End the "Meat-Is-Protein" Argument Today!

It's funny, but it's not funny. 

This is what America's government thinks of us. Since we show them we aren't thinkers, they can get away with foolishness like this plate. Then, Innocents, such as yourself, trust and believe what the government tells you - especially since you learned it in school, right? Well, you now live and breathe their lies that protein is a damn food group...that dairy is required.

Excuse my language, but I get pissed when I see this - why? Because I used to believe it - but for the grace of God I found my way into the light of truth. The truth that the meat and dairy industry is funding the government so they can aggressively promote animal products to you, the unassuming - all trusting consumer.

Let me say this and I'm done (for now): Meat, dairy and eggs my friends, are actually your sources of FAT. Some of you struggle to lose weight while consuming "lean" meats - not realizing it offers more fat than protein. And why are you on this protein kick any damn way? Who is behind this marketing to you? You have NO clue, do you? - you're just on this silly ass bandwagon running around saying "I need my protein" - stop! It's unbecoming. Talking about protein is like talking about oxygen - hey, how you are going to get your oxygen today? Just breathe, damn it! Who runs around thinking about oxygen? Not many of us - we simply breathe and the requirement is met. Likewise, just eat plants and your requirement will be met. Don't ever let me be in the room when I hear you mention protein or else I will descend upon you. lol! Seriously, I will.

Even if you are a meat-eater, can you join me in the anti-protein movement? Call meat what it is - stop saying protein - someone is behind this movement - MONEY ($$$) is behind this movement and you're all being pimped.

Yes, I said it P-I-M-P-E-D like the unresearched robots you are (it's true). . . If you eat meat, then call it by name - not protein. I could likely say, I'm going to have a protein salad. The Brainswashed among us would think I'm referring to meat - when I would actually mean a spinach-avocado-strawberry salad. Dummies. (I'm sorry, but this upsets me to the nth degree)

So what sense does it make to call meat protein? It doesn't make any sense at all. What it DOES do, however, is desensitize the blood-thirsty masses from what they are actually eating: a chicken, a pig, a cow, salmon - living, sentient, beings. So, how about we just "gloss" over it and call it protein. Yeah - that'll keep the dummies numb while we pimp 'em out and build upon our billions.

I can't be the only one awake here. I would that you would become vegan, but even if you don't, join me in stopping the protein-is meat movement - and meat & dairy are required movement. You sound silly and unlearned when you speak on this. If you want to still eat it, eat it but just KNOW: I'm eating chicken this is my source of FAT for the day or I'm enjoying this cup of yogurt - this is my source of FAT for breakfast or OMG, these eggs are delicious - I couldn't find a better tasting FAT in my breakfast taco - and milk? cow's milk? "Yes, c'mon my sweet innocent progeny, drink your fat this morning" Ha! don't be deceived by the 2% lies! I'm telling you - this joke is on us, actually you (I've found the light) - someone "up" there in FDA/Bureaucracy land is laughing all the way to the bank. I can hear them now: "Can you believe these minions are buying into our marketing?" lol!

Like I said, funny, but not so funny after all. 

My Veganniversary June 2014

Although June 25th 2001 is the day my mother died, fast forward to 2013 - June 25th is also the last day I've ever eaten meat. :-)

No, I didn't plan it to unfold this way, but what an amazing way to celebrate my mother's memory by living a life avoiding the animal products that she, unknowingly, allowed to clog her arteries which led to her death.

So, it's a season to celebrate. Yes, June 26th - this Thursday - woot! woot! is my one year veganniversary! I'm stoked.

Can you believe it? A fried chicken lovin'-roast-beef and potatoes for Sunday dinner eatin'-salad and ranch dressing muchin'-fish and grits for breakfast enjoyin'-turkey sandwich chompin' girl like me walked away from ALL animal products and never looked back. Ever.

Listen: If I can do this, you can too. Research helps and a heart for other animals helps as well. I know it seems today as if this lifestyle came naturally to me - but I began transforming in February 2013 - and by May I still had no idea that I could ever leave meat alone - then it just happened. I had Golden Chick seasoned chicken nuggets on June 25th - and it just didn't feel right. I remember I couldn't finish them.

From that day to this one, I've never touched the flesh of any animal or their by-products. Of course, my research empowered me - especially Rip Esseltyn's book My Beef with Meat.

Vegan. One year. And many more to come.

Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live Saved My Life!

