Quote Originally Posted by Over50Newbie View Post
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
Congrats. for these improvements. As for becoming more vegetarian, do many of your dishes contain much cheese, eggs, butter in preparation? At least try low-fat cheese. Occasionally substitute eggs with egg whites. It still looks like scrambled eggs with a lighter taste. You get the picture..


P.S. I'm not vegetarian. I just eat meat 1-2 times per week. Primarily seafood, chicken breast. Haven't had a sparerib..um..maybe in last 12 months, simply because it was never my favourite cut of meat. If you give me grilled chicken breast or meat kebabs with roasted veggies, now we're talkin'!