So at a pot-luck dinner Friday night (I brought the CL-Asparagus Salmon Orzo dish), my friend Cindy said she was enjoying my blog but if I was still eating Phish Food ice cream every night, didn’t that mean I was failing?
Yikes!
Luckily, much wonderful wine was available (thank you Jill), so I was able to avoid thinking about that. Until today.
Here’s the thing – I am hoping that the many other choices I am making will result in lower cholesterol. That I can still have my cake ice-cream and eat it too.
Salad for dinner is not usually my thing, but it’s so lo-co so I’m trying. Last night I made Spinach Salad with Grilled Pork Tenderloin and Nectarines, and it was a big hit with entire family. Well, minus the spinach for my son (his plate had pork, nectarines, potatoes and broccoli). Such a treat to make one main dish all 3 of us declared delicious.
And big bonus: this was fantastic (and easy) to reassemble for lunch the next day. Here’s the review I posted about this dish on Cooking Light:
A reporter from The Charlotte Observer, Karen Garloch, wrote an article about her ‘cholesterol roller-coaster ride’ and how difficult it is to figure out what to do and whether it will work.
Sound familiar? It sure did to me. In fact, her third paragraph really hit home:
“In the end, I realized that the “high” cholesterol levels I started out with in December may not really have been so alarming, given my own healthy diet and lifestyle.”
That is what I’m hoping happens for me – that even though my cholesterol is high and thus a statin is ‘recommended’
With my eating habits in the doldrums, I needed inspiration…and found it in the March issue of Cooking Light. After spending a half-hour paging then surfing, I stumbled upon this recipe – then headed right to the store. Turns out, it was so good that my son actually ASKED to try some!
Even though I don’t really like cooked salmon, I found this recipe delicious as well as low-fat & low cholesterol. Plus, it’s easy & a nice change from the ‘heavy’ one-pot recipes I’ve been trying (not posted because I haven’t liked a lot of them!) In truth,
It’s been seven weeks since I began my going lo-co journey, and I’ve hit a wall. The first couple of weeks were a welcome challenge: searching for new recipes and learning about lowering cholesterol was interesting. But that was sadly short-lived.
Fast forward to week seven and I’m sad to report that my desire to transform to a lo-co lifestyle desire has simply vanished. Everything about trying to lower cholesterol without meds now feels like a chore, rather than a challenge. Or punishment, if I’m being honest.
Not surprisingly, both my exercise and meal consumption have taken a turn for the worse.
