The Pros And Cons Of Eating Plants
Happy July, The Month of Soaring To Your Potential!
This week I decided to read “The Plant-Powered Diet” by Sharon Palmer, this book can help you to decide if a plant-based diet is best for you.
I will be discussing:
1. Rearranging Your Diet
2. Eat Your Vita-Veggies
3. Prep To Maintain Your Diet
And be sure to read my last blog on “Book Review: Can You Be Healthy At Every Size” & “FREE Download: July 2019 Motivational Quote Desktop Wallpapers”.
If I could some up this book into one word it would have to be the word Plant-based: a diet is a diet consisting mostly or entirely of foods derived from plants, including vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, legumes and fruits, and with few or no animal products.
1. Skinny Illusions
The benefits of a new diet are not visible overnight, it truly takes consistency and being open enough to change your lifestyle. Instead of trying to merge a constrictive diet onto what you do already, eating habits and weight loss takes time.
Especially if you are looking to lower your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and several types of cancer. A plant-based diet has the ability to reduce your body weight and your LDL cholesterol levels. Vegetables are fat-free and have low saturated fat, whenever I want to spice them up I use salt-free things like ‘Mrs. Dash’ and ‘Dak’s Spices’.
2. Eat Your Vita-Veggies
Although vegetables contain a lot of vitamins they may not contain all the vitamins you need, requiring you to start taking supplements. But a large majority of vegetables can supply your diet with fiber, minerals, and antioxidants, and often times the best supplements to use are extremely pricy.
This is why it’s important to find the best balance for you, try enlisting a licensed dietician or plant-based doctor to help. They can help with research, recipes or even meal plans to incorporate into your life instead of your diet.
3.Negotiate To Win
When you are changing your eating habits its important to remember that you are changing more than just what you eat. You are actually changing your life so you can successfully eat healthy throughout the week.
Once you are open to changing it will be easier to accept things like meal prepping where you prep your exact meals for the week. Or prepping the ingredients so that you can easily cook or fix recipes when you’re ready for something new.
Understand that even when you are ordering a meal kit you have to create time in your schedule to actually cook the meal. I am guilty of this and paying in advance for meals and forgetting about the food and ordering takeout instead. I do feel that incorporating more vegetables in my diet will boost my health I just don’t think that I’ll ever be open enough to become a vegan or vegetarian.
Would I Buy Or Read Again?
Can I see myself re-reading Linda Bacon’sbook “Health At Every Size” again? YES! Can I see myself even purchasing “Health At Every Size”? Yes, I’ve seen plenty of books and diets that say they have the secret but this book validates your reasons battling weight loss. Giving solutions to how we see ourselves and body.
The Question of the Week is inspired by Linda Bacon’s book “Health At Every Size”. How do you sustain health at your size?
Answer: I try to meal prep, and at least moving or going for a walk twice a week.
Catch up on my last blogs on “Book Review: Can You Be Healthy At Every Size” & “FREE Download: July 2019 Motivational Quote Desktop Wallpapers”.
If you have any book suggestions add them below in the comments, and look out for new book reviews every Sunday. And remember “As we ‘Rise to Be’, we are becoming who we want to be” I am Christina B. Rising and I will always be rising. 🤗
