What is Full of Life and WFPB?

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It’s simply a return to whole foods, rich flavours and natural health.

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And the good news? You can eat when and where your like when you’re hungry and eat until you’re full. We don’t count calories, we just eat whole, unprocessed foods, prepared in an amazing variety of ways. The term “whole” in WFPB describes foods that are minimally processed. This includes as many whole grains, fruits, vegetables and legumes as you want. A WFPB diet is nutritionally dense while being filling, satisfying and tasty. 

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The standard Western diet eaten in Australia is heavy on meat, dairy, white flour, sugar and oil. We eat almost 70 per cent of our calories in the form of ultra processed foods (UPF) and most of us don't even realise it. While it's easy to identify many of these – think McDonald’s and KFC – many of the every day foods we put in our shopping trolley are full of ingredients and additives that are doing our bodies damage. See BLOG Post 

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Plant based diets can vary on the extent to which a person includes animal products in their diet: some people are purists and eat no meat, dairy or eggs, and don’t eat processed oils either.

The Full of Life approach is a less rigid – we’re essentially flexitarian. We eat mostly WFPB but are happy with meat or dairy in small amounts if it's necessary for the time and place. The Full of Life approach is effective at improving health and achieving a healthy weight through:

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• ​Emphasis on whole, minimally processed foods.

• Limiting or avoiding animal products.

• Focusing on plants, including vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, seeds and nuts, which should make up the majority of what you eat.

• Excluding refined foods, like added sugars, white flour and processed oils. 

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Four approaches:

1. All in (the purist approach) 

2. Flexitarian (plant predominant)

3. Minimum Daily Intake (MDI)

4. Toe in the Water (Healthy Changes)

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