New to CRON: Advice on getting started

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I, too, am relatively new to CRON (about 2 months into it) and I can

share my experience with you (which may not be the same as others.)

My motto is gradual and focused on optimum nutrition. I'm a

vegetarian, and there's a phrase in the vegetarian community: French

fry vegetarians, i.e., folks who don't eat animal products, but do eat

tons of other junk instead. I think with CRON it is very easy to fall

into a version of French fry vegetarian, i.e., cutting calories

drastically but not eating foods which are high in nutrition.

I'd advise educating yourself on foods which pack the biggest

nutritional punch for the fewest calories. It is generally safe to

say that those are unprocessed or minimally processed plant foods.

And, among those the best (generally speaking) are vegetables and

fruits, particularly those with strong colors: deep green, deep

orange, deep blue and purple.

My daily goal is 10 servings of veggies/fruits with those

characteristics a day. I've found if I achieve that goal, my total

number of daily calories per day hovers around 1,500 per day. Yes,

there are days when I just have to have a bagel and I let myself have a

" planned indulgence " once a week. CRONING is about a lifestyle, not

about deprivation.