Are you like me? A Flexible Plant-Based Diet || Flexitarian Diet
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Together we can live happily (while eating more plants) and live our lives as our authentic selves. If you want to be perfectly imperfect with me 😉 follow along! I've learned a new term the "flexitarian diet" and I think that describes how most of us want to live. I am also on a quest to grow, hunt, store, and forage more foods -- if you're learning too I'd love for you to share some tips.
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I'm actually quite strict about my eating because I'm dealing with hypertension. I'm 68 years old and went from vegetarian to plant based in 2013. So, while most people in their 60s experience higher blood pressure, mine has been getting better and better. Sometimes, I buy a donut and a coffee which I know isn't the right thing, but I do that very rarely. Otherwise, I don't use salt and that means zero processed food, zero restaurant food. I also pretty much follow Dr. Esselstyn's protocol for heart disease since hypertension honestly is a symptom vascular disease. I've been eating six small servings of leafy green vegetables throughout the day for the nitric oxide and the results have been great. Thanks for the video!
Wow 👏👏 that is so great! Yes his heart disease plan/diet can be life changing for people. I’m so glad you found it
Reverend - way to go!
Allow me to share a top tip! Red beets - chopped up raw in smoothies, cooked in salads, juice are all Nitric Oxide rich and have a great place in any plant based high blood pressure regimen...
Vegetarian includes dairy and eggs. I am a semi-vegetarian. I eat chicken about once a week because I love it. I left being a vegetarian for several years but am coming back to it. I'm feeling better too.
It sounds like you know what works really well for you, your body, and your lifestyle. Hope you keep feeling your best!
I’m mostly plant based as well. My diet is about 90% plants, but I enjoy a little bit of cheese with my crackers, accept cream in my coffee when there isn’t an alternative, I add cottage cheese to fruit for protein, and I eat local seafood in the summer (I’m in Maine.) After 5 years of “being plant based” I’ve found that this is what is sustainable for me.
This sounds exactly like me!
Flexible and realistic, and I’m also in Maine 😁🙋♀️
I was plant-based for 5 years and I think it's healthier for my body to be more flexible. I have pernicious anemia and it has helped me adding a little bit of meat back in. Whole foods is really so much the key.
I totally agree, eating real whole foods makes all the difference. I am so glad you found something that helps you feel your best! That’s so important
@HealthyFamilyDoc ty, it's always something I can come back to when I've made a bad turn. The knowledge is always there lol. Ty for the informative video. I look forward to more and sub. Have a great week! 🩷😊
Thanks for sharing! I just started my flexitarian diet and I understand what you're feeling, I feel the same way. I have the occasional meat but definitely not as often. Like your husband, I still want to eat butter! Haha. All the best in your journey ✨
you are very very serious about what you do. Thank you for your insights.
you are rambling You need to edit and get to the point. But that said. A really great video Most importantly you need to stop listening to me because as I have noticed, you are very very serious about what you do!!! ;)
Ha, thank you for the feedback and the compliment 🙂
I had a triple bypass 8 years ago at 53 from eating process junk food all my life. After my operation I did well on a Mediterranean style diet for 8 months. I lost over 80lbs and I was like a new man. In the last few years I changed that up a bit and fine tuned it. I went total plant based for near 2 years but I found it restrictive and head wrecking at times. I became flexitarian and introduced some dairy back into my diet that eased that restriction. Its only about 5% of my overall diet so I dont believe its an amount that will be detrimental to my health. I do resistance training 3 days a week and I might eat a bit of chicken or egg whites at just one meal and after that workout. I try to eat total plant based for the other remaining 4 days. I dropped using olive oil as well. But the biggest favour i did for myself needless to say is the near elimination of processed junk food. Thats the game changer for me. If im in a restaurant, I rather surrender my total plant based title and eat a more healthier option of a bit of salmon or chicken breast than having to eat one of those processed junk food vegan burgers with all sorts of vegan junk thrown over it just to adhere to a concept.
👏👏👏 wow that’s amazing! Such an overhaul and I think you’re right on. I live a very similar way, and have created so much more balance and peace about food and eating - and what I feed my family. Thank you for sharing your story
I forwarded this to my 24yr old daughter who is currently working on the same issue. Thank You!!
I knew I couldn’t be alone!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
thank you for being a voice of reason-if we all did this-tried to eat more healthy (and less meat)more often that will pay dividends-it’s not about perfection but progress!
Couldn’t agree more!
