After about 2 months on the Eat To Live approach to eating

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4. it's a "nutritarian" diet

and you can go vegan on it. Any meat you do choose to eat shrinks to <10 percent of your intake. Just make the main part of your diet colorful (and hopefully leafy green or orange) veggies.

I skipped the 1st 6 weeks part of the plan and went straight for the "rest of your life" part of it. It felt unnecessary for me; it is geared towards triggering weight loss in morbidly obese people (who weigh several hundred pounds) and/or very sick people who are unable to exercise. I live a very active life and am just trying to get 1. healthier and 2. lose that stubborn 10-15 pounds that are the hardest to lose. Mostly I just want to get healthier and be in a place where I can grow much of my own food.

I also didn't go "cold turkey" as Dr. Fuhrman recommends. I simply couldn't afford to throw away food sitting in my freezer. Instead I eased into it.

I also cut the goal of the "eat a pound of raw veggies/day" to 1/2 pound. I am small...I simply can't eat that much!

I'm not quite vegan. I occasionally eat an egg or use a tbsp of tostitos cheese dip as a spread or flavoring in soup.

I've replaced meat purchases with nuts, for the "expensive" thing in the food cart. I'm also "cheating" by using canned beans and Progresso lentil soup as the base for bean-based things. Too much work otherwise!