How to run a 30-day reset for the Intestinal body type without wrecking your digestion: the fat-loss mechanics (small food list, repeat meals, high volume, measured fat), a strict week for good-digestion stretches and a sensitive week built only from stress-stable anchor foods, plus sample days, portions, and when to widen back out.
A repeatable Sunday batch-prep plan for the Intestinal body type: which proteins, grains, legumes, vegetables, and ferments to cook for the week, scored against Carolyn Mein’s food lists so you build on the anchor foods and know exactly what to ease back on when your gut is off.
None of the chips in Bobby Parrish’s video are anchor foods for the Intestinal type—chips sit at ‘Moderately’ when you’re strong and drop to ‘Rarely’ when you’re sensitive. We map the video’s corn, potato, and paleo chips (plus Masa’s tallow-fried corn chips) to Carolyn Mein’s food lists, name the least-wrong picks, and give a fresh roasted salsa built on garlic, brown onion, and Spike.
Sweet potato is one of the few anchor foods that stays top-tier for the Intestinal type even under stress, which makes homemade sweet-potato fries the most on-type version of the salty-crunch craving. Here are three ways—oven steak fries at 425°F, crispier air-fryer fries, and thin chips as a bag-of-chips stand-in—all seasoned with butter or ghee and Spike.
A comforting Intestinal-body-type breakfast: soaked steel-cut oats stirred with butter and peanut butter, sweetened with date sugar and sorghum syrup, and topped with chopped dates and frozen blueberries—each add-in chosen against Carolyn Mein’s food lists.
A living account of losing 60 pounds in six months by eating for the Intestinal body type. The plan, the daily rhythm, the results as they come in, and a plain-English FAQ answering the questions people ask most — is it realistic, do I count calories, which foods, and how it actually works.
A practical, tier-by-tier guide to eating for the Intestinal body type: the anchor foods that stay ‘Frequently’ even under stress, what slides when you’re run-down, and how the Healthy and Sensitive lists differ across proteins, grains, vegetables, fruits, fats, and sweeteners.
An Intestinal-body-type breakfast granola built on amaranth and basmati rice, sweetened with date sugar and sorghum syrup, and browned with grass-fed butter—every swap chosen to land in the type’s top-tier ‘Frequently’ foods.
A weekly-batch pinto bean method built for digestibility: a long alkaline soak, a pressure cook, discarding the cooking liquid, then fresh vegetables and Indian digestive spices.
This Fluffy Cardamom Lemon Basmati Rice is an easy, aromatic upgrade to everyday rice—made on the stovetop in an enameled cast iron pot for dependable, steamy…