Wow, more than three months have gone by since I last blogged here. But I've been active on the site, tracking my food and exercise. Exercise has somewhat fallen over the cliff since it's been hot and humid for weeks. I shouldn't grouse since I'm lucky to live in Southern Cali where the weather's much milder than most places in the summer.

Yesterday I got a survey on diets and weight loss and I kept having to type in Sparkpeople.com for "other" since it wasn't on the list of popular programs, including WeightWatchers, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, etc. I also mentioned I'm trying to transition to Dr. McDougall's veganism or "Starch Solution." I've been on so many diets in my 61 years of existence, starting in my teens when my older sister taught me about calories. I quit radically changing food habits suddenly since it's costly. I replaced cow's milk with almond Silk when I ran out. I will replace whey with brown rice protein when I use up the last tub of chocolate whey in my homemade frappuccinos. I've not been much of a meat-eater for years, mostly because of the cost, but dairy will be harder to give up, unless I keep reminding myself of some of the things Dr. McDougall says about it. My grandfather had a dairy farm in Idaho for decades, but that was until the 1970s, when life was simpler and more organic. Sigh.....