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Over just 3 weeks, a strict whole foods plant-based diet with no added oil/fat is showing some promising results: down several pounds and heading solidly for 170...
Significant lowering of blood pressure from average being around 120/80 to 112/74 this morning, about 8 points lower on systolic and 6 points on diastolic readings. On average my daily fat intake is less than 15%, with protein in the same range, and carbohydrates (but none of it processed) around 70%. This is a diet which has been used (in the medical field) as an intervention for people with type 2 diabetes and heart disease, as well as hypertension. It works just fine for average healthy people too - as long as you can forego the candy, chocolates, cookies, bread, any & all animal products, cheese and chips...
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173.6 lb
Lost so far: 4.4 lb.
Still to go: 23.6 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 02 February 2022:
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1283 kcal
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Fat: 18.05g | Prot: 37.06g | Carb: 246.41g.
Breakfast: Cooked Beets (from Fresh), Kiwi Fruit, 365 Organic Steel Cut Oats, Eden Foods Edensoy Organic Original Soymilk (Fortified). Lunch: Great Value Sun-Dried Raisins, Spinach, Minestrone Soup (Home Recipe), Cooked Beets (from Fresh), HEB Butternut Squash. Dinner: Green String Beans, Lettuce Salad with Assorted Vegetables, Fever Tree Tonic Water, HEB Butternut Squash, Great Value Sun-Dried Raisins, Brown Rice, Red Kidney Beans (with Salt, Cooked, Boiled), Athletic Brewing Co. Run Wild NA IPA. more...
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losing 2.3 lb a week
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