Eating for Life

[Guest guest]

I took out a copy of BP's 2003 companion book to BFL, Eating for Life.

I'm not sure he'll win fancy literary awards, but he gets the message

across, and I got to tell you I really like the program.

EFL contains basically what's in BFL, but explains it a bit more

clearly. What I like about it is the simplicity and the balance. I can

hear my mother, famous for telling us each night " eat a balanced diet! " ,

approving of it.

I've been liking the six meals (not merely three meals plus snacks) a

day. That 3:30 meal is a lifesaver, keeping me from binging at night,

my big weakness. I've been looking for the answer to that problem for a

long time. I'm still tuning up the system, but already I can see this

puppy has legs.

Prior to this the closest I ate to this way was via the Schwarzbein

diet, but I think this even has that beat because of its utter

simplicity. I can see this being a game plan, well, for life.

The six regulated meals reminds me of heating my house with my wood

stove. I feed it every two hours or so. More, and I'll overcook the

place; less and I'll go cold. It's a matter of regulating things

appropriately. It makes sense that the answer to America's obstinant

obesity/degenerative disease problem simply would be finding a sound

diet and good workout regimen. As Reagan said, the biggest mistakes are

usually the simplest.

I still look more like a " before " photo than an " after " , but I'm already

seeing results. There's actually a bit of a " V " formation taking shape.

This is a good thing. I figure I've got about 15 lbs of fat that I need

to convert to muscle, and I believe this plan can do it.

In short, I'm DELIGHTED that I found this program. Delighted. And

tomorrow comes a veritable heat wave of 47*, so I plan on celebrating by

giving baby Ninja a much-needed bath and taking a nice long RIDE! Yeah!

I tell ya, it's great to be getting younger!

GB,