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.

“Passing” means living your life as someone you are not, and getting away with it.. The term can be used for people living as a member of another race or of a different sex. Archibald Stansfeld Belaney was born on September 18, 1888, in Hastings, England. His parents left him with his grandmother and aunts at a young age, when they moved to America. Little Archie was raised as a proper English child. Perhaps it was the stories he read about ‘American Indians’ that caused him to move to Canada when he was 17 years old. While working for a fur trapper, Archie married a woman of the Ojibwa tribe and learned their language. World War I saw him enlisting in the Canadian army. Belaney told people that he was the offspring of a Scottish father and an Apache mother. And they believed him. He served as a sniper but wounds sent him to convalesce back in Hastings. Belaney married a local girl, but left her in England when he returned to Canada after the war. There Archie was befriended by an Ojibwa, who taught him woodland survival. This is when Archibald began to style himself as “Grey Owl”. He married once again — never having divorced his previous wives — this time to an Iroquois teenager called Anahareo. One winter while trapping together, Grey Owl killed a female beaver. He was about to return to camp with the skin when Anahareo heard the beaver’s babies crying in their lodge. She scolded her husband for the cruelty of killing the mother and leaving her kittens to starve. Grey Owl adopted the little beavers and he became an ardent environmentalist henceforth. He embarked on a career of writing and public speaking that took him all over North America and to England in the 1930s. People were captivated by the supposed Native American, dressed in buckskin and carrying a pet beaver. He lectured twice in his native Hastings, and no one recognized him. His book The Men of the Last Frontier, 1932, was a plea for the conservation of the natural world, and a best-seller. As the first celebrity conservationist, Grey Owl was very influential. He was employed by the Canadian Forestry Service and Parks Canada, working to reintroduce beaver colonies in national parks. After Belaney’s death at age 49, his first wife outed him and the brouhaha began. Native Americans were angry, his books were taken from circulation, and newly-engaged environmentalists were confused by his dishonesty. He might have been a fake, but he left a genuine message of a better way to interact with the wild lands of Canada and the world.

Our day begins with a breakfast from Old England, land of “Grey Owl’s” birth, and ends with a meal of ingredients typical to the First Nations people whom Belaney so admired. Eating good food has nothing to do with cultural appropriation.

Ham & Mushroom Bake: 177 calories… 8.7 g fat… 4.6 g fiber… 14 g protein… 12.4 g carbs… 87 mg Calcium… NB: The food values given above are for the egg bake and fruit only, not the optional beverages. PB  GF A hearty, flavor-packed breakfast begins with ham and mushrooms. Although these are flavors of autumn, they can be enjoyed any time, especially on a Fast Day. 

++ One 2-oz egg ++++ 1 oz mushrooms, chopped… 1 oz roast ham or 3% fat deli ham, chopped ++++ 2 Tbsp Gruyere cheese, grated ++++ ½ tsp ground sage ++++ ¼ tsp savory ++++ ½ cup raspberries ++++ 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] ++

Set toaster oven at 350 degrees F. Spritz some cooking spray into a ramekin. Grate the cheese. Chop the ham and mushrooms, and put them into the ramekin. Whisk together the cheese, egg, and seasonings, and pour that in too. Bake 12-15 minutes, depending on how well set you like your eggs. It will puff up and start to brown a bit. Heat your beverage, shake the smoothie, and portion the fruit. Off to a good start.

Squash-Cupped Bison Chili: 215 calories… 3.5 g fat… 7 g fiber… 14.5 g protein… 34 g carbs… 120 mg Calcium…  PB  GF What an easy, delicious, and satisfying meal. HINT: One squash is enough for 2 servings, so invite a fellow-Faster for dinner. Save the remaining chili for another meal later.

Bison Chili: per cup- 136 calories…3 g fat.. 5 g fiber.. 13 g protein.. 14.5 g carbs.. 57 mg Calcium.. ++ 4 oz ground bison ++++ 15 oz canned tomatoes – in chunks or diced drained in a sieve [save the juice] ++++ 1 clove garlic, chopped ++++ 1 cup red onion, chopped ++++ ½ cup green pepper, chopped ++++ ¾ cup canned red or black beans, drained and rinsed ++++ 2-4 tsp chili powder ++++ ¾ tsp salt ++++ ½ – 1 tsp ground cumin ++  Cook the venison, onion, garlic, and green pepper in some of the tomato juices until vegetables are tender. Add remaining ingredients and cook gently until the chili is hot throughout. Taste to see if it needs more seasoning. makes 4 one-cup servings

For tonight’s meal: ++ 5 oz delicata squash, seeds removed ++++ 1 cup Bison Chili or use Chili Non Carne for a vegetarian version ++++ 2 oz melon, as a garnish ++++

Weigh the delicata squash whole and uncut to get a sense of how much will be 5 oz. You will be cutting off the ends of the squash and removing the seeds, to produce a hollow tube of squash: about two inches of squash that will stand up on the plate. Put the squash in the microwave oven and cook it until it can be easily pierced with a skewer. Assemble by standing the squash cup in the middle of the plate and pouring the chili in and around it. Then position the melon. Unusual! Teriffic!

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

1 two-oz egg = US large + blueberries	1.5 two-oz eggs
cooked quinoa + cooked kale	bratwurst sausage + onions
cayenne + sage + garlic powder	parsley + ketchup + curry powder
sage + 2%-fat cottage cheese	strawberries + prepared mustard
optional smoothie	optional smoothie
optional hot beverage	optional hot beverage

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

6 oz raw chicken meat + lime juice	chicken breast + whole-grain noodles
Cafreal Masala marinade	carrot + green pepper + tomato
oil + onions + cooking spray	onion + mushrooms + chicken stock
black pepper + brown rice	paprika + sour cream or low-fat yogurt
Sparkling water	Sparkling water