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| Full Dinner Plate |
Dinner time! Ready to start losing some weight? Great! Start eating. That's right. Fill up your plate! Eat all of it! Feel full! Want to eat again in 3 hours? Sounds good to me! Let's do it!
Wait a minute. There's gotta be a catch, right? Who ever heard of a diet like that? I can eat all I want when I want?
Well, you have a point. The catch is this isn't a weight loss diet. Its a decision to eat healthy ALL the time. You really can fill up and feel satisfied on things that are delicious, nutritious and far lower in calories. Its all about making the choice to fill your plate with things that aren't going to bust the calorie bank.
There is nothing exotic on the dinner plate pictured above. That's a sweet potato on the left. On the top right I have stewed cherry tomatoes, snap peas, minced garlic, parsley and Lawry's Season Salt. I boiled it covered for 20 minutes then strained it. On the bottom right is a salad with romaine lettuce, spinach, carrots, fresh parsley and a tomato. The salad dressing is wine vinegar with some light soy sauce, lemon juice, pepper, mashed firm tofu and cooked fresh ginger with Quinoa that was laying around and I blended together. OK, the dressing is kind of exotic, but what do you notice is missing?
Oil! Oil is extremely calorie dense. There's no oil at all on that plate. No meat, no fish, no nuts, no eggs, no cheese or milk product of any kind. That dinner is totally plant based and does not include any oil making it low in calories and extremely heart healthy.
Three hours went by and I got the urge to eat again. I wasn't really hungry, but I eat anyway. That's me. Don't judge.
My choice was to make popcorn. The popcorn was salted but had no oil, no butter and no artificial flavors either. It was a really large bowl too! I have an air popper somewhere, but that would require that I actually take the time to locate it.
Here's my POPCORN HACK:
Measure out 1/3 of a cup of plain old dry, loose popcorn kernels. Mix in 7 drops of water. Add 1/8 tsp of table salt and stir it up a little. The salt is optional. Dump the kernels into a plain brown paper lunch bag. Fold over the top of the bag twice. Place a piece of paper towel under the bag and microwave it on high for 3 minutes. Some microwaves are stronger than others. You have to listen to the popping corn. If you can count 2 Mississippi's between pops, its done. If you burn it the first time or if too many kernels don't pop, all you have to do is adjust the time a little. Its easy!
I've been doing this for over a year. That was my New Year's Resolution for 2014 and it stuck.
I've lost 78 lbs. so far.
No one did it for me. I choose what I eat. Who chooses what
YOU eat?
There is nothing exotic on the dinner plate pictured above. That's a sweet potato on the left. On the top right I have stewed cherry tomatoes, snap peas, minced garlic, parsley and Lawry's Season Salt. I boiled it covered for 20 minutes then strained it. On the bottom right is a salad with romaine lettuce, spinach, carrots, fresh parsley and a tomato. The salad dressing is wine vinegar with some light soy sauce, lemon juice, pepper, mashed firm tofu and cooked fresh ginger with Quinoa that was laying around and I blended together. OK, the dressing is kind of exotic, but what do you notice is missing?
Oil! Oil is extremely calorie dense. There's no oil at all on that plate. No meat, no fish, no nuts, no eggs, no cheese or milk product of any kind. That dinner is totally plant based and does not include any oil making it low in calories and extremely heart healthy.
Three hours went by and I got the urge to eat again. I wasn't really hungry, but I eat anyway. That's me. Don't judge.
My choice was to make popcorn. The popcorn was salted but had no oil, no butter and no artificial flavors either. It was a really large bowl too! I have an air popper somewhere, but that would require that I actually take the time to locate it.
Here's my POPCORN HACK:
Measure out 1/3 of a cup of plain old dry, loose popcorn kernels. Mix in 7 drops of water. Add 1/8 tsp of table salt and stir it up a little. The salt is optional. Dump the kernels into a plain brown paper lunch bag. Fold over the top of the bag twice. Place a piece of paper towel under the bag and microwave it on high for 3 minutes. Some microwaves are stronger than others. You have to listen to the popping corn. If you can count 2 Mississippi's between pops, its done. If you burn it the first time or if too many kernels don't pop, all you have to do is adjust the time a little. Its easy!
I've been doing this for over a year. That was my New Year's Resolution for 2014 and it stuck.
I've lost 78 lbs. so far.
No one did it for me. I choose what I eat. Who chooses what
YOU eat?
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| Me in March 2015 after 14 months |
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| Me in March 2014 after 3 months |
