Thank you so much for the support. As you do with children, I think of it as setting limits as to what I will or will not do, including diet, meds, and treatments.

My sincerest apologies if my earlier reply came off as disrespectful. I used to like meat and dairy until I had a raging kidney infection. I have heard from my vegan friends that some of the "new" meat and cheese substitutes taste even better than the products they replace. But my first love has always been for complex carbs. I have been baking whole-grain breads, eating bran muffins, and having Grape Nuts for breakfast since high school. It was impossible to find the breads, etc., in stores back in the Dark Ages when I went to high school, and I absolutely could not make it through morning swim practices without them.