Okay so today was the first day of this journey, and boy let me tell you… I am hungry as hell, because now I have no idea what to eat and what not to eat. Looking at the labels on food just confuses me even more. I know I am supposed to stay away from processed foods, red meat, dairy products, and deserts. Well that is pretty much everything, what is left to eat?! Am I going to be stuck with eating darn salads and fish the rest of my life? Maybe I will just for lunch. Betty Crocker has the Low Fat/Low Cholesterol cookbook that I am going to go pick up, now that I actually have to cook every day. Hopefully that will help me.
Also, my doctor called in my meds (lovastatin). I looked up the side effects on the web, and actually found this on the PubMed Health website:
What special dietary instructions should I follow?
Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.
Avoid drinking large amounts (more than about 1 quart, 1 liter every day) of grapefruit juice while taking lovastatin.
My question is why can’t other websites break it down like this? Maybe there are other websites, and I haven’t found them yet. But I need it broken down in layman’s terms. DO NOT EAT…. EAT MORE… Like really, when you tell me not to eat processed foods. Damn near everything is processed!!! Say something like, shop only in the perimeter of the store because healthier foods are typically found in the perimeter of the store.
This is becoming very stressful. I am stressed because I have gotten myself into this situation, and I am stressed because I can’t figure out how to get myself out. I don’t know if I am fighting genetics, or just a series of bad decisions.
Well, off to the pharmacy and then to the grocery store.
It is alot of information to absorb. But you are doing great just educating yourself! Knowledge is the first step. I didn't exercise today, but I did eat a salad for lunch. Maybe I can do some step aerobics on the Wii before bed. ;)
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