“What I suggest is you make modular meals. You make mostly SANE meals, where you’re going to eat the SANE part. Then if your family wants some other things on the side, or something for dessert, and they have some things that they want, let them help plan the meals. But plan it so you can actually all sit down and eat together and find common ground. I mean, mostly you can have a vegetable at dinner that everybody will eat, or at least learn to eat, and I’ll have a variety. Then you can usually have some sort of nutrient dense protein that everybody will eat. And whole food fats, you just kind of put it out there. Then the extra stuff that they might want to add in, okay that’s fine. You won’t be eating it but you’re not looking down at them for eating it. But you’re making sure you’re using food as a way to unify your family.” More in: How To Get Your Family To WANT To Stop Eating Junk http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-get-your-family-to-want-to-stop-eating-junk-2 #SANE
“The first thing is being really flexible with your expectations, because if you think that the moment that you read The Calorie Myth or the moment that you start going SANE, that your whole family is going to say, “Oh my goodness! Mother, thank you so much for helping us learn how important vegetables are! We didn’t know, and now we’re so excited. What vegetables can I take for lunch?” I mean, no one is going to say that. So you’ve got to be flexible knowing that this may just be you for a while, and it may take some time to acclimate your children and spouse.” More in: How To Get Your Family To WANT To Stop Eating Junk http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-get-your-family-to-want-to-stop-eating-junk-2 #SANE
“So if your family does something that not every other family does, and you’ve done that, are there ways you can learn from that? Like how did you make that happen? What did you do to make that happen? And can you learn from that experience and tie that experience back to SANE eating? One thing I can promise you is I bet the way you made that work wasn’t by white knuckling it and demanding that everyone comply right out of the gate. There was some other approach. So maybe that would be helpful.” More in: How To Get Your Family To WANT To Stop Eating Junk http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-get-your-family-to-want-to-stop-eating-junk-2 #SANE
“…just double the number of vegetables that you’re currently eating in your family. Double it. Just once, then in a couple of weeks, double it again or increase it until up to ten servings a day for each family member. Just this idea of doubling, that’s so easy to do.” More in the Overweight Kids Need Your Help NOW, Here’s 4 Reasons Why http://pages.sanesolution.com/overweight-kids-need-your-help-now-heres-4-reasons-why/ #SANE
“I think that’s why this is so urgent right now is because there are way too many parents who don’t even know that they have to make this choice. They think that by default, society is going to help them raise healthy children…” More in the Overweight Kids Need Your Help NOW, Here’s 4 Reasons Why http://pages.sanesolution.com/overweight-kids-need-your-help-now-heres-4-reasons-why/ #SANE
“The goal is progress, not perfection. Just try to eat a little bit more like what Grandma would have served her kids, right? If Grandma wouldn’t have served this, if this didn’t exist, and then of course, when you get to that point, we can talk about how to make it even better.” More in the Overweight Kids Need Your Help NOW, Here’s 4 Reasons Why http://pages.sanesolution.com/overweight-kids-need-your-help-now-heres-4-reasons-why/ #SANE
3 Things You Must Know if Your Child is Overweight
“I think that we need to recognize that it really isn’t our fault or our child’s fault. I think that’s one of the major mindset shifts that you helped me to be able to achieve and the same with my daughter. We just thought it was because we weren’t working hard enough. We thought it was because we weren’t doing a good enough job counting our calories, we weren’t disciplined enough, we were too weak. Those types of things. That’s what we thought. When you can step back and actually learn the real cause of being overweight and learn that we’ve all just been given so much wrong information, thinking that if I just eat ten tortilla chips and one Twinkie instead of eating half the bag that that’s going to help me to achieve my health and wellness goals. That’s not how it works.” More in the 3 Things You Must Know if Your Child is Overweight http://pages.sanesolution.com/three-things-you-must-know-if-your-child-is-overweight/ #SANE
“Eating food, not being hungry — the idea that we have to choose between being fueled and energetic and thriving and healthy. That’s actually ridiculous and doesn’t even make sense. That does not even make sense to be a choice, but if the choice is, eat as much as you want, whenever you want, eat when you’re hungry until you’re completely full and satisfied, just do it from sources that are nourishing and SANE for your body, is that going to be the easiest thing ever? No? Do you have a choice? Yes! And is it easier than being overweight and diabetic and having heart disease and depressed and being discriminated against? I would argue it’s radically easier.” More in the 3 Things You Must Know if Your Child is Overweight http://pages.sanesolution.com/three-things-you-must-know-if-your-child-is-overweight/ #SANE
