Hi all. I'm 65 and my wife Karen is 79. She is maybe 20 pounds overweight and I'm closer to 40 pounds overweight. She is Type 2 Diabetic and I'm probably on the verge of Prediabetic. We've been married 38 years and do everything together. She has had diabetic neuropathy for a decade or more, which limits her ability in the kitchen (easy to drop things and slow to sense when she touches something hot). So I'm been the cook for a good part of that time. Though we live in Ecuador now, we both grew up and lived in the US Midwest until moving here 15 years ago. So out of habit, we ate a typical midwestern diet of meat, potatoes, and veggies, with too much fat, sweets, and processed food. I'm also lazy, so it's really easy to just cook up a burger and cut some cheese slices. Karen feels that her neuropathy and nerve pain is largely from the diabetes, so we started watching videos by the Mastering Diabetes folks. They advocate a low fat, whole plant based diet to keep diabetes under control. We both also love nature and animals, so vegetarian lifestyle is appealing from a humanitarian viewpoint. It seems that the Masterian Diabetes advice seems to mesh well with this community, so I'm here to learn how to feed us that way without having to pay monthly for the Mastering Diabetes program (I'm cheap as well as lazy LOL).