Fw: the vegan diet vs SAD

December 14, 2009

Just keep telling your self that this is a full lifestyle change and not a diet with a finite ending. You are changing only what you are eating, and by eating these upgraded foods you can actually eat MORE because of their lowered calories, their volume, density and satiety. The variety in a vegan diet is unbelievable. All the colors of the rainbow are represented in a plant based diet. Look upon it as an adventure in good eating and not as a penance to be endured with failure at the end. As Barnard and Esselstyn have said, " You won't get fat by eating foods that have no added oils and other fats attached." You can eat a ton of natural greens, grains and fruits and vegetables for the same calories as contained in a hamburger.Patricia SquyresMarion Nestle's cardinal rules for eating better:Never buy anything with a health

claim.Never buy anything with a cartoon on its faceNever buy anything with more than 5 ingredients.--- On Sun, 12/13/09, Serene <serene-lists wrote:Serene <serene-listsRe: Fw: Sign Up Now: PCRM President Neal Barnard: Kickstart P... Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 5:09 PM

Rzwierlein (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:

> Signed up. Time to stop waffling and be healthy!!!!

Okay, I'm in. I'm inexplicably a little nervous about it. (Inexplicable

because I was a vegetarian for 20 years -- vegan for 2 of those years,

and it should be like falling off a log for me, but I've become kind of

habituated to meat foods since moving in with omnivores.)

Part of my nervousness is because of the whole diet-mentality thing,

too. I think changing my diet on January 1st just feels too much like

all those icky, self-loathing weight-loss attempts of my teen years. I

hope y'all will be my cheerleaders, reminding me that people don't have

to be trying to lose weight in order to get healthier.

Wow, this is really kind of a bigger deal to me than I thought it would