After about 2 months on the Eat To Live approach to eating

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8. you can google lots of "Eat to Live" recipes for free too

This isn't so much a "diet" as an approach to food. The focus is not so much on high fiber and losing weight as on high nutrition and healing and preventing illnesses caused by lack of nutrition. That is, focus on eating all you can of veggies and fruits that are rich in phytochemicals to clear out toxins plus high in fiber to clear your gut.

Once you able to effectively clear the toxic by-products of metabolism out of your system, you will lose cravings and what he calls "toxic hunger." It's a change in how you approach food altogether, to make certain your body gets the nutrition it needs.

It also enables you to go vegetarian and vegan without worrying about "balancing" legumes and grains to get all the amino acids you need to make proteins. With this approach to eating, you get what you need without thinking about it. You can include meat if you want, but you don't have to. Meat becomes totally unnecessary and he categorizes it with "sweets" at the top of the pyramid.

I found the book useful to understand the approach to food and eating, and the science behind it, as well as to get some starter recipes.

You don't need to count calories or volume or weight with this approach to eating. Also, he counts flash frozen veggies at the supermarket as nutritionally "raw" as long as you don't cook them. Just understand his revised food pyramid and follow it, and the rest follows.

"The salad is the center of the meal" is the center of the diet. Once I understood everything that was behind it, I found where I could modify it to match my individual needs (cold climate, cutting the goal eating a pound of raw veggies/day, etc) and modify the recipes to ensure I get what I need.