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Hi Everyone
Thank you all for your support - it is very much appreciated. If I'm making a strong start it is only because I have a long string of failures behind me stretching back over several decades. I have had numerous lessons in what doesn't work - the trick of course is to find something that does work.
Many years ago I read about and tried to follow the teachings of Nathan Pritikin as I believe that his diet makes a lot of sense. However, at the time whole heaps of things (life basically) just got in the way and my weight went out to 128.5 Kgs. At that point I had only one point of disagreement with my doctors - I believed that I would have a serious adverse health event within the next 10 years and they believed that it would be within 5 years. That was 2 years ago.
I have been tested for food sensitivities and have been found to be highly sensitive to dairy and wheat with a lesser sensitivity to white fish and soy. With dairy I either don't eat it at all or eat it to excess - moderation just doesn't seem possible. So my choice is between eating masses of dairy and possibly dying with the next few years or eliminating dairy. It's not a particularly hard choice at an intellectual level just damned hard to implement.
My latest attempt to eliminate dairy started around 2 months ago when I started cutting down. About 3 weeks ago I was surfing the 'net looking for diet and weight loss information and stumbled upon a video of Dr McDougall giving a talk on dairy foods. I continued to surf but kept coming back here for the simple reason that the recommended diet was basically Pritikin but with the modifications that I needed to follow. Also, the community here seemed friendly and supportive.
If I've made a strong start it is because of a need to get it right plus the knowledge gained from numerous failures.
Thank you all for your support - it is very much appreciated. If I'm making a strong start it is only because I have a long string of failures behind me stretching back over several decades. I have had numerous lessons in what doesn't work - the trick of course is to find something that does work.
Many years ago I read about and tried to follow the teachings of Nathan Pritikin as I believe that his diet makes a lot of sense. However, at the time whole heaps of things (life basically) just got in the way and my weight went out to 128.5 Kgs. At that point I had only one point of disagreement with my doctors - I believed that I would have a serious adverse health event within the next 10 years and they believed that it would be within 5 years. That was 2 years ago.
I have been tested for food sensitivities and have been found to be highly sensitive to dairy and wheat with a lesser sensitivity to white fish and soy. With dairy I either don't eat it at all or eat it to excess - moderation just doesn't seem possible. So my choice is between eating masses of dairy and possibly dying with the next few years or eliminating dairy. It's not a particularly hard choice at an intellectual level just damned hard to implement.
My latest attempt to eliminate dairy started around 2 months ago when I started cutting down. About 3 weeks ago I was surfing the 'net looking for diet and weight loss information and stumbled upon a video of Dr McDougall giving a talk on dairy foods. I continued to surf but kept coming back here for the simple reason that the recommended diet was basically Pritikin but with the modifications that I needed to follow. Also, the community here seemed friendly and supportive.
If I've made a strong start it is because of a need to get it right plus the knowledge gained from numerous failures.