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Dr. Hope gave me an assignment during our first meeting that I completed this weekend - going to see the movie “Ratatouille”. Why? Because the main character, a rat, is living and preaching the good doctor’s belief in eating for pleasure. The movie is basically about the triumph of enlightened eating over mindless munching. And you thought it was just good fun!

We saw the film on Saturday, in French, and we really liked it. Very funny, and for the diet student in the room, plenty of good perspective. The best excerpt was Remy (the rat and main character) talking to his brother about how to enjoy food, but I’ve not been able to find that quote online.

I did, however, find this :

“If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.”

Very clever, isn’t it?  We’ve heard that line ‘you are what you eat’ so many times but did we ever think of what that means in terms of how our daily intake translates…

So, I’m still on the learning path on this totally different way to think about food and dieting, but I do find it interesting. I’ve slacked on my Dr. Hope homework this week, but I’m going to reschedule my appointment and get cracking.

I am filled with wonder and awe at the forces of the world that bring the right things to us at the right time. We took a gourmet cooking lesson in June (it was a Valentine’s Day present to my DH, he loves to cook). Guess what we learned to make? Ratatouille. It’s actually a hugely labor-intensive process that takes hours of chopping and cooking and in the end it’s heavenly and delicious but no where near as pretty as in the movie (it’s kind of muddy red and lumpy). We’ve made it 3 times since the lesson, and I have a feeling another batch is coming up before too long…