6-week Challenge participants

(updated Sept. 6).  Hi everyone, we had 56 people express an interest in the 6-week Challenge!   I didn't get goals from 2 people, as you can see below, so it's possible they changed their mind or I lost their info--it was hard to keep track of everything.  It's not too late if you just forgot.  I'm impressed!   I hope we all can have some fun with this.  Posted below are your screen names and my synopsis of your goals.  Please send any corrections if you have them. I haven't received my vita-mix yet but I assume I will by the time the challenge ends.

Thanks for participating and please post, send mail, give advice and encouragement to each other.

screen name	short goals
ReeRee	Finish Eat to Live, Follow Eat to Live, plan, pray
Ginger	re-focus
Tejas Jain	loose 10 lbs
Jenjenwh	break the 200 barrier, exercise every day, size 14
Jen4short	get healthy, lose 10-20 lbs
Healthy Girl	plan, exercise, record for 7 weeks
mberkovitz	rekindle enthusiasm, let go of overeating, find peace with that
Dru262	get rid of the figs & dates & desserts, return to basics
nuway2health	lose 14 lbs, exercise 2-3 times per week
Jitka
linda5sons	identify inflammation triggers, increase recipe repertoire for son, regular exercise
Tina Brandenburg	eat 100% nutritarian, get creative with exercise (knee injury), lose at least 5 lbs
PamelaNY	continue eating 100% ETL, no eating after 9 pm, become aware of fullness and stop eating before full
KatieScarlett
KristiW	go 6 weeks without overeating
Rovercon	lose 20 lbs,  exercise to 4-5 times per week, stay on plan, lower BP
Chewydaisy	strict ETL 6WP
Suz	exericse 5-6 times/week, stick to 6 week diet, stop eating when full
Dokken	Strictly follow 6 wk. plan and do not overeat
Bonnie S	exercise a minimum of 4 times per week, ETL six week plan at about 90%, stop snacking, omit the junk food
veggieteach	lose 6 pounds eating vegan to get to 159
JJS	adhere to weight loss plan; start exercising
Patricia	eat nutritarian 100%, more greens; improve diet of young child
otnetty	stictly adhere to 6-week plan; walk a mile, eventually twice a day
stoerkel	lost 10 lbs; 95% ETL/EFH by the end of the challenge
Tess	follow ETL; exercise 5 days/wk starting with 15 min; journal food, exercise and feelings daily
Okra	stop eating before full; always be prepared; don't eat trigger foods
Livewell	lose 20 pounds, workout 6 days a week and get more firmly settled in the universe of Nutritarianism; move away from food addictions
lightweight	sticking to eating on ETL-approved foods
Carole
Peggy14063	Follow ETL; enlighten others; support my sister
thomjane	follow ETL; exercise 4 hours/wk
yumikat	follow ETL; exercise 4 times per week; lose 10 lbs
Bemily	make healthy choices when eating out/ETL
Vgtrian	90% 6WP; exercise twice a week
charflower	cut out processed foods; exercise more
Diane S.	lose 12 lbs, complete transition to nutritarianism
Pippi1	6WP while taking on stressful job
Joann	6WP
dwatkins	prepare, eat well no matter what my schedule is, improve my health
Booberry	get healthy, ride horse like the wind
Ali123.	lose 20 lbs, walk to and from work + 2 good workouts on weekend
Janeen	continue eating healthy; make no rude remarks to family about unhealthy eating; make green juice 4xs/wk; exercise; gain 3 lbs
Laurenstyle	lost 10 lbs; workout at least 5xs/wk;Learn to appreciate the journey of ETL and step into my power letting the health transformation open me up to other new changes in career, relationships, spirituality,etc..
Trudy	stay off all white flour and sugar free for 6 weeks
Ttujill	follow a healthy diet, lose 10 lbs, and influence my husbands diet to hopefully enable him to lose 10lbs as well
WildHorses	lose 8 pounds and also feel great along te way!
marcid	exercise 4 to 5 times per week; go to bed early enough; ETL 6WP faithfully; lose some weight
Exona	just focus on me and the goal of better health....with no compromising (learn to deal with social events)
Carol1one	Follow Eat To Live, the  6-Week Plan
Willow	complete Dr. Fuhrman's six week program
AmandaB	overcome emotional, habitual, and addictive eating habits; lose 25 lbs; inspire others
kkeener	strict ETL
KathyColdHands	ETL 6WP; exercise vigorously 4-6 days/week; lose 20 lbs;
Rachel	lose 30 lbs
minirunner	stop eating sugar and overcome binge eating

Greens and Beans soup

I often make beans and greens soup but today I made greens and beans soup.  I want to not do any cooking during the work-week so all I have to do is prepare a salad every morning to split between lunch and dinner.  Then food prep takes only an hour and I'll have all my meals for the day.  It's repetitive but it doesn't bother me.  So I went to the garden and harvested a ton of greens: greens from the broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, collards and kale plants.  whew.  and some herbs.  and an eggplant.  and I combined those with all the veggies in the fridge that I normally cook, more eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms and onions.  and combined those with the beans and grains I was cooking.  Here's how I did it.

Last night I juiced 5 lbs of carrots and a bunch of celery added them to a pound of beans, 1/4 cup of purple barley, 1/4 cup of wild rice, and 1/4 cup of kamut (wheatberries), and soaked them overnight.  Here's the beans and grains before adding the juice (kind of pretty):

Cooked them up this morning for 3 hours.  Here they are cooked.  This was yummy.  I had to exercise discipline to not eat more than 2 bites of this:

I picked two lbs of greens from the garden, two lbs!

How am I going to cook up all these vegetables?  Use the food processor!   That shrinks them down.

Add some herbs from the garden:  basil, parsley, thyme, rosemary (chopped in the food processor)

Added 1 lb of eggplant, mushrooms, 1 green zucchini, 3 medium onions (like I said, whatever was in the fridge that could be cooked).

I cooked these up in two pressure cookers.  Two!   This was my crazy soup.

I dished them out into 20 1-cup servings.  20!   I ate two today, housemate ate one.  I figure I'll eat two a day, one for lunch and one for dinner.

I saved two for tomorrow, and froze the rest.  This will last me until I go on my vacation.  This is loaded, I mean loaded with greens.  And the odd thing is, it tastes quite good.  Even housemate liked it.  I was pleasantly surprised.

Here's the nutritional information for 2 servings:  327 calories, 17 g protein (17%), 2 g fat (4%), 65 g carbs (78%), 16 g fiber.