Are you eating the rainbow...?

I've been putting into practice one of the nutrition principles taught in our Fit4Life class. Sharayah, our personal trainer to be, mentioned a couple weeks ago; "To think of a rainbow when selecting your various food choices through out the day". So I've been using that simple visual concept, as I measure what is going into my mouth...is it full of diverse color?

Choosing to eat colorful is a major adjustment to this bread, meat and carbohydrate prone junkie. I've never been a huge fan of vegetables or fruit...but now I am realizing its because my taste-buds have been saturated with foods that dull the natural enjoyment of taste. By being so jacked up on sugar, the nuances of flavors has been overrun by the processed stuff. Which of course is always a punch in the mouth of flavor....but its a high calorie sabotage. It offers a cheap and hollow enjoyment that ends up producing a craving monster that wants more the more you feed it.

In fact, the longer I have been on this diet reconstruction; the more I am realizing I am becoming less hungry, require less food and enjoy the flavors of foods a heck of lot more. . It's strange to me how a few simple changes have unearthed some pretty potent observations about my diet and cravings.