I talk about this in my Week 17 Roundup video where I discuss the things that happened this week.
This week I watched and commented on a YouTube video entitled, "Is Meat Really Bad for You", and my comment contained the following:
Everyone has to make their own choice. I gave up meat in July of this year and have lost over 70 lbs since. I don't go hungry. My quarterly bloodwork results have improved significantly. So dropping meat was good for me. But like I said, everyone has to make their own choice
And another user had the following response:
This has been the worst decision of your life, but you are simply not aware of that, at least not yet. You can do the exact same thing by fasting aka not eating anything. Your bloodwork results improved because you lost weight, and not because you stopped eating meat.
I'm happy to hear other opinions. But I do not agree with the other user, especially the "not eating anything" comment.
I can clearly remember how I felt on my north-bound journey past 398 lbs, and I would have to classify it as a very achy, sometime nauseous trip. But my south-bound journey past 398 has me feeling fantastic. More importantly to me: after brain damage, stroke and damaging seizures, I am cognitively sharper in the last month than I've been in the last 2+ years. Something about the McDougall diet is working a kind of magic in me. That's what I came for, and that's what I'm getting. And I didn't have to starve.
Even though PG&E cut power to my home for five days, this was a great week. Looking forward to the next one.