Pleasant Resolution

On of my wife's New Year's Resolutions is that she wants to adopt a whole foods, plant-based, low fat diet to help her with her diabetes.  This is no easy feat for her, as she is quite meat focused from her upbringing.

For me, this is very exciting news.  In my own upbringing, meat was always present and available, but it was not the primary focus of what I grew up eating.  My family heritage emphasized a lot of pasta, a lot of cheeses, etc.    When I began to focus on loosing weight more than a dozen years ago, I found it easiest for me to focus on primarily eliminating fats and oils as much as possible from what I ate.   This naturally steered me to lower meat consumption (not that I ever ate a lot of it, because I do not like the smell of the cooking of meat).  Probably for the last year or two or perhaps even longer, I likely on average have one meal a week with meat.  It is one item that I do relish and do find healthy.... I have one turkey sandwich on toasted rye bread each week. 

But, during all these years of my working to eat healthier with little-to-no fat or oil, and yet my wife eating what she likes, it has sometimes been challenging for me and tested my mettle in terms of my resolve to choose amongst the available foods, the things that were low fat.  Now, with my wife pursuing a whole foods, plant based, low fat diet herself.... it will be much easier for me too!

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