I first became aware that 9 servings of fruits and vegetables per day are suggested by watching Dr. Christine Northrup...http://www.drnorthrup.com/
As first I found it hard, now its easy for me.
A sample day is:
Breakfast: cereal or egg with a fruit
Lunch: salad, carrot sticks and a fruit
Snack: V8 and nuts
Dinner: Meat, 3 vegetables and 1/2 cup pasta, rice or potato
Snack banana with chocolate sauce and whipped cream (pretty much daily)
(I consider 1/2 cup a serving)
Other suggestions that Dr. Northrup had:
Your waist should not exceed 35" (I have a piece of yarn marked at 35", I keep cutting off pieces of it as I lose inches)
weigh your self daily
Exercise 5 times a week
Eat 5 carrot servings per week
Eat protein for breakfast
Drink 5 cups of tea per week
Take fish oil, vitamin D, magnesium
Breakfast predicts your whole day (stay away from sugar in the morning or you will be hungry all day)
Sugar is like glass in your veins (it is sharp and hard on your veins).
Use meat as a condiment.
No msg
Not too much alcohol
The older we get, the less food we really need.
I have heard a lot of this before, but I had never heard 9 serving of fruit and veggies. I wanted to try it, just to see if I could do it and I feel so much better. I find I am not looking for as much bread, chocolate and wine as usual because I am more focused on trying to eat all of my fruit and veggies. The key is having the fresh fruits and veggies in the house ready to go and liking them. I just love apples but I have to dunk them in peanut butter, so I do.
Having 3 veggies for dinner may seem hard but it is not. I make one per night (a big batch) then I eat 2 leftover servings from the 2 previous nights.
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