11 Life Changing Articles that will Enhance Dinner and Shrink Your Waistline!

Okay, okay, no need to reinvent the wheel rewrite everything other people have already said. So I want to share some of the articles that have helped me change my views on my food journey (remember how I was kind of vegan for a while?) If you want to know why I've started doing crazy things like:

• buying eggs at the farmers market (okay we have a local organic market that actually sells pastured eggs, so I don't have to always go to the farmers market)
• purchasing 15 whole chickens at once straight from the farmer (because I know how this farmer raised them)
• buying my beef in the spring in the size and shape of about half a cow (ditto about the farmer)
• proudly eating bacon (from pigs that forage)
• baking with butter and lard
• choosing full-fat dairy products

then read some of these articles that changed the way I choose my foods. Oh and did I mention I never count calories but ALWAYS read an ingredient list on packaged food? (Okay, I almost never counted calories to begin with, but if you do, you should stop! Read some of these articles and read your labels. Life changing, seriously life changing, because, yep, that means forgo the junk and bring on the butter and bacon and deliciousness!)

Did I say eleven articles. It's more like eleven-ish.

The Ugly Truth About Vegetable Oils (and why they should be avoided)

Guess what? Butter is good for you.

Why you do NOT need to fear FAT and Why your body needs Fat

The Top 3 reasons you should be Eating Lard (and I might add, AVOIDING CRISCO!)

Real Meat or Is Meat Healthy?

Pastured vs Free Range Eggs or Real Eggs or How to Buy Eggs

Common Food Label Misconceptions 

100 Days of Real Food: Rules (although I'd go for sprouted grains in addition to "whole-grain.")

6 Secrets you should know about Skim Milk  and Real Milk

Why you should stop counting calories

My Weight Loss Story: How I lost 35 lbs without exercising or counting calories

So what do you think? Can you can get over counting calories or points or whatever fandangled system you're using? Do you wanna start reading food labels and avoiding fake/processed foods? Will you start using full-fat items and eat meats and eggs from good sources? 

I love that nourishing ourselves can taste so good! Mmmm, grass-fed beef and . . . bacon. :-) 

And I know a lot of these people are just bloggers. And, no, I didn't fact-check every one of their sources, but they are bloggers who feel healthier, have healthier weights when they eat this way, and they are eating real healthy foods. Who can argue with that? So like I said before the proof is in the pudding.