Day 40. Plant Based Diet.

More Data.
Blood Pressure.
I measure this periodically by taking it each day at the same time in the morning and I do this for 20 or more days in a row. I have data going back a few years. For this update I took 20 days in Oct/Nov 2010 and another 20 days finishing today. Meaning the latter data is starting from being on our new diet for 20days until today.
Not sure if this is the way to show this but I simply averaged the 20 days results.

• Oct/Nov 2010 = 130/80 Pulse rate 62 (Prior to diet and best I had been for years)
• January 2011 = 118/74 Pulse rate 52 (After 20 days on the diet till now)

Experts may put a different spin on this but to me this is a measurable improvement.
Weight.
Still nudging down but slower now and I have lost 5.5 Kgs in 40 days. (Start weight = 79.8Kgs, today 74.3Kgs)
Health.
This is subjective but generally I feel good with good energy. Exercise seems very doable and I can ride my bike no problems (not pushing it too hard of course)
Medical.
The Cardiologist prescribed Calcium channel blockers to ease any pain and improve circulation. But I have decided not to start these. I will meet him again late Feb and explain what I have done with this diet and see if he thinks I still should go on to these drugs. Frankly my view is that I want to do this (halt and hopefully reverse CAD) without drugs.
In the kitchen.
Robyn and I have stripped Amazon's stock of books about this subject and we now have a great library of reference books with lots of guidance and best of all lots of great food ideas.

It's still early days but the overall trend is looking very positive and I was lucky enough to have had holiday time to work through this significant "event" in our lives.
More updates soon.