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COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED (ORIGINAL EAT TO LIVE PUBLISHED IN 2003)REVOLUTIONARY SIX-WEEK EATING PLAN TO LOSING WEIGHTNEW INSIGHT TO FOOD ADDICTION, "TOXIC HUNGER" AND HOW TO OVERCOMENEW RECIPESLIVE LONGER, REDUCE NEED FOR MEDICATIONS AND DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH
Yes!!!! Like the other post says - unless you're an athlete protein isn't really a concern, assuming you eat a fairly balanced, healthy diet. If you are an athlete I can't recommend this book enough. Actually, all of his books are great.
I went vegan over 4 years ago and have never felt better or been healthier in my life! Plus it's nice to know that I'm doing my part to help animals and the planet. Here's a list of some other books/resources that have helped me immensely along the way, for anyone else who might be considering the transition:
Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
The Forks Over Knives Plan: How to Transition to the Life-Saving, Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure
Oh She Glows (Food Blog)
Keepin' It Kind (Food Blog)
It takes work and is difficult at first, like most things in life that are worthwhile, but I promise you that it is very, very rewarding once you understand that you have made the commitment to live in a healthy and kind way. :)
Great book: Eat to Live
Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat to Live and Dr. John McDougall's The Starch Solution. Both books explain how a whole-food, plant-based diet is the diet for obtaining optimum health.
Dr. Fuhrman has a wonderful "TED talk" on YouTube in which he presents six case studies of individuals who completely turned their health around by adopting his recommended way of eating. Here is the video. It is so joyful, so uplifting--I highly recommend it. (I especially like the last five minutes which features the healthy family he raised on this nutrition plan.)
Here is a post on Dr. McDougall's Web site from an individual who lost 106 pounds in one year by following Dr. McDougall's diet. This post is especially valuable because of the chart the person includes showing how a number of biomarkers like his lipid panel improved over the course of the year. He also includes stunning before-and-after photographs. Even more valuable is the fact that this individual kept an online journal here in which he logged everything he ate during this remarkable year-long transformation. It is really a revelation to see the stunning health improvements which can be achieved by eating such simple, satisfying foods.
Good luck. I hope you find a solution which works for you.
"Eat to Live" by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/031612091X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320548412&sr=8-1
"Healthy at 100", see what the populations living the longest and healthiest ate.
http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-100-Scientifically-Healthiest-Longest-Lived/dp/0345490118/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320548447&sr=1-1
I'm on day four of my first so can't help with tips on a 30 day. But here are some good links I've found:
The health benefits of water fasting
Fasting Center
Tanglewood
Videos:
Loren Lockman Videos
Books (I've not read them but I ordered them based on the reviews):
Fuhrman Book on fasting
Eat to Live
Detox
Based on what I've read and my experience at day 4 I'm sold on fasting for life.
Food addiction is mostly just sugar addiction. Fast food and other refined carbs convert to glucose almost as quickly as a donut, it doesn't matter if you think it's sweet or not. What's happening is that your brain is looking for its energy from the extreme sugar rush that you have accustomed it to. It can't function without high-octane rocket fuel because that is what it runs on now. You need to set time aside to endure the suffering of withdrawal, and your system will naturally start to seek other energy sources such as the 150 extra pounds of stored energy that you're carrying around everywhere.
In my experience, turning it around takes a real moment of clarity and acceptance that you're going to have to suffer for a while and get tough with yourself to get things back into balance. You need to be able to look at yourself and say: cut the shit, enough treating myself. I've banked up extra enjoyment for years, giving myself treats and rewards for no particular reason. Now it's time to pay back that big borrowed pleasure debt that I've accumulated by treating myself. And the only way to do that is by suffering and understanding that I owe back that suffering to bring things into balance again. If you can make a week with no added sugar or white refined carbs, a carrot will literally sound like a sweet treat. But before you get there, you need to suffer brutal withdrawal like you're the guy in Trainspotting. Maybe you need to lay in the dark with a cold cloth on your head, or curl into a ball and sob. The physical awfulness of getting off the sugar/carb train is not to be underestimated.
