by Trinity » Tue Feb 01, 2022 5:51 pm
I love hearing how Dr. McD says white rice is okay per the email today. I wish I could eat more white rice, which I LOVE, but I need the fiber if you know what I mean. When I first found McDougall, I was half-heartedly macrobiotic, but those people don’t let you eat potatoes, tomatoes, or very much fruit so I had a hard time getting on board. I’d already been eating differently for about 7 years. I became a “vegetarian” which was really pescatarian after I’d witnessed a bullfight in Spain. Before even the matador came out, some guy on a horse kept spearing the poor bull and my 21-year-old self was completely traumatized. Even though they supposedly “use all the parts of the bull,” the ends don’t justify the means. The one thing I liked about macrobiotics is that they’re specific. Even the China Study is just like, “Eat plants.” I think macrobiotics is something like 50-60% brown rice, 20% vegetables, 10% beans, 10% soup (like miso soup with tofu), and I’m not getting this right because you could eat 3% off-plan. So, about every 1-2 weeks you could eat one meal of whatever.
However, when I first started I was a full-time graduate student with a toddler (who was a boy, and therefore crazy) and a newborn and my husband was a new attorney who worked all the time. I would make a full rice cooker’s worth of organic short-grain brown rice (1 1/2 cups dry, which is 2 Japanese cups) (I love anything with a timer) and throw a banana on top and eat that on my commute, and then the rest of the day eat the rest of the now-lukewarm, plain, brown rice. Actually sometimes I’d bring some soy sauce. At the end of the day I would be about to eat my arm off and would go home and eat an insane amount of oatmeal waffles (equal parts oatmeal, water, and bananas, like 2 cups of each oatmeal and water and 2 bananas) with maple syrup. Good thing I actually eat vegetables now!