I think most everyone in my life knows about my new diet. A brief recap, I have very high cholesterol. Normal ranges are under 200 and mine is 266. To avoid taking medication for this, I have decided to change my diet completely. The diet restricts dairy, except for butter, red meat, sugar, flour, basically anything tasty. My typical day consists of fresh vegetable juice for breakfast, sweet potato and raw veggie for lunch, and a raw veggie and vegetarian dish for dinner. I can have one meal a week of whatever I want. So I'm a month into the diet and have lost 4 pounds. I'm trying to keep a close eye on it since that is not the goal of this diet. Anyway, Fish wanted to grow a garden to help me be more excited about this life change. A month in and you would think I would have turned the page. I'm at a point where the diet still isn't appetizing, but neither is anything I used to eat. So hopefully I can find new and healthy things to cook in the coming months as taking medication is not an option for me at this point. We planted tomatoes, carrots, squash, cucumbers, corn, and beets. We'll see what we get in a couple of months.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Veggie Garden
I think most everyone in my life knows about my new diet. A brief recap, I have very high cholesterol. Normal ranges are under 200 and mine is 266. To avoid taking medication for this, I have decided to change my diet completely. The diet restricts dairy, except for butter, red meat, sugar, flour, basically anything tasty. My typical day consists of fresh vegetable juice for breakfast, sweet potato and raw veggie for lunch, and a raw veggie and vegetarian dish for dinner. I can have one meal a week of whatever I want. So I'm a month into the diet and have lost 4 pounds. I'm trying to keep a close eye on it since that is not the goal of this diet. Anyway, Fish wanted to grow a garden to help me be more excited about this life change. A month in and you would think I would have turned the page. I'm at a point where the diet still isn't appetizing, but neither is anything I used to eat. So hopefully I can find new and healthy things to cook in the coming months as taking medication is not an option for me at this point. We planted tomatoes, carrots, squash, cucumbers, corn, and beets. We'll see what we get in a couple of months.
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