How this Fast Diet Lifestyle works: Eat these meals tomorrow. On your next Fast Day, eat the meals that will be posted here in 3-4 days. Eat sensibly the other days of the week. That’s it. Simple way to lose weight and be healthier.
Why do you diet? Because you think your body has betrayed you by gaining weight and you want to punish it? If you are angry at yourself, you will not succeed in improving your health — physically or mentally. You must like yourself well enough to want to figure out why you over-eat and to recognize that having the right relationship with food will help you to be successful. Eating more health-fully is the key. If dieting is about ‘punishment,’ it won’t work. If it is about loving yourself, then you will want to take care of your body and feed it in a way to make it healthy. Do you think you will be hungry all the time when Fasting? There are many moods that masquerade as hunger. If hunger is not the problem, food is not the answer. In Fasting, you will find a better way to eat, focusing on what foods are good for you so that you can feel and look your best. How can you “Love your neighbor as yourself” if you don’t love yourself? Be your own best Valentine. In honor of Valentine’s Day, breakfast looks like an indulgence but has lots of delicious nutrition. Dinner is a meal my Dear Husband and I have often enjoyed on February 14th, and it is very nice indeed.
Fruit Hearts: 198 calories 5.6 g fat 2.7 g fiber 13 g protein 25.8 g carbs 82.6 mg Calcium NB: These values are for the Fruit Hearts alone. PB GF V This breakfast looks as if it came from the pastry cart, but it fits within our guidelines for Fasting. If you don’t mind doing ‘fiddly food,’ treat someone you love to a special breakfast.
1 oz whole-grain bread cut using a 2+” heart-shaped cookie cutter 2 Tbsp unsweetened applesauce 2 Tbsp low-fat French Vanilla yogurt 1 Tbsp almond meal/flour fresh fruit of your choosing: fresh raspberries or sliced strawberries or peach slices or blueberries [The fruit in the center is a ‘Goldenberry’] 1.1 oz Canadian bacon/back bacon cut into hearts with the same sized cutter 3oz fruit smoothie [34 calories] or natural apple cider blackish coffee [53 calories]or tea or lemon in hot water
First, stir the yogurt and almond flour until thoroughly combined. It will thicken slightly. Cut the bread and the Canadian Bacon into hearts. HINT: I did this the night before, storing the bread in a plastic bag overnight to prevent them from drying. Gently cook the bacon hearts so that they are warmed through yet retain their pinkness. Lightly toast the bread hearts. Spread the applesauce evenly over each heart. Pipe the yogurt/almond around the edge of each heart, then arrange the fruit in the center. Sip some low-fat cafe au lait this morning and think lovely thoughts..
Filet Mignon with Tarragon: 278 calories 14 g fat 2.3 g fiber 28.6 g protein 7.2 g carbs [6 g Complex] 49 mg Calcium GF We have enjoyed this sumptuous Joanne Harris recipe for years and we still turn back to her My French Kitchen to make it again. HINT: This recipe is enough for two. Worth sharing with a special friend. If serving one, prepare all of the sauce and save it to put in eggs at breakfast or to use at dinner.
2 tsp butter 1/4 tsp olive oil + 1/4 tsp olive oil ½ large shallot [1 Tbsp] 2 Tbsp white wine 1 Tbsp heavy cream 1 tsp grainy mustard ½ clove garlic [½ tsp minced] 2-3 Tbsp fresh tarragon two 4-oz filet mignon 10 spears asparagus, snapped off at the bottom to remove the woody section
Cook the mushrooms on both sides in butter and a spritz of cooking spray. Keep warm off the stove. Heat the oil with a spritz of cooking spray, and cook the shallots until softened. Add the wine to the pan, then simmer for 3 minutes. Lower the heat, add the cream, mustard, garlic, and tarragon. Heat long enough to heat the sauce but do not let it boil. Cook the asparagus. In a separate heavy skillet, heat a drizzle of oil and a spritz of non-stick spray over high. Cook the meat 1-1/2 minutes/side if you like it rare or 2 minutes/side for medium. Place the cooked steak on the mushroom cap, surround it with asparagus, and top it with the sauce. This is easy to prepare and absolutely delicious.
Breakfast, single portion
| 1 two-oz egg + cooked spinach | 1.5 two-oz eggs |
| cottage cheese + scallion + nutmeg | eggplant + garlic |
| Manchego cheese | tomato/tomato sauce + Onion |
| granulated garlic + strawberries | pear + Herbes de Province |
| Whatever you need for your smoothie | Whatever you need for your smoothie |
| Whatever you need for your hot beverage | Whatever you need for your hot beverage |
Dinner, single portion:
| no-cheese Béchamel + spinach [5 oz] | no-cheese Béchamel [Sidekicks I] + chicken breast |
| celery + onion + celery salt | sherry wine + carrot |
| garlic powder + dill + basil | angel hair pasta |
| 2 crepes [Sidekicks I] + ham | broccoli + Parmesan cheese |
| Sparkling water | Sparkling water |
Eating well, with creative recipes, to follow the Fasting Lifestyle according to Michael Mosley's "Fast Diet." 