I'm Hangry
I have no energy to post insanely adorable pictures of my amazing boys. This diet is the devil. I feel like a junkie going through withdrawal and it's only the 1st day. So far, I've eaten a banana and orange for breakfast. I've eaten raw veggie soup with water as the broth with spinach salad and some weird dressing made of nuts, balsamic, onions, water, and something else with mushrooms and peppers marinated in it and tossed into the salad. yuck! I'll just stick with plain old balsamic next time. The mushrooms sauteed by themselves IN WATER were pretty alright. So that was lunch with an apple. Then for dinner I had a burger patty made of mushrooms, rolled oats, tomato sauce, and some seasonings. That was surprisingly not too bad with some mustard. I can only dream of how it would taste with a fluffy, buttery bun with ketchup and pickles and cheese, all things I CAN NOT HAVE! For dessert I made this thing out of rolled oats, flaxseed, and mashed up banana with some mix ins. It tastes like cardboard with raisin and apple. Not super bad though. I had that with a side of two kiwis. This is going to be a long six weeks. I need to be sure to up my calories tomorrow, like eat more beans and veggies.
Anyhoo....
Little Every Day Things
1. That I live in a country where some of the poorest people are obese and I have the luxury to worry about a diet instead of worrying about what I'm going to feed my family or wondering if the water is safe enough to drink or having to walk miles to get it. It's funny, but I really am lucky and blessed to be this miserable.
2. Dreams. So I can dream about bread and cookies.
3. A husband who will attempt to eat the thing made of mushrooms.
p.s. This is me Hangry
This is why no one is vegan... because it's dumb. Take those babies on LONG walks every day for the next 6 weeks, and lay off the Little Debbie Cakes... problem solved.
ReplyDeleteP.S. People in America are obese because they eat cheese balls and corn dogs for dinner, not because they eat chicken.
P.P.S. 'Merica (because the "A" sounds too Canadian)
I agree that it is dumb, but it yields quick results and amazing health benefits. People don't get fat from chicken but they do from red meat, oil in our dressings and cooking things in oil, butter, and low-nutrient but high calorie foods like any of the breads or sugars which make us constantly overeat because they are digested too easily. And if someone doesn't want to put forth that much effort in exercising, then what you eat is the answer. Dr, Fuhrman's long term plan does include lean meats if wanted and dairy. Even the Word of Wisdom says that meat should be eaten sparingly. Also, the nutrient:calorie ratio set up by our own 'Merican food pyramid isn't plausible. To eat as much carbs and meat as it suggests, we can't physically get nutrients we need unless we overeat on vegetables. Mostly plant-based diets are the only thing that make the nutrients:calories ratio actually work. This strict diet for six weeks is to drop weight fast and change eating habits and what foods are palatable. All Americans would have less cancer if they ate this way not to mention less diabetes and heart problems. Studies have proven in it in parts of the world where the majority of people have plant-based diets. I think it's a good idea to be more proactive abot our own health instead of getting doctors to cut into us and medicate us when we are eating ourselves to death. But anyways, like I said, it's only six weeks and the long term plan does allow animal products in strict moderation. Heck it's how they did it in the bible where you grow what you eat and make everything else so it's not processed and you raised livestock, so you probably didn't have chicken ever day or even every week. You ate what took the least labor probably which was mostly plants.
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