What To Eat

More extracted email from me to Jack:

i’ve been more or less following the No-S diet (no snacks, sweets or seconds except on days that start with S) while doing all this insane food tracking. it really helps on weekdays. on weekends we snack and eat sweets, but at least it lets us eat the “bad” stuff at some point, instead of just cutting it out entirely.

the What To Eat book points out how vastly much more profit the food companies make on heavily-processed foods vs. fresh fruits and vegetables. one table shows a particular vegetable/potato/something selling for $0.79/lb raw, but for over $10/lb in its processed boxed form. and then i thought, huh, you never see tv ads for just tomatoes, or broccoli, or corn, etc.

one thing that both No-S and What To Eat disagree with Zawodny (and many others) on is the assumed evils of snacking between meals. What To Eat advocates just the three-meals-a-day model, which i’ve heard here and there was a product of the industrial revolution or something, and not necessarily the best way for people to eat. What To Eat says that if you eat more often, you’re bound to eat more, but i feel like Zawodny is definitely onto something with his many meals of much smaller portions, just to stave off the kind of hunger that can make you want to overeat. i feel like i’m doing pretty good on the days i can stay in my calorie range, not eat sweets, and keep the portions non-huge. if it requires eating some random non-junk-food snack like an apple or orange, i don’t think that’s a bad thing.