Guest guest Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 Do you do this by fasting? Lauren >>>I've lost 41 pounds since mid-December...and many anoying symptoms of ill health have vanished.<<< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 Lauren Chandler <lrnchandler wrote: Do you do this by fasting? Lauren >>>I've lost 41 pounds since mid-December...and many anoying symptoms of ill health have vanished.<<< No, I'll post here what I sent to a friend who asked me how I did it: In my experience Susan, I have had trouble transitioning to a more wholesome diet when I have tried to move too fast. We have spent alot of time toxifying and polluting our bodies so why not allow our bodies time to move in a more wholesome direction? I start out by having grilled chicken with skin on for dinner along with some raw vegetables. Broccoli or carrots and/or greens with a soy salad dressing, for instance. Do this for several days and then drop down to a skinless chicken breast. Then after several days begin to drop from chicken to fish. (when I have fish I will poach it in a little spring water...nothing fried!) Then after a while drop to just grains and vegetables. Currently, most evenings I eat grains, like Quinoa or Brown Rice or beans, pinto or black and vegetables. Sometimes I will add sauerkraut or olives. And 2 or 3 evenings I will have sardines. I have reached a point where they seem like a treat. In the evenings for a snack I will make the switch from junk to carob covered almonds from Whole Foods, then to dried fruit and some raw almonds or filberts, then to fruit like apples with raw nuts and then eventually drop the nuts out. Allowing several evenings for each "stage." Currently I am quite content with eating only 1/3 of an apple as my evening snack (and some evenings nothing at all.) But it took 2 months for my body and mind to adapt to that level. For lunch I will cook up a pan of quinoa that I have run through my coffee grinder and then after cooking it and cooling the pan it is in in cold water I will add raw nuts, frozen berries and fruit, banana, apple, peach, pear, etc. Many restaurants will poach salmon for you or will steam vegetables or will at least grill a chicken breast and serve it with sliced tomato...I know it's a mine field out there, but it can be done. It is important to get away from the foods that stimulate the body to crave more, more, more. Fried food does this, caffeine, Nutrasweet, sugar, all trans fats (partially hydrogenated oils), meats and other heavy foods, even cooked nuts. And for me wheat does this too. Get away from packaged, industrially processed foods, they cause the body to continue craving them. I was amazed when I got away from these foods how my appetite "went to sleep" and I could be so contented to go for many hours without eating and you will find that you just don't have the same emotional need for those heavy foods that you once did. Take your time and do it slowly. And if you backslide just begin to start again where you left off. And of course we must not forget to move, exercise...as I read recently this guy said, "if all you can do is walk around your bed, do it. First once then a couple days later twice an so on..." Best, Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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