Eating for health and permanent fat loss doesn’t need to be complicated.  In fact, making it complicated makes it more likely you will be unsuccessful.  To be totally frank, because it really isn’t that complicated, I sometimes run out of ideas for articles.  Not to worry though, this is a good time to review some of the basics that we need to always keep in mind.

Ingredients:

1 pound lentils, rinsed and drained

1 cup diced celery

1 cup diced onion

1 cup diced carrots

2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped

12 oz. smoked sausage (preferably from wild game)

6 cups chicken broth

2 cans (14.5 oz. each) diced tomatoes, undrained

2 cups chopped fresh spinach or chard

Juice of one lemon (about 2 tbsp.)

¼ tsp. ground black pepper

Ingredients:

½ cup coconut oil

½ cup honey

½ tsp vanilla extract

4 cups rolled oats

1 ½ cups shredded unsweetened coconut

1 cup wheat germ

1 cup chopped unsalted nuts (cashews work very well!)

1 cup hulled sunflower seeds (unsalted, unroasted)

1 cup roasted soybeans

½ cup each sesame seeds, flax seeds, oat bran

½ cup raisins

     I’m not sure if it was Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard’s Almanac, or someone else who said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  None-the-less, this universally recognized truism makes sense in any field.