On your own? just confused about healthy eating? Don't know where to begin?

Start with Dr. Furhman's Eat to Live plan. . . I guess you could call me a high-raw nutritarian vegan. Nutritarians have a greens-based diet - about 1lb cooked greens and 1lb raw greens each day. Remember, all vegans aren't healthy. I am.

Of course, going vegan is always the best option for the animals, the planet, and ourselves; however, if you aren't there yet, nutritarian is the way to go. You will heal your diseases and shred your fat once and for all. 

Check out Vegan Radiance - she's a nutritarian vegan who lost a lot of weight and healed from many diseases. For those who aren't ready to jump into the vegan way all at once, please note, this program does strictly limit the consumption of animal products.

Following Eat to Live was my 1st step towards health last year - and I lost 30lbs in 40 days - never to see those pounds ever again.

It wasn't until I learned we could limit meat that I delved a little deeper into research to learn that we don't need meat at all. Were it not for Dr. Furhman and the nutritarian way, I don't think I would be the vegan health fanatic I am today.

Take some time to do a little research on your own -- because you're worth it.

Eat to Live Success Stories

Stop the Self-Sabotage Today! Lose Weight!

Today is the day you claim your victory.

Fitness is the answer.

I'm smart enough to know that many of you reading this WANT to increase your health by eating well and working out, but you keep sabotaging yourself. There's something IN you that's holding you back. Something about success that scares the hell out of you. So, you keep toying around with silly short cuts or futile diets - even considering surgery - thinking you're too far gone. . . sadly, diets do more harm than good.

Where has this gotten you? Still out of shape, breathless, and NO libido! As Dr. Phil says: How's this working for you? Seriously, how is it working for you? You keep starting then stopping. Why? What is it about you that you just can't keep going? You keep saying you will do it but you don't follow through? However, when you make promises to others you keep them, yet you debase yourself by lying to yourself constantly. What kind of self-love is this?

Listen: can we stop the self-abhorrence today? I do not care how small the steps you must take, just hold my hand if you need to and let's start doing something. And commit to doing something every day. No let up. No quitting. No stopping. Even if you "slip" into a bag of cookies one day - so what!!! Still do your workout - with that much more intensity. We've got to be in this to win this. Your failure stops right here. Right now. You will work out today. You will eat more veggies today than you did yesterday. You will walk away from the CRAP you've been poisoning your temple with today. You will. You don't have any other option.

I'm sorry you are surrounded by enablers - those who love you, but don't really hold you accountable for who you've become or the foods you eat. They are intimidated by your attempts to get healthy, so they laugh and brush it off when you're all dining out together eating oily, processed foods. They don't tell you that your neck shouldn't be so gobbly. . . your thighs shouldn't be so wiggly - or your butt so jiggly. . . they offer you the lie of "moderation" - oh a little won't hurt. Please flee from these influences while you're trying to regain your health.

Today is your day. You can do it. I will hold you accountable - and since I'm a fat-girl in transition, I have NO problem calling out another fat person. None. If you are in denial, and you want to know if you are FAT, please, by all means, don't get on the scale, ask me. I will be honest. Fat is unhealthy, not to mention unattractive, and it brings with it loads of toxins lingering in your body - it just isn't what you want so WHY are you holding on to it? Spouses are so kind by making you feel loved, as they should, but do they really deserve to look at what you don't even like to look at? C'mon. Get real.
Make FAT your enemy. Target the fat in your diet. Target the fat in your body. I mean go after FAT like it slapped your mama. Do not make friends with fat - on any level. Get it out of your body and get it off your plate! Take it out of your refrigerator - your love affair with fat ends today. . . look at yourself in the mirror - you can't be FAT unless you're EATING fat - c'mon, you've got to know this. All your workout efforts are in vain if you are shoving fat back down your throat after you work out - and guess what? This causes you to give up. . . you wonder why you aren't losing weight. Duh!!!! You're still eating fat. Find the sources of bad FAT in your diet and eliminate them. How easy is that? There are good fats, but trust me, you have enough fat on you right now that you can go without introducing ANY fat for several months. Yes, we need good fats, but YOU don't (neither do I). Not right now. Are you toned and ripped with a bmi of 18.5 or lower? I didn't think so - so, we don't need to ADD any more fat to our bulging waistlines. Just think about it. If you have FAT, you need to burn the fat you already have - if you keep introducing FAT while you HAVE fat, you won't lose it. This ain't rocket science folks. If you can pinch fat from your waist, you are already on a high-fat diet - do not, I repeat, do not ADD any more fat while you're trying to lose fat - it just makes you run around in circles or consider stupid weight loss shortcuts. . . these don't lead to health. . . oh yes, you can lose weight eating only one Snickers a day - calories in over calories burned - but what will the state of your health be? Feel me? Good.