“I love that next-action April and I will give one layer on top of that to fully empower you to have that conversation, which I am totally supportive of and that is actually my mother did for me, when I was younger before all of this. She started me on the path to SANEity. She would always frame healthful choices as she’d always say what to eat more of. We always try to do that in SANE in general. So, it’s not hey, stop eating this, don’t do this, bad, no, no, if no is the most frequent word you use with your children or spouse or anyone it’s probably not going to work out too well, so it’s eat more of blank __________, eat more non-starchy vegetables, eat more nutrient dense protein and then, so you can be better at or have more fun at, blank _________. So, my mother knew that sports were really important to me even growing up. I remember watching the Rocky movies. She would always say, eat more spinach or eat more X so you can be like Rocky, so you can be like Superman. It’s not don’t do this because I said so, it’s do this so that you can achieve X, which is interesting to you.” More in the 3 Things You Must Know if Your Child is Overweight http://pages.sanesolution.com/three-things-you-must-know-if-your-child-is-overweight/ #SANE
"I have to be able to do this for the rest of my life. And the question is, can I eat SANEly? Can I live this life I am living right now for the rest of my life? Absolutely. Yes. No problem. I go to bed full and happy every single night. I wake up and I’m excited for breakfast. I’m eating throughout the day. I love the food I’m eating. My kids and my family, we are all eating healthy together. It’s pretty awesome.”
“If you are on the freeway and you want to go 60 miles per hour, you are only going to stay at 60 miles per hour as long as you keep your foot on the gas pedal, so whatever you do to reach that point of nutritional serenity, or a healthy, happy body image, if what got you there isn’t something you can maintain enjoyably, that’s the sticking point….
“The assumption is that your body works like an equation, that you can just subtract 500 calories from one side of the calorie equation – so if you just subtract 500 calories from the calories inside, the calories outside don’t change. That’s 100%, unequivocally, not disputed by anyone who knows anything about human biology, false. If you eat 500 fewer calories, you will burn fewer calories. Bottom line, you will be cold, you will be tired, you will be hungry, your brain will be foggy.”
“I love being with my family, I love the work I’m doing, and if you were to ask me, April, do you want to spend more time at the gym, do you want to spend more time and energy learning how to do bio-hacks or things so that you can have really ripped arms, or you can have this unnaturally healthy body, would you like to trade what you are doing right now in order to achieve that? My answer is no.” More in the SANEShow How To Lose That Last 10 lbs. at http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-lose-that-last-10-lbs/ #SANE
“You can’t be a 10 out of 10 at everything. I’ve talked about this before and it is hard to communicate it well in a short period of time, but we live in a culture which is amazing in some ways because it says, you can do whatever you want, you can be whoever you want to be. And a lot of us internalize that as, we should be everything, and it is just because we are not trying hard enough that we aren’t perfect at everything. And you know this because you are a productivity expert, but you can’t be a 10 out of 10 at everything.” More in the SANEShow How To Lose That Last 10 lbs. at http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-lose-that-last-10-lbs/ #SANE
“I have a list of things I read every day, I just create a little note on my phone, and it says, read this every morning. And it reminds me who I am, what my purpose is, what my mission is, why I am waking up, what I am going to do today. And yes, having ripped arms is not on the list, it didn’t even make the list. But having a healthy, strong body and being here for my family definitely is.” More in the SANEShow How To Lose That Last 10 lbs. at http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-lose-that-last-10-lbs/ #SANE
“My personal mission statement is to live a loving, healthy, right, gracious and empathetic, and anti-fragile life in the passionate pursuit of excellence and meaningful contribution. So health is right below loving, and probably should be at the top. It is hard to be loving when you are sick, and angry, and tired, and crabby. But again, you live your life, and you are fit and healthy so that you can do that. You are not living your life so that you can be fit and healthy.” More in the SANEShow How To Lose That Last 10 lbs. at http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-lose-that-last-10-lbs/ #SANE
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