I have cut my blood pressure medicine back to 1/2 tablet every day and my blood pressure is still lower that it was when I was taking a complete tablet.  I am hoping to do away with the medicine completely after I get my full physical in January.  My blood pressure is 121 over 78 and my pulse is 69.  My weight went back up to 206 because I am eating too much fruit.  I need to cut it back a little on the fruit and eat more vegetables.

BENEFIT

our new lifestyle will keep this from happening

Dive, dive, the weight continues to sink

Today I weigh 205 pounds.  I can't believe that I have actually lost 20 pounds so far on this new eating plan.  Unlike Jenny Craig, NutriSystem or Weight Watchers, this is a way of life we can live with.  Everybody provides prepackaged foods that starve you until you lose some weight. Once you are no longer eating their highly processed food, the weight comes right back.  As long as we continue eating the way we do, this won't happen.

Pam has also lost 20 pounds.  That is a lot of weight for her 5'6" frame.  I put my hands around her waist and it is obviously getting much smaller.  She is now a strong supporter of this way of eating.

 

This new way of eating is changing our lives

Wow!!!!  It has been 54 days since we have eaten any meat or chocolate chip cookies.  It is amazing that we have been able to adapt our eating to a healthy diet so easily and don't really miss the food we used to eat.  Pam says that the only thing she misses once in awhile is chicken. She refuses to tell me why.

One day, she got bored and decided go out and buy three chocolate chip cookies.  She took one bite and realized that they no longer tasted as good as she remembered them.  She spit out the bite and threw all of them away.  I was really proud of her.  I believe it is a sign that old habits are hard to break, but she is recognizing that the things we used to eat don't taste as good anymore.  Once we got the oils and processed sugars out of our systems, we didn't have the cravings like we used to have that caused us to fill up on empty calories.

We eat an awful lot of beans and rice.  In fact, my feet hardly ever touch the ground anymore. 

Today I weigh 208 pounds.  Down 17 pounds from when I started on August 24th.  My pants are starting to get a little baggy.  Pam has also lost the exact same amount, 17 pounds.  We are never hungry.  We eat all we want, when we want, and weight keeps heading south.  If I wasn't living it, I wouldn't believe it.  People are telling Pam she is looking great and wondering what she is doing to lose so much weight.  When she tells them, they say that they think she is courageous for being able to modify her life like she has.  Many think it is too radical for them though.  Back before August 24th, I would have thought the same thing.  I have been told that people with Cholesterol less than 150 and an LDL of less than 80, don't have heart attacks.  That is what I am shooting for.