only adds a year or two!?!

I'm overweight. About 12 years ago I went on Jenny Craig diet, lost a lot of weight and kept it off for two years. Then I hit an emotional sandbar and started gaining weight again. I'd like to take it off, but it's such hard work, and I don't want to do the work. I'd rather try to eat more healthy food, go vegan, and let my weight take care of itself.

It's nearing Halloween, so there's a lot of "strange" stories available. I saw this one on Reuters: Web Life: Want to diary your death? Ask online. (LINK is below.) The article is about different websites that asks you questions, then predicts your date of death.

The funniest one was from evil.berzerker.net: "Nancy: At age 73 while showing your work at a major art gallery, you will be accosted and later slain by PETA activists." Nice to know I'm going to show my work at a major art gallery!

Estimates ranged from death at age 73 to 94. But, I was also doing an experiment. On several of the sites, I did it honestly first, and then put in that I was at my optimum weight. That was the only change I made. Seems that working to lose weight only added one year to my life at one site, 2 years at another one, and 3 years at a third site. Not a big difference for all that work -- especially if you're in your 90s and the quality of your life isn't what it used to be.

Guess longevity isn't a good reason to lose weight. Quality of life with whatever years I have left is more important -- less pain, less medicine, less hospitalization.

a nearly vegan day!

Nearly vegan and mostly healthy. Pretty good for today. I even had soy latte, which I don't like as much as whole milk.

I didn't really feel like cooking, so took it easy but cooked anyway. I did one of my standbys-- baked potato with some sauted stuff on it. Usually I put onion, frozen peas, bacon if I have it, and some cheese or sourcream on the potatoes. Tonight I used mushrooms that were past their prime and needed to be used or thrown out, onions, frozen peas, kalamata olives, capers and ended the saute with sherry and some high heat to evaporate it.

It was delish! Betty loved it. I did find myself thinking that it would taste good with some feta cheese, or goat cheese on it, but to be honest, my tastebuds really didn't miss the dairy. Only my head did.

So what wasn't vegan? Store-bought cookies. At least it was in the baked goods, and not a meal dripping with cheese!

Definitely not VEGAN!

Well, trying to be dairy-free only lasted 2 days. Then I added some feta cheese to my salad.

Interestingly, in trying to be dairy-free I went so far from vegan-- I ate meat, vegs, fruit, etc.... but it seems that the more I focused on trying not to eat cheese, the more meat I wanted. Guess this will be a long road for me!

Not very vegan, but trying for non-dairy today

I haven't been focusing on food-- mostly because I've been busy and don't have the time.

Today, though, I'm trying to be non-dairy at least. I've been coughing a lot recently, and I know that dairy products increase mucus production. I'm addicted to cheese, though, and struggling to get through a day without it.

The last time I tried being non-dairy, I succeeded for about one week and it didn't make any difference. So I went back. Later, someone told me I didn't give it enough time.

So, like the AA Program says, "one day at a time," I'm trying to be non-dairy today.