This month’s Lifestyle Champion: AnneI started the Complete Health Improvement Programme in January 2023. Having listened each week to what I ought to be eating, I have stopped eating meat, I changed my milk to oat milk, and stopped snacking on cheese and biscuits. I loved Wensleydale! I’ve tried vegetables I’d never even heard of and I now enjoy eating most of them. I’ve experimented with adding spices to plain foods with some success. Spring is here and I’m back to having my daily walk down by the river. I live up a steep hill so that’s the bit where I get puffed out but even that is so much easier now. All good. What I have struggled with is finding recipes that have less than 20 ingredients but I’m better now at substituting vegetables or spices that I don’t like. My meals have to be ready within half an hour otherwise I’m eating while I am cooking. Vegan cheese is really only palatable when melted and I don’t like coffee with oat milk! My real downfall is chocolate, I can go without it for months and then, well I’m working on it. I lost 2 stone in the first 4 months and my blood pressure is much better. My advice is stick with it. Your taste buds will change and the benefits are huge.
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