John and I started eating a vegan diet on August 18th, 2008. Neither of us has any real health problems but I have about a quarter-ton of weight to lose and he had a nice little pot belly. He was hooked on Oreos and Mountain Dew and I was hooked on anything chocolate.
We have a friend who turned us onto this new lifestyle. He HAD some health problems and had found this while recuperating from an episode with his heart. His cholesterol had dropped from 212 to 71 in just a few weeks (the bad LDL dropped from 155 to 34!) and his weight had dropped 50 pounds in about 4 months.
As he sang the praises of the new diet, I reminded him time and again that I was an old Atkinser and had only had good results as a carnivore. Still, as soon as we hung up the phone, I ordered the book. (See the link.)
After a week of travel, the book arrived and we started our new eating regimen on a Monday morning. Remarkably, this is the easiest diet I have ever been on to stick with. I have traveled, we have socialized, we've had "comfort food", and now even lasagna! Nobody is more surprised than I that we have enjoyed it so much.
Anyway, after lots of requests for recipes and hints (and all those people watching to see if we can really stick to it), I've decided to chronicle the journey.
Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
5 years ago
2 comments:
I want those vegan Oreo's and vegan mountain dew or pepsi's. And how about some of those vegan extreme moose tracks ice cream. Yummmmmm!!!!!!
I love your site. Its put together well, and so attractive. And its informative too. Thanks for doing this Vicki. I will be checking it out regularly to get new ideas and share my own with you guys. God's richest blessings to you both.
Mark Calhoun
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