Lenny saw an episode that Dr. Oz did on the “Ape Diet”, which was an experiment that the BBC conducted a year ago. Basically, they “locked” a group of volunteers in the zoo for 12 days and feed them a diet that the apes would eat – fruit, vegetables, nuts and honey. In the end the diet proved to lower their cholesterol and blood pressure. Lenny has high cholesterol and even though we eat a very balanced meal and are pretty good about what we eat and put into our bodies we have only been able to get it down somewhat. Basically, he just wants to try this diet out, not to fix the problem; but, to see how it goes. So for the next 9 days (because we leave for Boston next Thursday), we are going to eat as the apes do.
Since I love my man, and support him a hundred percent, I am going to give it a shot; after all, I could afford to drop a few as well. The only stipulation I gave was that I could not give up my morning coffee…..
Now, I do have to say, we attempted this on Monday and we did really well until we got home, thought about it, saw a bottle of French wine on the counter ….. We had tons of grapes for breakfast and a hefty salad of veggies and no dressing for lunch, more grapes and a pound of carrots for munching in the afternoon. By the time we left our office, we were both starving. Got home, did a little yoga, Lenny rested and at 6pm we were dialing the pizza guy down the street. We order the same thing from the same place about once a month – super deluxe veggie pizza, with ricotta, carmelized onions, roasted red peppers .. you get the picture … well, they could not get to our place soon enough. This was the first time in years that they were late and the pie was COLD! So, that is how the first day of our “Ape” diet started … failed.
We started over today, lots of grapes for breakfast, tons of green tea (okay, I can not live on water alone, I am weak. Lenny is really doing better at this part) with no honey, more carrots and another hefty salad for lunch. And then the fun came at dinner ….
Here we go……. this is what we picked up from the market for our first “Ape Meal” … carrots, cauliflower, some tomatoes, and an avocado.
This is what we created …….steamed carrots and cauliflower (they were barely steamed as the food is suppose to be raw, it was basically warm on the outside, super crunchy on the inside) with minced chives from our garden and a …..
tomato and avocado salad drizzled with fresh Meyer Lemon juice and minced marjorim also from our garden.
You ask, “how was it?” Honestly, really delicious; but, I am starving!!! Lenny says he feels good, good, really good.
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