How this Fast Diet Lifestyle works: Eat these meals tomorrow, for a calorie total of less than 600. On another day this week, eat the meals from a different post, another day of eating 600 calories or less. Eat sensibly the other days of the week. That’s it: a simple way to lose weight and be healthier. Join me in the Fasting Lifestyle.
So many diets, so little time. And what do they have you doing? Not eating, that’s what. Don’t eat this or that or any of the other thing, day in and day out. Having to deprive yourself day after day is a major disincentive to dieters. And then once the preferred weight is reached, the diet is over, and you can’t wait to eat again. So the weight comes back on. With the Fasting Lifestyle, you can eat what you want on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday — as long as you eat a Fast Meal on Monday and Thursday. A lot of diets cut calories by cutting out whole categories of foods — no breadstuffs, no dried beans, no potatoes, and so on. But that just makes you want to eat them, thus the “cheat days” that many people build into their diet plans. Give me a break! With the Fast Lifestyle, you cut calories by cutting portions, and that is only two days per week. And very few things are off the menu [except highly processed foods, but they are really not good for you anyway], so here we are having toast at breakfast and dried beans for dinner. So, let’s eat [sensibly], Fast two days per week, and lose weight too.
Poached Egg on Toast: 165 calories… 5.8 g fat… 3 g fiber … 11 g protein… 15.3 g carbs… 53 mg Calcium…. NB: The food values given above are for the egg bake and fruit only, not the optional beverages. PB GF — if using GF bread I never used to like poached eggs, but on a Fast Day, they taste good.
++ one slice of 70-cal bread [Dave’s Killer Thin-Sliced Bread is great] ++++one 2-oz egg ++++ 1.5 oz of apple or 2 oz melon ++++Optional: blackish coffee [53 calories] or blackish tea or mocha cafe au lait [65 calories] ++++ Optional: 5-6 oz fruit smoothie or berry-yogurt smoothie [88 calories] ++
If using an egg poacher, lightly spray the egg cup and heat the water to a simmer. Toast the bread. Poach the egg for 3-4 minutes, according to your preference. Slide the egg onto the toast, season to taste, and enjoy with your hot beverage, fruit, and smoothie.
Tuna-Bean-Garlic Salad 261 calories… 4 g fat… 5.5 g fiber … 31 g protein… 28.4 g. carbs… 152 mg Calcium … PB GF HINT: this recipe serves 2 [two] This is from the Fast Diet book. Great in warm weather.
3/4 cup canned navy beans, drained and rinsed ++++ 1 5-oz can light tuna in water, drained and flaked ++++ 2 cloves garlic, chopped ++++ 4 oz tomato, left whole if bite-sized or sliced ++++ salt, pepper, thyme, parsley ++++ 3.5 oz spinach or mixed greens ++++ 2 tsp lemon juice + 1 tsp white wine vinegar + 1 tsp olive oil ++++ 1 Tbsp Parmesan cheese, grated
Gently stir the beans, tuna, and garlic together. In a wide, shallow bowl whisk the lemon juice, vinegar and olive oil. Stir ½ tsp of the dressing into the bean mixture. Toss the greens and herbs with the remaining dressing, then stir the bean mixture into the greens. Top with the Parmesan cheese. Season with salt and pepper.
