Who doesn't love 100 calorie snack packs?

I have been really bad about keeping up postings here. Work and travel have really kept me busy and I'm trying to keep this going at a sustainable pace. Just thought I'd leave you with a little thought today.

If you eat real, full fat natural food, you won't need to eat as much. You can enjoy amazing real food, in smaller quantities. I remember in college when I would eat the fat free snackwells cookies half a box to a sitting. They were fat free right? Well it doesn't work that way of course (I may have been drunk at the time as well). Studies show that people eat significantly more food when they believe the food is lower in fat or calories. This makes sense if you're eating a salad of vegetables and oil and vinegar -- life goes on if you stuff a few more mouthfuls in. But what about cookies, ice cream, packaged salad dressing, stuff from your freezer? This stuff is terrible for you to begin with. Now you're eating more of it because you think it's lower in fat or calories. Even when we don't believe that's the case, studies overwhelming show it is.

One trick is to switch over to the real stuff. Only eat full fat, real ice cream for a couple weeks, real creamy dressing, all natural cookies made with real butter and all the fat. One benefit is you may realize how much better this tastes and realize that with full fat, you find yourself needing less (fat makes you feel full). Another is, should you switch back to the fat free ice cream (how exactly do they do that?) you'll remember that when you ate the real stuff you only had one scoop -- now you're having three.