by Baidarka » Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:35 am Here by invitation of, I believe, LauraA (still not good at finding my old posts), and kind of late in the month, but I'm the one some of you have met as I move from Fuhrman to McDougall. It's not awfully hard, as there is so much more encouragement to eat grains here, but I had, I admit, begun to do my Fuhrman program with just enough small indulgences to maintain my weight....instead of lose it. But I'm way healthier than I was when I started, and I'm definitely a believer, so I just need to clean things up. I hope that there is a thread like this in December, because when could we need it more?! And we are in the process of moving from one house to another, so that's always a good time to slip into eating SAD food for convenience (especially in this rural village where the Chinese restaurant is about all there is by way of healthy eating, and we all know that the American version of Chinese is NOT..... So we don't eat out much, but the temptation when in a hurry at home is to eat more frozen vegan pizza than usual, etc., but we're holding our own, so far. That huge salad daily is a must, although I've fallen off on my greens. It's also helpful for me to make a VAST pot of bean soup of some kind weekly, with lots of greens and other veggies in it. I've dubbed it my "Tuscan White Bean" soup, but really it's just the Southern version of beans and hamhocks, minus the hamhocks! I guess that tells you we live in the South....
I think my hardest challenge is staying away from comfort foods....even healthier versions of them, which I tend to eat too much of. But the terrific thing is that the aforementioned bean soup is becoming, for me, a comfort food, as is my morning oatmeal and other great things. It really is possible to change! And I have seen, both here and on the other site, that it's the foods we're eating that make us want to change. I truly believe it's a matter of getting good nutrition that satisfies the body and changes our tastes. Clearly, most of us start these programs malnourished, whether we're overweight or not, and just getting good food in us for the first time makes such a difference.....
So let's keep keeping on!
Baidarka
BUT...that being said, I had thought that the McManiac would refer to McDougall...but a "Mac" computer is cute too...as long as it's not McDonald's, eh???? 
