Posts Tagged ‘Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss’

For most of my life I have been overweight and even obese. I know I was skinny at one point back when I was like…five years old, but that's mainly from pictures, I can't actually remember being skinny. I've tried so many times to diet from doing Weight Watchers to just trying to eat with more portional control. There have definintely been some times where I succeeded for a while. For instance, one time I tried Weight Watchers and at the same time did some Urban Rebound several days per week and I easily lost 20 pounds. But it seems each time I always gain the weight back and then some. My first summer at Camp McCall without trying to eat healthy at all I lost 20 pounds just because being a First Year Guy is so intensive.

As I talked about in a previous post, I recently watched a screening of the movie Forks Over Knives, a documentary on the studies done on the negative effects of animal protein and dairy on our bodies and how it can in fact trigger cancer growth and other diseases. It spoke on the importance of eating a plant-based diet to stop and even reverse such diseases that are everywhere in America. For a while now, my mom has also been trying to teach our family about how to eat in this way, telling us about all of the stuff she has learned form Dr. Joel Fuhrman in his books, Eat To Live and Eat For Health, which also strongly focus on vegetarian lifestyles and show the scientific evidence and personal success stories to support such claims.

So all last week I've been trying my best to stick to a plant-based diet. For breakfast I have been having plain Special K with Silk soy milk. For lunch I've tried to make a salad with chopped almonds and dried cranberries and take it to work with an apple or clementines and some veggie straws with red pepper hummus (which interestingly and appropriately enough comes from the arabic word for 'chickpeas'). A few times when I was too rushed in the morning to prepare lunch, I went to subway and got a veggie delight sub or salad.

While I did really awesome last week, this week has not been as great. I set myself up too do poorly because of not getting up with enough time to prepare lunch, not wanting to clean dishes and so I ran out of the tupperware that I like to use for taking salads to work, and just being tempted to go out for supper because it is much faster than trying to come up with a plan for making something at home after a long day of work.

My goal is try again and hopefully get a little better at it, develop a plan with some recipes to try instead of just winging it like I have been. On the one hand I get depressed thinking about lunch now, I don't really look forward to eating leaves for lunch, but I have noticed that afterwards I do feel a lot better. I do feel full afterwards but it seems like it does go away a lot faster, I get hungry sooner. I will continue to write about my progress, struggles, and hopefully successes here.

I might try some of these recipes from the first link below. They are some "Vegan Dishes" from Weight Watchers, though I think they kind of stretch the definition of vegan since a few of these have some cheese in them, but the way I see it, they are probably a lot healthier than I have previously been eating, so it's still a heathful direction for me. Besides just eating healthier I'd like to lose about 100 pounds, that'd be great!
 

Other good reads

• Meatless Monday: 10 Healthy Vegetarian Recipes From Weight Watchers (blisstree.com)
• Helpful tips from Dr. Fuhrman (renees6weekjournal.wordpress.com)