Some days I don’t have time to make a smoothie because I’m running out the door. On these days I’ll reach for plain fruit that is portable. Or at least easier to take with me and I can eat it at my destination.
In this post I also discuss feeling full and what your stomach size has to do with it! Giving your brain what it needs and what addictions have to do with this. I also discuss a bit about supporting your adrenals and volume eating. Enjoy!
If you would rather watch this content and not read it; Here is the video:)
Fruit Options
- 3 Apples
- 3 pears
- 3 bananas
- ½ Melon cut up
- Medium-sized bowl of grapes
Feeling Full
There are 3 tricks to feeling full no overt fat and no traditional protein.
- Give your brain what it needs.
- Work on healing food addictions!
- Eat enough according to your stomach size and try to transition into eating more plants per sitting.
Remember you need to stay fat-free in the morning and preferably all day to let your liver detox. I do not stay fat-free all day because I’m working a lot and used to the fat. There are so many ways to use the MM info to cater to your lifestyle and needs. One step in the right direction matters!
It can be intimidating to implement all the protocols at once. Just try one thing at a time! Make it a habit. Then add more protocols!
Give Your Brain What It Needs
If you are giving your body what it needs, the brain doesn’t send more signals to eat. What your brain needs are trace minerals and glucose! Trace minerals can be found in leafy greens and all things green (mostly) and glucose is in all fruits.
Food Addictions
And finally, you need to work on getting over food addictions that release adrenaline. Some foods that require adrenaline to process are caffeine and fat. Adrenaline can be addicting. I want to do a separate post on eating disorders and addiction because a lot of people are walking around with an eating disorder if they are on the SAD (Standard American Diet)!
Stomach Size
MM has a podcast episode “#029 Eating & Confused: Trying to use food to heal”. In this episode, he explains more about moderation and intuitive eating. People who eat standard things on SAD and say it’s intuitive to eat in moderation (a little bit of everything you crave) are really not giving their body what it needs.
He explained that your portion sizes stay about the same even if you work with someone to improve your health when you get sick. Functional doctors, doctors, nutritionists, dietitians, and the like can help you stay focused, but people tend to eat the same portions no matter who they work with. Portion sizes are how big your meals are. Are you eating 2 chicken breasts or just one?
The conscious needs and wants are different from the body’s needs and wants. Consciousness is programmed to eat a certain way, but then you get sick and you need to find out what your body actually needs! It can feel uncomfortable because it’s against programming. Detoxing is not always comfortable either.
Many people will not even enter this path unless they get sick first as well which is sad. Also, people will think it’s impossible to change their diet because they are still hungry after eating plants and vegetables for a meal. The next section explains why and what people need to do to improve stomach size to sustain a plant-based diet.
In general, people have condensed-calorie, high-fat meals. If you eat small portions of high-calorie high-fat foods, then you have a small stomach. If you eat larger portions of high-calorie high-fat foods, you can have a large stomach.
Shrunken Stomach Size
A shrunken stomach person may not even be able to eat even one banana in a sitting. 2 large bananas chopped up look roughly the same volume as a portion of chicken breast. A shrunken stomach person may not be able to eat all this banana bc it has protein fiber water and sugar making it more voluminous.
The bananas aren’t as dense in caloric wise and fat-wise so it’s much different than what they are used to. One smoothie could be more volume and liquid of food compared to what they’ve eaten in a whole day of dense eating. This is why they feel full, but are hungry very quickly after eating.
Salads are usually small with lots of cheeses and meats to make them dense. Mm salads are huge in comparison and the small stomach person needs to stretch the stomach to be able to eat this way.
Avocado is an awesome transitional food for this reason! It is dense in fat and calories which can fill someone who is used to eating dense meals.
People who are on SAD usually get bits of a sugar high throughout the day with treats and snacks in between. So they may have a hard time transitioning to an MM lifestyle.
Someone trying to eat the Medical Medium way may say they are starving because they had ½ a mango and a salad throughout the day. It felt like it was enough food during the meal but they became very hungry shortly after the meal. Mm says we need to get 2 bananas in you in the morning or at least ½ of papaya to give the body the calories it needs.
Expanded stretched stomach:
This is someone who may eat two chicken drumsticks or 6 scrambled eggs at a time, and large pasta bowls. They may still need treats after this as well. They eat larger portions in general.
These people could be gaining weight or not. Stress can also aggravate the problem. They have a very large and stretched-out stomach.
Stretched stomach people also want more food transitioning to an MM lifestyle. They need to eat even more calories to feel satisfied so they should have more bananas in the smoothie; lots of apples; bring in more steamed potatoes. Eat more than one!
These people may be eating 10,000- 8,000 cal a day and not realizing it. Chicken and cheese and all the different things that they eat from different places have varying amounts of fat and the fats are what create the calories.
Fats vary in the same foods because of portion size and also how that food was raised or produced so that’s why someone may be eating more than they think because the calorie estimates are very general and inaccurate. Science is also one size fits all and to generalize to be specific.
How we may feel transitioning to a healing food diet
When starting healing foods, do you want to be easy on yourself and take it one day at a time because you may have a lot going on, including vagus, nerve inflammation, which reaches down into the stomach. You could actually feel this inflammation in your stomach as the foods are massaging the gut.
Bread and butter bread and butter move through you like a sticky gummy glue, that doesn’t massage anything. Or you may be used to eating eggs which turn into this weird liquid paste that doesn’t massage either and it does it on the walls of the intestine.