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Thank you for this video and for sharing your thoughts with us! Yes, it's important to reduce inflammation and eat for our health, but we also live in the real world. Personally, I can't do without meat, eggs, and dairy, because I develop deficiencies if I try to. But, I usually limit them and I would say I eat about 80% plants, when things are going well, LOL. I have noticed the creep at times, too, especially regarding cheese and other dairy products. The time between mid-December and mid-Feb (holiday season and my birthday) was really emotional for me and I'll admit that I pretty much completely let go. Because of that, I am suffering from chronic inflammation and pain and I'm trying to get things back on track with the anti-inflammatory plant-based foods, right now. Sometimes we do really well and sometimes not-so-much. But, you're right that life is short and I don't think that you should have to feel badly for not being perfect about your diet. The 80/20 rule is more realistic, anyway. And mental health is important. That's why I think the Flexitarian diet is great. It encourages certain behaviors, but makes allowances for others, so that there are no hard and fast rules and one is less likely to go fly off the rails and go completely nuts. I'm planning to focus on Flexitarian recipes for part of my blog and my Patreon, so that's why I'm doing some research to see what other people are saying/eating on RUclips. I really appreciate your perspective, especially since you're trained in plant-based eating. I also appreciate the homesteading thing. Blessings!
That’s awesome! 80% is mostly our goal too- and good luck!
Flexitarian was a new word to me in the last year and I think it’s the perfect description.
Thank you for sharing. Your family's diet is closer to mine. I am plant based at home and by myself. My boyfriend is an omnivore. I eat animal products when offered to me in their home out of reverence for others.
🥰 health is so much more than the food we eat. Healthy relationships and community play a huge role in our happiness and sense of belonging
I’m the same. I don’t cook meat or have dairy in my home but my parents work and live in Uganda and when we eat over peoples homes, out of respect, I eat what is put before me…
I am hoping to hear something positive about a flexitarian diet and reversing/controlling T2 diabetes. My husband was diagnosed 3 years ago. We immediately began eating a low carb, but not keto diet. His A1C was normal by the end of 3 months and all of his blood work was great, except cholesterol, which was only slightly elevated. Well 3 years later and his cholesterol is much too high. He would not be happy at all with a low fat vegan diet or "The Starch Solution" diet. Low fat flexitarian seems to be the logical choice to bring his cholesterol back to earth and increase insulin sensitivity. I would love to hear any thoughts you have on the subject. Many thanks and God bless.
I used to be vegetarian years ago but didn’t really know much about nutrition so I wasn’t healthy at all. I then added meat back into my diet when I had children, as it was just easier to make the same meals. But over the years I have learned that meat, dairy and gluten doesn’t agree with me, so I am much more plant based these day. I also try and stick to whole foods. Thankfully my family are much more on board with it the last few years.
I can understand that! What I eat affects how I feel so much, and the more plants the better 💚
The only sugar I’ve eaten in nine months is the OGTT I did a few days ago. That was disgusting.
Oh yeah 🙈 yuck! But man good for you for sticking so tightly to your goals and health goals!!
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Healthy Family Doc - thanks for sharing - but Nooooooo!!!
Most likely you are craving additional protein (as per eggs), and fat (as in cheese) because your plant based diet does not quite cover these needs.
Instead - read 'Eat Like The Animals' - a science research geek roadtrip to get to grips with our five (5) appetites, and in particular innate drivers to keep eating to satisfy / satiate Protein and Fat.
Now re-view your plant based eating diet to ensure your protein eating properly covers daily quantity requirements (about 1g / kg body weight) and covers all the essential amino acids (i.e. makes for complete protein intake) - top tip add a teaspoon or two of green powder to smoothies for a plant based protein bump up. Note: list out the protein plant based foods and increase these into your diet until you feel satisfied / satiated. Note: Split Peas and Brown rice make an easy start on complete protein eating...
For Fat, re-view your plant based fats and oil sources to check you are getting sufficient essential fatty acids Omega 6 and Omega 3 to satisfy your needs - top tip add a table spoon of ground flax seed to your overnight soaked oats - and add pumpkin seeds and sunflower hearts for a protein and Omega 6 bump up. Any craving for fatty foods indicates a need to increase plant based fats until you are satisfied / satiated.
Cravings are a positive thing - signposting adjustments to personalise our diet to satisfy our particular needs. My encouragement - re-look at what you are doing plant based and make some adjustments there before reaching for Animal products...
Wishing you well - Steve
Thanks Steve- I wouldn’t say I have cravings just balancing real life, family needs and demands, preservation of a homesteading lifestyle and certain skills that are important to me and my family.
It’s all a balance, diet included! And I agree, incorporating the macronutrients is certainly essential.