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. 

“Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.” — Revelation, 12:6.

Johannes Kelpius was a mystic from Transylvania. At university, he had been under the influence of Jacob Zimmerman‘s “Chapter of Perfection”. Zimmerman was an astronomer, mathematician, and defrocked [due to his heretical views] Lutheran pastor. In 1694, he foresaw that the world would end and the heavenly kingdom would come in 1700. Zimmerman and his followers were set to travel to the newly-minted Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to find a suitable place to await the End Times, but their mentor died. Young Kelpius became their leader, and they settled in the wilderness of the Wissahickon Creek gorge, outside [now in] present day Philadelphia. With his 40 monks, Kelpius built a community on the 40th parallel. Despite wishing to be alone, Kelpius and his friends were often visited by other settlers in the region due to their knowledge of healing herbs and their ability to make fine musical instruments. Indeed, they set themselves up as teachers to the young and as lawyers and arbiters for the adults. The sect members wished to remain free from spiritual blemish, abstaining from sex and studying the night sky for signs and portents [their’s was the first telescope observatory in America]. In addition to thinking that only they could predict the apocalypse, the group had another quirk: they thought that the act of defecating was so disgusting that it must be sinful, therefore they did what they could to avoid the act. The year 1700 came and went, Kelpius died in 1708, and adherents began to drift away. They are remembered today by a plaque in Wissahickon Creek Park, part of Fairmount Park in Northwest Philadelphia.

Members of the sect, to avoid defecating, must have opted for foods low in fiber, like our proposed breakfast and dinner.

Fore Street Bake: 147 calories… 8 g fat… 1.6 g fiber… 9.6 g protein… 8.5 g carbs… 95 mg Calcium…  NB: The food values shown are for the egg bake and the fruit, not for the optional beverages. PB GF One of our favorite restaurants in Portland, Maine is Fore Street. First time there, I ate a pizza from their wood-fired oven and we have loved that particular combination of flavors ever since. Here’s that marvelous mixture in baked eggs.

++1 two-oz egg ++++ 1/3 oz blue cheese++++ ¾ oz leeks ++++++ ½ oz mushrooms ++++ 1 oz strawberries ++++  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] ++++

Slice the leeks and chop the mushrooms. Put into a Pyrex custard cup with a little water and cook in the microwave for 45 seconds. Spritz a ramekin with non-stick spray and add the cooked leeks and mushrooms. Whisk the cheese with the egg, then pour into the ramekin. Bake at 350 F. for 12-15 minutes. Portion the berries and pour the beverages and settle in for a taste of Portland. 

Chicken BBQ Sliders:  281 calories…    4 g fat…    5.3 g fiber …      27 g protein…  35 g carbs…  166 mg Calcium…   PB Such a simple meal to prepare.  Such a fun meal to eat.  HINT: This recipe makes 2 [two] servings.  Invite a friend or save the rest for lunch another day. 

++ 3 whole wheat slider buns @ 90 calories each [we prefer Martin’s brand]   ++++     5 oz cooked chicken breast, sliced ++++ 2 Tbsp Corky’s BBQ Sauce per serving ++++ 1/2 cup coleslaw OR 2 oz cherry tomatoes  +  ¾ oz carrot sticks++

Warm the chicken and the sauce together over low heat.  Open the slider buns and toast them lightly on a heavy skillet.  Spoon the filling into the slider buns and cut each one in half.  One serving = 3 halves.  Plate with the vegetables for an absurdly easy dinner.

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

1 two-oz egg = US large	1 two-oz egg, hard-boiled  + bell pepper
carne adovada + Cheddar cheese	tomato + cucumber + onion
roasted green chilis	cilantro + anchovy filets + cider vinegar
1 corn tortilla, 65 calories	oil-cured black olives + olive oil
optional smoothie	optional smoothie
optional hot beverage	optional hot beverage

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

chicken breast + thyme + canola oil	tuna steak + Moroccan spice
onion + jalapeno + garlic	peas or broccoli or green beans
canned pozole + Mexican oregano	white beans + clementine or orange
zucchini + chicken broth	preserved or fresh lemon
Sparkling water	Sparkling water