Banjo Man is on a new eating program.  No meat.  No dairy.  He has lost 10 pounds in 4 weeks (because he’s a man) and would be very glad to tell you all about it, except he is buried under pounds of Brussel sprouts, romaine, tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, mangoes, bananas, oranges, apples, beans and lentils.

I tried this diet for one day. By 4 PM I was in tears and had a migraine.  Banjo Man fixed me a bowl of salad big enough to fill a Volkswagen and assured me I’d be okay once I adjusted. I worked on that salad for an hour and then decided to save the rest for another day.  A day when I had nothing better to do than chew.  A day with more time to adjust.

While I don’t mind eliminating meat and cheese and bread and sweets, I miss yogurt.

I need yogurt.

EAT TO LIVE is a wonderfully interesting book, more about eating nutritionally to prevent disease than losing weight. But, as Dr. Fuhrman says, thin = healthy.  [duh]

Everything he says makes sense, it truly does.

So, pass that bucket of black beans over here.  I’m going to keep trying.