Sarge said:
Guru Tugginmypuddah said:
Stebro said:
anyone focuse on trying to eat more alkaline foods?
Yes. We started the entire family on fresh fruit/vegetable juices just before Christmas. Slowly transitioning to a mainly raw food based diet.
Been going through 2 bushels of carrots (100 pounds total) a week, 1 bushel of apples (50 pounds a week) along with 50 lemons or so, few pounds of baby spinach, pounds and pouds of bananas, pounds of berries.
There are 6 of us in the house.
I need to go through my notes again but I'm told 1 lb of veg per day per every 50 lbs of body mass you are? I haven't done the math to see where you are in relation to that. Also, I'm told that carrots and other earth grown veg, while good, just contain too much sugar to consider them the bulk of you intake . - Try veg grown ABOVE the ground. Also, have you considered some of the better veggie drinks out there?
Yes. I understand the concern with all the "sugar". I use to live and breath Atkins (low carb) approach. BUT, I decided to try it out for my self to see what happens with mainly a diet based on fresh fruit/veggies.
Along with all those carrots, apples, also Kale, beets with the greens, swiss chard, celery, cucumber, fennel.
Morning will generally consist of carrot/apple roughly 50/50 with a couple lemons and ginger in it.
Lunch will be more green based. Maybe say tomato, celery, cucumber, carrot, parsley, cilantro.
Dinner will most likely be carrot/celery 50/50 and spinach.
The harder fruits and veggies we put through a juicer, then will put the juice in the vitamix and add the leafy green stuff into the vitamix and puree it all.
The kids after school snack usually consists of a smoothy with unsweetened almond milk, berries, bananas and baby spinach. Baby spinach is great because it is very mild and the kids don't even know it's in there.
So far, we all feel really good. All sorts of small nagging ailments are clearing up. Everyone is sleeping better at night, waking up more refreshed. Skin ailments clearing up, cold like symptoms gone.
As far as weight goes, there is a simple formula for figuring out why people gain weight.
calories consumed - calories expended=weight gain(loss)
To me, that's it. No magic bullet, no nothing. You consume more than you burn and you put on weight. End of story, full stop.
Personally, I would rather be dumping calories into my body that come from natural sources such as fruits,veggies,nuts,seeds and generally things that are not over processed.
) Anyway, calories are fine.. I'm not concerned about these but if anyone knows which boozes contain the least amount of sugar, it would be most helpful.
