How many fruits do you guys eat daily?

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, I'll play devil's advocate with Francesca's advice and suggest that you could add a very SMALL amount of butter to your diet. Since a number of nutrition scholars feel it's a safe and healthy addition to the diet, it just might be a good thing to add, especially since you are not yet restricting calories (restraining them, maybe!) Don't make it the staple of your diet, by any means.

Liver is probably a bad idea. Just think of the liver's function in the body and you'll guess why. I know, I know, there's always somebody to dispute any line of reasoning, but all kinds of serious crap goes through a liver. No thanks. I can't suspend my imagination long enough to get liver down.

What are you eating for your polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats? Are you having some avocado? That'd be a good one for you. Are you having some nuts? If I could afford the calories, I'd probably use more "nut butters" like almond butter, or even peanut butter. Can you get soybean butter? That's my favorite.

How many grams of protein are you eating everyday, and what's your body weight now?

It's easy to eat a lot of fruit because it tastes good and it's CONVENIENT. If you're concerned about eating too much of it, the answer might be to make some other foods equally convenient by preparing things in advance and putting them in ziplock bags. For instance, you might keep hard-boiled eggs in the fridge, precooked chunks of chicken meat, and ready-to-eat raw vegetables.

Also, you said you weren't doing grains, but how about sprouted grain breads that contain no flour, such as Ezekial bread? I do popcorn sometimes, too.

Suz