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Wow that looks gorgeous! Healthy eating can't do any harm, but I do feel that when a doctor recommends a certain diet they should go into enough detail that you don't need to buy study material from an unchecked source!
 
I love those kinds of roads, I had so much fun driving them in Ireland (except my first day there, when the 2-hour estimated drive worked out to be 6 hours). Want a real pucker-moment of a ride, try out the Auto Road up Mount Washington. Tight dirt roads, no guard rails, good chance you're driving inside a cloud and/or 60+ mph winds. I've done it three times on a motorcycle.

RE: Mediterranean diet, I know nothing! Pizza has Mediterranean origins, right?
 
Little John said:
I love those kinds of roads, I had so much fun driving them in Ireland (except my first day there, when the 2-hour estimated drive worked out to be 6 hours). Want a real pucker-moment of a ride, try out the Auto Road up Mount Washington. Tight dirt roads, no guard rails, good chance you're driving inside a cloud and/or 60+ mph winds. I've done it three times on a motorcycle.

RE: Mediterranean diet, I know nothing! Pizza has Mediterranean origins, right?
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That's my kind of logic John;)
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LaMaria said:
Wow that looks gorgeous! Healthy eating can't do any harm, but I do feel that when a doctor recommends a certain diet they should go into enough detail that you don't need to buy study material from an unchecked source!
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The doctor and dietician went into it fully Maria. Also, we were given all the bumph and recipe sheets. But as a writer I am used to doing as much research as I can, and asking for advice and help from people who are on this lifestyle change as well, particularly in other countries can only help. We haven't bought anything unchecked,the recipe books were on the recommended list. All except the 'Mediterranean Diet for Idiots' That sort of summed us up so we bought it from Amazon :p
 
Hi Polly. G & I eat a lot of what would be classed as Mediterranean food. We mostly only use good quality extra virgin olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes, Balsamic vinegar, kalamata olives, Dolmades (stuffed vine leaves), lots of fish, avocadoes, lots of fresh vegetables & small amounts of lean protein, but also a little good hard cheese & a little salami. A regular lunch( 4 times a week) for us would comprise-
Some raw celery, raw carrot, hummus, 2 Dolmades, a small Roma tomato(sliced), some home-made pickled Zucchini, 6 small pieces of cheese, 2 sml slices hot salami, 3 pickled mussels, 2 or 3 Kalamata olives & about 8 small crackers. We dip the raw veg in the hummus. I LOVE this lunch!
I love avocadoes & often have some avocado & boiled egg or tuna on oat toast for breakfast. I add some home-made rhubarb chutney & a little fat-free mayo as well, but a teensy bit of olive oil would be nice instead of the mayo.
Our meals are mainly veg, with much smaller proportions of meat than most people eat. We eat a lot of grilled Atlantic salmon & buy a 5kg box of frozen for $90, which makes it affordable. We eat more venison than beef or lamb. G loves pork & I love lamb & we might have that once a fortnight maybe. There are so many things you can do, but I think cutting down on fatty meats is a biggie. We never deep fry anything, but do a lot of oven baking, using a baking tray covered with baking paper. G cuts up a whole heap of veg into varying sizes, depending on the length of time each needs cooking, spreads them out on the tray, drizzles olive oil over, adds salt & pepper, some fresh rosemary & French Thyme & bakes them in the oven. He sometimes cooks the fish on the same tray. The results are delicious. We had veg cooked that way last night with 1 &1/2 small venison meatballs. It was one of the nicest meals I have ever eaten.
If you can access an Italian grocer some time, stock up on some good quality produce. I think getting a good olive oil is the main thing.
 
Thank you ever so much Cate.I know how busy you are in your life as well as supporting and encouraging many people on here. I appreciate the above very much Marcus is going to cut and paste it ready for printing out for our little book ( or as we call it) Our idiot book.
You have given us so many tips and ideas that we fare feeling even more positive.
We will be going to a support group at the hospital one Saturday morning a month just until we feel confident.
 
Polly, looking forward to hearing how the support group goes, glad you're exploring options.

Cate, between the gum trees, weather cockatoos, using the word fortnight, and your meal plan, I think you need an ugly American sleeping on your couch, and I bravely volunteer myself!
 
I shall be glad when the youngsters go back to school next week. Our Knit and Natter club is sadly depleted and what with people going on holiday, we have to keep changing the days. I miss the young mums. If they can't get a sitter, they can't come. It's too dangerous for little people. We have hot glue guns, guillotines, shears, scissors, nails, staple guns, regular irons, soldering irons, pins needles beads,some which look just like sweets, and goodness knows what else. We tried to set up a creche but there were so many rules and regulations we gave up.
Our cook book came today, the one recommended by the hospital. 101 recipes, tips 'n tricks.
 
Little John said:
Polly, looking forward to hearing how the support group goes, glad you're exploring options.

Cate, between the gum trees, weather cockatoos, using the word fortnight, and your meal plan, I think you need an ugly American sleeping on your couch, and I bravely volunteer myself!
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John, wouldn't it be nice if we could all meet up sometime?I wonder what we would make of us all eh?
 
That´d be awesome! One of us should get filthy rich and pick up all us other folk by private jet, just for tea and low-fat cakes :p I did have to ask uncle Google what nice knitty-nattering ladies might want with a guillotine :D
 
Polly said:
John, wouldn't it be nice if we could all meet up sometime?I wonder what we would make of us all eh?
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Wouldn't that be amazing! I have caught up with 2 people from the forum over the years & really liked them. One lived in Western Australia & "detoured" to Tasmania on her way to Sydney to meet me. She stayed with us & we got on very well & we keep in touch on FB. I plan on meeting LaMa next year (in Venice?) & Jasper too hopefully (in Athens). I think we do get to know one another quite well in here as most of us use our diaries to really share our innermost feelings. We are not as inclined to do that as much in "real life". I think it's good for us.
Polly- your knit & natter group sounds positively dangerous & lots of fun!
It comes over in your diary that you are a very loving & friendly person. If we do ever come your way I'll make a point of catching up for a coffee & a good natter :D xoC
 
We have had a pretty grueling time. Mark's eyesight went haywire again. Lots of tests.MRI, x ray, bloods etc etc, wait, worry repeat.We found out today, that it was a very small blockage in a tiny vessel on the retina that they had missed. They shifted it, and he is hopefully back on an even keel. We won't know exactly until next Wednesday, when they do his fields, if we can go on holiday on the 19th or not
We saw our family doctor this morning and he said 'Oh my dears you two have been through the mill haven't you?'That did it for me, the flood gates opened. I never cry usually. What a useless support I am for poor old Marcus.
 
O come on, don´t be so hard on yourself, Pol! I´m really glad to hear it was a fixable Thing and not a sign that the last Thing was bigger than they´d thought. If even your GP remarks on the stuff you´ve been going through it´s more than ok to have a cry.
 
:iagree: with LaMa, Polly. It's more than ok to have a cry. I'm sure you are a pillar of strength for Marcus xoxo
 
It was such a shock when he woke me up with the words' Polly,I can't see.I'm,blind' He is normally such an even tempered man and ever panics.Than goodness they have cleared the blockage
 
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