Reply #63: The biggest thing you can

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do is look at the changes as your "new" way to eat for life and not as a "diet". If you can it also helps to go to a nutritionist for a while. The longer the better. They do know what they are doing and a good one will be very supportive. They will even teach you how to safely allow yourself some of the forbidden favorites once in a while.

Hubby also said that with the food journal it helped him to write how he was feeling. Lethargic, energetic stuff like that. It reinforced the good stuff as he found he was getting more energy.(He is home now to ask.)He also said his cholesterol was 320 and the doctor wrote "Yikes" on his results. With diet and drugs he got it down to 120 in 6 months.


Adding of course there are lots of nice people on DU, you are one of them. With the primary stuff going on it is easy to forget they are here though.