The Perfect Plan

Since I have realized how essential it is to plan when undertaking CRON I decided to see what I could come up with based on the foods I have available to me today.

This was after I had a couple of bites of some kind of date sugar cake and a couple of spoons of spicy rice porridge. The Balinese lady who lives near us is always bringing food which makes CRON a little challenging at times. Some things I can resist easily but the Balinese sweets are too good! Fortunately they are mostly pretty healthy - various combinations of sticky rice, coconut, palm sugar with accents of banana, peanuts, pumpkin, beans etc. As long as I remember portion control it is no problem.

Anyhow, I have created a diet which including the morning’s tastings (estimated), provides 99% of vitamins and minerals and just over 1000 calories. So the thing now is following through with the plan.

It's really interesting that the more I read about CRON the less extreme it seems to me. The CR society really is promoting a more moderate approach; maintaining BMI just on the low end of normal. And a carefully planned CRON diet is healthier than any other diet I've ever seen - weight loss or otherwise, especially when the nutrition is obtained from whole foods rather than supplements.

I think it is the way we were designed to function, we've just forgotten how to listen to our bodies and interact with our environment in a harmonious way.