I don't diet, I fuel my active lifestyle

Take notice, you are what you eat. For the sake of our future generations, we need to re-think our relationship with food. It is my opinion that the 33% American obesity rate epidemic can only be addressed through educating one's mindset for greater self control over the mind & body connection. The preventable scenario with our overweight and obese population & non athletes is addressing the weak mindset driven by taste first. If your mindset is taste first, its inevitable what will occur in an environment where restaurants & convenient stores outnumber produce & grocery stores 8:1. The odds are not in your favor when your mind is thinking taste and it takes extra effort to make the right choice in this 8:1 environment. To compound the issue, media is over saturated with diets. Restrictive diets do not work and will leave the body depleted from energy and the mind in a constant battle to be tempted to stray from diet and fall victim to our environment antagonizing one's tastful cravings. The weak mind can be educated & trained to get over the taste first mindset and rethink the mind to crave meeting the nutritional needs of the body as a focus. Do not think of food as taste, think of food as fuel. Do not make goals to get light, make goals to get lean because the difference is you need to fuel your muscles & energy levels and not be left feeling lethargic from a diet. Forget the fad diets, what you choose to eat should depend on your metabolism. Let's be more picky about what we put into our bodies and train your mind to not make decisions based on taste but rather make decisions based on how that food makes you feel. Eating well is the key to a vibrant and healthy life. Failure to address your minds default addition to taste is your lack of education so to address this issue learn the nutritional benefits of different foods. I believe the weak mindset driven by how food taste instead of how food makes you feel contributes to failed diets, obesity, a trip to the doctor with cliche advice to exercise and eat right and a non athletic lifestyle so get to work and learn more about food as fuel.