For Breakfast, Fit For Life Recipes encourage you to
eat nothing but fruit or fruit juice. Believe me, once you
get used to this routine in about 2-3 days, you will enjoy
yourself and will no longer pine for old eating habits. Fruits
come in a pre-digested state. Therefore, no digestive action
is needed. They are in and out of the stomach in minutes.
As a result, the body can concentrate on elimination during
the morning and not digestion. Notice the abundance of energy
at your disposal. Fit For Life Recipes during this period
of elimination do not vary. Eat as much fruit or fruit juice
as desired and eat it until you are satisfied. Do not overeat
and do not undereat.
Fit For Life Recipes will not encourage you to eat dates
or dried fruit, especially if you are concentrating on weight
loss. Date and dried fruit are high in sugar.
Breakfast Guidelines
- Start your day with 8-14 ounces of fresh fruit juice
if you desire
- Eat pieces of fruit throughout the morning especially
if you begin to feel hungry.
- Eat a minimum of two servings of fruit in any 3 hour
period.
- Do not be concerned about the amount of fruit you ingest
in the morning. Just don’t overeat. Just let your
ingestion of fruit be governed by what your body tells
you. Eat as much as you want, within reason.|
- Eat melons before other fruit.
- Eat bananas when you really are hungry and are craving
heavier foods. Bananas remain in your stomach for about
45 minutes, longer than the 15 minutes citrus remains there.
Be careful to plan your lunch or dinner accordingly. If
fruit is in the stomach while you eat your next meal, you
are in jeopardy of ruining that meal for your body. Fermentation
and putrefaction will occur. Wait until the fruit is out
of your stomach until you begin your next meal.
The Fit For Life Book contains
hundreds of tasty, exciting and tested Fit For Life Recipes
that will assist anyone in following the guidelines of proper
food combining and energy optimization. If you can eat any
food with this program, then you can imagine how colorful
and enticing the recipes are. Where the recipes help is that
they give us a sense of how to apply what we’ve learned.
As an example, what follows is a Fit For Life Rrecipe of
foods suggested for one day:
Breakfast
- fresh-squeezed juice
- fresh fruit
- bananas when hungry and desirous of heavier foods
Lunch
- Energy salad with raw vegetables and light dressing or
the properly combined sandwich with cucumber or celery
spears. Both are creative recipes inspired by Fit For Life.
An Energy Salad contains lettuce, spinach, cucumber, tomato,
sprouts, avocado or olives, beans and any additional vegetable
you like particularly well such as carrots, celery, mushrooms,
cabbage, jicama, beets, radishes, zucchini, cauliflower,
broccoli and artichokes. The properly combined sandwich
includes whole grain bread, tomato, cucumber, avocado,
lettuce or sprouts, mayonnaise or mustard or butter
Dinner
- fresh vegetable juice cocktail
- creamy cauliflower soup
- potato boats or roast chicken
- garlic string beans
- French green salad
Last word: I tried this way of living 8 years ago. It was
difficult in the first 2 –3 days. I was used to my
own regimen of foods and my body was probably wondering what
I was doing to it. However, my body responded quickly and
I have kept my natural weight all of this time. From time
to time, I have allowed myself to stray from the Diet. I
knew I was doing it but I knew how to get myself right back
into my healthy way of living. I once lived in South America
and it seems that most foods then were not processed. I remember
feeling so alive and healthy day after day in South America.
I also had the same feeling in Italy. I owe my good health
to not only proper food combining but also to the fact that
my foods were not tainted with preservatives.
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