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Definitely want to know how this turns out!

Not really. I've done away with most dairy....but I am not adverse to having an egg or using them in recipes once in a while. I wish I liked kim chee....my mom used to make it all the time when I was little. Who knows, maybe my taste buds changed and I'll like it these days. The recipe actually sounds good.

I finally finished Proteinaholic! YAY!!! So I can now start How not to Die...when I get to it. But yes, you sharing those points about the pesticides and the scraps are just astounding and makes me want to stay on point with the wfpb diet. I've always been one to not ever want to take prescription meds and even OTC meds just because I always think of them poisoning my body (even hated the fact that I had to take ppi's), but I didn't think about the food aspect in depth before and now that it's knowledge for me, it's hard to think about ever going back.

Hey there lady! Welcome to the thread! I agree, it's one of the best decisions I've made too and I don't regret it a bit.

My prayers and heart are for all those getting hit with Harvey! Even more rain is expected in Houston. If you can get out please do so!

Yeah, wasn't the same experience, cooking wise, but I got the job done. I've made fajitas some time back before surgery using portobello mushrooms with peppers and onions. Used corn tortillas with them. It was really good, but at the time my husband really wasn't on board with WFPB and complained about it. Lol. I think I'll make them again sometime.

Yum! I ended up making beef fajitas for my brother and his family and my hubby. I didn't eat any though, didn't appeal to me. I had some leftover white bean and spinach enchiladas. (I brought my portioned frozen leftovers with me to SA, lol). I can't wait to be back at home to be able to focus in my own kitchen again.

Well the last couple of days has been off, not bad, but just off due to Harvey. Today I had some cold brew coffee, kale salad, roasted pumpkin seeds, & 1/2 c of cheese & broccoli soup. I'm about to have some pistachios in a few mins. I don't think about anything other than "I'm hungry". lol

There are! So many and I'm not bored of it either.

Follow away hon! 😊 I'm going against the flow here and I'm loving it too. I personally don't want to feel like I'm always on a diet. In my opinion, it's more freeing not always thinking of the next meal, how many calories, proteins, carbs, fats, etc. Not thinking of a scale number to define how I'm going to feel or what my body is really going through (because fluctuations always happen), is freeing for me. Eating a WFPB diet has definitely helped me to enable the not worrying part, since most everything I eat is pretty healthy. Lots of veggies. Hope I can inspire!

Well, all is good. We're praying for our family members that decided to ride it out. Smh. Very unwise decision! Hope the Lord shows mighty grace. Well, here's what the radar shows right now. The dot on the pic is where my home is.

Update: stuck on 37 heading north. It's been a long day here. I haven't eaten anything decent but my stuffed poblano pepper earlier. A few pistachios and a couple of handfuls of light popcorn. I think I had a good workout from all the running around town this morning, packing, and helping my husband board up the house. I managed to trip over a crack on the driveway and a pain jolted up my left leg, I pray it's nothing, even though 1.5 hours later it's still bothering me. 😕 Hope you all are having a great day!!!

Well, it's been hectic. Most of the folks are leaving the island right now. Had to run some errands and getting my large dogs for kennel boarding. Packing up important documents and clothes now. We'd stay through it if it wasn't going to linger, but the lingering is what's going to make it a bigger mess with flooding, etc. Got to take pics of everything in my house. I should have done this previously. Usually I have a hurricane prep bad ready to go, but this year, I didn't and it just so happens to be a hurricane. Go figure.

SA is San Antonio. We love to abbreviate our cities here. Like mine is CC. Lol i went to church tonight too. Didn't like it. Lol. First time ever! I hope they don't do it again. I'll have to explain in a pm if anyone wants to know. As for the storm, the well we're not walking in fear, but we're prepared anyway. 😊

Whoo whoo!!!!! 👋🏽

I wish I had this problem! LOL Apparently I'm just 35lbs to goal (according to my surgeon)...we shall see about that! I love how close you are to goal though. All that running and changing your diet surely did it. I should get to running....NAAAA! Not happening, YET! One thing I know, is that you'll figure it out while enjoying it and you'll be able to teach us behind ya the way of maintaining on a WFPB diet!!! YAY!!! haha @Berry78, love your posts here! Funny too.

