There are so many other pieces that contribute to long-tem health and that can support your efforts to change – things like beliefs and attitudes, exercise, sleep habits, supplements, etc. But trying to "just do it" can send you scurrying in too many directions, getting you nowhere at all.

Take Two Apples and Call Me in the Morning is a meal of many courses, carefully made with all of the ingredients that have been helpful to my clients and students over the years. I serve it to you with the hope that it will inspire in you an enthusiasm to take charge of your health in what I believe is the most powerful and direct way possible – through the food you eat every day. This is an ongoing meal not meant for you to devour in one or two sittings – you will surely feel stuffed and uncomfortable if you approach it that way. It is not a diet program, although it does have concrete suggestions for structuring your eating based on an understanding of your body and your physical and emotional health needs. This book may not give you the high of the latest, dramatic diet plan. It is grounded in good nutrition, but, more important, it is grounded in the reality of how people like you or I plan for, execute, and integrate big changes that will stick for the long haul. One step at a time. Your time.

I will consider this book successful if your desire to eat differently and exercise regularly is ignited, not because I've convinced you of anything, but because after trying a few small changes, you are not able to ignore how much better you feel. And I will consider it successful if, beyond that, it continues to provide you with the support, information, and guidance you need to keep building on those first delicious experiences of better health.