Today is your day! Work out like you mean it. Eat healthier. We should thrive as we age and not accept pain and debilitating diseases. Disease is so prevalent, we've been conditioned to think it's the norm. It isn't. We are supposed to be healthy and energetic. We should be enjoying sex well into our 100s. Erectile dysfunction isn't normal - it means your arteries are clogged and you're headed for a heart attack or stroke. Ladies, low libido ain't cute - it means your sexual organs aren't receiving the vibrant blood flow they are supposed to be receiving.

And don't get me started on depression? You're missing some major essential nutrients for sure. We can trace most of what ails you right back to your high-fat high processed low to no plant diet (and the veggies you do prep are what? smothered in fat - such a shame. Do you see what we do to baked potatoes? cheese, bacon, sour cream - my goodness - and the baked potato takes all the heat for "carbs" - Wow! If this isn't the silliest logic ever!!! Do you cook rice without adding butter or oil? I'm sure you don't. Do you make green beans without butter or oil? Do you fix cabbage without bacon grease? Do you eat broccoli without the fatty cheese topping? And I know corn doesn't stand a chance - yep, butter it is. Sweet potatoes? ha! Butter! Vegetable stir fry? lol! sauteed in oil (vegetable broth is a better option). Roasted potatoes? Not before lathering them in olive oil - oops, I mean EXTRA virgin olive oil, by all means. Salad? Don't get me started: cheese, fatty dressings, oily vinaigrettes, fatty meat - all toppings you're proud of - but they RUIN the health benefits of the salad.
I implore you to be a thinker - not just a doer. Wake up. If you're fat, chances are what you've been doing, ain't working, honey. That's just the truth. It's time to take a healthier approach to meal prep - and your poor family - sigh.

And those of you with babies and toddlers - you're already on your way to making them unhealthy - all the chips and cookies and candy - what are you thinking? That's just it - you AREN'T thinking. Find a better way to show your children love - do not reward them with CRAP. Those of you with babies, why aren't you making their baby food fresh at home? Why are you buying baby food? Once you wean them from the breast, imagine how much fun it is to blend bananas or juice carrots or pineapples? How about mashing peas and sweet potatoes? Yes, right in your own kitchen!!! Oh what joy!

No more sabotaging. Do not sabotage yourself. Do not rob your lover of an active sex life. Do not sabotage your children's health before they even have a chance (trust me - I raised unhealthy children - and my adult girls are now struggling to fight the FAT I gave them during their childhood). If your children are FAT, you did that to them. Own it. Now help them get fit. Do not send them into adulthood, as I have done, obese. Don't do it.

The road won't be easy, but you can do it!

We can do it. Together.

Today.

The Ninja Ultima Blender: Green Smoothie Recipe

Green Revolution, Y'all!

All nutrition on this planet starts with greens.

Greens "is" life! March of 2013 I started to eat greens. Greens for breakfast. Greens for lunch. Greens for dinner - I mean BIG bowls - I would start eating breakfast at 6:30AM because it took an hour to sit and chomp on raw greens. But I did it. No dressings - nothing. To my surprise, my weight began to plummet. 238 became 235 then 233 and 228 and 220 and 215 - I couldn't believe it. To this day, none of THAT weight lost by greens has come back. Ever. As you know, I'm a high-raw vegan (recently finished a 16day fully raw stint - to resume again after my greens feast). However, my weight loss has never been as successful as it was while dining on greens. Not only that, but during my all-greens stage my anxiety disorder disappeared; my anemia faded; the quality of my sleep increased - I gained overall health while the greens were shredding my waistline.

I'm not sure where you are on your journey to wellness - and surely, there is no ONE road to health - many paths can take you there. However, if you've never tried a greens-based diet - and by "diet" I mean your lifestyle - not a temporary fix . . . I want to encourage you today to do so. Juice your greens, put greens in your smoothies, put a batch in the slow cooker, steam your greens, eat a BIG bowl of raw greens - free from hideous fats and processed oil products (if you must have a dressing - make it yourself or else you will negate the benefits greens bring by smothering them in FAT - to include cheese, mayo, ranch, eggs, processed oils - yuck!).

