Ive been on this diet as a 75-80% of the time affair for over a year.

[DavidMember]

I’ve been on this diet as a 75-80% of the time affair for over a year. I still have trouble on the days after I stray from it, but if I stick to it most of the time I have no
For me the most important thing is I MUST exercise at least five times a week; it makes a huge difference. Secondly, I have to remember to chew my food twice as long as I used to.

I’ve been lax lately, so now that I’m back on the diet, I’m taking a digestive enzyme supplement and a probiotic with every meal.
I drink at least six glasses of room temperature water (cold and hot are tummy shockers) and three cups of herbal ginger tea or herbal mint tea a day. (Yes, I still miss the real caffeine tea, but I’m nearly cured of coffee craving.)

I recently learned that five medium-small meals and two snacks is the best way for me to go. And remarkably, I can eat less that way without being hungry so I’m gradually losing weight.
It’s really important to me not to have fat within 4-5 hours of bedtime, so fish is reserved for nights I stay up later. I avoid wheat.

Breakfast (alternate days):
1) cup of soy&fruit&protein powder smoothie and slice of brown rice bread, toasted
2) some kind of non-wheat porridge (quinoa, millet, oatmeal, brown rice, red cargo rice, black rice) with rice milk and a bit of maple syrup
Lunch: since I don’t have trouble with beans, as long as they’re super-soft and pureed…
1) low-fat home-made hummus, slice rice toast, a few baby carrots
2) refried beans, brown rice and home-made salsa
3) a sort of bruschetta made with tomato, onion, olive oil, and goat cheese mozarella on rounds of eggplant, zapped in the microwave
4) small portion of leftovers of previous night’s supper

I also often have a baby spinach and cherry tomato salad with them. (I have to avoid lettuce like the plague.)

Suppers:
I rotate the menu through “eggs…vegan…fish…vegan…white chicken meat…vegan” over and over, making sure that on meat/egg/fish nights 50-60% of the meal is vegetable (avoiding the gassy crucifers), 15-20% rice or potato and 15-20% meat/egg/fish.

Addendum to menu plan…
I forgot to mention I also use supplements. Since I don’t eat fish often – only every four to five days – and avoid oil and fried things, I worry about essential fatty acid deficiency so I take a fish oil supplement and multivitamin right after breakfast. (That’s when there’s lots of starch to soak things up and protect my insides a bit.)
I cook the fish/egg/chicken meat in the smallest amounts of olive oil I can get away with. And when I’ve been on the diet for at least a week I allow myself a teaspoon of sunflower- or olive oil-margarine on my toast.

Addendum to menu plan…
I forgot to mention I also use supplements. Since I don’t eat fish often – only every four to five days – and avoid oil and fried things, I worry about essential fatty acid deficiency so I take a fish oil supplement and multivitamin right after breakfast. (That’s when there’s lots of starch to soak things up and protect my insides a bit.)
I cook the fish/egg/chicken meat in the smallest amounts of olive oil I can get away with. And when I’ve been on the diet for at least a week I allow myself a teaspoon of sunflower- or olive oil-margarine on my toast.

Oops. Also forget to say I have my daily 3 fruits with ginger herbal tea as my snacks.