Introduction

Hello my name is Rob Wahl, I’ve recently discovered how I can manage my own weight since my body’s internal method had resulted only in obesity. With the help of my wife I have reduced my weight from 235lbs to 160lbs and I’m not done. I hope to go as low as 150 to 155 lbs. If you ask my wife she’ll say she forced me to lose weight by changing the food. I don’t know about that, but certainly the whole food diet is a great foundation for weight control.
    I have a scientific mind set, but I can’t afford to wait for all the science to be in. What I believe about myself is scientifically plausible, not proven. I am skeptical. I have trouble with generalized terms like ‘toxins’ that seem to just stand for all things undesirable. I’m a big coffee drinker and I didn’t quit coffee. I’m not into working out, or interested in sports. My idea of a good day does not include sweating. I have an office job that I enjoy a lot and I’m comfortable sitting in my office. My income modestly supports both me and my wife, and so I’m fortunate in that I have a help-mate in my dietary needs.
    Cheryl is naturally skinny and like my son has a skinny attitude toward food. When she says come for dinner I’m the first one there. I pretty much look forward to my dinner all day long. While I’m starting to salivate she starts to think of things to do before eating. We sit down, I grab the food and she goes back to the kitchen because she thought of something else. I put food on my plate and she arranges cutlery. I start finish my first plate of food while she’s still arranging her food tidily on her plate. She starts her meal and I start seconds and thirds. She finishes about ½ a plate of food and starts to talk. She’s much more interested in the conversation than the food. Soon she’s finished 2/3rds of a plate and she’s has lost all interest in her meal. So we sit and talk. While we sit and talk, I’m reaching for left over bits I don’t need.  Bits that were after all calling to me, “eat me, I’m yummy”.  When the meal is done I’m satiated. Insulin, serotonin and endorphins begin to course my veins; I’m good. I’ve consumed 1,500 calories, Cheryl perhaps 500.
    But now Cheryl isn’t happy either. She needs more calories, something calorie dense like a sausage. She will base the meal around some meat or “protein” as we often say-- a kind of idiom for the real food. The problem was that this diet was contributing toward my obesity. So once she knew I was serious to lose weight she found a diet program on the web we can both live with. We can’t manage our weight if we can’t reduce it, so that was a key discovery. You can learn more about the whole food eating philosophy by clicking the links to Whole Life Nutrition and learn what Cheryl follows to bring about the healthier food regime that really acts as a context for all that follows here.