Wednesday's Meals
Breakfast at home
Hot Oat Meal
Almond milk (unsweetened)
2 tbs milled flax seed
Walnuts
Lunch at Golden Corral
Salad
Walden Farm's 1000 Island Dressing (0 fat)
Baked Potato
Pinto beans
Pico de gallo
Scoop of guacamole
Watermelon
Dinner at Home
Salad
Walden Farm's Italian Dressing (0 fat)
Whole Wheat spaghetti
Home made marinara sauce
Fresh strawberries
Evening Snack at Home
Pop Corn (cooked on my hot air popper)
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
WFPB Healthy Lifestyle Habit
There is an article in the Standard Examiner for Tuesday, April 29, 2014 titled "Dieting? Researchers say quit". You can read it at http://www.standard.net/stories/2014/04/29/tired-dieting-stop-it-it-may-not-work.
It explains all the problems of dieting I have experienced throughout my life. Their conclusion is diets don't work, so quit. They recommend ditching the diet mentality and practicing healthy lifestyle habits.
To me this is exactly what the Whole Food Plant Based program is. A healthy lifestyle habit you must practice for the rest of your life. And it works, when nothing else does in the long run.
So I am not going to use the word "diet" any more in this blog but instead say "the WFPB healthy lifestyle habit".
It explains all the problems of dieting I have experienced throughout my life. Their conclusion is diets don't work, so quit. They recommend ditching the diet mentality and practicing healthy lifestyle habits.
To me this is exactly what the Whole Food Plant Based program is. A healthy lifestyle habit you must practice for the rest of your life. And it works, when nothing else does in the long run.
So I am not going to use the word "diet" any more in this blog but instead say "the WFPB healthy lifestyle habit".
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Tuesday's Meals
Tuesday's Meals
Breakfast at home
Corn flakes
Almond milk (unsweetened)
2 tbs milled flax seed
Fresh raspberries
Lunch at Asian Buffet
Salad
My own French Dressing (0 fat)
Cup of hot & sour soup
Vegetable Mei Fun (Mei fun noodles is ordinary rice vermicelli. There is no meat in it. It is stir fried with healthy and high fiber veggies.)
Vegetable Lo Mei (Lo Mein noodles with stir fry vegetables and no meat)
Fried Rice
Fresh Cantaloup
Dinner at Home
Salad
No fat Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
Baked Potato
Pinto beans
Paces mild picante sauce
Peas
Evening Snack at Home
Small serving of pistachio nuts
Breakfast at home
Corn flakes
Almond milk (unsweetened)
2 tbs milled flax seed
Fresh raspberries
Lunch at Asian Buffet
Salad
My own French Dressing (0 fat)
Cup of hot & sour soup
Vegetable Mei Fun (Mei fun noodles is ordinary rice vermicelli. There is no meat in it. It is stir fried with healthy and high fiber veggies.)
Vegetable Lo Mei (Lo Mein noodles with stir fry vegetables and no meat)
Fried Rice
Fresh Cantaloup
Dinner at Home
Salad
No fat Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing
Baked Potato
Pinto beans
Paces mild picante sauce
Peas
Evening Snack at Home
Small serving of pistachio nuts
Monday, April 28, 2014
Monday's Meals
Last Thursday my granddaughter graduated from Weber State University. After the graduation the family had lunch at Chili's which was her choice. To prepare ahead so I could stay on my WFPB diet, I looked up Chili's on the internet to see what I could eat. I found their vegetarian menu. (http://www.chilis.com/EN/LocationSpecificPDF/MenuPDF/001.005.0000/Chilis%20Vegetarian%20Menu%20Generic.pdf) The menu also indicates which items have dairy and eggs so you can use it as a vegan menu. I ordered their Santa Fe Salad without chicken and tortilla chips. I added my own Walden Farms Thousand Island dressing. I also had a cup of black beans and 3 corn tortillas (10 fat calories). I dipped the tortillas in the picante sauce like they were chips. It was a very enjoyable meal.
For this entire week I am going to list what I eat each day and request any comments and suggestions on how I can better stay on my diet. We eat out 9 meals a week and it is sometimes difficult to find restaurant food I can eat that is legal on my diet. One of the biggest problems I have is avoiding refined vegetable oils such as olive oil because many places "sneak" it into their recipes.
