EXERCISE
# Walkie-Talkie 2 hrs outdoors
WATER: (goal:75 oz)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz
EATS:
* watermelon
* bloomin’ mango
* naked brc burrito (beans, rice, cabbage, homegrown tomato, red & green salsa, XL-avocado, cilantro, lemon)
* air-popcorn + smaller amt fatfree XL-carmel popcorn
…..SUN HAS SET…..
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
EXERCISE
# Lift rockbottom @ gym
# Kickbox 60 min @ gym
# Hike 5.5 consecutive hrs
WATER: (goal:75 oz)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz
EATS:
* watermelon
* oat pancakes (rolled oats, banana, almond milk, XL-blackstrap molasses, alfalfa-barley powder) w/ fresh peach, strawberries, pure XL-maple
* icee XL-sweet beverage
* 3 steamed veggie dumplings
* small serving cowboy potatoes (onion, red & green bell pepper, potato) sautéed in small amt veggie XL-oil
* indian taco (w/ pinto beans, cabbage, salsa, XL-avocado) ate toppings & only small taste of fry-bread shell
* half this slice of cherry XL-pie
* small veggie sandwich (lettuce, tomato, onion, mustard on XL-bun)
* XL-fries
…..SUN HAS SET…..
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
Jun 19, 2012 | Updated Aug 19, 2012
by Victoria Moran
I am an obesity survivor. I spent the first 30 years of my life either bingeing or dieting; each of those states was sufficiently unpleasant that I’d revert to the other out of desperation. I was not uneducated about food and nutrition. I had, after all, been trying to “fix” myself since childhood. It’s just that a lot of the information I got, like much of what’s available now, was myth-based — i.e., the late, great “four food groups” — or commercially motivated: all those classroom posters from the Dairy Council, all those TV ads about the white bread that would build strong bodies in an ever-increasing number of ways.
I grew up and became a health writer, interviewing the experts for magazine articles, under the assumption that getting their knowledge firsthand would seep in and change everything. It didn’t.
The turnaround came the day I realized that, as for any addict, the drug- – in this case, food, and manufactured products pretending to be food — had me. I knew there was no escaping, that my situation was beyond the reach of my nutritionist and the library of diet and self-help books I’d collected. With nowhere else to turn, I had a chat with God and said, basically: “I’m done. No more diets, no more games. It’s okay with me if I never get thin, but please — please — make me free.”
A series of remarkable events followed. I joined a gym — only this time with no “goal weight.” Then I met a group of people who’d recovered from eating for a fix and who knew how to do that, a day at a time. And although I’d been vegetarian for awhile — I cared about animals and didn’t want them killed for my sake — I was able to become, imperfectly but committedly, vegan. No animal products, mostly whole foods. I immediately felt that freedom I’d prayed for: a lightness, a relief, a sense of being able, with great love and no guilt at all, to look a cow or pig or chicken in the eye.
I was also astounded by how well I could eat when I built my menus around vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, and a few nuts and seeds. I could finally eat enough. Those little half-cup-of-this, three-ounces-of-that proscriptions didn’t apply anymore. I could eat really big salads and regular-sized portions of veggie-burgers and veggie-chili and veggie-tofu-stir-fries over brown rice. The promise of a thousand infomercials, “Eat all you want and lose weight,” had finally been fulfilled, and I didn’t even have to make three easy payments.
I’m not perfect, but what’s wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don’t have to be. French fries have crossed these lips — white flour, too. It’s just that, these days, those are the last foods I want, and when I eat them on the rare occasions that nothing is else available, it’s no big deal. What has happened over the years is that feeling good has become its own addiction. I like it. I want to feel even better. I drink fresh juices (my favorite is celery, kale, apple, and lemon) and make a morning power-smoothie (almond milk, banana, berries, blackstrap molasses, ground flaxseed, and a nutrient-booster called Vega created by vegan triathlete Brendan Brazer) every day.
“Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,” I tell people, “mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.” As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter. I add some “oomph factor” with steamed broccoli, asparagus, yellow Finn potatoes or bright orange yams; garbanzos or red beans or black ones; sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds, artichoke hearts or black olives or slender slivers of plant-based cheese. (Yes, these days there’s even cheese that bypassed the cow. Life has become very generous.)
I’ve found in this way of life a series of adventures. I raised my daughter, Adair, as a vegan. (Yes, she still is one, and she’s fine, and she’s even trained as a stunt performer.) I’ve traveled all over — Iceland, Tibet, Switzerland where the rivers practically run milk chocolate — and have nowhere on earth been denied three plant-based meals a day. I’ve been through life and loss and 40 and 50 and my weight stays steady, some 60 pounds less than it once was. Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven’t been on a diet since the Reagan administration.
