When I was 268 pounds and diabetic, I spent a lot of time thinking about how much I ate.
Eventually I started paying much more attention to what I ate.
That changed everything.
I stopped looking at food as calories I needed to count and started looking at it as something my body actually had to do something with.
Every meal goes somewhere.
Your body has to digest it. Process it. Use what it can. Store some of it. Get rid of what it doesn’t need.
That seems ridiculously obvious when you say it out loud.
But I spent years eating things without giving any thought to what happened after I swallowed them.
Then came type 2 diabetes.
That got my attention.
I cut carbohydrates dramatically. Sugar went away. Most of the processed food disappeared. I ate meat, eggs, vegetables and other simple foods. I stopped snacking all day.
Within 90 days my blood sugar was back in the normal range without medication.
Over time, nearly 100 pounds disappeared too.
That experience changed the way I thought about food perm…