Monday's Meals
Breakfast at home
Shredded wheat
Almond milk (unsweetened)
2 tbs milled flax seed
1/2 banana
Lunch at Olive Garden
Salad
Walden Farms Italian Dressing (0 calories)
Minestrone soup
1 bread stick
Dinner at Sizzler
Salad with my own Walden Farms 1000 Island Dressing (0 calories, no fat)
Baked Potato
Pinto beans
Pico de gallo
Spoon of guacamole
Honeydew melon
Evening Snack at Home
1 small apple
For this entire week I am going to list what I eat each day and request any comments and suggestions on how I can better stay on my diet. We eat out 9 meals a week and it is sometimes difficult to find restaurant food I can eat that is legal on my diet. One of the biggest problems I have is avoiding refined vegetable oils such as olive oil because many places "sneak" it into their recipes.
Monday's Meals
Breakfast at home
Shredded wheat
Almond milk (unsweetened)
2 tbs milled flax seed
1/2 banana
Lunch at Olive Garden
Salad
Walden Farms Italian Dressing (0 calories)
Minestrone soup
1 bread stick
Dinner at Sizzler
Salad with my own Walden Farms 1000 Island Dressing (0 calories, no fat)
Baked Potato
Pinto beans
Pico de gallo
Spoon of guacamole
Honeydew melon
Evening Snack at Home
1 small apple
Monday, April 21, 2014
Eight Weeks Down
Today I have been on the WFPB diet for 8 weeks. After lunch I went to my Doctor's office to weigh me. I weigh 379 pounds. This is a loss of 13 pounds in the last 4 weeks and a total of 33 pounds since I started 8 weeks ago. This is an average loss of about 4 pounds a week. My long term goal is to average losing about 2 1/2 pounds a week for about two years. Then I will be down to a normal weight and in a lot better health. This is my long term goal and I have a good start. This encourages me to keep on going.
Last week I read an article in Meridian Magazine by Jane Birch titled "Discovering The Word of Wisdom: Discovering Joy!". It is an excellent article and I recommend everyone read it. You can find it at http://www.ldsmag.com/article/1/14213.
Starting next Monday and for one week I am going to record on this blog everything I eat each day. Then I hope any followers will critique my diet and give me any suggestions on how I can improve.
Forever strong in life
Larry Strong
Last week I read an article in Meridian Magazine by Jane Birch titled "Discovering The Word of Wisdom: Discovering Joy!". It is an excellent article and I recommend everyone read it. You can find it at http://www.ldsmag.com/article/1/14213.
Starting next Monday and for one week I am going to record on this blog everything I eat each day. Then I hope any followers will critique my diet and give me any suggestions on how I can improve.
Forever strong in life
Larry Strong
Monday, April 14, 2014
Feeling Good
Today I have been on the WFPB diet for 7 weeks and I am feeling good. However, you must remember that I am 77 years old and have weighed over 400 pounds for the past 32 years. Everything considered, I feel blessed to still be alive. My father died at age 77 and my mother at age 72. So I am entering new ground. First, I do feel better than I did before I started the diet. I have more energy during the day and I don't get as tired as I used to. Second, I am sleeping better. I go to sleep quickly when I retire and I don't have to get up as often during the night to go the the bathroom. When I wake up in the morning I feel refreshed and ready to start the day. Third, my stress level is way down. In the past I have always worried about my weight and health. But now with this diet my mind is at ease. I believe in the diet because some results are starting to show. I am losing weight and am feeling better. I realize it is a long hard journey ahead of me but I am determine to stay on the path and persevere. One disappointment is my chronic congestive cough. I was hoping eliminating dairy from my diet would resolve this problem but so far there has been no change. Onward and upward and we will see.
My family is supportive of what I am doing but no one wants to try it with me, at least for now. Hopefully as I succeed they will reconsider. I asked my wife to go on it with me but she said no. She was on Atkins for two years and lost 100 pounds. She doesn't want to go through another diet, but I told her it was a complete change in eating life style. We will see. My two daughters have been the most supportive, but also don't want to try it. Yet. A week ago we had lunch at my daughters between Sunday sessions of conference. She fixed me a baked potato and I took a can of beans to eat with it. A few days ago my other daughter brought me a bottle of salad dressing that has no fat and no calories. It is made by Walden Farms (waldenfarms.com) and is available at Harvest Moon Health Foods.
