Did You Save Room For Dessert?

My wife and I went out to dinner the other night to a local restaurant here in Scottsdale. It happens to be a  restaurant with a variety of menu items which means you could find something you like. Yes, we do eat food, on occasion. The difference now, is that we get to choose what we eat and I can't tell you how liberating that is.

Anyway, as we were having a wonderful healthy dinner, I glanced around the room at all the people in the restaurant and I began to observe what they were eating. At most restaurants around town the portions are quite large and this restaurant was no different. I observed people eating all kinds of foods and when I look back at how we used to eat, I get a wonderful feeling inside. The feeling is a sense of accomplishment that I am no longer held hostage by food.

I could go anywhere that has food and not be tempted to eat any of it. Hard to believe? I know what you must be thinking, that I'm full of it. How could anyone resist the temptation of eating food that is all around them? It is quite easy when you flood your body with nutrition. The "7 Day Challenge" Protocol has changed my life because I have changed my lifestyle. This Protocol is packed with high quality protein, fiber, minerals, vitamins and the list goes on. When you flood your body with nutrition then you don't have the cravings everyone gets. The reason, I'm not eating empty calories. On the Challenge, every calorie counts!

Back to the restaurant. As I'm observing what the patrons have on their plates I can't help notice the size of most of the patrons. When you read the statistics about the obesity problem in our country and then you see what people are eating, it's not hard to put two and two together. The food in our food supply is the issue. Americans are killing themselves slowly by consuming food that lacks nutrition and is polluted.

The items on most of the plates that I observed were high in fat and their beverage of choice was soda. The alarming thing to me was the number of children drinking this liquid sugar. Virtually everyone I observed was eating a plate of empty calories. I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt by rationalizing this is only one meal and maybe they decided to just "let go". By merely looking at them I could tell that this type of feeding was the norm for them.

Once they got done eating their ton of empty calorie food, the server asked, "Did you save room for dessert"? They proceeded to order one of the dessert items to finish off that "healthy" dinner. I was amazed that they could actually fit another thing in their mouths, but then I remembered my past. I had to have dessert after a meal because I needed something sweet to eat. That is a clue that you are not eating enough nutrition. I felt like standing up in the middle of the restaurant to do one of my seminar presentations on "Toxicity in America", but I know that would go over like a lead balloon. It seems like no one wants to really hear the truth about what's causing so many health issues in this country.

That isn't going to stop me because I'm still going to educate people on the dangers of our food supply. If I can get to one person who decides to take full responsibility for their health after hearing one of my seminars then it will be worth it. Instead of "saving room for dessert", start eating more food with nutrition. Your body will thank you and so will your wallet.