This is the easiest lifestyle change I have ever done.
EAT TO LIVE
The Six-Week Plan
UNLIMITED
Eat as much as you want
all raw vegetables, including raw carrots (goal: 1 lb. daily)
cooked green vegetables (goal 1 lb. daily)
beans, legumes, bean sprouts, and tofu (1 cup daily)
fresh fruit (at least 4 daily)
eggplant, mushrooms, peppers, onions, tomatoes
LIMITED
not more than one serving (1 cup) per day
cooked starchy vegetables or whole grains
(butternut or acorn squash, corn, potatoes, rice, cooked carrots, sweet potatoes, breads, cereals)
raw nuts and seeds (1 oz. max. per day)
avocado (2 oz. max. per day)
ground flaxseed (1 tablespoon per day)
OFF-LIMITS
dairy products
animals products
between-meals snacks
fruit juice, dried fruit
I actually quit eating meant 6/8/09 I have not missed it at all.
I only quit dairy when I started to Eat To Live 8/10/09 and I do miss cheese but the soy alternatives are decent.
My diet was shit before, fast food almost every day, sometimes 3 bagels with cream cheese in a sitting.
I went from 6’0" 235lbs 8/10/09 to 216lbs 8/31/09 and I have another 3 weeks till I start the 90/10 plan. 90/10 is you follow the plan 90% of the time and eat what you please 10% of the time.
Dried fruit is not as filling and usually has added sugar it is good for you in moderation but people tend to eat too much of it.
What’s a typical day’s eating for you? I ask this because I find it a challenge to eat a lot of vegetables/fruit day after day without getting tired of things.
What are you going to do after the 6 weeks are up?
ETA: Nevermind, I just saw the 90/10 plan thing. Do you just keep doing that forever? It’s awesome that you’ve found something that works for you but personally I think I would have a hard time following those restrictions for the rest of my life. However, if it works for you, then it works, and if you’re feeling better that’s what’s important.
Congratulations on your success. If it works for you and you can stick to it and really make it a lifestyle change that’s awesome. It sounds like a very healthy program.
Excercise is also good for you. Hope you’re at least walking or something.
Looks like it’s designed to take you into negative calories while keeping your vitamins etc. high, so I wouldn’t classify it as “starving yourself.” The only way you are **ever **going to lose weight is to take in less energy (in the form of food) than you put out.
Well, yeah, but a safe rate is 1-2 pounds a week, not 6 pounds a week for 3 weeks. It seems likely his body is cannibalizing muscle. It is possible to get enough protein on this diet, but it seems like a challenge. Beans don’t have as much protein as people think.
I thought safe weight loss was based on a percentage of weight, not a flat amount? And that it was okay to dump more weight earlier in the diet? Getting enough protein doesn’t look like a challenge to me, as long as you eat a variety of foods–glancing at the list, it looks like a pretty healthy, non-carb-loading vegan diet.
All layman’s opinions, though, so I could be wrong.
Both of these are true, he probably dumped a lot of water weight at the beginning due to the changed diet. If it were 6 pounds the first week, and slowed to 3ish in the following weeks, I’d have less concern. 6 pounds a week is still more extreme than I’d want to see from someone who’s 235. Looking at the diet, it looks like he is eating a lot of things that don’t have a lot calories. If he is eating only when he is hungry, he is probably not getting enough calories, which is a good way to yo-yo. I hope that the OP is hitting his cap on avocado and nuts everyday. It is possible to have a balanced diet within these guidelines, but I would think it would take more effort than eating a balanced diet without the guidelines, especially if you are involved in any athletic endeavors.