Sinnie wrote:Hey Berry!
Just a question. I'd like to have my diet include more fruits and veggies like yours. It seems your calorie count is very low - how do you feel? Does it really affect your weight? I'd be losing mad weight if I could eat like you!
Do you feel very hungry?
Have a great day!
Morning. Actually I am rarely hungry for the food that I do eat. I get more calories in the dinner salads than it might appear as I also add egg, cheese (protein) and croutons, onion crisps, etc. I do eat veggie burgers, veggie chicken patties and nuggets, veggie sausage, egg salad, lots of different soups and pasta dishes, love wild rice casseroles, Mexican food, veggie pizza, veggie subs, etc. I DO love my fruits and veggies.....Eating this way does keep my weight in the range I like, right now I am getting off the holiday fat that I purposely didn't worry about (lots of good cookies and candies and mashed potatoes and gravy and dressing and candied yams
) But I couldn't eat that way all the time, my body doesn't feel good when I eat "heavy" nor does my body function as well. A doctor told me about forty years ago that if I could keep my weight at the ideal range on my birthday each year, I would be fine. (My birthday is Friday). When I get below 145 and my face and neck start showing the weight loss, I might add more snack/sweet types of food but not until.
I don't require the calories that one would say I do based on the guidelines for a person who exercises a lot. I do feel healthy as a horse, blood pressure this morning was 104/62/58. I haven't had a prescription for forty years or more (and the last one would have been for pain after a C.section if I even had it then as that was my last hospital stay.)
My theory is that millions more people are in bad shape due to eating too many calories, not too few.
Here is a paragrph from a link of a story from the homepage here that exemplies exactly how I prefer to eat.
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For example, if Ms Restrainer ordered a low calorie dinner and ate oatmeal for breakfast but joined her work colleagues in (sensible) portions of pizza and ice-cream at an unexpected free lunch, she's probably not about to become disinhibited and obese any time soon.
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There was a doctor on tv this morning talking about if he could prescribe one thing for his patients it would be fruits and vegetables, not medications.
To your heallth.
. While I was in there I noticed they had just taken the fried chicken out of the pressure cooker to put in the deli bin - SO I got him two chicken legs (I don't eat meat for the most part). He ate those with his salad. 