The second Sunday of each month all of our family (5 children and spouses, 15 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren) meet at one of our homes for dessert night and a get together. We met again last night (except for two grandchildren who are on missions). We are very blessed because all of our family lives within twenty minutes of us. I took an apple for my dessert. I handed out a paper to each family explaining the diet I am on and links to this blog and Jane Birch's book "Discovering the Word of Wisdom". They expressed some interest, especially the women, and said they would learn more about the diet. We will see.
Every Tuesday and Thursday I go to Wasatch Peak Physical Therapy and do an hour and a half of water aerobics. I have been doing this for 12 years. We get to know all the regulars and love to discuss our health problems, and some have real zingers. I told them I was losing weight on a new diet and they asked me what the diet was. So I explained it. But all of them said they were not interested on going on a vegan diet with no refined vegetable oils because they couldn't give up their dairy and/ or meat. But as I continue to lose weight and improve my health we will see if they change their mind.
One week until my second weigh in.
Forever strong in life
Larry Strong
My family is supportive of what I am doing but no one wants to try it with me, at least for now. Hopefully as I succeed they will reconsider. I asked my wife to go on it with me but she said no. She was on Atkins for two years and lost 100 pounds. She doesn't want to go through another diet, but I told her it was a complete change in eating life style. We will see. My two daughters have been the most supportive, but also don't want to try it. Yet. A week ago we had lunch at my daughters between Sunday sessions of conference. She fixed me a baked potato and I took a can of beans to eat with it. A few days ago my other daughter brought me a bottle of salad dressing that has no fat and no calories. It is made by Walden Farms (waldenfarms.com) and is available at Harvest Moon Health Foods.
The second Sunday of each month all of our family (5 children and spouses, 15 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren) meet at one of our homes for dessert night and a get together. We met again last night (except for two grandchildren who are on missions). We are very blessed because all of our family lives within twenty minutes of us. I took an apple for my dessert. I handed out a paper to each family explaining the diet I am on and links to this blog and Jane Birch's book "Discovering the Word of Wisdom". They expressed some interest, especially the women, and said they would learn more about the diet. We will see.
Every Tuesday and Thursday I go to Wasatch Peak Physical Therapy and do an hour and a half of water aerobics. I have been doing this for 12 years. We get to know all the regulars and love to discuss our health problems, and some have real zingers. I told them I was losing weight on a new diet and they asked me what the diet was. So I explained it. But all of them said they were not interested on going on a vegan diet with no refined vegetable oils because they couldn't give up their dairy and/ or meat. But as I continue to lose weight and improve my health we will see if they change their mind.
One week until my second weigh in.
Forever strong in life
Larry Strong
Monday, April 7, 2014
Breakfast
Last Saturday we took our grandson out for his 18th birthday. The restaurant he picked was Red Robin. I searched the menu to find something I could eat that would be on my WFPB diet. I ordered a vegan burger, which I previously did not know they served. It had a whole wheat bun, a vegan patty (I don't have any idea of what it was made of), onions, tomatoes and pickles. I added some ketchup. It came with a side of french fries so I substituted a side salad with no dressing or cheese. I now take my own bottle of salad dressing when I eat out. I had a fat free balsamic vinaigrette dressing. The meal was OK but I don't think I like the vegan patty very much. I prefer good old potatoes, rice and beans.
For breakfast I eat cold cereal 5 days a week. We have Wheaties, Corn Flakes, Oats and More, Shredded Wheat and a couple of other grain cereals. I use two tablespoons of flax seed sprinkled on the cereal. I also use unflavored, unsweetened almond milk. Then I add some fresh fruit. I like strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and bananas.
One meal a week I have oatmeal with chopped walnuts, flax seed and almond milk. My seventh meal each week is vegan pancakes. I put some sugar free syrup on it.
Six weeks down and two to go until my next weigh in.
Forever strong in life.
Larry Strong
For breakfast I eat cold cereal 5 days a week. We have Wheaties, Corn Flakes, Oats and More, Shredded Wheat and a couple of other grain cereals. I use two tablespoons of flax seed sprinkled on the cereal. I also use unflavored, unsweetened almond milk. Then I add some fresh fruit. I like strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and bananas.
One meal a week I have oatmeal with chopped walnuts, flax seed and almond milk. My seventh meal each week is vegan pancakes. I put some sugar free syrup on it.
Six weeks down and two to go until my next weigh in.
Forever strong in life.
Larry Strong
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