6/18/2015
| Component | Standard Range | Your Value |
|---|---|---|
| CHOLESTEROL | 115 - 200 mg/dL | 135 |
| TRIGLYCERIDE | 10 - 149 mg/dL | 47 |
| HDL | 40 - 60 mg/dL | 46 |
| LDL, CALCULATED | 50 - 130 mg/dL | 80 |
| Component | Standard Range | Your Value |
|---|---|---|
| GLUCOSE | 65 - 105 mg/dL | 79 |
| Component | Standard Range | Your Value |
|---|
| VITAMIN B12 | 239 - 931 pg/mL | 778 |
| Component | Standard Range | Your Value |
|---|
| FERRITIN | 11.1 - 264.0 ng/mL | 31.0 |
That looks good to me! I'm 3 lbs away from the weight Fuhrman recommends (for women, the formula he suggests is 95 + 4 x [the number of inches you are above 5 ft], so for me that's 129 lbs.
Here is my typical menu:
B: 4 oz cooked oat groats, 2 oz edamame or 4.5 oz yogurt, 6 oz fruit, 1/2 oz nuts/seeds
L: 4 oz beans, 6 oz non-starchy veggies any combo of raw and cooked, 6 oz fruit, 1/2 oz nuts/seeds
D: 6 oz beans, 14 oz non-starchy veggies any combo, 1/2 oz nuts/seeds
Food prep
cook up 6 oz dry oat groats into 4 servings.
cook up 1 lb beans into 8 servings, 4 4oz, 4 6oz
Does it sound boring? I really like it. For one thing, you vary the beans and the nuts and the fruit and the veggies every day and every meal. Once corn season arrives in mid-July, I will modify the plan to include starchy veggies! I should be at my goal weight then but even if not, I will eat corn!
5 comments:
WOW! That's impressive...have you taken your hike yet? or is that later in the year?
The hike is planned for the Fall, but we might have to cancel our trip for an unrelated reason. Regardless, the effort was worth it and hopefully I'll get a chance again to do the hike in the future.
Hope you do too! Thanks...
Barb,
I am trying to do the BLE plan also. Having trouble writing it down and keeping to plan after ETL. I started at 137 on June 1. Now at 132. Even not doing it perfectly has gotten me to a place I haven't seen since early ETL. I guess by Fuhrman I'd be 120#, It's enormously helpful to see a plant based menu BLE menu and obviously it works!
Hey that's great! I'm still 3 lbs away from Fuhrman's ideal weight. But I'm quite happy here and am not sure I really need to lose more. I'll just see what happens. Oh I am at 132 also! There is another formula that apparently comes from the French, and with that one you start at 100 lbs for 5 ft (for a woman), and add 5 lbs for each inch. That would put my ideal weight at 142, which is 10 lbs heavier than now. I think it varies a lot with each person. My body has almost no muscle even with lots of weight training exercise, so I would fall on the more thin side of ideal weight. But most people have more muscle so would have a higher ideal weight.
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