Today I’ve decided to start addressing a remaining issue with my diet, which is for me to become much more of what I call a “controlled small portionist”.. I was visiting family over the Thanksgiving holiday and I noticed that I’ve become a bit stocky in the weeks before then, and I attribute that to overeating when I had a lot of food in the house. My weight tends to go up and down rather quickly, so my goal now is to work out how to always essentially keep it at the amount that I want, which for me would be in the 170’s, which is about 30 pounds less than I weigh at the moment.
When I made the raw food article on NOITV recently I thought it would put a fire under my butt to ensure that I keep my weight under control, but even switching to eating a lot of raw food isn’t the whole story. Ultimately it’s also about always eating rather small portions of food in a controlled manner (or at least not overly large portions). My problem has been that I tend make a lot of food in bulk such as a large quantity of delicious soup for instance, and I’m always tempted to keep eating large amounts of it until it is gone, which can happen very quickly no matter how large of a quantity that I make.
I’ve been a rather strict vegan for many years and I’ve found switching to a vegan diet and also even to a raw food diet to be very easy. (However over the holiday I’ve eaten cheese a few times but I don’t think that is really a big deal because I’m such a staunch vegan that there isn’t any danger of me “loosing control and falling off the wagon and going back to being a non-vegan,” because being a vegan is actually such an easy thing to do. I’ve tended to end up eating cheese once or twice a year for whatever reason and I don’t think that is really a problem. I think some vegans might “hyperventilate” at the thought of intentionally eating cheese even once, and I think it is fine for people to be so strict about it if they want to be. Actually I ate at a Mexican restaurant before I left to visit family and I had a vegetarian burrito dish which had cheese on it, and when I came back from the visit I decided to have the same dish but a “veganized” version of it without the cheese and it was just as delicious, so I really should have just done that in the first place. Also I drank wine when visiting family which is usually not vegan because eggs are usually used in the production of if, so I really should have brought some bottles of vegan wine which definitely exists. I’ll probably continue to end up eating cheese as much as once or twice a year, but for now on I’ll be very strict about only drinking vegan wine. Here is an article which talks about vegan wine issues.)
When I switched to eating an almost all-raw food diet some years ago I found the food to be totally delicious, so eating only that wasn’t a problem from a willpower standpoint, however I found it to be rather labor and time-intensive to shop for the food and to prepare it so since then I’ve switched back to being mostly just a vegan who also likes to eat raw food. And also it is possible to gain weight even when eating only a raw food diet, so once again the “small portionist” aspect can still be important even in that case (although you can definitely usually eat much larger portions of raw food than non-raw food without gaining weight.)
In any event, switching to a vegan or even mostly to a raw vegan diet can be very easy to do without requiring much of any willpower at all (as long as you know what all of your options are), however also being a “small portionist” might be a different situation where I will need to force myself into a habit of not overeating and eating only a few times a day, which might be a bit of annoyance at first. However I’m devoted to that happening so I think it will mostly be easily within my grasp when all is said and done.