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About the Food
The Sonoma Diet stresses enjoying food, not avoiding it
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To lose weight, you have to love to eat.
Traditional diet thinking maintains that to lose weight you must downplay the role of meals in your life and avoid food as much as possible.
But that kind of thinking runs counter to every byte of behavioral information hardwired into our genes by millions of years of evolution. We know we need to eat to survive, and our happiest memories celebrate food, family, and friends. It’s natural to resist any advice to the contrary.
If you’ve tried to lose weight before, you probably sensed intuitively that such an antifood approach was a problem. It’s hard to defeat an "enemy" that you love.
The Sonoma Diet stresses enjoying food, not avoiding it. The secret, of course, is enjoying the right foods in the right amounts. That’s the only healthy way to lose weight.
You will be choosing from a large variety of foods and recipes that have been shown to have the strongest health benefits. By "health benefits," we mean that these foods make you feel better, increase your energy and vitality, and help protect you from killer diseases.
This connection between improved health and weight loss is at the core of the diet and is the key to your success. The Sonoma Diet stresses wholesome, great-tasting foods that satisfy your hunger while delivering an abundant supply of health-enhancing nutrients with a minimum number of calories. By making every calorie count, the diet combines health with weight loss.