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| Me 11/2/2015 |
This is all without any workout regimen, pills, shots or "cleanses". Please believe me, when all you eat is plants with little or no oil, the cleansing takes care of itself. Your colon will thank you.
I still eat 3 to 4 lbs of food a day (one large apple is about 1/2 pound), but everything is high in fiber which is not digestible and very filling. Fruits are mostly water; 84 to 87% by weight. Vegetables are 91 to 95% water by weight. The recommended number of fruit and vegetable servings in a 2000 calorie per day diet is 9 to 13. So you can easily eat 5 or 6 times a day, include 2 or more servings in each meal and satisfy 20% of your daily water requirement at the same time without taking a drink.
While we're on the subject, I may as well throw in a bit of information about protein. Don't be confused by the tricky wording you will see when you try to look this up. We are not trying to measure how many grams of protein per 100 GRAMS of a given food. We want to know how many grams of the food will give us 100 CALORIES. When measured by weight, lean beef contains 6.4 grams of protein per 100 calories. Broccoli contains 11.1 grams of protein per 100 calories.
Don't like broccoli? There are lots of other choices. 3 Examples:
Which of the above 5 choices do you think would make you feel full?
I still eat 3 to 4 lbs of food a day (one large apple is about 1/2 pound), but everything is high in fiber which is not digestible and very filling. Fruits are mostly water; 84 to 87% by weight. Vegetables are 91 to 95% water by weight. The recommended number of fruit and vegetable servings in a 2000 calorie per day diet is 9 to 13. So you can easily eat 5 or 6 times a day, include 2 or more servings in each meal and satisfy 20% of your daily water requirement at the same time without taking a drink.
While we're on the subject, I may as well throw in a bit of information about protein. Don't be confused by the tricky wording you will see when you try to look this up. We are not trying to measure how many grams of protein per 100 GRAMS of a given food. We want to know how many grams of the food will give us 100 CALORIES. When measured by weight, lean beef contains 6.4 grams of protein per 100 calories. Broccoli contains 11.1 grams of protein per 100 calories.
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| 100 calories of lean beef and 100 calories of broccoli |
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| 100 calories of cucumber, carrots or romaine lettuce |
My tummy has gone from fat to flat by eating more food more often. I'm almost never hungry because I always have plant based choices at hand. The range of fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, seasonings, spices and combinations thereof is virtually infinite!
As an omnivore I weighed 274 lbs and was out of control. Now, maintaining a plant based whole foods lifestyle, I weigh 180 lbs.
Seriously. Choose health! Your family will worry less and you'll feel great about yourself!! Get started. What do YOU have to lose?
As an omnivore I weighed 274 lbs and was out of control. Now, maintaining a plant based whole foods lifestyle, I weigh 180 lbs.
Seriously. Choose health! Your family will worry less and you'll feel great about yourself!! Get started. What do YOU have to lose?
