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DARE is an acronym for Dietary Approach to Reduce Excess weight. It is a planned diet consisting of a low fat, high fiber-complex carbohydrates with moderate protein adequate in vitamins and minerals for individuals who has excess body weight problem.

DARE is a program highly supervised by a dietician. One of my our dietician envisioned this one day and decided to pass a proposal to the hospital administration for approval of the 21 meals experimental.

The objective of the study are as follows:

• Reduce the excess weight at least 2-3 pounds per week;
• Promote healthy lviing
• Prevent the occurence of lifestyle disease;
• Appreciate the importance of plant-based diet;
• To prepare healthy diet – low fat, high fiber complex carbohydrates with moderate protein adequate in vitamins and minerals.

There were 15 random participants and 90% of the group are at least Grade 1 in obesity.  The study was conducted from July 12 – 18, 2011 at the Nutrition and Dietetics department of the hospital.  We go there 3 times a day for meals around 7 in the morning, 12 at noon, and 6-7 in the evening.

After the 7 days, i felt so great.  I never felt so light ever since I had excess weight problem.  We were served fruits and vegetables meals.  During the last day of the experimentation, we were served rice but I did not touch the rice.  I picked other forms of carbs like wheat bread, banana and the like.  Just no rice.   I am given 42 weeks to work out to let me gain back my desired body weight.  I plan to continue eating at the Dietary with pay and it is not cheap. So my plan to buy a life insurance policy, that will be set aside for now. I just recommend some of my friends to check out this insurance if they decide to buy one then they have to get it from my friend. I am just helping my friend who is a life insurance agent.

Here’s a glimpse of some our food during the 7-days trial —-

Yummy Tomato Rice ^^

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Today is the fifth day of our DARE program (don’t ask me the meaning now because i forgot but am going to post the information of the program later) and we call this tomato day.  All our food comprises of tomatoes (fresh and a bit cooked).  Check out the photos ^-^

BREAKFAST

LUNCH

DINNER

Because it is Saturday, a special day, we had tomato bread and tomato juice.  I so love the juice. I had 3 medium glasses of it.  So i end up going to the bathroom almost every 20 minutes when i arrived in the dorm.

The juices today are:

BLENDED PURE TOMATOES

We had this tomato juice for lunch. I thought I will not like it but I did.  The ice cold temp made me love it more.  That’s made up of ripe tomatoes.

NOTE: All foods are vegetarian.  We had some egg in the morning together with the tomato salad but it was just egg white.  The tomato bread is made up of wheat flour.

WATERMELON TOMATO JUICE

We had this for dinner.  But the taste is common as I can taste it like watermelon shake.

So that’s our food for today and everyone looked forward to the next meal.  Tomorrow, it’s carb loading day and I will share my photos for weekend eating. ^-^

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Carrot & Chilli Sticks
(i forgot the cheeesseeeee) ^^

A little bit early for this week because I am leaving for a two days training/seminar. So will blog hop or entry hop when i get back.

Enjoy food and quotes!