Category: Motivational

This is a reader’s post at Cathy Fisher’s STRAIGHT UP FOOD blog.

I decided to add whole grains back into my diet after coming across Dr. McDougall’s website. What he said immediately made so much sense: that regularly consuming high-fat, high-calorie plant foods (and overly processed foods) would stall weight loss. So I ditched my daily handful of nuts and seeds, olive oil and avocado.

Then a miracle happened: After two and a half years of being vegan, I started losing weight. In four months I went from 123 to 110 pounds. I couldn’t believe how much of a difference it made to ditch the high-fat plant foods from my diet.

Now my lifestyle is a simple, whole-foods, low-fat vegan one. I eat mostly whole-grains (quinoa, brown rice), baked sweet potato, veggies, fruits, and lots of beans and lentils. I prepare a breakfast of oatmeal cooked in water with fresh fruit. I only steam, bake, grill or boil veggies, or I eat them raw. I love beans; I make them in every form I can think of, including hummus with garbanzo beans, but with no tahini at all (I just add a little extra water and it is as creamy as it would be with the high-fat tahini).

I am so happy to just have a clean, simple plate of low-fat food with no added oil. It took me almost three years to get here, but it was worth it! I will surely stick with this diet. It just gives me so much energy, and for the first time in my life I love the way I feel and look.

http://www.straightupfood.com/blog/2014/11/17/the-key-to-my-weight-loss/”

You can buy Cathy’s cookbook (Straight Up Food) on Amazon, but lots of her recipes are available online for free (click here).

Trade-offs:

Excellent documentary discussing the health, environmental, political & corporate factors of a plant-based lifestyles. I would just add one more issue – the harm of consuming high quantities of plant-based processed foods… refined sugars, refined grains, refined fats (oils), refined salts, fake meats, etc.

I have a great idea here: Plez scroll down to “Got Diabetes” & listen to both:

Day 5
Day 8

I call yesterday “Stuff-My-Face Thursay”. Let’s call today “Fast-For-Healing Friday”.

Stay calm & reflective today, drink plenty of water instead of eating, avoid excessive stress, take walks in nature, do your chores with intermittent periods of being still & acknowledging that ultimately *HE* is in charge… not ourselves. We have only the responsibility of moving in the direction of His perfect will:

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

SOY CURL POULTRY-LIKE CASSEROLE

Ingredients:

1 package soy curls (buy on Amazon)
1/2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp poultry seasoning
2 tsp Italian seasoning
2 tbs. cornstarch
1/4 tsp sage
1/4 tsp thyme
1/8 tsp coriander
1 tsp minced garlic
8 oz sliced mushrooms
1 c shredded carrots
1/2 chopped onion
1/2 bell pepper
2 tbs coconut sugar

Instructions:

Soak the soy curls in warm water for 30 minutes to rehydrate.

Drain excess water, then toss them with garlic powder, Italian & poultry seasoning.

Bake in oven for 30 minutes on 350 degrees.

Water-saute bell pepper, onion, carrots.

Heat up 2 cups of water with cornstarch (mixed with a little bit of water).

Boil, stirring constantly until it begins to thicken.

In simmering pot add water-sauteed veggies, Italian seasoning, thyme, coriander, coconut sugar.

Add soy curls to the mixture.

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