Fell of the wagon but back and better than before!!!

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Hi guys )

 

It has been some months since I have added my 2 cents to anything.

This has mainly been out of guilt as I fell of the wagon hurt my self

royally and ended up in the hospital. I won't go into details but I

will say that I was in renal failure and my legs looked like ballons

because of dialisis (president of mis-spellers anon.) On the plus side

my family doctor did not give up on the raw food idea as I had done

and told the dietition (I'm the president because I am the worst mis

speller I know) that I was on a special diet and perhaps she could

help me. So here is the story of how I am back on the wagon and better

than before. (ie: seeing ads for coke, cookies, candy and cooked foods

makes me gag) I tell this in the hopes that someone who is struggling

(see what I mean) with become the best eater thay can be might try

this and it will work for them also.

 

I fell of the wagon for 2 reasons (excuses) 1. My husband still eats

cooked food and it was too hard to work with both diets. 2. I craved

things mainly rice and thai curry and sushi and okonmanyaki (okay that

one is japanese and hard to spell anyway.) I allowed myself to give

into the cravings and I told Silje this so she came up with this idea.

Change the cravings slowly. This is how we did it.

 

1. Go through your kitchen and clean out all ready heat and serve

food, cans and boxes. Get rid of all sugar products and processed

things lying around.

2.Sit your family down and explain to them what you are doing and why.

Tell them you don't care what they eat out of the house but please try

to keep your definition of ookie food out of the house.

3.Change the way you serve food. I have found that going Asian style

in serving the food worked wonders. A bowl and small plate at each

setting. If your household eats meat then that person protion is serve

on the small plate. In the bowl you serve the starch (potato, rice,

pasta though it easier with rice because it does not need suace or

butter)

4.Now I can pretty much guarantee that only few of you crave cooked

veggies. So get out a huge platter and chop up 2 to 3 kind of veggies

and put them on it. Then in a big bowl place your lettuce, cabbage

ect. Now it is best to try and change the veggie and salat from day to

day giving the viarity your family expects. This is placed in the

middle of the table as a community plate it is not served from but

everyone eats off it. Same with the bowl. (therefor it is easier to

eat with chopsticks which is actually better than a fork because it

allows more flavor for the food as metal taints the taste.)

(Okay so now you basically have a plate of raw veggie a bowl of starch

and for meat eaters a simple piece of meat of fish. This is the basic

meal monday through Thursday then on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday eat

family meals like you used to but always have a large, large salad.

And a side dish of a raw veggie like carrot or brocoli)

5. To begin with cut you meat (if you eat meat) and starch consumption

in half. (side note here being that it really is best try not to have

starch and meat at the same meal for the body to process the meal

easier, but if this is not possible try cutting down the meat faster

than the starch) So now you are sitting there with a piping hot bowl

of rice (example) and a little plate of half a hamburger patty (if you

eat meat) pass them by and start chowing down on the veggies and salat

(norwegian word the encompasses lettuce and cabbage type things) eat

one thing at a time (ex: a carrot stick, sip of water, leaf of

lettuce, sip of water, brocoli, sip of water) You don't have to sip

water (to rinse the palat and prepare it for the next taste) between

each bit but it is best between each thing you eat. Now as you feel

yourself getting fuller eat a bite or two of rice (example) then a

bite of meat (no rinsing between the meat and the starch but rinse

before you eat more of the veggies)

6. Now after a time cut back the amount of meat and starch you serve

yourself (it is perhaps best to cut back the amount you cook making it

easier to do this as many like Kris eat until the cooked food is gone

[he has gotten better since we started this and has even cut his

starch consumption and meat by 3/4ths and even though I cook 1 dl

(uncooked) of rice for him threre is always some left ] Each day eat

at least one more bite of veggie than starch.

 

After a time your body will begin to crave the veggies and not the starch.

 

7. When Dinner is over tear up the rest of the salat place back in

bowl and run the rest of the veggies through the food processor (if

you have one otherwise cut up for a salad) place veggies in with the

salat and BOOM lunch for the next day.

8. Try not to eat after 8 or 9:00 but if you must have some of the

salad you made from the leftovers or fruit.

9. In the morning make a smoothie (banana based no greens) or eat

melon (gala or honeydew the whole thing Watermelon 1/4) Then through

the rest of the morning if you are hungry eat fruit (This takes some

disciple but after a few days you will crave the melon or fruit, after

a week you will be nasty if you don't get that morning fruit

fix)[right now I have a roaring watermelon addiction going on I am

eating around half a 4 to 5 kilo watermelon every morning and whine if

I don't have any ( " But I don't want a smoothie I want watermelon

....neeea...neeea...neea If I can't have watermelon then I won't eat

anyth....ooooooo STRAWBERRIES!!!!! " smak smak smak)

 

Well that's it. I hope this helps some one. This plan has worked

wonders for me and is working wonders for my husband who doesn't even

want to go raw food but is helping him not eat enough for 2 and 1\2

people at each meal. I am sure it can help your family as sometimes

the reason we have overweight families is because too much food is

cooked (please no oone take offense at that I only say this because I

realized that this was what I was doing (cooking to much food) and it

was the reason Kris and I were so over weight.) This is also great

because sometimes I am not that hungry when Kris eats dinner but since

we use the comunity plater for the things I do eat I can sit there

with him holding my chop sticks and just munch a bit and we both still

get a feeling of eating dinner together. Preparing dinner this way

also allows me to have more time to do other things (like play The

Sims) because it takes maybe 10 minutes to make dinner and not using

oil (maybe a touch of sesame to marinate Kris' meat in) make washing

the dishes a breeze espically since I don't need plates or bowls. A

friend of ours has a teenaged daughter who was actually worried about

her weight (she is a tiny little thing to begin with) When Ingeborg

saw how well the eating change was working for Kris and I she deceided

to give it a try, last night Julie went to her and thanked her for

doing what she was doing because it helped Julie get over her eating

disorder she had been hiding from the family for 4 months. And Julie

has actually gone raw. And just as I do sits with the family while

they eat with chopsticks and munches off the comunity platter then

eats a banana later when she is hungry. Ingeborg is eating the Fit For

Life way and is very happy.

 

Thank you for reading me go on and on keyboards and know open for

questions and comments and apolgies for the projector not working as I

didn't prepare a fablous slide show

 

Love and kisses,

Lu