Moderators: JeffN, f1jim, carolve, Heather McDougall
VivianS wrote:VivianS October 16, 2020
MandyBee, it's the food! Eggroll is a fried food. Is that right?
Egg roll with soy sauce or sweet and sour sauce...spasms of delight! Food to make me fat. I used to think I could eat that, exercise it off and be just fine. Not true! My cholesterol kept being high. My waist line kept being fat. Calories in, calories out is a lie and a formula for bad health.
Exercise is great. Keep doing it. Work on realizing what each of those 10 check points mean. It took several weeks...3 months for me to find the fat that has been keeping me fat. It has taken longer for me to sift out the refined foods that were keeping me fat: flour based foods and ultra processed foods containing sugar, salt and oil.
I used another phone app other than Cronometer that let me think of my meals and calories like a bank account. I would exercise more to be able to enjoy a certain food. Then I would spend those calories I had earned by exercising or had saved by eating lower calorie foods.
I was always getting in situations where there was a pig roast, but I didn't want to eat the meat. Or I'm at the hospital in a distant city at night, the cafeteria is closed and my sister saved me half her hamburger. I no longer have to be in those situations. I can take my food with me. I thank God for that.
As I have gotten older I realize that my body has suffered injuries like a twisted knee (torn inside..arthroscopic surgery required, followed by therapy, bed rest with knee above heart to prevent swelling) that took away the exercise to burn calories. Now what? It's the food. Eat the whole food plant based diet.
Your comment about your plate being not 50/50 helped me realize that I was hungry because I was missing my beans on two nights and I was reaching for saltines to satisfy my hunger.
I am going to follow your example and list some of my meals, but as Dr. Doug Lisle and Jeff Novick have told us, develop a few good meals and eat them over and over. Your health in the next few years depend on the high quality nutrition you give your body. It's the food!
I recognize that seasonal changes make a difference in fresh produce that is available. Frozen foods have made life great for me. I am not the best cook in the world...not even among the average ones, but I can prepare and eat the basic plant foods and be satisfied. I hope you can make time to prepare simple healthy meals and leave old ways and old foods behind.
I hope you realize I am trying to return your kindness to me. I think you are going to have great success on this MAXIMUM WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM!
AlicefromBelgium wrote:Picking the Pringles and then putting them back on the shelf that is awsome.
Congrats !
Ejeff wrote:Mandybee, just wanted to say I’m enjoying your journal and I love how you are excited about this way of eating.
I began McDougall almost 6 years ago and I remember also feeling very excited. I felt I had finally discovered the “secret” to enjoying food while at the same time not gaining weight.
Wishing you every success and a long healthy, starchy journey.
Erin
Return to My Daily Menus & Journals
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 17 guests