Abstinence - 45th Day

Breakfast 1 -1/3 cups grits with Sweet N Low 1 cup Soy milk 1 cup coffee with Sweet N Low 1 banana 20 oz. water Lunch Salad with assorted lettuces, walnuts, kidney beans, mushrooms, with lite Ranch salad dressing Lentil soup with kidney beans added Dried apricots 20 oz. water Dinner (at Applebee's) Two portobello mushroom sandwiches on whole wheat buns Assorted cooked vegetables with marinara sauce Fruit salad Strawberry Lemonade Have you noticed anything different about my food plan now?  I have gone to a plant-based, whole grain diet, with no animal protein, and no dairy products.  Yes, I am now vegetarian, and I recommend it for those who can follow it.  I am reading a book called The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, who is a reknowned nutritionist, and who is studying how the diseases of the different Chinese reflects on what they eat.  It's a fascinating book, and I find myself not wanting to eat any meat or dairy after reading it, so far. Denise Phares/kitties4

very cool!  Keep us informed.  few hundred billion chinese cannot be totally wrong!