We people, i feel like i have accomplished part of my goals: from my last several visits with the doctor, my blood pressure has remained at normal levels, yeah...and my last blood tests has revealed that my cholesterol level is 3.7 which is good according to the doctor...however, how much of this lowering is a direct result of changing my eating habits...
Medical will take some of the luster off this lowering as i believe the combination with controlling my diet has played with this lowing...however, i am not sure of the percentages can be attributed to each...i would like to think that changing the diet had more to do with it...i have limited my intake of sodium to less than the recommended amounts; as i mentioned previously, some sodium is needed for the body...also, i have drastically reduced my fat intake to well below 10 grams per day.
The part i have not been able to relinquish is the medication...i believe this will take an even more drastic endeavour such as, shall i dare mention, "exercise"...gasp, i uttered the "E" word...since the weather has been relatively been - come on summer - i have been walking more, that is to and from work...next month will see me dust off the bike which has not been used in 3 years, yikes!
I know i promised to provide recipes; however, when i do create them, i never remember to take a picture of the dishes...such as last night dinner, which had diced chicken, red pepper, diced shallot, minced garlic and in olive oil, with whole parsley leaves added at the end of cooking, along with Catelli Smart pasta...made for a nice presentation and colour in our pasta bowls...no salt was added and it was tasty...i also don't have the nutritional information to give you on the calories, grams of fat (however, this you can get from looking at a bottle of olive oil as this was the only fat used which is a good fat) or grams of sodium, which only came from the chicken (yes, chicken has salt water solution injected into them...read about it here and here)
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