Victoria Moran is the author of Main Street Vegan.
EXERCISE:
# Rest
WATER: (goal:75 oz)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz
EATS:
* oatie-o’s, rolled oats (w/ strawberries, peach, XL-blackstrap molasses, almond milk)
* banana
* Ethiopian vegan lunch:
-Tikil Gomen: cabbage, carrot, potato, onion in turmeric sauce w/ garlic
-Alicha Kik: yellow split peas, onion, tumeric, garlic
-Misir: red lentils, onion, hot sauce, garlic
-Gomen: collard greens, sautéed onion, garlic
-Qey Sir: shredded beets, red onion, garlic
-Injera bread: a spongy sourdough pancake made of high protein teff & oat flour
* peach
* watermelon
…..SUN HAS SET…..
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
EXERCISE
# facial workout
# Lift lunch sisters @ gym
# Stand-up desk 3 hrs
# Walk 6.5 hrs outdoors
WATER: (goal:75 oz)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz
EATS:
* rolled oats (w/ water, blueberries, XL-blackstrap molasses)
* bananas
* un-cheezy XL-bread (w/ tomato, onion, little bit of guacamole)
* shredded red & green cabbage, carrots (no dressing)
* bean taco (pinto, cabbage, onion, tomato on soft corn XL-tortilla)
* jackfuit tacos (pinto beans, pico de gallo, cole slaw, chipotle XL-mayo, tomatillo salsa, New Mexico chile) on soft corn XL- tortilla
* dry, unsalted popcorn
* XL-sweet beverage
…..SUN HAS SET…..
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
EXERCISE
# facial workout
# Lift AB-domination @ gym
# Stand-up desk 6 hrs
# Treadmill powerwalk/sprint intervals 30 min @ gym
WATER: (goal:75 oz)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz
EATS:
* rolled oats (w/ water, alfalfa-barley powder, strawberries, XL-blackstrap molasses)
* bananas
* Trader Joe’s grilled eggplant wrap (w/ eggplant & cabbage, lavash bread)
* kale/edamame salad (w/ tomato, craisins) w/ spicy tahini sauce (ground sesame seeds, salt, fresh garlic, lemon juice, parsley, red chili flakes, lemon salt, water)
* gorilla salad (spinach, cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, red beans, radishes, cauliflower, broccoli, pasta salad w/ no oil) w/ homemade farfree dressing (maple syrup, balsamic vinegar, dijon mustard, garbanzo beans, XL-avocado)
XL-bloomin’ mango
…..SUN HAS SET…..
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
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EXERCISE
# Face exercise
# Lift rockbottom @ gym
# Standing desk 3.5 hrs
WATER: (goal:75 oz)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz
EATS:
* rolled oats, blackstrap XL-molasses, strawberries, almond milk
* banana
* gorilla salad (romaine, mushrooms, garbanzo beans, red beans, cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, onions, pasta salad w/ XL-oil, sunflower seeds) w/ no dressing
* one slice XL-bread
* pomegranate XL-sweet beverage
* fresh fruit (pineapple, strawberries, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew)
* air popcorn + small amt fatfree XL-carmel corn
…..SUN HAS SET…..
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
EXERCISE
# Jog 15 min to gym
# Lift lunch sisters @ gym
# Jog 20 min home
WATER: (goal:75 oz)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz
EATS:
* rolled oats, blackstrap XL-molasses, peaches, strawberries, almond milk
* banana
* naked brc burrito (black beans, rice, raw cabbage) add red & green salsa, cilantro, sauerkraut, XL-avocado
* icee XL-sweet beverage
…..SUN HAS SET…..
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food
READ: How to Help a Meathead!
by Dr. John McDougall
https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2003nl/nov/howtohelpameathead.htm
Then I put these together:
EXERCISE
# Stroll 6 hrs outdoors
WATER: (goal:75 oz)
(2) × (25.4) = 50.8 oz
EATS:
* rolled oats, grapenuts, blackstrap XL-molasses, peaches, strawberries, almond milk
* banana
* corn on cob w/ lemon on it
* lemonade w/ XL-sugar
* guacamole (too much jalapeño, could only eat half)
* pinto beans & grilled shredded jackfruit in Mexican sauce
* dry baked botato w/ broccoli
…..SUN HAS SET…..
* pasta, onion, bell pepper sautéed in balsamic vinegar
Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food