Free Yourself from Food Demonizers

They don’t care about you.

Worse, they’re deliberately taking advantage of you.

The idiot food demonizers.

Most of whom are physicians and should be helping people.

The ones who go on the internet and say:

“All you gotta do is avoid all carbohydrate.”

“All you gotta do is eliminate all sugar.”

“All you gotta do is avoid all fat.”

“All you gotta do is eliminate all saturated fat.”

This is their standard operation for extracting money from people who’ve been bludgeoned by diet culture into thinking, “If only someone would tell me what to avoid, then I could finally lose weight, keep it off, and be well.”

Let’s cut right through this bulls***:

1. Butternut squash is mostly carbohydrate. Ain’t no one getting fat and sick from eating butternut squash.
2. Blueberries are mostly sugar. Ain’t no one getting fat and sick from eating blueberries.
3. Avocados are mostly fat. Ain’t no one getting fat and sick from eating avocados.
4. Coconuts are mostly saturated fat. Ain’t no one getting fat and sick from eating coconuts.

People get fat and sick from eating junk food.

Food that’s been adulterated.

Food that comes from factories.

Food that people from a few generations ago wouldn’t even recognize.

In stark contrast is real food.

Food in its whole, natural state.

Food that comes from farms or the wild.

Food without ingredients or labels

Don’t let the idiot food deomonizers scare you.

Don’t let them separate you from your hard-earned money.

And don’t you dare let them steal the enjoyment from eating.

I implore you:

Just eat real food—and really enjoy it!

Eat butternut squash, blueberries, avocados, and coconuts—and really enjoy all of it.

Eat spinach, cod, eggs, apples, almonds, and sunflower seeds—and really enjoy all of it.

Food, real food, is nothing to be afraid of.

Please, please, please don’t count grams of carbohydrate, sugar, fat, or saturated fat.

Please, please, please enjoy delicious meals made from real food with your close ones as often as you can.

Please, please, please embrace the fact that a straightforward, enjoyable relationship with food is your birthright, and you can reclaim it whenever you want.

Remember:

Just eat real food—and really enjoy it!

About Jason Gootman
Jason Gootman is a Mayo Clinic Certified Wellness Coach and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach as well as a certified nutritionist and certified exercise physiologist. Jason helps people reverse and prevent type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other ailments with evidence-based approaches to nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, holistic wellness, and, most importantly, lasting behavior improvement and positive habit formation. As part of this work, Jason often helps people lose weight and keep it off, in part by helping them overcome the common challenges of yo-yo dieting and emotional eating. Jason helps people go from knowing what to do and having good intentions to consistently taking great care of themselves in ways that help them add years to their lives and life to their years.