I’m talking about nutrition. I’m talking about the way your body feels every single day.

How do you feel every single day? Are you tired? Are you alert? Do you feel sluggish? How is your stomach? Do you get ‘the runs’ often? Is your stomach irritated by certain foods? Do you belch too much?

I’m sorry. I know I’m being a little crude here, but there are a lot of people I know who have . . . let’s say, issues. They have stomach issues and health issues. They’re overweight.

I really and truly believe that your diet is everything. I eat a really careful and clean diet. There are certain foods that don’t agree with me, so I don’t eat them.

How many of you know the foods that disagree with you, but you continue to eat them anyway? How many of you eat certain things that put you into a ‘food coma’ immediately after you eat them?

You should never go into a food coma. If you are going into a food coma, then you are eating things that don’t agree with you. You are eating foods that are not right for you and your body type.

How many of you take vitamins and herbs, and believe you have a good regimen? You take greens in the morning. Let me tell you something.

I used to have a really bad stomach. When I was a kid, my nickname was BD (and you can figure out on your own what that stood for). I’d miss half a class sometimes because I was in the bathroom. I had a really irritable stomach.

I thought I would just have that problem my whole life. I had just accepted it as the way things are.

Then I remember going to a nutritionist when I lived in Colorado, and the first thing she said to me was that this wasn’t the way things had to be. She told me I didn’t have to live that way.

So I made changes in my diet. I eliminated dairy. I started drinking greens in the morning (by mixing greens power and water). It’s really good, and your body absorbs all the nutrients that it’s probably lacking.

Once I started to do that, I started feeling better. I started eliminating certain foods that didn’t work for me, and I started to feel even better. My energy lever got better; everything got better.

How many of you are suffering physically every single day? The reason why you’re suffering is probably because your diet sucks.

You need to start looking at your diet. Let me tell you something. We have one body and one body only. You can’t trade your body in for a new one, so you have to take care of your body like it’s a majestic temple.

You have to do things that are really good for it, because as you age things start breaking down. I know that because I am aging, and things do break down. You don’t heal as quickly, you can’t run as fast, and you’re not as strong as you once were.

If you keep yourself really clean inside and if you have a really good diet, though, you can keep your body stronger and feeling good a lot longer. Eat slowly and eat small portions.

How many of you eat really quickly? You can finish a meal in five minutes or less, and you’re proud of it. If that’s you, then you are eating too fast. Your body cannot possibly break down or digest anything that goes in you when you eat too fast.

How many of you get an unbelievable sugar craving right after you eat dinner or lunch where you need to eat something sweet? That’s not normal and it’s not good. It might mean that you’re a little yeasty and that is why your body is craving that.

One of the things I think everybody should invest in is their health.

I never eat fast food. If it was the last thing in the world to eat, I still wouldn’t eat it. I would go to bed hungry that night.

I chew my food really slowly so my digestion is good. I drink a lot of water.

How many of you spend the day drinking diet soda. Diet soda could be the worse thing for you. The caffeine is brutally bad in your body, and the chemicals that make up diet soda actually can make you fatter.

You want to drink nothing but water. I don’t drink soda and I don’t drink glasses of cow pus (or milk as most people refer to it). I do this because my body likes it and my body reacts favorably to it.

So it’s time that all of you start looking at your overall health instead of just medicating whenever you have a problem. We go to the doctor, and the doctor treats the symptom but not the cause.

It’s time you got some really good help with your diet, and really took a proactive step to making yourself healthy from the inside out. It’s time to start taking better care of your body.

So how does this relate to dating? Whenever I write about anything outside the world of dating, there are always people who get their panties in a knot and email me asking how that topic relates to dating. So for all of those people, here is the answer.

If you’re not healthy, you don’t have energy and you’re eating improperly, then guess what? You’re not going to feel your best and you’re not going to want to go out and meet people. You’re also not going to feel your best sexually because you’re not going to be that energetic. There, I related it to dating.

I’ve been working out my entire adult life, and I want to share a funny — but true — story with you about how I started working out. It’s going to sound goofy to a lot of you.

There was actually one movie that pushed me to want to start working out. It wasn’t Rocky. It wasn’t Dirty Dancing.

It was the movie Flashdance. Yes, I actually went to see the movie Flashdance when it came out.

I watched all the dancing scenes, noticed the way the bodies were totally toned and ripped, and it motivated me in a very bizarre way. Maybe it was all the booze I drank in college, but I remember arriving home after seeing that movie and suddenly started to pound the weights.

I haven’t stopped since. Give or take about five pounds, I’ve basically been the same weight my entire adult life.

I consistently work out. I do cardio four days a week. I lift weights three days a week.

I used to do yoga before I blew out my back. I have now found that being tighter actually keeps me together better.

A lot of people have trouble starting to work out. You gain five or ten (or twenty or thirty) pounds, and you look at yourself in the mirror not liking the way you look.

What a lot of people do in that situation is to head straight for the microwave and eat even more. Others will sit on the couch and say, “I’m going to start exercising next week.”

Here is the truth. If you don’t like the way you look and if you can’t embrace your own body, then nobody you date will either. That is why I call this “The Dating Diet,” because it is all about you feeling great about yourself and your body when you’re dating.

There’s nothing that turned me off more when I was dating, than when a woman insisted on making the room completely dark the first time she got naked with me. I would be looking forward to seeing her naked body, and all she wanted to do was leave the room completely dark because she felt insecure about her body.

How you feel about yourself is so important. So if you feel you’ve been slacking, you need to push yourself.

Start going to the gym, and do just 20 minutes of cardio in the beginning. Then the next week, move up to 25 minutes of cardio, and increase to 30 minutes of cardio the week after that.

Just get started. Whatever you choose to do, start slow and build up.

If you’re not feeling great about yourself and feel uncomfortable at the gym at first, then pick a time to go when there are fewer people there until you feel more comfortable.

Write down all of your excuses. “It’s too cold right now to go to the gym.” “I’m too comfortable on this sofa, and don’t want to miss my favorite shows.” “I didn’t get up early enough today.”

Write down your excuses, and realize that all of them are just that — excuses. You must be dedicated.

Now I’m going to ask you to do something that will really be a challenge for a lot of you, but I want to push you a little bit. Stop reading this blog, go to the bathroom, get undressed and look at yourself from all angles in the bathroom mirror.

What do you like about your body? What do you dislike about your body? What you change about your body? What do you need to accept about your body?

If there are parts of your body you don’t like that you can change through diet and exercise, it’s time to commit to work toward getting those body parts to look how you will love them. If there are other parts of your body that you don’t like that weights and cardio won’t change, then it’s really important to embrace and love who you are.