How I lost more than forty pounds and healed my body.

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At the age of fifty-four, I was frumpy, fat, and very unhealthy. The picture below was taken last month after I have healed my body through my diet. Three years ago, before I started eating natural unprocessed foods, I was a lot bigger in size.

I have maintained this weight for over two years. Hundreds of people have asked me how I lost weight and reversed my health problems. The simple answer is that I changed my choice of foods. My health and stamina returned to the levels of my early thirties in just a few months. I will turn fifty-seven this September.

My gentleman friend and I are very active socially which means we go out to eat and attend lots of parties and functions. As you know, special food is always a part of these social situations. Most of the food that is served in restaurants and sold in grocery stores in America is highly processed, heavily salted, with lots of added sugar and butter or other fats. This is also the reason that many of my friends started to gain a lot of weight as soon as they came to America.

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After I read the book “Eat to Live” by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, I realized that nothing in my daily diet was high in nutrition or provided a sufficient source of energy. That’s why I was always hungry two hours after I ate!

I started eating the breakfast described in the post here and at the top of this page under Recipes. Breakfast for me is at about six in the morning. I am often just starting to feel hungry at about one in the afternoon. I have a large leafy green salad with lots of steamed, roasted, or sauteed vegetables at about two in the afternoon.  I use unsalted vegetable broth to cook with instead of butter or oil. My salad dressing is an aged balsamic vinegar. There is no oil, croutons, bread, or cheese served on or with this salad. That’s normally my last meal of the day and I never feel hungry at night. I drink hot tea, water, and occasionally a glass of wine.

This is my diet 95% of the time. I still eat whatever I want when we go out to dinner during the weekends. (I do not eat red meat or pork.)

It is a simply healthy way of eating and I never feel that I am missing anything. I don’t count calories or go to the gym. The fact that I feel so much better and have so much more energy serves as my motivation to continue to eat like this for the rest of my life.

I hope that by sharing my story I have given you the motivation to learn more about food and how it can make you feel great or miserable.

Originally posted on Fifty, not Frumpy.

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