I don't know what Soylent is, but you should be eating real food rather than anything with a product name. Food was never meant to be particularly fast or easy. Real food takes some pre-planning and time to prepare. The hardest thing can be adjusting expectations about how quick or easy it is to obtain a meal, especially when the rest of society expects you to deal with eating in 15 minutes. But if you're not chopping something on the cutting board and turning the stove on, then chances are you're eating dog shit. It takes a complete readjustment of your schedule to start doing things properly. Anyone who loves food should love cooking, and happily learn to understand raw ingredients and spices and flavors. You should never be staring down a plate of something you don't want to eat. A proper meal that you've made yourself with fresh ingredients with the help of a good cookbook will be more enjoyable than any heroin fix from mcdonalds.
There are a couple great books I've used to help understand how things work, and figure out what I want to be cooking.
Most useful source of information:
http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426010343&sr=8-1&keywords=eat+to+live
My favourite cookbook:
http://www.amazon.com/Madhur-Jaffreys-World-Vegetarian-Meatless/dp/0609809237/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426010362&sr=1-1&keywords=madhur+jaffrey+world+vegetarian
Yeah the answer here is likely gonna be The China Study for the real scientific approach. Also Dr.Fuhrmans Eat to Live is a bit more casual but filled with loads of scientific sources and definitely easier to read format.
If you want to take a break from reading this Plant Positive video series is an extremely thorough and well sourced series that basically argues against the low carb, high meat diets.
Eat to Live is a great book. It's not vegan, technically, but he helps outline why and how to center your diet around vegetables. It's helped me immensely. Here's a quick overview of his recommended guidelines to ween yourself off of the standard American diet.
Good question to ask.
Thrive and Thrive Fitness have more on building muscle on a vegan diet.
More science behind not needing meat is in Eat To Live.
Body weight doesn't tell me my progress. Needing smaller belts does.
Hey! I'm a vegan so I know a little bit about not eating animals.
When I first started out, I followed to Eat to Live, which is supposed to reverse diabetes. I never had diabetes, but with PCOS and a family history of type 2 I was scared. I highly recommend this book, The End of Diabetes. (Both books are by the same author and promote a plant based, whole foods diet).
Please PM me if you want to chat!!! It's rare to find another veg PCOS lady around here!
He recommended Eat to Live once upon a time. It's a book about nutrition and adopting healthy eating habits.
Four things that worked for me. (lost 60lbs a year ago and have kept it off.)
Like I said, this is what worked for me and once you get that weight off, jeeezus it feels good.
Just majorly clean up your diet and add a ton of walking. Try the subreddits /r/EatCheapAndHealthy and /r/1200isplenty for recipe ideas.
It's going to ALL come from diet.
Eliminate all junk food and eat TONS of a variety of veggies every day. "Eat the rainbow" of veggies. Have an enormous salad the size of your head. Fill up on veggies so you don't crave other things. Have avocados, nuts and olive oil- all healthy fats.
This book helped me a ton and I lost about 30lbs in 4 months. I will say the first 3 weeks absolutely sucked while I got used to eating less and eating healthier. I tried to pretend in my head that I had a gastric bypass and so I could only eat small portions.
Then, it got easier I think as I got used to the taste, the smaller portion sizes and new routines. Now I am actually psyched to go to the farmer's market every week and get an enormous bag of veggies. I get $40 of every veggie I can carry at the farmers market and then stop at the butcher and that is basically all the food I buy every week.
A typical day looks like this:
With that diet, I am NEVER hungry and rairly tempted by junk. Even in my office we have huge candy bowls out all the time and they don't phase me, I walk right by.
Get a fitbit and track your walking. Try to get in a minimum of 10k steps per day, every day. I'll be your friend on fitbit if you want! We can cheer each other on. :)
Don't stress the loose skin- it's going to happen or it's not, it's mostly genetics and nothing you can do to really prevent it at this point. But it's better to have some loose skin than to be that heavy and stressing your internal organs and joints.
Good luck, keep us posted on your success!!!
