All I had to stop doing was eating meat, chicken, eggs, milk and anything else derived from an animal. It was way, way easier than I imagined. Getting away from all the olive and vegetable oil in my salad dressing and cooking seemed counterintuitive since they come from plants. I learned how calorie dense and nutrient poor all oils are and how terribly damaging they are to your arteries. That convinced me. Don't eat oil or any processed food. Just whole foods, unprocessed and strictly plants.
Here's a simple meal. It was my dinner tonight.
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| Steamed green beans, sweet peppers, onions, rice noodles sprinkled with nutritional yeast. |
Ingredients:
Green beans, onion, sweet red and orange peppers, rice noodles, nutritional yeast, salt and spices
Slice up the onion and peppers. Put them in a pot with the green beans using one of these inserts to keep the veggies separated from the water. I went Simon and Garfunkel with the spices adding parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme with a little garlic salt and turmeric sprinkled over everything. Bring the water to a boil, cover tightly and steam it for 10 to 15 minutes depending on the degree of tenderness you like. I found millet and brown rice Ramon noodles at at Target. I strained the cooked vegetables and used the broth to cook the noodles. Either plate them side by side or mix them together and sprinkle with nutritional yeast. What you see on my plate along with a glass of water was my dinner at 6 pm. A large Apple was my dessert. It's now 11:30 pm and that's all I ate tonight.
So to recap, I had a filling, nutritious, high fiber meal of vegetables and grain with some spices and a fruit chaser with no animal products and no oil that kept me satisfied for over 5 hours. I forgot to mention that beans and grains combined include all 9 of the essential amino acids covering my body's requirements for a source of complete protein.
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| 2013 |
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| 2016 - down 110 lbs |
Eat well, eat smart and stay healthy. A good plan for the New Year!
