{My A to Z Challenge for 2013 has the cool theme of being chronically ill. It’s going to be fun, so stick around!
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D is for Diet
A lot of the past six years I have been on one kind of ‘diet’ or another for my health. Recently I started on the most strict diet I’ve been on so far (which I’ll be doing at least for six months, probably longer). Mostly I eat veggies (lots of raw ones!), and berries, eggs, some nuts, seeds and low-fat meats. Every once in a while I get some dairy products.
Excluded are things like sugar (and substitutes, except for Stevia), grains -rice, corn, wheat, oats, etc…, beans, peas, peanut-butter, potatoes, most fruits, anything processed (which means no salad dressings, although I do eat mustard), etc.. At first it was hard. No bread, pretzels, corn chips, pizza, chili, stir-fried rice… No mashed potatoes, butter, cereal, cheese sticks…
After the first few days, though, it got to be a lot of fun. It’s a challenge. I like challenges! And with my family behind me and joining in, we began to make some fun meals. Here are some pictures, don’t they look good?
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| When ‘weaning’ myself from salad dressing I ate lots of lemon and lime juice. Now I still like it, but I like plain salad and veggies, too. |
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| (Those ‘noodles’ are really spaghetti squash) |
Do you consider your eating habits to be healthy? What are some of your favorite foods?
Noveltea 
Yummy! Those look great. I avoid all grains (except for certain low carb kinds) sugar, processed food, excess fruit or dairy. I can't always manage it perfectly but I try ! 🙂
Rebecca
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Those do look good. Hope you took the ribbon off first. hehe
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