Rawnora, if you would be so kind...

[bittersweet]

As to give me some examples of your daily menus?
I have been eating mono fruit most days (almost always pineapple) and I feel as though I should be getting more greens.

I eat small bowls of romaine and sliced cucumbers a couple days a week, and I also make a soup (1.76 oz package of dried wakame, juice of 1 lime, 2 Tbs. golden flax, ground, 1/4 cup dulse, with 100 degree water to rehydrate it all and make it soupy) which I eat sometimes. (All at once, but slowly, chewing well.)

I'll Take HcL and/or enzymes with the soup usually, to try to help with digestion. The thing is, when I don't eat mono fruit (i.e. when I have a veggie+fat type meal) I feel my digestion/transit time slowing down, and I feel heavy until its out of my system.

Any suggestions?

[sungoddess]

bump! I'm curious too!

[rawnora]

Hi bittersweet,
You might want to see the other thread here that bears my name, where I just posted a couple days typical intake.

Since you asked for suggestions, it doesn't make any sense to me to take hydrochloric acid supplements and enzymes and then eat things that are difficult to digest, if you can just as easily replace them with foods that are easier to digest but still filling and satisfying, and get rid of the supplements. Rather than flax seeds, for example, I'd recommend eating nuts or larger, more chewable seeds like sunflower seeds. Seaweeds are fine if you're eating them for the right reasons -- that you like the taste. Eating anything because you think it's good for you is a good habit to break. Just limit yourself to fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds and within those categories allow your preferences to guide you. Greens need only be eaten if you like them, and/or if eating them keeps you from eating worse things. Huge salads with fatty dressings really helped me in transition. I didn't eat them because I wanted greens, I ate them because what I really wanted was nuts and other fats, and it was a way to eat a LOT without really overdoing the nuts. If I'd tried to fill up on nuts I could easily eat a pound or more but making a salad with a nut-based dressing allowed me to feel satisfied eating only 1/2 cup or less of nuts. I still have big complex salads on occasion but now when I want greens, I eat them alone (usually iceberg lettuce, celery or romaine).

Thanks for asking!

Warm wishes,
Nora
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