Month: July 2015

Day 118 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# kickbox 60 min

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS
* apple sauce w/ fresh blueberries
* tangy veggie pasta tomato-cheez sauce (tomato sauce, vegan cheez sauce, green salsa, dry sauteed onions, green & red cabbage, kale, broccoli slaw, carrots)  served over…
* steamed baby brussel sprouts cooked w/ high fiber spaghetti, topped w/ nutritional yeast
* XL-root beer
* peaches stewed in date paste topped w/ blended frozen banana, splash of almond milk & cocoa powder (ice dream)

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious foods

Insufficiency of Mediterranean Diet

Figured you’d enjoy this:

Question.  My Cholesterol is Just Fine.  My Weight’s Fine, I Exercise, and I Eat a Healthy Mediterranean Diet.  Why in the World Would I Need to Eat This Way (Esselstyn nut & oil free plant based diet)?

Short Answer from Dr. Esselstyn:  Unless you are one of the lucky few and none of your relatives have ever had vascular disease and they all lived to be a healthy 100, then you more than likely already have some degree of vascular disease.  Unless, of course you’ve been eating like the Papua New Guinea Highlanders or the Tarahumara Indians all your life.

There are countless autopsy studies (click here for a few) of young adults from age 15-34 showing that everyone who eats our Western diet has heart disease.  It’s a given. 

If you eat a healthier Mediterranean diet with olive oil, fish & chicken you’re better off than someone who is eating cheeseburgers & fries–and you may be able to put off the likelihood of getting those nasty imperceptible tiny strokes (Dr. Megan Cleary of California examined over 11,000 MRIs of the brains of 50 year olds & found many had tiny white spots that indicated that they had unknowingly experienced tiny, imperceptible strokes.  These “brain attacks” have the same history and cause as heart attacks), heart disease or vascular problems until your mid-70s or 80s–but just think about spending your last years in a wheelchair, immobile, befuddled, and mute–or think about the erectile dysfunction, slowed mobility, balance and cognitive  problems that are all caused by impaired circulation and could be prevented. 

And then there’s a whole host of other problems, like diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, constipation, and some cancers that could be avoided if you changed your diet.  Not to mention the side effects to all the medications you’ll likely end up taking to keep heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, aortic valve stenosis, and erectile dysfunction at bay.  Diet can do a much better job.

Click here for entire article

Day 117 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# power-walk 70 minutes

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS
* cherries
* oatmeal made w/ water, strawberries, splash of almond milk
* baked potato discs (spritzed w/ coconut XL-oil spray), sliced radishes, baby carrots, XL-catsup, Frito bean dip
* tangy veggie pasta tomato-cheez sauce (tomato sauce, vegan cheez sauce, dry sauteed green & red cabbage, kale, broccoli slaw, carrots) – love it! Served over…
* steamed baby brussel sprouts cooked w/ high fiber spaghetti
* raw baby carrots
* XL-root beer

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious foods

Day 116 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# walk about 60 minutes

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(2) × (25.4) = 50.8 oz (yikes!)

EATS
* rolled oats, bran flakes, blueberries, strawberries, almond milk
* small round whole wheat toast w/ boysenberries jam w/ XL-sugar from Shelley’s kitchen
* chopped green salad w/ beans, rice, green & red salsa
* chili beans (pintos, garden tomatoes, red peppers, onions, button squash, seasoning, tempered hot pepper powder w/ bit of XL- sugar)
* corn
* two XL-root beers

Day 115 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# Community Garden harvest 1.5 hrs
# online conference tread mill desk walk 45 min

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS
* oatmeal made w/ water, fruit, few shredded XL-almonds
* chili beans (pintos, garden tomatoes, red peppers, onions, button squash, seasoning, tempered hot pepper powder w/ bit of XL- sugar)
* corn
* corn bread (corn meal, unbleached XL-white flour, baking powder, almond milk, unsweetened apple sauce, XL-maple) w/ XL-avocado
* bit of quinoa salad

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious foods

The Great Facon Cook-Off!

This morning I made three varieties of facon (fake bacon):

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Up top is fresh young coconut!
On left is shredded coconut!
On right is Soy Curls (dehydrated whole soybeans)!

For each just marinate in concoction of TAMARI, LIQUID SMOKE, PURE MAPLE SYRUP.

Then drain & bake at 400 degrees (turning often) until crispy. I actually pan fried the marinated Soy Curls.

They all had a unique texture & tasted great! Dryest leftovers store well in sealed refrigerator container several days

Results: I preferred Soy Curls, but family winner is shredded coconut!

Any of these varieties taste great along side vegan pancakes, in sandwiches, on vegan pizza, crumbled on oatmeal, in green salad, potato salad, pasta salad… even crumbled on dessert. Give it a try!

Day 113 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# Lift lunch sisters
# tread desk walking 3 hrs

WATER: (goal: > 75)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS
* sprouted quinoa salad w/  lime juice, scallions, Italian Parsley, chopped mint, craisins, pumpkin XL-seeds, green & red cabbage, kale, broccoli slaw, carrots
* banana
* young XL-coconut meat w/ chili & limón
* watermelon
* oat crust pizza w/ veggies, pasta sauce, quinoa salad, nacho cheez

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious foods

Day 112 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

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EXERCISE:
# kickbox 60 min

WATER: (goal: > 77)
(3) × (25.4) = 76.2 oz

EATS
* bran flakes w/ strawberries, homegrown peaches, XL-almond milk
* quinoa, kale, peppers, onions, white beans, black beans, corn, rice w/ sliced tomatoes & some XL-avocado
* young XL-coconut meat w/ chili & limón
* banana
* XL-date

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious foods