Food, again

The older I get, the less I think things have to be confined to a rigid structure.

A lot of people classify themselves as vegan, or vegetarian, or pescatarian, or any number of permutations and combinations.

I love food of all sorts.  I also recognize that the choices you make about what you eat impacts your health in really significant ways.

In following Blue Zones concepts, I try to eliminate meat consumption, and eat lots of minimally processed vegetables, fruits, lots of tofu and beans.  I also try to drink lots of water and green tea.

Today's lunch was really good.  There was a vegetable stir fry and longs beans stir fried with a little bit of beef.  The ginger fried rice had some chicken in it, and the fried saimin had luncheon meat, but I would say that 95% of my meal was vegan.

Meat consumption was kept really small.  Also in keeping with Blue Zones, I ate mindfully - slowly, enjoying the taste of the veggies (I'm fortunate to really love the taste of vegetables), and I made a conscious decision to stop when I was no longer hungry, not to stop when I was full.  That made a big difference in the way I feel now, an hour later, satisfied, but not sickly full.