Calling All Vegetarians...

[Over50Newbie]

Hey everyone,

Here's an update:

I was really, really good!! I only cheated once when I went on vacation to Texas. I couldn't be in Texas and not at least taste Texan spare ribs. But that was the only time meat passed through these lips the whole time. And it wasn't so hard after all.

After changing my eating habits to become vegetarian, my total cholesterol dropped 6 points (from 241 to 235) and my LDL dropped 9 points (from 167 to 158). Not earth shattering results, I know, but the bottom line is that both numbers went down and that makes me happy.

My doctor wants me to stay vegetarian until January and then get retested to see what my numbers are like. So, it looks like more of the same for me until then.

DivingBiker - I still have your tofu cookbooks. I am using them, but not as much as I did in the beginning. Do you want them back now? I will be happy to mail them back to you whenever you want them.

And thank you again for letting me borrow them!

As for losing weight - I am about 138 pounds right now. When I started this journey, I was 138, so it looks like eating vegetarian has not helped me lose weight.

Lynette