I'd like to know this too. Although I haven't had a dexa scan, and went to plant protein (obviously a lower protein count--if I were counting), my strength hasn't gotten lesser at all. If anything I feel it's getting stronger. I still do my weights and I'm still building my muscle on a WFPB...so, based on my experience, I don't believe that the high protein has much to do with how much muscle you put on. If anything, IMO it's a overdose of protein for the body that route. My husband is bodybuilding on a WFPB diet as well. He's lifting heavier each week and he's pretty surprised with it all. I surprised myself too last night...I usually lift about 60 pounds on triceps, but I did 80...and all my sets too! Whoo whoo!

Hey everyone. Hope all is well. Us South Texans are watching Tropical Storm Harvey, currently looks like it's headed straight for us. There's talk of it strengthening to hurricane status by week's end. We shall see. Kind of exciting! I LOVE bad weather, but obviously, I don't love the damage. So, we're getting ready here and will keep watch to see whether or not we need to leave. Weather status is a storm surge watch now. (Where I live, we're surrounded by water for the most part), so I'm filling up the tanks tomorrow and getting some foods that won't perish (blah!!!) just in case. Canned beans will suffice. HAHA! If we stay because it's not life threatening, then we'll probably be out of electricity. In my neighborhood, the slightest t-storm sets off the electricity. Imagine a tropical storm? If life threatening, we'll haul out of here and make our way to SA to my brother's house. Other than that exciting news....all is well with my tummy. Went to the gym and did a good workout last night. Debating whether I want to do the gym or go to church tonight. Or maybe do both???

Hope so. Too bad about your brother. I hope he changes before it's way too late. Did you see the special on PBS with Dr Greger? Or maybe it was a video I saw. It showed the lungs of smoker being healed basically (I don't remember percentages) from changing diet to plant based and obviously not smoking. It was fascinating. I'll have to find something on it.

I actually just asked my other brother a question regarding my mom and her health (obesity, cancer, etc). I asked "why doesn't it seem like mom (or anyone else) doesn't want to do EVERYTHING possible, including going on a plant based diet, to combat cancer (be in better health)???" There's so much evidence to support it....I guess not everyone can be like me (or you).

Me too. I just found out that my brother and his wife decided to do a low carb-high fat diet???? (Hanging my head).....I'll be calling them to share some things. My mom of all people (who is a proteinaholic) did tell him that lowering his carbohydrates is dangerous. HAHA! Go figure. I'll send him a copy of the book.

My hubby is the same with caffeine. I just can't do it. My mind would be racing till 2 in the morning. So, I make sure I don't have any caffeine anytime in the late afternoon on besides Fridays.

@Apple1 did you drink regular coffee at 7pm? or decaf? There's no way I could do regular at 7pm....I'll be up all night!!! lol

I like this, what Dr Davis sums up: "Correlation doesn't equal causation." ...which translates to...."I don't want to accept the fact that thousands of published studies following tens of millions of people for dozens of years have found clear and dramatic linkages between eating animal protein and developing cancer because you can't prove a direct causal link." ....by that criterion of proof, we can't prove that cigarettes are harmful. We can't even prove that shooting someone with a gun can kill them because sometimes people get shot and live." LOL