This book made amazing changes in my body. I lost weight really quickly, somewhere around 30 lbs in 2 months. There were no restrictions on how much you eat and everyone comments on how it has changed my skin (I have color without tanning and I am the palest of the pale). I know it sounds like bullshit, but it worked for me.
Also commit to working out. Cardio is great, but the more muscle you build the more calories you burn so lift some weights.
Stories like this always touch my heart and make me question a few things about life, no joke. Having said that my mother had kidney cancer when I was a child, she eventually fought it and won (albeit at the loss of a kidney) but I still had a mother, at least for another few years. Since that time I have actively been looking at ways to reduce me and my families risk for cancer and I want to share with the reddit community three resources that are currently changing my life. The first is a TED Talk by William Li titled:
The second one is a little more for a niche audience of eating healthy in general, but it has a bunch of anticancer information in it as well and that is a book titled
Lastly I want to encourage you all to view one more video by Dr. Robert H. Lustig titled
tl;dr Started out with a video on modern thoughts with ways to handle cancer prevention and new was to treat it. Ended with general health advice videos that may be helpful to those that need it.
Please read:
Eat to live, by Dr. Furhman. It is a plant-based diet, mainly raw, specifically designed for people with health problems.
http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X
It looks like someone made a cheat sheet.
http://www.chewfo.com/diets/eat-to-live-by-joel-fuhrman-2003-2011-what-to-eat-and-foods-to-avoid-food-list/
Also, you may be interested in the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (they are juicing here, but extremely overweight)
http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/
Raw is a big change, and most people aren't 100% raw. It takes a lot of preparation to get there. Do your research and good luck!
For losing weight. I used the diet advice from Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book 'Eat to Live'. My initial attempt had me lose about 50 pounds. It's hard, but it's a diet that doesn't leave out nutrients. You get the best nutrient bang for your calorie buck. I reccomend picking up this book and reading through the whole thing if you want to empower your efforts with lot's of convincing data and facts.
https://www.amazon.ca/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486859433&sr=8-1&keywords=joel+fuhrman+eat+to+live
I often have trouble staying on the diet myself, but when I stick to it, I'm always not just slimming down, but mentally I can think more clearly and I'm less often in a bad mood, and I can get out of a bad mood more quickly.
Not knowing your friend, I don't know whether she'd be more interested in a nutritional book or an exercise book, but since she's overweight I figure a nutritional book would be good help for her especially if she isn't making it to the gym. Joel Furhman's books The End of Dieting, Eat to Live and Super Immunity (though it sounds kind of hokey) are rated well.
As for a fitness book, Younger Next Year for Women by Chris Crowley is also rated well.
Okay so looking at your situation and past history here. You have monitored your food intake which is great. You have rebounded and went beyond too. Why is this? Because watching what you eat is not enough. You have to understand what you eat in order to make the right decisions. Also the winning approach is to tackle your health as the ultimate goal - as you said you feel low energy but losing fat will not give you energy... there are skinny people who are always tired. So focus on health as the main goal and the fat will slide off secondary. Focus on mobility and massage (since knees joints ache also check out trigger point therapy and how flexibility issues cause joint pain... not just weight load on joints).
Okay so there is a great new book out actually to help you tackle your whole life style with a focus on diet. Book talks about strategies to help you manage all aspects of life. https://www.amazon.ca/Undo-Lifestyle-Changes-Reverse-Diseases/dp/052547997X
There is a great book to help you understand food better and have a proven way to become healthier like you want to !
Called "Eat to Live" book by Dr. Fuhrman.
https://www.amazon.ca/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X
Good luck. You can do this - you can do even more than this. I wish you many years of health :)
Check out NutritionFacts.org they have the Daily Dozen checklist (and app) as well as a meal plan to help you meet the recommendations. https://nutritionfacts.org/healthkit/
How Not To Die by Dr. Michael Greger and his HNTD Cookbook.
Also check out https://www.lighter.world/ they have a customizable meal planner. The first week is free. You can customize food likes/dislikes and time requirements.
Engine2 website (also Rip Esselstyn's cookbooks are great) has a 7 day rescue https://engine2.teachable.com/ you sign up for the free email content.
Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine has free 21 day kickstart https://kickstart.pcrm.org/en
Also if you want to read more info in a book plus they have meal plans and ideas inside there's:
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease https://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Cookbook/dp/1583335587
Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Furhman https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X
Not really, no. The tend to be highly processed (lots of sodium, for example) and not very nutrient rich. Most vegetarian/vegan bibles, like Eat to Live recommend avoiding them. They're not all bad, obviously, but most of them are just highly processed foods that don't bring much to the table.
I was vegetarian for almost 8 years. This was very upsetting to my carnivorous hunting family. They saw it as an act of rebellion and the "big" city I moved to changing me. The reality for me was: factory farmed meat disgusted me, both on the ethical and quality levels. I quit all meat and dedicated myself to an extremely balanced and healthy eating lifestyle.
If you are willing to cook for yourself and try new things, you should never have to worry about your food choices as a vegetarian. "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" by Mark Bittman is a fantastic and EXTREMELY thorough cookbook that walks you through the A-Z of vegetarian/vegan eating without being too complex or condescending. Especially if you locally source your tofo and produce, you can take care of yourself quite well without meat. Another great book (ignore the stupid hype-y praise on the outer covers, it does actually have a lot of good info) is "Eat to Live" by Joel Fuhrmen, it breaks down a lot of what is in basic foods and underscores the protein/fiber richness a lot of common veggies have.
With all that said, especially after my chickens started laying eggs, I realized I wanted meat in my diet. So, I turned to my family members that still hunt and get fresh/pristinely-sourced/humane meat and split the cost of a pig that lived a happy life from time to time.
I think what is vastly more important than what people end up eating is how they eat it and how mindful they are. Up until the 1950s, it was common to have backyard chickens for eggs and/or meat as well as shared access to a cow or backyard goats for milk. I am grateful to live in a city where this is becoming common again.
Best of luck with eating. :-)
So, I'm also quite late to the party here as well but wanted to keep the positivity going! YOU'VE GOT THIS!!!
Most of what I wanted to say has already been said, but I at least wanted to share this book that completely changed the way I view food. I have a history of binge eating but this book seriously helped me get it under control: Dr. Fuhrman's "Eat to Live". (I'll admit, it looks a little gimmicky with it's bright colors and promises of losing 20lbs in 6 weeks, but there's some really solid science in there and some great success stories of his patients who have been able to go completely off medications and turn their lives around with dietary change.) Why I like it: you can pretty much eat as much as you want so long as you're following his guidelines and results come quickly! (I also felt amazing after just a week on the plan and it gave me something to focus on other than how miserable I was).
Yes, it's a bit of an investment (both time and $) to eat this healthy, but if you are really at your lowest point and want to change that badly, you ABSOLUTELY have to be willing to make some sacrifices. It's not easy (that part I can say with certainty) but you are so young and making some investments in your health will pay off infinitely down the road.
One last thing (I'm not going to sugarcoat this one). Therapy is great! Like many other posters here, I highly recommend it. BUT, at some point, you have to realize your own role in your health and you HAVE to be willing to prioritize it above everything else. It's easy to blame our environment for the way we are (for a long time, I blamed my hometown for my weight because we had sooo much fast food) but change can't happen until you realize that (at least going forward) you are 100% in control of decisions. That said, don't beat yourself up for making bad decisions now and then, but use it as motivation to make tomorrow even healthier! The fitness journey is so much more enjoyable if you can learn to love yourself as you are but be open and willing to change. You've got this and you've this whole community behind you! :D
my sister sent me a copy of this book about a year ago that sent me down this path: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X
I picked up this book for around 9 bucks new. I see it for like 4-5 used
Dr. Furhman outlines the primary causes of American's death in regards to health and its relation to heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Once I took into perspective the health concerns with eating high fat diets it became easy to adopt vegan eating habits.
I linked it below but here it is again: Fueling the Vegan Athlete by Dr. Furhman
Good but long video by Furhman discussing American diets and how to prevent the diseases most Americans deal with
edit: hyperlink
Sounds like you have an excuse for everything.
If you really want to lose weight and get healthier, read this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Amazing-Nutrient-Rich-Sustained/dp/031612091X