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WHY
WOMEN NEED CHOCOLATE
Favorite Quotes:
"No study has ever found that
women frequently crave tofu, Spam, or nonfat cottage cheese" (20).
"Julie wanted an explanation
of her occasional intense desire for kiwi fruit" (77).
Theory:
Chocolate is the number one food
craved by women. Food cravings
are not a problem to be treated, but a blessing to be encouraged. When you
listen to your body and give yourself guilt-free permission to immediately
fulfill food cravings, you will feel better, function more efficiently,
eat less, and control your weight.
ON Plan: Optimal Nutrition for Mind and Body – This diet plan is
all about reconnecting your mind and body and putting you back in touch
with your instinctive food needs. The
ON Plan encourages self-indulgence without overindulgence, and, therefore,
promotes weight loss.
Step 1: Trust Your Female Food
Cravings
- Female
Food Craving - A normal, biological need for a specific food that will
balance a woman’s body and mind and revitalize her well-being
- Learn
to accurately differentiate between a biological food craving and an
emotional food craving
- Every
food is a good food as long as you are responding to your body’s
needs with a small amount
Step 2: Discover Your Female
Pleasure Foods
- Pleasure
foods pleasure your body and mind by making your feel as good and
function as well as you possibly can.
- Pleasure
foods have three characteristics:
- They
are the foods you like, that taste good to you, and that are
satisfying
- They
are the foods you crave when you are hungry and when your mood needs
a lift
- They
are the foods that revitalize your moods, energy, and body
Step 3: Learn How to Eat for
Maximum Satisfaction
- You’ll
learn how to eat your pleasure foods to derive the most satisfaction
and benefit in your taste buds, stomach, body, and brain
- Chew,
savor, and let the food linger
- Factors
that can interfere with your level of satisfaction – searching for
substitutes, eating too much protein, and eating too much of your
pleasure foods
Step 4: Distribute Your Food to
Maximum Mood
- Timing
is of greatest importance to receive the maximum benefit in your mood,
energy, and productivity
- We
need to snack, eat small, frequent meals throughout the day,
de-emphasize dinner, and emphasize lunch
- Five
small meals a day will give you great benefits
Step 5: Follow Your Optimal
Eating Routine
- Find
your optimal eating routine that will balance your brain and body
daily, monthly and yearly
- One
of the best things you can do to take care of yourself is to get a
good night’s sleep
Step 6: Exercise
- Exercise
is so vital to a woman’s well-being that it is considered the 6th
step of the ON plan
Debra Waterhouse, M.P.H., R.D.
New York
: Hyperion
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