"....increasing your daily intake of fruits and vegetables will automatically decrease your overall caloric intake because it will make you feel full without consuming nearly as many calories as would be the case without this change..."
In other words, if you eat your fruits and veggies instead of junk food, you'll feel full just as you would with the bad stuff HOWEVER unlike eating a pile of cookies or bag of chips, your fullness will result from eating food containing significantly fewer calories than would be the case with this latter set of foodstuff THUS you will lose weight.
Sounds simple? Well, it isn't always simple... cravings do of course come into play, but I think the answer to following this little program can be found in these two concepts: SEASONALITY and EATING LOCAL. Seasonality, could mean anything from having a kiwi, orange, grapefruit, mango salad for breakfast in the summer to a butternut squash soup in the late fall and winter... If you understand and take an interest in what fruits and vegetables are in season at any given time and consume them accordingly, you will automatically be increasing your intake just through this awareness and excitment. Secondly, eating local helps as well for if you decide upon having whatever it is that your geographical region specifically grows, (arguably hard in some parts of the country to be sure,) you will undoubtedly find these things to be the freshest and tastiest of their kind... nothing like a crisp and sweet red delicious apple just picked that morning from the autumn dipped tree... or a sun-ripened strawberry plucked from the field in early June mere hours before it hits your tongue... In this way, you'll gain a deeper appreciation for the taste of fresh foods and find yourself wanting to eat more of them... now doesn't that sound better than that packaged, processed, artificially flavor-inserted, I've-been-on-this-counter-for-months junk?
Think about it and get back to me...
Xo
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