Food of the Future

I spent a lot of time before and during the cleanse thinking about how I was going to treat my body afterwards. Many people make this a point of changing their diets entirely. Some people stop drinking, some go raw, or vegan, vegetarian, other. I have to be honest, I was a vegetarian for about 7 years. Because of my anemia I had a lot of what were then unexplained medical problems. I never saw anyone for them, but I had a lot of severely anemic symptoms. I started eating meat when I started doing research on how I was going to include iron in my diet, it’s much more difficult on a vegetarian diet without taking pills. Since my system cannot tolerate the pills, I slowly started eating red meat again. I eat organic, grass fed when I can get it, and try not to eat it when I’m out unless the restaurant specifies how they source their meat. For this reason, I am not going on a raw, vegan or related diet.

I’m also not giving up cookies. Or cake. Or fried okra. Or onion rings. I love food, and I love eating food with friends, and I love making deserts (I’m an amateur pastry chef of sorts), I love trying new things. I’m going to eat at that new Peruvian restaurant down the street when this is over, and I’m not going to feel guilty about it. Why? Because, for me, for us, the magic is in the measurements. We are planning to watch portion sizes like crazy. If you have 3 amazing onion rings and love them, every little crumbly bit, then that should be enough. If you eat 25 and they are from Burger King and they aren’t really good and the onions are only in tiny bits, and it’s mostly batter, well…why eat them at all? That’s our plan. Eat good food. We eat mostly organic anyway, so we are going to continue. We’re going to make sure that treats are treats, they don’t happen every other day. And we are going to eat three bites instead of ten. This way we hope to maintain the shape we’re in and not miss out on pan-seared scallops with a citrus-basil marinade over capellini. And pie a la mode.