People may feel a banana because it is massaging and healing the gut. People get scared by this different feeling because they don’t know about it. The healing foods are waking things up and cleaning things up.
The healing foods are detoxing, cleansing, and purging of the liver of toxins and pathogens. Sometimes people are confused by these feelings and go the opposite direction eating all the bad things that feed the viruses.
Consciousness changes as you come to eat differently. Try incorporating one healthy habit a day to change gradually!
We can take control of our consciousness and infuse knowledge and wisdom to plant seeds of change and reprogram it to work for us!!
Supporting Your Adrenals
The best bet is to eat every 2 hours to support your adrenals. Adrenal snacks are a balance of mineral salts and glucose. So apples with some celery or cucumber are a good bet for this.
In the 3,6,9 cleanse, the last day is all juice. You are supposed to have two apple and cucumber juices to help your adrenals through the day! You also are supposed to have celery juice 2x that day which I’m assuming also helps the adrenals because you are getting plenty of glucose with the fruit juices.
My Experience
I usually don’t eat a large breakfast because celery juice and lemon water are an entire liter at the end of the morning routine. This keeps me full for at least a couple of hours. However, If I don’t have a little more fruit or something else after those hours then I will get pretty hungry.
If I’m too hungry that’s when I could cheat! The best way to prevent this is to eat every two hours!
If you are used to eating a lot of fat in the morning, try adding fruit to oatmeal and using water instead of almond milk or milk to keep it fat-free. I love having peaches and oatmeal in the morning on some days. I would take frozen peaches and add them to the oatmeal. As I would heat it would defrost.
Medical Medium has several recipes with oatmeal in the morning as well. My breakfast cookies ASMR and voice-over are the previous two videos and posts so check it out!!
My Stomach Stretching
Before I found Medical Medium, I had maybe one apple per sitting if I ever even reached for one. Now, I eat three at a time because of his information and following his recipes that explain how much of each ingredient to add.
In general, I usually eat ½ of his recipes in one sitting. This was always consistent even on a 3,6,9 cleanse and I did still feel full.
But, after following this lifestyle for 3.5 years now, I can see that my stomach is expanding. I can eat more fruits and vegetables in one sitting. My salads have become bigger as well as my smoothies!
My Food Addictions
I definitely have a fat addiction! If you are on the SAD diet, you do too! Fat is the biggest thing I crave on a 3,6,9 cleanse is fat!
I also crave chocolate a lot. I’m still working on this addiction. Adding Magnesium supplements to my supplementation has helped with this addiction quite a bit. However, I still do love some chocolate! It is so indulgent. I indulge in some dark chocolate with no milk added from the baking aisle to avoid other candy bars and things like that.
Finally, cheese is another weakness I have! My cheese addiction has subsided significantly after doing several rounds of the 3,6,9 Liver Cleanse in the first couple of years of following MM protocols. Although my addiction has subsided, it is still there with force!
On a positive note, I used to think the cheese commercials showing more and more cheese looked good. Now I think they look gross!
It reminds me of the time in middle school when the DARE told us all the nasty stuff that is in cigarettes and that completely turned me off from wanting to try them. The DARE program also told us it was OK to say no! Nancy Reagan’s, “Just say no” campaign was the reason the DARE program was created in the first place.
I know that statistically the DARE program was unsuccessful, but it worked for me! I used to love the smell of my mommom’s ashtray smoke. When my sister offered me a cigarette in middle school, I was able to say no because I knew about all the nasty stuff in cigarettes and how addictive they were!
Now, I just have to say no to all this stuff because I know what it is doing to my health. It is much harder to say no when you are in the addiction though compared to saying no before you become addicted!
Look at this article I found about the DARE program and a new one that seems more successful at keeping kids drug-free. DARE program article
Volume Eating
I came across this term and concept called “Volume Eating” on social media the other day. The person showing how much she eats was making a huge baba ganoush plate and dipping something in it for a meal. I thought of Medical Medium as I saw this because that is part of what he teaches, he just doesn’t call it volume eating.
MM recipes show that you are supposed to have a lot of salad to feel full. His Liver Rescue Salad for example has 8 cups of lettuce with a lot of topping choices. That is a big salad! His serving size suggestion for this amount is 1-2 servings.
I usually only have ½ of these larger servings. Men usually need more calories than women so I imagine the larger sizes are more for men. But this is of course a generalization and everyone is different on this front.
Also, the raw vegan accounts I follow always have HUGE plates of food they eat. I wonder if they eat the entire salad.
I also think the raw vegan movement came from Medical Medium because he has a 28-day raw vegan cleanse in his first book published in 2015. The revised and expanded version was published in 2021. This is just speculation though. If anyone knows more about this let me know I’m in the comments below!
I noticed a surge in the vegan movement around 2015 when I worked in North Philly and everyone was going vegan there. It would only last a couple of months for some people, but a lot of my coworkers were losing weight and eating just plants and staying away from bread and pasta carbs.
When starting this lifestyle I’ve seen a big community of the raw vegan lifestyle as well on YouTube and Instagram. Like I’ve said before, I like to learn by watching short videos especially about cooking and things so that is why I wanted to start this channel. I was actually thinking about making shorter cooking videos instead of the ASMR to be more informative. What do you guys think of that? Do you like the ASMR videos or would you like shorter videos to learn the recipes quicker!?