This will be long. It'll be for those who are checking out the thread and those who just want to be reminded. It's a rant about Type II Diabetes from Dr Garth on his FB page some time back. LOL ENJOY READING! So, this is going to be a long rant with lots of scientific references, reader beware. The cliff notes: carbs do not cause Type 2 diabetes, meat does! I will provide references at the end of the post. "But wait a second" you may say. "My sugar goes up when I eat carbs, so carbs must be to blame". You are not alone in this thought. Even the President of The American Society of Bariatric Medicine thinks this way. He believes that if your sugars are low you are cured of diabetes. SO he puts people on low carb diets , and in fact the studies show low carb diets will lowers blood sugar, go figure. But has diabetes been cured? Are they healthier? Low carb studies are very short term and use lab results as their end points, not end organ disease. They don't prove that low carb diets reduce heart disease, they show that it raises HDL and since high HDL is associated with less heart disease they assume that heart disease is lower. Likewise, they assume diabetes is cured when blood sugar is low, but has diabetes been cured? Not at all. As soon as the patient eats a carb the blood sugar will rise. Why? Because they still have insulin resistance. So many people make the mistake of thinking diabetes is a disease of high blood sugar. High blood sugar is just a symptom, the disease is insulin resistance. This is why I see so many failed Atkins and protein fast patients. So what causes insulin resistance. This is the big question. Treating the symptom and not the cause is the typical western medicine paradigm. We need to look beyond. The fact is the biggest consumer of sugar, the organ most affected by insulin, are your muscles. I find it ridiculous that people, like Robert Lustig and Gary Taubes, talk about insulin as some kind of awful hormone. Why would we evolve to have an evil hormone that is in every single person. Insulin is only a problem when the body is resistant to insulin. Insulin serves a vital purpose, which is to get the fuel into the cells, and muscle needs glucose to generate fuel. Our bodies are built to live off sugar. Insulin is supposed to join to an insulin receptor on the surface of the muscle cell which allows the sugar to enter the body and then be utilized to produce energy in the mitochondria. In fact, the healthiest people in the world eat tons of carbs. The Sardinians and the Okinawans eat 80% of their calories from starches and yet their insulin levels are not sky high, and their blood sugars are normal. So what causes the muscle to become insulin resistant. Well this is a little more complex but it appears that it is fat build up in the muscle cell. Excess fat entering the cells interferes with the muscle cells ability to produce insulin receptors. If the muscle cannot make insulin receptors then sugar cannot get into the cell and then the sugar starts to build up in the system. Then the pancreas has to produce even more insulin to try and force sugar into the cells, and now you start getting high insulin levels. Moderate insulin is good but high insulin inhibits an enzyme called hormone sensitive lipase causing even more fat accumulation, and a vicious cycle begins. This then begs the question, "what causes fat to accumulate in the muscle cell"? Well, there are many theories. One is that insulin combined with lipids in the blood stream after eating causes intramyocellular fat. This makes sense. So if you eat steak believe it or not your insulin rises. It is also filled with fat. The insulin will cause fat to be accumulated in the cell. The same thing would happen if you ate a donut or a pizza. These are not carbs. They have carbs but they actually have more fat than carbs. Other theories are that inflammation causes the muscle cell to dysfunction and not oxidate fat, causing fat accumulation. There is definitely evidence that acid accumulation cause insulin resistance likely from muscle cell dysfunction. Type II diabetes has been rising at astounding rates. How does our diet differ? We are eating a very acidic diet with too little of the bicarbonate producing plants as our ancestors did! Meat based diets are very acidic and cause inflammation which results in intramyocellular fat. There are even models that show certain amino acids will cause direct deposit of fat in the muscle cells. There is some fascinating research looking at MRI's of people's muscles which show that athletes are able to mobilize fat easily from their muscle but overweight people cannot. This raises the additional question as to whether exercise has an affect on intramyocellular fat. There is also a good body of studies showing high iron stores can affect insulin resistance. As you may know, meat is high in a particularly toxic form of iron which can further attribute to insulin resistance. Interestingly, carbs are readily burned in our body or stored as glycogen. It is actually very difficult to turn carbs to fat. The only time carbs become fat is when glycogen stores are full and calorie intake has exceeded expenditure. A nutrition professor proved this by eating a high sugar diet but keeping calories less than 1800 calories. Despite eating almost purely sugar, he lost weight and his insulin resistance improved. So if what I tell you is true then it should work in a randomized control trial and in epidemiologic studies of populations of people. In fact, it does. Dr. Turner-Mcgrievy and Dr. Barnard have put it to the test. They took diabetics and randomized to either vegan diet or the typical ADA, high protein diet recommended by doctors. Despite eating high carbs and lots of fruit, the vegan group had significantly greater drop in A1C. We can see this in action in many different epidemiological studies too. The EPIC/Panacea study, which is the largest epidemiological study ever done on food and disease, found no correlation between carb consumption and development of diabetes, but meat had strong correlation to diabetes. In fact, fructose consumption was associated with less diabetes. This becomes more understandable when you know that meat causes inflammation, acidosis, stimulates insulin, and has fat. People tend to think Type II diabetes is genetic, but diabetes is affecting all races at this point. In fact, Japanese had low rates of diabetes but if they migrated to Brazil, which is having a crisis of diabetes, they get very high rates of diabetes. In fact, the Brazil government has made recs to decrease meat. The same recs are being given by the Japanese government which has noted an increasing rate of diabetes with the increasing meat consumption. One of the best long term studies is the Adventist Healthy study as they followed a large population for many years. The population was healthier in general due to lack of smoking and drinking and moderate exercise, making them an excellent study given less confounding factors. The vegans had considerably lower diabetes than the meat eaters. Even Harvard's Nurses Health Study, which is the largest and longest epidemiologic study in America, shows a significant relationship between animal protein consumption and Type II DM formation. Let me also add that the randomized control trials and epidemiological studies, unlike the low carb studies, show improvement in end organ function. Less heart disease, less kidney dysfunction, less neuropathy, and longer life. Most of all. 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