For the life of me I have not been able to break through my 70lbs down plateau. . . In the last 90 days I've done a 20 day juice fast, I've done 16days fully raw - and of course, my normal life is high-raw - and when I cook, I avoid cooking with oils or fats. . . yes, my guilty pleasure is chips - so I know that's a stumbling block, but geez, I'm stuck in a range that I'm ready to release.

The answer? Well, it's simple: I'm going to go back to the basics of what worked for me when I started this journey - increase my health and release this weight by feasting on greens. I'm so ready to finish shedding these final pounds, so GREENS it will be. As of yet, I'm not sure whether or not I will do fully raw as that's a lot of oxalates to process, but. . .  if I make mean-green smoothies, I probably will do fully raw. We'll see.

Fully raw or not, I know one thing for sure: it's time to return to the plan that has brought me astounding success.

Greens. More raw than cooked.

Try a Vegan Diet for 3 Weeks!

Want to lose weight? Want to gain health? Want to increase your libido and eliminate erectile dysfunction? Want to lower your blood pressure? Want to reverse type II diabetes? Arthritis paining you?
Try a low-fat vegan diet.
What I love about my life is I exercise to look good naked, yep! You see, the low-fat vegan lifestyle takes care of my weight loss without ANY exercise. There is no calorie-counting or calorie-restriction. I eat all I want whenever I want and I see magnificent results.
My heart goes out to all those who are KILLING themselves in thy gym then come home and eat a high-fat animal product based diet. Cheese? OMG, cheese is 70% FAT - saturated fats - no fiber. . . nothing. . . leave it alone. ALL, I repeat ALL animal products offer fat. What peeves me the most is "meat" is known for protein. If you don't hear anything else I EVER say to you, please hear this: Meat is more of a source of FAT than it is anything else. I know you eat it for your "protein" (don't get me started on that), but it's actually YOUR FAT SOURCE!!! If you eliminate ALL animal products (FAT) and processed oils from your diet for 3 weeks, your waistline will shrink and you'll begin to feel better.
There are many compassionate reasons to transition to veganism, however, I want to build a bridge to ask you to try a whole-foods plantbased vegan diet for health reasons during the month of July for THREE weeks and watch magic happen.
To build your plantbased stamina, this week have three vegan days (Mon., Tues., Wed.), 1 vegan til dinner day(Thurs.), followed by 2 vegans days (Fri. & Sat.) then another vegan until dinner (Sun.).
Do this the week of June 15th, June 22nd, and June 29th (week of 4th of July - I know you'll want one last hurrah with "meat" before taking the three week plunge).
Let your three week low-fat vegan/whole plantbased foods challenge begin the week of July 7th.
You are going to have the time of your life!
You can still eat out with family at your favorite restaurants and even some fast food establishments - Subway - all veggie sub toasted w/red wine vinegar added; Taco Bell, Chipotle, Freebirds, Olive Garden, So many amazing dishes: breads (bread is NOT the enemy - FAT is the enemy - and all meat, dairy and eggs are FAT sources), pastas, lentil loaf, potato salad, bean-burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads, rice, sweet potatoes, pancakes, waffles, casseroles, spaghetti, lasagna, chinese food, fruits, smoothies, juices, oatmeal, pizza, desserts (YUM!). . . .so many options. . . there's no end in sight to the good plantbased whole food meals that await you.
You'll feel better; you'll feel stronger - and your sex life will improve 10-fold (you'll have one happy lover).
Your life is about to improve greatly plus you'll be able to have an excuse to go shopping to buy new clothes a whole lot smaller.
So all these gymrats you see, don't be intimidated by them - many of them are spinning their wheels in the sand - if they are not eating a low-fat diet, most of their work is futile. Your permanent weightloss (no more yo-yo dieting and silly restrictive nonsensical programs) will happen with the foods you choose - the low-fat vegan foods you choose.
So the next 3 weeks - 5 vegan days and 2 vegan until dinner. (3-1-2-1).
Then the week of July 7th - go all in. You'll need to do some research though. Here are a few books you should read to appeal to your logic and not just your sex life and waistline:
My Beef with Meat; Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition; The Starch Solution; Eat to Live; Vegan Before 6; Engine 2 Diet; The China Study; 80 10 10 Diet; Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease. 

Love y'all!
Lisa