Good Foods and Bad Foods

How do you tell the difference between a good food and a bad one? The answer is that there are no bad foods. I believe in everything in moderation. One chocolate chip cookie isn’t going to do you any harm at all; it’s the rest of the box of cookies that really does the damage! If you can eat one and be satisfied, great—lucky you! Most of us mere mortals cannot resist the temptation and just have to delve deeper into the package.

There are, of course, healthy foods and unhealthy foods, and if you educate your stomach and palate and get used to low-fat foods, even chocolate loses its appeal—I promise! Speaking as someone who used to devour two or three chocolate bars a day, I always considered myself lucky that I rarely gained weight; that is, until I got to 30, when, it seems, all my bad habits finally caught up with me. Suddenly I had to start watching what I ate, and chocolate was the first thing to go. It took me about four weeks to stop wanting a chocolate fix, but now I don’t even miss it. I have strayed a couple of times, only to find that I still can’t have just one chocolate on its own. So for me the only way to do it is to not have any at all. As for other so-called bad foods such as fast foods and french fries, if you have them only once in a while, you won’t suddenly put inches on your thighs after just one meal. If you develop a taste for them and have them regularly, however, the inches will start to pile on.