tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760271822563465471.post3359826402569069370..comments2013-06-10T22:04:55.156-07:00Comments on I Am Worth It: A New Diet For a New YearColby Lindblomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15104426687683100478noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760271822563465471.post-7784255116917688692012-01-14T21:31:58.841-08:002012-01-14T21:31:58.841-08:00I could never go completely vegan, but I am with y...I could never go completely vegan, but I am with you on this. About two years ago after I had Rushton, I started eating a much more plant-based diet. Most of what I could now is vegetarian- lots of beans, quinoa, etc. for protein. Of course, I still love a great burger or a bowl of ice cream once in awhile.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07786953153872483330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760271822563465471.post-35794025838422658842012-01-12T15:07:32.289-08:002012-01-12T15:07:32.289-08:00We really liked Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (also o...We really liked Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (also on Netflix). I haven't finished Forks over Knives yet (Matthew was annoyed with who they considered "experts" so we turned it off, haha) I cut out gluten and refined sugar, eat dairy sparingly, switched to only coconut and olive oil, and avoid processed foods. I try to follow an almost Paleo diet. This works really well for me. I thought I would go vegetarian recently (when suggested by my doctor for health reasons) but it was much more difficult than I had anticipated. Especially if you are the only one in your family doing it. Like you, I've teetered on the Vegan/Vegetarian/Raw thing for a long time, and mostly just instituted a lot of theirs tenets in my eating, but never did anything official. Instead I have found this happy medium that is working for us. I've been able to reduce our meals to one chicken breast to feed our whole family dinner many nights, which is close enough to vegetarian for me right now. I highly recommend Dr. Mark Hyman's books. His book Ultraprevention is a little old, but still totally relevant, and he has several other books that cover most of the same material that are newer. His whole philosophy is preventing disease through diet. My other suggestion is when cutting things our of your diet, don't try to replace them with "fakes". It usually doesn't taste good, is processed (even if it's 'healthy') and won't satisfy what you are craving. Just find some other kind of REAL food to take it's place. (Ex: I use avacados instead of cheese (or fake cheese) in my enchiladas...i will NEVER make them any other way! they are SO good!)christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12267621237364241737noreply@blogger.com