Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:09 pm
rcbinmichigan wrote:There are high-protein meat eaters on the fitness board I frequent who were overweight and now are buff with flat tummies (many have had several children). So if the only way I can have a flat tummy is by eating animal foods, then I will never have a flat tummy. But I'd like to know if high-carb McDougalling vegans can acquire that, esp post-menopausal McDougalling women.
Somewhere, maybe it's on the main McDougall site in an article, is a picture of Carl Lewis at the starting thingee for a race. He was (and maybe still is) a McDougaller and looks absolutely fabulous. He's not a post menopausal woman, but his story is interesting. He couldn't maintain his weight and kept gaining, even while working at the intensity he needed to keep in shape for racing, while eating high protein, so he switched to McDougall. I'm going to go look for that picture!
Here it is: http://www.nealhendrickson.com/mcdougall/030900.htm
I think you are on the right track. Upping the raw veggies and limiting the starches a bit should do the trick. It has worked for me and nothing else did, and I am definitely post menopausal since I my ovaries are gone and I take no estrogen. I really feel like it's the fat that is melting, too.