Going VEGAN...Day 1

How in the world did I get the idea to spend the next year of my life trying 4 different diets?? Well it started as a really simple idea and then I decided why be simple?

Here's how the idea all started:

I had two back surgeries in October and was out of work for 5 weeks.  I had A LOT of time to think! I was watching Ellen and she was talking about being Vegan.  I thought, "maybe I should try that."  At first I thought I would try it for a month.  The more I thought about it the more ideas came to mind.  I have patients ask me almost daily about certain diets and what my thoughts and opinions about these diets are.  Well what better way to really know about these diets than to try them? 

So I will be doing 4 diets for 3 months at a time.  The line-up of the diets are:

January-March====Vegan

April-June===The Wheat Belly Diet

July-September===The Paleo Diet

October-December===To be determined (if you have any good ideas I'm taking suggestions). 

I've made some rules to my diets:

1. I must exercise for 30 mins 4 times a week

2. I must weigh myself once a week

3. I must blog at least once a week

4. I may have 1 cheat meal a week if I want

5. I must check my cholesterol at the beginning of every diet

6. When I'm on vacation I will try to follow the diet as well as possible

I have talked 2 other into joining me on this adventure.  

Meghan will start blogging soon so I will post her link as soon as I can.

My mom will also be helping me with the blog and with the recipe blog that you can access here

I have a lot of goals over the next year and doing these different diets.  It's going to be quite the journey and challenge...I can't wait!