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Originally Posted by Flower51
Do you have a journal where you show what your typical woe is?
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My journal is very old now, and it is more of a habit. Typically it goes like this:
Breakfast:
Large smoothie made with spinach, arugula, kale, berries, pomegranate juice, another fruit, ground flax seed, sunflower seeds soaked overnight, plus either water or a half cup of soy milk. You need a big food processor with some horsepower for this. The idea is to have just enough fruit in it to make the otherwise boring green mush taste good. Chopped fruit on a bed of romaine, with nuts sprinkled is also nice.
Lunch:
Large salad with flavoured (fruit infusion) vinegar
Vegetable 'n' Bean soup (has dulse for iodine and nut butter for nutrient absorption)
Two fruits
Dinner:
Large salad with a homemade dressing (e.g. with avocado base, vinegar or lemon for acidity, some herbs)
Steamed greens - typically bok choy, cabbage, and a little of whatever else is kicking around, like beet or radish tops. I may add some frozen peas to the steamer as well. I often make a dressing out of the soup du jour by adding a tablespoon of nut or seed butter, some spices and some chopped mushrooms, then heating the mixture slowly in a microwave. Btw all my dressings are homemade but they aren't much work once you get into the flow (using the soup as a base, or using the veggies you would chop for salad anyhow).
Dessert is a homemade ice cream made from processing together some frozen fruit, soy milk and a little dried fruit. My favourite is with mangoes and a dried apricot.
The above adds up to about 1200 kcal but somehow I get it up to around 1800 kcal or more. I drink too much coffee, always with cream and sugar. I might have a boiled free range egg every second day, and fish or chicken every week or two. Add to that one or two large apples, and more than enough nuts, and I am now stalled at a little over 200 lbs.
Weekly mega B12, daily fish oil, vitamin D, and a little supplementation with Se and Zn.
Flower, BP is a bit of a mystery for me. My change in diet quickly had noticeable effects on lipids and blood sugars and other improvements I won't mention, but systolic BP has only come down about 12 points so far. Perhaps with atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, it takes a while to bring about physical change in the arterial walls; but meanwhile serum lipids and sugars react more quickly, being in a more dynamic part of the body?