Day 6

So what does a guy who can’t eat grains fill up on? I used to love making breads and pastas and homemade pizzas. Heck, I still love that stuff, but I owe it to my health to give this diet a whirl. I eat a lot of food on the anti-inflammatory “diet”! One of the first things that really hit me, was how much food you need to eat throughout the day when it isn’t calorie rich, carbohydrate dense food. A simple comparison is a plain bagel to steamed broccoli. 1 plain bagel used to fill me up pretty well and get me going for a while at about 254 calories. You would need to eat roughly 6 cups of broccoli to get a similar caloric intake (264 cal), but with broccoli you get lots of potassium and fiber and other nutrients that you can’t find in a bagel. Now I don’t sit down at one meal and eat 6 cups of veggies, but my portions are larger than my meals where on the typical diet. It is important not to eat once you are full!


Typical daily shopping list of consumed goods:

5 small zucchini
½ lb mushrooms
8 cups of spinach
4 carrots
4 celery stalks
½ lb broccoli
3TBS extra virgin olive oil
4 pieces of fruit (I should eat more)
1 omega -3 egg
4-8 oz wild salmon or wild game (venison or elk)
1-2 oz dark chocolate
½ cup raw almonds and walnuts
Tons of spices!
Lots of water and green tea

This is what I ate most of the week cooked into several different forms, including raw. It was a very delicious week, and everything just tasted fresher and less dense without the grain/sugar/preservative triad that finds its way into most of our food. I have to say it, “eat real food people”!