"I Had A Late Lunch"

Since I have been on the "7 Day Challenge" protocol for almost a year, I have used various excuses for not eating when I go out to dinner. The most common one is, "I had a late lunch". As if I needed to justify the reason I wasn't eating when everyone else at the table was. This is where lifestyle change is evident.

Just because you go out with your spouse or friends doesn't mean you have to eat and drink. I have gone to many parties and didn't have any alcohol or food and guess what, I survived AND I had a great time. It never ceases to amaze me that we live in a society where people consider you strange if you want to take care of your health by not indulging in life's great pleasure...food.

I can't tell you how many times people have encouraged me to eat what their eating because they can't get over the notion that I prefer to consume quality food over empty calories. I don't think it registers with them that there is an alternative to eating polluted food. I realize that they are conditioned to eating the way they do and I don't hold that against them. So why do they insist on me eating what they eat?

I'm not a psychologist, but if I had to guess, they don't want to eat alone and they feel like they are doing something they shouldn't. Only thing is, they are! If you are not careful and watch what you eat, over time it will effect you in more ways than you can count. Just visualize someone in an assisted living facility and know that they had the chance to be much healthier at this stage of their life. That is, if they took responsibility for their health.

I must admit that I am so addicted to eating quality food that it is hard for me to eat any traditional food at all.  As I mentioned several times, I do eat food, but it is rare and it is my choice. I don't think many people grasp where I'm coming from. I have an entirely different view of food than the majority of people in this country. I could go to a wedding and walk right by the buffet table and the dessert table without blinking an eye. The reason? Because I'm so satisfied with eating my nutrient dense super food that I have lost my cravings for empty calories. Go figure, flood your body with quality nutrition and see what happens.

So when I go out for dinner with people and I don't eat, I usually use the, "I had a late lunch" line. I could, however, say that I'm using a new food technology that is incredibly effective and I've lost my desire to eat empty calories. By doing that I released 15 pounds, 9.6% body fat and metabolically I'm 21 years younger, but that might prompt a discussion of, "tell me more about this stuff". Now, we wouldn't want that to happen, now would we?