We live in a world based on foods that are TOPPED.Spices and sauces, oil and salt, dressing, butter, and don't forget jam.
We cover our nutrition in these things to add "taste" because that's what our taste buds are acquired to.
Whens the last time you've eaten something just as it came?
with veggies not sauteed, buttered, or salted?
Salad without dressing?
A sandwich without condiments?
Steak without A1 sauce?
Baked potato without butter?
Toast without jam?
Waffles without syrup?
Coffee without sugar?
In a split second we turn something "plain" into some kind of treat. We turn our food into something we could have eaten and felt good about, to something with either double the calories or enough sodium to make you swollen like a puffer fish for a week.
Especially if you LOVE to eat out like me.
Trying ordering something raw from a restaurant is practically impossible. If you think about it, your paying a lot more for a meal than making your something yourself at home. So the place your giving you hard earned cash to, HAVE BETTER make your food taste GOOD, right? You don't pay double for something you could have picked up from the produce department at a grocery store. Meaning their putting who-knows-what into your food that will keep you coming back for more. Even if it seems like you've chosen something nutritious.... ask for a nutrition menu first, I dare you.
Just recently I was complaining about how healthy I thought I was eating and how I was still struggling with cutting my calories to, my good friend Melissa Busfield, who is a personal trainer and spin class instructor. And she told me something I should have tried out long before. Very simple but genius, she said "Jessica, you just need to learn how to eat things plain."
It's so true. We live in a society where we cook for others and we have to add a bunch of things to impress our guests.
We have so many tools and seasonings and substitutions because we live in a civilized and growing society.We don't live in a country where all we have is what grows right out of the ground and just the animals that graze around. But, in those countries you don't see obesity or much illness either... I see a pattern.
So I'm going to be my own guinea pig in getting my taste buds back on track.
My goal is to get used to eating thing just how they come.
I want in a month to try to eat something with a bunch of additives to it and not be able to eat it because it's either too salty or too sweet.
Do you think you could do it?
