little squishy on science, but firm on practice. I could not do the "eat as others do" exercise. The idea of eating meat isn't nourishment to me. I personally think we are acclimated to eat too damn much. Period. A small serving of pasta at Fazoli's is two meals for me...with the four breadsticks --bad hippie no granola biscuit for me! Even at home, I'm concerned with extra dishes, so all food gets doled out onto plates. I know that encourages overeating (my sweetie was raised to clean his plate. He often cleans mine, too) if the portions are big. i'm coming to the realization that anything we put in our bodies changes its chemistry, and therefore is a "drug." I'm paying more attention to how I feel after I've eaten...and in the hours following. brown rice and veggies with peanut sauce? feel great. eat about 1/3 of the Tokyo Joe's servings... learned to skip the tofu. too heavy. If we ate what we truly needed, rather than what was convenient, I think it would be revolutionary...or evolutionary
Have you ever noticed that when you prepare a big meal, salad, main dish, side dishes, dessert, and serve it all at once on different plates you end up eating it all if you dont watch yourself, but if you eat the salad on a plate and eat it, go back, put the main meal on the plate and eat it, go back, put a side on it and eat it, and so on, you end up feeling way more satisfied and sometimes don't even make it to the last side or dessert? I did this once by accident due to no clean plates. I thought I was just sick or something. Then when I had to do it again 2 nights in a row, same thing happened. I began doing it on purpose for a week straight just to test it out. Worked every time. Weird how the mind works, eh? Something about having to get up and go get more food maybe? I had someone else try it out and they reacted the same way. I thought I'd made some awesome discovery. HAHA, oh well.
NAMASTE It is a true medical fact that those who eat less live longer.Now i do feel there are some that might need more so to say but i can see how this would be better in the long run.One thing that i have been working on is to make smaller meals.Thats been hard for i love to cook.But i am finding that doing simpler meals i feel i have more energy.I try and do this in all areas of my life.I feel happier for doing so and have less inpact on mother earth by following this way of life. In Love and Light Eccofarmer
pritam, cook for others to get the bug out. Are you still in Co or Nevada? Kannal was great. I drummed til my hands went numb!
