When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my athletic ambitions, that really kind of changed the whole world for me. That was the real 'aha!' moment.
I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy. Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman
I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.
Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.
I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.
If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
