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.

A daughter was born to John and Ann Beswick Lees on February 29, 1736, on Toad Lane Road, Manchester, England. John Lees worked as a blacksmith by day and as a tailor by night to keep his family fed. The parents, devout and respectable people, named their daughter Ann. Illiterate, like other girls of her social class, she started working in the textile mills at age eight. When she was 20 years old, Ann became the cook at a local hospital/insane asylum. This was a time of religious revival in Manchester, as well as the start of the Industrial Revolution. Ann’s father married her to his apprentice, Abraham Standerin/Stanley, when she was 25. Her marriage either contributed to or reinforced her aversion to sex, which she saw a sinful. An off-shoot of the Quaker sect had been formed by Jane Wardley, and Ann became an enthusiastic member. Their worship services began with silent reflection and ended with mass shouting, writhing, and dancing, hence their nickname “Shaking Quakers”. Members of the group were often arrested for bursting into non-Quaker church services to deride the congregants. One time, while Ann was imprisoned, she had a vision that she was the embodiment of Christ and that she would found a new church in the new land of America. With eight adherents, she sailed for New York in 1774. The group worked there to earn money to buy land, and in time moved upstate to Niskayuna. On the weird Dark Day of 1780, Mother Ann began to spread her egalitarian ideals of communal living without sex; of working for the common good while giving “hands to work and hearts to God”. In 1781, she undertook a tour of Connecticut and Massachusetts along with some followers including her brother William. They were met with curiosity, contempt, and sometimes violence — but their proselytizing resulted in the establishment of 8 Shaker Villages. Due to injuries incurred from mobs on their tour, William died within in 1784, and Mother Ann a few months later at age 48. In time, 6000 Shakers held her in reverence as their sect grew. She is buried at the Shaker Cemetery in Watervliet, New York.

The Shakers were known for their simple but very good food. It was fresh from the garden and always featured a lot of herbs for flavor, and often fruit. Wholesome products of a farm life.

Apple-Cheese Pancake Plate:  142 calories 3.5 g fat 2 g fiber 10.5g protein 17.5 g carbs 31 mg Calcium  NB: Food values given are for the main meal only, and do not include the optional beverage. PB GF – if using GF flour The preparation is so simple – if the pancakes were already made. I cooked the batch the night before. Fine for a Fast Day breakfast or, on a Slow Day, add a bit of peanut butter.

2 Apple-Cheese pancakes ** 1 slice Canadian bacon [back bacon] 2 oz melon   Optional: 5 oz fruit smoothie or berry-yogurt smoothie [88 calories]   Optional: blackish coffee [53 calories] or blackish tea or mocha cafe au lait [65 calories]

Cook the bacon, warm the pancakes, and plate with the melon. Perfect.

**Apple-Cheese Pancakes makes 10 ½ cottage cheese ½ c grated apple 1½ tsp honey 1/3 cup white whole wheat flour 1½ tsp almond meal 2 eggs, separated  2 tsp Parmesan cheese, grated dash lemon juice pinch cinnamon  Stir together everything except the eggs. Add the egg yolks to the batter. Beat egg whites until stiff, then fold into the batter. Cook on a hot griddle, spooning out enough batter to make 10 pancakes. Cook both sides. Serve what you need for today’s meal, then cool and freeze the remainder.

Summer Vegetable Tortillas:  310 calories 9 g fat 8 g fiber 28.6 g protein 49 g carbs 210 mg Calcium  PB  Eating Well magazine is the source of these fine tortillas, chock full of the flavors of the Summer garden.  HINT: This recipe serves two [2].  Photo below shows portion for one.

1 cup eggplant, ½” dice 1 cup onion, ½ “ dice ½ cup corn kernels salt + pepper	Mix it all in a medium bowl, then put on a baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray. (save the bowl) Spray the vegetables with cooking spray. Roast at 450 F for 10 minutes.
1 cup zucchini ½“ dice 1.5 cloves garlic salt + pepper	Combine in the bowl. Add to the baking sheet and spray again. Roast until vegetables are soft and starting to brown, about 15 minutes.
½ c shredded cooked chicken breast ½ c enchilada sauce from jar	Put chicken and the vegetables in a saute pan. Stir in enchilada sauce and heat until warm.
4 corn tortillas, warmed ½ c Monterey jack, shredded chopped cilantro lime wedges	Put ¼ of the filling on each tortilla. [save a bit for adding to eggs at breakfast] Top with cheese, serve with cilantro/lime.

Ingredients for next week: Breakfast, single portion for Monday …………………………… single portion for Thursday:

1 two-oz egg = US large	1.5 two-oz eggs
leek + dill weed	salt cod + strawberries
lemon juice + salmon	Cheddar cheese
dab low-fat sour cream or plain Greek yogurt	instant potato flakes or mashed potato
optional smoothie	optional smoothie
optional hot beverage	optional hot beverage

Dinner, single portion for Monday:………………………….. single portion for Thursday:

2 chicken leg quarters + one back = 1 pound 9 0z	Gozleme bread
leeks + onion + carrots	ground lamb + tomato
prunes + thyme sprigs	onion + fat-free vanilla yogurt
bay leaf + quick-cooking barley	cider vinegar + garlic powder
Sparkling water	Sparkling water