What Is a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet:What Can I Eat?
Hi Guys, I’ve been receiving a lot of emails from you guys asking me to post the types of foods to eat on a plant based diet. Basically How it Works? A whole-food, plant-based diet is centered on whole, unrefined, or minimally refined plants. It’s a diet based on fruits, vegetables, tubers, whole grains, and legumes; and it excludes or minimizes meat (including chicken and fish), dairy products, and eggs, as well as highly refined foods like bleached flour, refined sugar, and oil. However, I explained to you in my last post, “Plant Based Diet For Beginners: Everything Trucker Wives Need to Know About Clean Eating,” that I teach my clients and my family how to transition into the plant based diet by following the 80/20 rule. The reason I do this is because many people find it too extreme to cut animal products out of their diet. Therefore instead of making them go cold turkey and rebounding I gradually have them remove the animal products. To begin to make the pr...