SANE Show: Eat More. Lose More. Smile More. with Jonathan Bailor

“A lot of things that are neat, especially as the children get older, there are things completely independent of weight or what we would generally perceive as health that green smoothies can help with. Because what is a green smoothie? At the end of the day, a green smoothie is the single most concentrated source of real food nutrition you will ever take in. There is no more efficient way to get a maximum amount of that which heals your body into your body, than a green smoothie. For example, let’s say you have an adolescent male child who has an acne breakout. You could put a bunch of toxic acid on his face, which is what some of the prescription medications are. I tried some of those myself and I would never do that again. Or you could try to eat more green smoothies and cut down on some other substances in your diet. You know, your skin is often times a reflection of what’s going on inside your body. So that extremely high dose of nutrition, things that you wouldn’t think about they can affect, they can affect really really strongly. So that’s another good tool to have in the toolbox.” More in: How To Make Yummy Green Smoothies That Work Like Magic http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-make-yummy-green-smoothies-that-work-like-magic #SANE

“In a SANE lifestyle, we’re not doing ounces, calories, precision, or scale measuring. We don’t have an obesity epidemic and no one’s struggling with their health because they don’t have to the gram accurate measurements of what they’re eating. So what we want to focus on is ease, simplicity, sanity. So a serving of spinach is what you can fit in your hands cupped like this. That’s one serving of raw spinach. That makes a lot of sense because if you have a five-year-old child, what they can hold like this is a lot smaller than what your six-foot-five, eighteen-year-old football playing son can hold. So one serving of spinach varies by person. So we want to use our hands as the baseline for that. So what you hold in two hands cupped like this is a serving.” More in: How To Make Yummy Green Smoothies That Work Like Magic http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-make-yummy-green-smoothies-that-work-like-magic #SANE

“What I suggest is you make modular meals. You make mostly SANE meals, where you’re going to eat the SANE part. Then if your family wants some other things on the side, or something for dessert, and they have some things that they want, let them help plan the meals. But plan it so you can actually all sit down and eat together and find common ground. I mean, mostly you can have a vegetable at dinner that everybody will eat, or at least learn to eat, and I’ll have a variety. Then you can usually have some sort of nutrient dense protein that everybody will eat. And whole food fats, you just kind of put it out there. Then the extra stuff that they might want to add in, okay that’s fine. You won’t be eating it but you’re not looking down at them for eating it. But you’re making sure you’re using food as a way to unify your family.” More in: How To Get Your Family To WANT To Stop Eating Junk http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-get-your-family-to-want-to-stop-eating-junk-2 #SANE

“The first thing is being really flexible with your expectations, because if you think that the moment that you read The Calorie Myth or the moment that you start going SANE, that your whole family is going to say, “Oh my goodness! Mother, thank you so much for helping us learn how important vegetables are! We didn’t know, and now we’re so excited. What vegetables can I take for lunch?” I mean, no one is going to say that. So you’ve got to be flexible knowing that this may just be you for a while, and it may take some time to acclimate your children and spouse.” More in: How To Get Your Family To WANT To Stop Eating Junk http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-get-your-family-to-want-to-stop-eating-junk-2 #SANE

“So if your family does something that not every other family does, and you’ve done that, are there ways you can learn from that? Like how did you make that happen? What did you do to make that happen? And can you learn from that experience and tie that experience back to SANE eating? One thing I can promise you is I bet the way you made that work wasn’t by white knuckling it and demanding that everyone comply right out of the gate. There was some other approach. So maybe that would be helpful.” More in: How To Get Your Family To WANT To Stop Eating Junk http://pages.sanesolution.com/how-to-get-your-family-to-want-to-stop-eating-junk-2 #SANE

Overweight Kids Need Your Help NOW, Here’s 4 Reasons Why

“…just double the number of vegetables that you’re currently eating in your family. Double it. Just once, then in a couple of weeks, double it again or increase it until up to ten servings a day for each family member. Just this idea of doubling, that’s so easy to do.” More in the Overweight Kids Need Your Help NOW, Here’s 4 Reasons Why http://pages.sanesolution.com/overweight-kids-need-your-help-now-heres-4-reasons-why/ #SANE

“I think that’s why this is so urgent right now is because there are way too many parents who don’t even know that they have to make this choice. They think that by default, society is going to help them raise healthy children…” More in the Overweight Kids Need Your Help NOW, Here’s 4 Reasons Why http://pages.sanesolution.com/overweight-kids-need-your-help-now-heres-4-reasons-why/ #SANE

“The goal is progress, not perfection. Just try to eat a little bit more like what Grandma would have served her kids, right? If Grandma wouldn’t have served this, if this didn’t exist, and then of course, when you get to that point, we can talk about how to make it even better.” More in the Overweight Kids Need Your Help NOW, Here’s 4 Reasons Why http://pages.sanesolution.com/overweight-kids-need-your-help-now-heres-4-reasons-why/ #SANE