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I bought a book on Saturday called "The Spectrum" by Dean Ornish. It has given me a lot of motivation to adopt an eating style that is mostly fruit and vegetables with a little bit of meat.

And the most important thing I have taken away from this book is that at least for the first three days or so, abruptly switching to this way of eating is probably going to make me feel miserable. But if I stick with it, within 6 weeks I will be hooked and will have a hard time ever going back to McDonalds and cookies and cake and ice cream etc.

This rings so true to me!!!! All I have to do is take out the word eating and insert the word running and that is exactly the way I became a runner. It all started with reading a book on running. Ican't remember what it was called, but it was by Jeff Galloway. It took about 6 weeks of sticking to it (and many more books and magazines) and now I'm so hooked I could never go back to a non- running lifestyle.

I have become more and more aware lately that the speedy runners around here are very lean. I am not lean. But I will be and as I combine leanness with consistent training I am going to get FAST! And that's pretty exciting.

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From Rhett on Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:35:49 from 184.10.154.226

I agree with everything you said. A couple years ago before Boston for about 4 months I decided I would only eat "REAL" food... nothing packaged or processed. Basically it was mostly fruits, veggies, grains, rice, beans, organic dairy, and a little meat. I never ever felt better, but the first couple weeks were really tough. After that I didn't even want the bad stuff. Here's the bad part though. It only took a couple days of eating bad food after Boston and I was back craving the bad stuff again.

I think this principle applies to many good things. They say it takes 21 days to establish a good habbit and 1 day to break it.

From DonGardinero on Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 19:54:58 from 152.216.7.5

Sounds like a great plan. Someday I will jump into the helthy eating lifestyle. I'm slowly working my way up to it.

From flatlander on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:45:53 from 76.31.26.153

Very much enjoyed this entry, good job on the diet. I have played around with that some and I certainly eat less meat than I used to. I suspect this diet is a scientifically sound, unlike most of what's out there. Can't wait to see your times start dropping!

From Mack on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:00:45 from 71.111.186.66

Rhett, Thats inspiring to know that you have tried it and it works and also to know that even someone that puts up the kind of times that you do still sometimes struggles with wanting to eat the garbage.

DoG, It has taken me a while to work up to it too. Friday I ate nearly a whole bag of Oreo's by myself and just had one of those moments where I said to myself "I'm done living this way." So far it feels great.

Flat, The cool thing is that it really isn't a "diet", it's just a life long way of eating. Kind of like our running isn't an "exercise program" it's a lifestyle that we enjoy and plan to continue throughout our life.

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