What do You Want for Breakfast?

Scrambled Eggs with tomatoes, spinach, green and red peppers, mushrooms, onions and the works. Protein and veggies all in one. Sound good? It is. Especially if you keep it interesting.


Keeping it interesting is a work that has to go on in this new "living diet" we are on. This week I borrowed a book about raw food recipes and was directed to a raw food website to get acquainted with a more aggressive way of eating than just frying or cooking all your foods. It's great. It saves cleaning up all those pans as well.

Raw foods tend to give you more nutrition and enzymes that are alive and needful for your body than the dead foods you eat. I am becoming cynical about dead food and "junk" food around me. It is so much easier to eat those dead foods and feel full than to plan and prepare live foods which will be good for your body and fill you up the same. I'm talking about snack food, chips, and cookies, packaged and processed things that are quick and easy to eat.

But cutting up veggies and eating them is fun and healthy. My wife and I do a lot of this together and it increases our together we have with one another. :-) We don't always agree on what we want to eat or how much I should eat but we figure it out and go on. None the less, we get time together preparing our food and eating it.

We are going into our third week now and we are being pretty careful not to stray from the prescribed allowances of what and how much we should eat right now. This is still the cleansing portion of the diet and we want to start out right. We drink water for the most part and have a protein smoothie twice a day. Other than that we are staying away from all decaffeinated, prepackaged items along with bread, noodles and other items not listed on our chart.

I am holding at 223 for my weight for now but that is still 12 pounds less than when I started. My pants are looser and I wear a belt to hold them up. I used to wear a 34-36 waited trouser but I painfully went to a 40 in order to have something that I didn't have to pour myself into. I still have some 38's left I can move into when the time comes but if I reach my intended goal of 190 I may just have to go buy some 36's or even a 34.

I am feeling great with no side affects other than the popcorn cravings from time to time. I won't go into that again. I think it is clear I have a weakness for popcorn. When we get into the regular daily diet we are working towards I will need to be careful about the carbs and stay away from the salt and butter.

Two years ago I lost 30 pounds on a watermelon diet. The diet consisted of eating a normal serving for meals and eating all the watermelon I wanted between meals or at bedtime. There were a lot of bathroom visits but it did the trick for weight loss. But, as you can determine for yourself, the weight did not stay off and I am back on this diet now to help counteract the outcome of all that additional eating I did afterwards. Actually, I think I could have stayed on that diet if watermelon hadn't gone out of season. Maybe I should try that again?! No, I will stick to what I have now.

OK, so there you have it for week two. Hoping to loose a little more weight and get “the cleanse” past me this week. I like the veggie and fruit part of this diet, just not the protein effects of slower weight loss. I can tie my shoes by myself though. I will check back in and let you know about week three soon.

By the way, the book I borrowed is called The Raw Food Gourmet by Gabrielle Chavez if you would like to look it up or borrow it from the library. If the library doesn't have it you might look on Amazon for it. It's a good book of raw veggie recipes.