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Originally Posted by OLDFLM
Todd and Lance,
Would love to see a typical diet plan for what you guys are doing!
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So after some experimenting trying basically a plant based diet, we basically just added back in meats and eggs. Absolutely no grains of any kind and nothing out of any box and no added sugar anything... Otherwise, whatever you like. Salads, veggies, fruits, meats (seafood, white meat mostly, some red meat) and mixed nuts for snacks in between. We typically have 2 full meals a day and a third light meal of just a salad or a protein based smoothie to hold us over. We also mix up when the light meal happens just based on our schedule and how hungry we are. If we have a heavy lunch with meat, a salad or smoothie for dinner will do. If we have a heavy dinner a smoothie for breakfast holds me over well. I will say this, an 8 ounce smoothie isn't enough for me, 16 ounces does the job though.
We'll grill meat up once a day usually, like if we have pork chops for dinner we'll grill one or two extra then the next day we'll mix cut up pork chops in with some eggs and veggies for breakfast. Or if we cook salmon for dinner, we'll cook an extra piece up and put it on a big ol salad the next day for lunch.
I've found that I can't limit portion size too much like this as I'll start to get dizzy when I stand up...so I'm eating plenty of calories (don't count them though). As long as I get a small serving (like 6-8 ounces) of meat 1-2 times a day and then just load up on veggies, I stay satisfied.
We also mix in a lot of sweet potatoes, we'll cook them in the air fryer whole then just slice in half and eat right out of the skin. The wife is great with seasonings so we don't use and condiments like ketchup or mustard or anything like that. For salad dressing she mixes up different kinds of vinegar and olive oils with cranberry whatever and creates her own dressings. I prefer iceberg type lettuces while she likes what I call stick lettuces like spinach and arugula and our salads are chunked full of radishes, peppers, onions, beets, carrots, celery or just about any other veggie. She'll stock up on veggies once a week, prep them all and keep them in containers in the fridge so prepping a salad at mealtime isn't as big of a chore.
Honestly, the hardest part was not having the convenience of a bread to use for sammich making for lunches. Giving up the breads and pastas is WAY harder than giving up sweets. I just make up for it with more nuts, meat and eggs.
Best part is our meals are very tasty and I stay very satisfied. Starving yourself doesn't work for me, satisfying me with non-grain foods is easier and more effective or so it seems so far anyway.