Well I have tried using the px90 nutrition guide but I’m no cook, and the portion approach is bland at best. So here’s what I do. I eat smart. I don’t buy foods that have ingredients that I don’t recognize. I read the first half of the book In Defense of Foods which basically opened my eyes to eating what is real, and lots of it. If you eat real food, no matter how much, you’ll be ok. You ever hear of any body getting fat off eating to much salad?

Here’s an interesting thought, think of you’re typical grocery store, if you look at it from an arial view you’ll notice that the outer edge is REAL food. Produce, Meat, Dairy, and Registers to pay. All the shit in the middle is just that, shit; processed foods. That’s not to say there isn’t anything in there, but it’s a quicksand war zone. You ever notice that those aisles are an advertisers wet dream. The outer ring doesn’t have advertising and design to sell it’s product. You go by your instinct with that stuff (at least the produce and meat)… This is the point I need to interject on myself… Technically speaking any meat you find in your chain grocery store isn’t really meat. That stuff is pumped full of things you’ve never heard of either but for the sake of this conversation we are going to narrow the scope, I’m not lying when I say the outer ring is the best place to shop. Perhaps in the future we can discuss the meat dilemma.

Now I might have a few people saying ut oh, Jerry’s one of these guys. But fear not, because yesterday I went to Wendy’s and had myself a # 1 with cheese, a 5 piece nugget and small Pibb Xtra, which they so graciously upgraded to X-Large. I ate poison. I limit my soda intake to 1 cup every 6 months, or when I absolutely have to. (Grandma’s house and the choice is between sulfur well water and diet pepsi, which lesser evil would you choose if you’re lips were chapped and your throat parched?)

I’m rambling, I could talk about this for awhile and I’m thinking about a part 2 to really delve into my eating. For now to finish part 1 of this eating manifesto I’ll say this, if you eat real food and drink lot’s of water it doesn’t really matter what you eat. A funny thing about this country, we are the only over weight malnourished country in the world. How is that possible? We eat lots of shit. On that note I’m going to go make an omelet with green peppers, onions, mushrooms.