Begin the adventure of discovering new foods. Curiosity really helps in a transition.
Background on the Basics of Meals
Breakfast
By the time you are ready to eat breakfast, you have been fasting for eight hours or more. Now it’s
time to break your fast. Unless your athletic activity or physical work output is very high (say,
you’re tossing bales of hay all day), you don’t need to eat a lot of food if you’ve been eating nutrient-
rich for a while, and depending upon how much you ate for dinner the night before.
Other than your basal metabolic rate (BMR)—the energy expended to sustain basic involuntary
functions such as respiration, the beating of the heart, nerve functions and muscle tone while you
sleep^173 —you haven’t really spent much of the energy you consumed the night before.
If you are not eating due to withdrawal symptoms, the minute your body starts mobilizing again
you will be able to eat a simple breakfast such as the following and be on your way!
A few pieces of fresh fruit with some cooked grain, A sweet green smoothie made of frozen or fresh vegetables and fruits blended together,
with or without a flavored whole-food meal replacement mix, A fresh vegetable juice, with some apple or carrot added in for sweetness, or A greens, veggie, or fruit juice powder that is simply mixed with water or coconut water.
Please see http://www.nutrientrich.com/store for examples, and the back of the book for more
resources.Lunch and Dinner
Always keep your stomach full of vegetables. This is primarily a vegetable-based way of
eating, as vegetables are the most nutrient-rich foods and lowest in calories, and all
primates (you included) eat lots of vegetables throughout the day, in addition to fruits,
beans, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and potentially small amounts of animal products.
(Primates are not natural vegans.) Depending on how busy you are, you may not even stop to eat lunch, and may just have a
greens, veggie, or fruit juice powder that is low in calories and mixed in water, or coconut
water, for added calories and thickening, because you want to keep your focus on
recuperation, and to keep the body healing and repairing while you are busy at work.(^173) Nutritional Sciences from fundamentals to food, Chapter 8 Energy Balance and Body Weight Regulation
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