51 in Greenville NC going up to 70 today, beautiful sunny day with lower winds. Latter will help me have a more pleasant
ride over to Apex, other side of Raleigh in several hours, to rv dealership. Until then, stowing things inside then have to do all the disconnecting outside.
Not too much and not too hard, got a head start on it yesterday by removing covers and putting wheel chocks away.
Up at 1:30am, wide awake, had a banana, then thankfully got several hours more sleep so looking forward to the day.
I continue to read the book Greger,
How Not To Die, and only one quarter of the way through it and all I can say is it is transformative.
It is no wonder I had a stroke... I made curried chicken last night (curry is good for you) and that will be the last chicken I eat in awhile. Hardest part for me is cutting way
back on cheese, which I adore. I'm hoping the supermarket up North will have healthier choices vs down here where no one seems to care what they eat. So many easy to understand science linked references to how cancer and heart disease are caused by what we eat. If I want to live a normal healthy life after my last six months of wake up call, the solution is clear. I'm not going to become a vegan, but I sure am going to radically alter my diet. Lots of berries, lots of vegetables, lots of beans. Avoid sugar, avoid salt, avoid processed foods and store made pizza, which I already do. All throughout the book there are clear references to "if you eat this too much, say more than one time a week, you have X greater likelihood of hypertension and stroke". And if you eat
this, you will reduce your chances of bad things happening by X percentage. This is not nutcase stuff, all very clearly written and credible with tons of references to case studies. I ordered a copy of the book off Amazon and sent it to my sister who likely already has it, if so she will give it to one of her sons. For Christmas I'm giving a copy to each of my siblings and close friends.
And then I will be quiet and not nag...
I owe this wake up call to two people. One is my sister, who has eaten an almost vegan diet for 40 years, and the other to Don, whose wonderful but sad story about his brother who
just would not change his diet likely caused the loss of his brother. We still laugh over my sister's first attempt 40 years ago to make a home made healthy apple pie. The crust turned out like concrete and none of us could cut it, to much amusement at the table. I ate it anyway, I love pie...now I just have to learn how to bake them myself in a healthy manner.
Most of us are ignorant of what our diet is doing to us. But we are not stupid, we can learn and change. Particularly a bright bunch like us!
Hope you all have a good day and I'll report back in tonight as to how the day went.
