# Anyone doing the Fuhrman "Eat to Live" plan **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-doing-the-fuhrman-eat-to-live-plan/635694 "2012-09-24T18:25:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-doing-the-fuhrman-eat-to-live-plan/635694/21 "2012-09-27T01:03:06Z")
I’ve read the book and tried the diet, short-term (just for a week). It’s a lot of food but pretty cheap, because there is no meat and very little premade food. I haven’t tried it while employed, and I think taking that much food to work on a daily basis would be a little weird. However, I do know that a few hours after eating a freakin’ huge salad, I’m still not hungry. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-doing-the-fuhrman-eat-to-live-plan/635694/22 "2012-09-27T01:08:30Z")
Yeah, the quantities of food are enormous. I felt stuffed after the cauliflower soup, hummus in half a whole wheat pita, and strawberries. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-doing-the-fuhrman-eat-to-live-plan/635694/23 "2012-10-05T15:04:21Z")
I’ve been following this plan for a couple of weeks and wanted to report on some interesting things for anyone who might be curious/interested. I’ve not had any dairy except for about a tablespoon of cheese dip at a birthday party. I did have about 3 oz of meat at that party, too. But other than that, veggies out the wazoo. In the middle of last week, I ate a cup of frozen yogurt and within an hour felt the familiar “thickening” in my lower lip that presages a swelling. It never did swell up, but that feeling persisted for a good 24 hours. Had no reaction to the tiny amount of cheese dip. I’ve been using almond milk in coffee and have gotten soy-mochas at Starbucks (I do subscribe to belief in the dangers of too much soy, but choices at Starbucks are limited). I find that I’m not hungry between meals and have NO desire to snack AT ALL. This is very strange and not like me. I’m not saying that if I ate a handful of Hanover Honey Mustard Pretzel Bits I wouldn’t just go ahead and eat the whole bag (same with Ruffles Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips). I don’t have anything in the house at the moment that falls into the junk food category. I live in the country far from grocery/convenience stores, which is a good thing. For breakfast I make one of the Fuhrman recipes, which is about three tablespoons of old-fashioned oats moistened with pomegranate juice, blueberries, currants, almonds and sunflower seeds and half a banana, microwaved for three minutes. Insanely delicious. (And would be DEE-VINE drowned in vanilla ice cream.) My lunch has been half a pita stuffed with hummus and a couple of the following: peperocini (the peppers, not the sausage), baby spinach, nuts, tomatoes, arugula. Takes me five minutes to assemble and wrap in foil and put in my purse. Dinner is roasted veggies: cauliflower florets, brussels sprouts, last night: eggplant slices. And some fruit like canteloupe. The odd thing is that this is actually satisfying and doesn’t leave me craving more. I don’t wander into the kitchen later looking to graze. The fact that there is nothing to graze on is part of the explanation, but yesterday, I stood in front of the pastry counter at Whole Foods and gave myself permission to have anything there, and nothing looked good! AAgghh! _What have you done with ThelmaLou???_ My blood sugar has been very good, hanging out around 90-115 and only going up to about 150 (post-prandial) and coming back down afterwards. Fasting blood sugar (FBG) is still ~140-ish, but I expect that to improve. So that’s the way it is. I’m taking it one day at a time, buying lots of veggies and enjoying very much the feeling that I’m taking as good care of myself as I did for my husband (of blessed memory). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-doing-the-fuhrman-eat-to-live-plan/635694.md?page=1)