It is a quite, Saturday morning here and I slept in for a little while. I'm up now, bathed, dressed to shoes and ready for my day. Sticking to the Mayo Clinic Diet Plan, I ate 1/3 cup of homemade granola with 1/2 cup fat-free milk and 4 ounces of orange juice. And that is equivalent to one carbohydrate, one protein and one fruit serving. I also drank coffee with sugar free, powdered creamer, French Vanilla flavored Coffee Mate which has only 15 calories so I'm not counting it. My diet plan is basically whatever I want to eat within limited amounts of food, up to 1200 calories. Vegetables are unlimited, at least four servings a day and at least three servings of fruit. However, potatoes and corn are categorized as carbohydrates. To meet my limit of 1200 calories a day, I'm allowed only four carb servings, three protein servings of 2 ounces each, only three fats and occasionally sweets, but sugar is off my food list for the tim...
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