The most important meal of the day

Let’s Cook Tonight® teaches a simple, common sense approach to cooking and eating for health, maximum flavor and enjoyment. Feeding your body for health and enjoyment is not complicated it just requires you to use a bit of common sense. Your body tells you everything you need to know to maintain optimum health, but you have stopped listening. You do not trust yourself so you constantly look for experts to tell you what to eat to stay healthy and energetic. Think about it for one minute. Who has lived inside your body? Who intimately knows how your body feels after eating certain foods, how it feels when it is tired, how it feels when it is excited, worried or full of joy? Someone outside of you does not have a clue how your body responds to anything. Only you are privy to that information.

If I asked you what the most important meal of the day was I am positive you would say breakfast. It is an automatic answer because that is what you have been taught. Let’s Cook Tonight® believes the most important meal of the day is the one when you have the most hunger. That may be at 5:00 am, 10:00 am or noon and it might change daily. Just because starting the day with a full stomach works for some does not mean it works for all. Common acceptance of an idea does not deem it true for everyone. I have the most energy and I accomplish my best work very early in the morning on a completely empty stomach. It has taken me years to give myself permission to skip breakfast. I trusted both the experts and the advertisers when they told me I needed food in the morning and I completely ignored how my body felt and reacted. What is amazing is that I have known this all of my life. I have never liked food in the morning and I could never understand why I had to eat breakfast when I was not hungry.

You cannot use a cookie cutter approach. What is good for me is not good for you. You are unique and an infinite number of factors influence your health and energy level. Start listening to your body and pay attention to how it feels all of the time. Once you start paying attention to your body you will be amazed at how much wisdom it has to give you. Then you need to trust and follow that wisdom.

Cooking is easier than you think and you are worth the time and effort it takes.