How many fruits and vegetables do you eat on a daily basis? Before I started Eat to Live I could honestly say maybe one fruit and does lettuce count if it's on a burger? Usually when you tell someone you are no longer eating meat the first thing they say is, but what about protein? Now I have an answer broccoli has twice as much protein as steak. The other thing I've learned is most diets fail because they involve limiting our food and our minds think we are starving. This plan changes the way you eat dramatically for 6 weeks, but I think its to get our minds to figure out we are eating badly. I'm never hungry and I eat a lot of food. For example today I had a strawberry-banana smoothie with soy vanilla milk, piece of toast with cashew butter, and a chai tea latte. Lunch will be a huge salad with avocado, beans, carrots, broccoli, red pepper, and salsa for my dressing with an apple. For dinner I will probably make a fake chicken sandwich with my rice cheeze and a side of steamed broccoli and carrots. Before I started I received a phone call from my doctor saying my cholesterol is high and I needed to make a change in my diet and exercise. In 3 months I will get tested again and I really want to see what this has done to my cholesterol numbers.
Thanksgiving, I plan on making Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, yams and pumpkin pies. But I will also have veggies and a fruit tray to munch on before dinner. I will have a small portion of each thing and then Friday I will be back to eating healthy. I think its ok to balance, but I think at some point the urge for those bad foods will go away. Or at least when I eat them my body will remind me that I don't need them anymore. I'm out of excuses for eating the way I did, it was time for me to make a change. And I can honestly say I feel great!
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