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. Welcome to tttt160031019 who is now Following.

Kermit The Frog asked, “Why are there so many songs about rainbows?” Because, Kermit, people have always been in awe of them. Imagine living a hand-to-mouth hunter-gatherer existence and suddenly seeing a stunning rainbow filling the sky! Awesome. The Bible mentions rainbows six times — in Genesis, Ezekiel, Revelations. In that context, they represent God or a message of hope from God. Rainbows are in folklore, of course: the Irish leprechaun hiding gold at the rainbow’s end; Norse and Roman gods using rainbows as a pathway from earth to the heavens; Polynesians saw them a stairway to heaven for the souls of the dead. Aboriginal Australians think the rainbow is a serpent that is both helpful and destructive. Estonians won’t point at a rainbow for fear of their finger falling off. Bulgarians won’t walk under a rainbow for fear of changing their gender. In 1665, Isaac Newton did his ground-breaking research into light, proving that ‘white light/sunlight’ can be broken into colors by passing through a prism. Romantic poet John Keats seems to have criticized Newton for ‘unweaving the rainbow’ ‘at the mere touch of cold philosophy’. Are natural phenomena less wondrous if we know the science behind them? Richard Dawkins, in his book Unweaving the Rainbow, thinks not. We know that rainbows are caused by sunlight shining through tiny water droplets in the air, breaking the so-called ‘white light’ into colors. Rainbows are a metaphor for multiculturalism. Josephine Baker and her husband adopted 12 children from many ethnicities, calling them her Rainbow Tribe. In 1978, the Rainbow Flag of the Gay Rights Movement was flown for the first time. Designed by Gilbert Baker, at the urging of Harvey Milk, the flag has been adopted world-wide, symbolizing the unity and pride of the LBGT community. June is Pride Month in the USA. It is good to have something to be proud of.

Our meals are made with foods from many colors — purple eggplant, red tomatoes, green spinach, orange clementines — eat the rainbow!

Maltese ScrOmelette: 152 calories… 8 g fat… 1.6 g fiber… 12.5 g protein… 7.6 g carbs… 91 mg Calcium…  NB: Food values shown are for the ScrOmelette and fruit only, and do not include the optional beverages. PB GF With the fish, the vegetables, and the fruit, these flavors have “Malta” written all over them.

++ 1½ eggs – HINT: If you are serving one person, crack three 2-oz eggs into a small bowl or glass measuring cup. Whip up those eggs and pour half of their volume, into a jar with a lid and put it in the ‘fridge for next week ++++ ¼ oz cooked tuna ++++ 2 Tbsp frozen spinach ++++ 2 Tbsp Mediterranean Vegetables, chopped ++++  ½ clementine ++++Optional: blackish coffee [53 calories] or blackish tea or  mocha cafe au lait [65 calories] ++++  Optional: 5 oz fruit smoothie or  berry-yogurt smoothie [88 calories] ++

Thaw and chop the spinach, and drain it through a sieve. Break the tuna into small bits. Combine all vegetables with the tuna. Heat the ingredients briefly in an oil-misted non-stick pan, then pour in the whisked eggs. Cook to your preference. Serve with the fruit and optional beverages of choice. Sunny flavors!

Antipasto with chicken: 252 calories… 11 g fat… 4 g fiber… 22.6 g protein… 29 g carbs… 208 mg Calcium…  PB GF  This one is a keeper. Simple, off the shelf, pretty on the plate, good to eat. The photo shows enough for 2 people. Invite a guest who is Fasting, too.

++ 2 oz roasted red pepper, without oil [I roast my own, slice and freeze them] ++++ 2 oz mozzerella, cut into ‘sticks’ [I buy blocks of mozzerells for slicing] ++++ 3 oz chicken breast, cooked ++++ 5 oz tomato slices ++++ 3 oz whole green beans, steamed, drained, cooled 1½ oz marinated mushrooms ++++ 1/3 c. garbanzo beans, drained if canned ++++ 4 black olives, pitted and sliced ++++ 3 slices pepperoni, chopped ++++ 1 tsp flavored olive oil ++++ salt, chopped fresh herbs ++ 

Prepare the ingredients and keep separate. Combine the garbanzoes with the chopped pepperoni. On a platter, arrange the ingredients in rows as shown in the photo. Suit your own artistic nature as to what goes where. Drizzle on the flavored oil. Be liberal with the fresh herbs.