Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Love Fast Five and Plants

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Re: [fast5] Love Fast Five and Plants

I think thats wonderful advice!! :) I love fruits and vegetables! I think they are the best food out there, I've gone vegetarian a few times because I watched some really scary videos after some meat recalls. I couldn't stick with it because I haven't figured out how to balance the nutrients correctly and got really weak after a month or so. I'm also not that great of a cook when it comes to vegetable dishes, I am with starchy and meaty dishes because thats what I grew up on. My mother absolutely loves doing atkins and low carb trends, to me they are a nightmare because of the lack of grains and fiber in her diet, I can't convince her though. I think if we were meant to eat mostly meat that we would have more canine teeth in our mouths, but we only have four so it must mean occasional eating of meat. We as a nation would save alot more farmland and less contamination if we ate more plants. On my journey to better health and weight loss, ive tried to emphasis having alot of fruits and vegetables, I never make a meal without them and I feel great!! I'm so happy to hear someone excited about plant food! :) keep it up!

--- On Thu, 11/5/09, cecipettijohn <cecipettijohn@gmail.com> wrote:

From: cecipettijohn <cecipettijohn@gmail.com>
Subject: [fast5] Love Fast Five and Plants
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6:31 PM

Hello all. I am nursing a 13 month old, and have no weight to lose, but after a friend told me she does this, I read the ebook and find this way of eating to be a great way to have more time to concentrate on my son (not thinking about food 3 times a day and what I'm going to make).

My comment was after having read all the previous posts-I am suprised how many people eat a high animal protein/fat diet.

I used to think my body could only handle animal protein/fat due everything you read in fitness magazines and also loving sugar and eating too much of it (a mouthful of cavities to prove it).

After reading just about every book out there (china study and all of John Mcdougall's work convinced me of the long term health benefits), it seems that our systems are ideally designed to eat plants.
Animals are meant to be eaten when we have to other alternative for fuel.

I don't want to upset anyone-I just want to encourage people to read the data about animal protein-I would eat it if I had to, but in America-none of us are going hungry and plants=health.

In the book "green for life" the author poses a great question about why would we eat reconstituted protein instead of getting it straight from the source (plants) we were designed to get it from.
Paleo man did not have a choice, but in america, we do.

I used to think I gained weight from wheat, corn, potaotes, etc, but it was the fat that I was eating that I was wearing on my body (could never get below 140/5'6").
Now I am a size 2 (3 sizes smaller, but no longer weigh myself) and I eat about 3 big potatoes a day in addition to other plants.
I used to think the food pyramid was insane, until I really read the research (mcdougall was the most convincing).

Anyway-I think eating this way (fasting 19 hours) is great and puts food back in the proper perspective of fuel.

I am for spreading information about plants to all and feel I have an obligation to atleast recommend books like the China Study, Green for Life, and all of John Mcdougalls work.writings (he has a web site that is worth reviewing-I never would have believed this stuff 15 years ago).

Blessings,
Ceci