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Dear Healthy Foodie,
I’m a pretty healthy person. I eat really well and take vitamins and eat superfoods and drink smoothies and so on. Overall I would say I’m healthy 80 percent of the time. Now, what I want to know is, do I really have to beat myself up and feel bad about the other 20 percent? Cheesey, carby pasta dinners at nice Italian restaurants, an afternoon of beer and nachos at a pub, a vacation where fresh veggies are hard to come by? As long as I’m healthy most of the time do I really have to obsess? Can’t the occasional indulgence be OK?!
Thanks,
Jen
Hi Jen,
There are many ways that you could approach this question, but really what it comes down to is what your goals are. If, for example, you’re trying to deal with candida overgrowth and 80 percent of the time you’re sticking to the protocol but the other 20 percent you’re indulging in sugar, flour products and booze, you’re not going to get anywhere with your goals. Similarly, if you’re trying to lose weight and are on an anti-inflammatory diet, but you’re “cheating” 20 percent of the time, you may never see any results.
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