When last August I wrote about my cholesterol problems, I thought bad things about my doctor and even worse about the idea of not eating meat. I guess after my semi-annual visit with him, which happened more like 8 month after previous, I feel actually satisfied. My bad cholesterol went down from 170 to 110, and my weight went down as well, 20 pounds less. And I owe everything my home-made diet.
Few simple rules:
1) no red meat- turkey and chicken are fine, as long as you take off skin, and from time to time pork. No beef. No problem- you can buy turkey ground meat for meatballs, turkey hamburgers, turkey breakfast sausage and bratwurst, and probably bunch of other stuff I haven’t discovered yet.
2) no fat or low fat, whatever available as such. Milk, yogurt, even pretzels 
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3) only 1 serving of everything. This was the toughest, I think. Really, try once put in your bowl a serving of cereal…
Well, of course, you have to exercise as well. Especially that after few month of nicely loosing weight, one day it stopped. I needed something more. Old treadmill our friends didn’t need any more came in handy. As much as I hate this device, I use it for about 30 min each day. 7 days a week. Sometimes 6 days a week…. No excuses. I watch TV or read a book or magazine, so it is less boring than I thought. And is working!