I have been WFPB for several years. Bad blood work (namely a sky high and increasing CRP #) made me realize I had to make a change in my diet. I am 5'9", now 72, always active but my body can no longer pound it out in the gym or handle the heavy exercise I used to do. Arthritic hips, degenerative disc disease in the spine, have modified what I can do. I LOVE to walk and am doing water aerobics too. Plus swimming sometimes. I do need to add some weight work to my routine.
I want to lose more weight, my 1st goal is to get to 185 (from 194.8 today), and then reassess. And I can't rely on exercise to burn off the calories, not to mention no more hormones left in my body!
So, let's start.
I try to limit my eating between 8am and 6 or 7pm.
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- kfast for me today will be a piece of fruit and split pea soup (love the McDougall recipe) along with my starch of the day, some potatoes.
Lunch will be the 'cowboy caviar' recipe with iceberg lettuce and maybe some as a filling in a corn tortilla
Dinner will probably be oatmeal with ground flax seed and hemp hearts with soy milk. I can't do oatmeal in the morning as it seems to crash my blood sugar
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Exercise: my 1.5 mile walk. Plus some stretches (vital for me) and a 30 second plank (really helps my back).