Here's A Big Boo-Berry, Doc!

My family doctor thinks I'm a codger and I find it particularly annoying.

Next year I turn 50, gentle readers.  (Do I look like a Golden Girl? No!)  And at my last physical, my blood pressure and cholesterol were higher than my doctor would like. My weight has crept up too.  This is, of course, cause for concern but not immediate medication, in my humble opinion.  Just because I'll beg for Imitrex to wipe out a migraine doesn't mean I'm ready to become a pill=popping fool.

Nonetheless, my Doc was ready to whip out her prescription pad and write. But I convinced her to let me try diet and exercise before we break out the arsenal of pills.  Hence, my ode to the lovely cantaloupe and its luscious brethren, blueberries. 

This one is just the easiest breakfast ever.  Simply half a cantaloupe and clean out the seeds,  Fill the hollow with plump, delicious rinsed and cleaned blueberries.  Top with a dollop of plain or vanilla yogurt if you like and I like. At roughly less than 200 calories, it's filling and fresh and the blueberries offer the added bonus of being a superfood.

Already on soy milk for other ugly reasons that cannot be mentioned in polite company, I am ramping up my intake of fruits, along with my Wii Fit sessions, and veggies.  Be on the look out for more simple and easy (and -- um -- delicious) weight loss measures from yours truly.  I'm happy to say I've lost almost 5 pounds since my visit just a few short weeks ago.

Here's a big raspberry to my naysaying Doc.

Photo by Roswitha Schacht