Re: November 2021 McDougall MWL Weigh-In Group
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 2:03 pm
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Weight change +/- in lbs: -1 (287.2 - 286.2, but went up to 292.2 during the week )
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.----No, but better than last week.
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.----Better than last week.
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.----Yes.
4. Eliminate all animal foods, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).----No, had some cheese.
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).----Had avocado 1 time.
6. Eliminate any added oil.----I didn't add oil, but had processed food that contained oil.
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.----No, but did better than last week.
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).----Yes, did not have.
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.---No, worse than last week. Several days got way too hungry + then ate convenient, non MWL items. Have to have potatoes + other things at the ready!
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).---Yes, 6/7 days. Missed 1 day because of lots of rain, wind, + it gets so dark so early.
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
----Sleep was a bit better this week, but still some bad days like this past night with only 4 total hours.
----Am behind so will be short. Still struggling with being okay with not being 100% perfect in eating 24/7/365. No time to pan out. Mark, wildgoose, others, how do you mentally deal with possibly having non-MWL things + yet getting right back on track + not letting the accidental or purposely done slip bother you that you put something so unhealthy in your body--and I'm not even talking about an occasional nut or tiny slice of avocado, though for you, those could be deal breakers? Any strategies or thoughts would be so helpful.
Thank you!!!
----My bump in weight earlier in the week was from planning on really doing well, so I finished up some non-MWL stuff. I think I've been having trouble with being 100% solidly on-plan because my schedule has still been really crazy with not enough sleep, + 2nd, I think I'm afraid I'll slip off-plan even after months of being on-plan. And I don't think it's even an ego thing like Dr. Lisle talks about. ...I just have to be okay with being 100% compliant 99% of the time, because that is more realistic than expecting myself to be 100% 100% of the time. I find that hard after knowing how bad off-plan food is for our bodies...yet doing what I have been is even worse. At least this week I had quite a few 50/50 plates, actually more like 60-70veg/40-30 starch. But I know 50/50 is ideal for satiety.
----Wishing everyone a blessed week, + for my fellow Americans, a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Edited to fix errors and to provide more information because I didn't have time to do so when I originally posted. Caution to others: there still, at times, are glitches in the system. Try to post sooner than the last 5 minutes before the deadline.
Weight change +/- in lbs: -1 (287.2 - 286.2, but went up to 292.2 during the week )
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.----No, but better than last week.
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.----Better than last week.
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.----Yes.
4. Eliminate all animal foods, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).----No, had some cheese.
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).----Had avocado 1 time.
6. Eliminate any added oil.----I didn't add oil, but had processed food that contained oil.
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.----No, but did better than last week.
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).----Yes, did not have.
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.---No, worse than last week. Several days got way too hungry + then ate convenient, non MWL items. Have to have potatoes + other things at the ready!
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).---Yes, 6/7 days. Missed 1 day because of lots of rain, wind, + it gets so dark so early.
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
----Sleep was a bit better this week, but still some bad days like this past night with only 4 total hours.
----Am behind so will be short. Still struggling with being okay with not being 100% perfect in eating 24/7/365. No time to pan out. Mark, wildgoose, others, how do you mentally deal with possibly having non-MWL things + yet getting right back on track + not letting the accidental or purposely done slip bother you that you put something so unhealthy in your body--and I'm not even talking about an occasional nut or tiny slice of avocado, though for you, those could be deal breakers? Any strategies or thoughts would be so helpful.
Thank you!!!
----My bump in weight earlier in the week was from planning on really doing well, so I finished up some non-MWL stuff. I think I've been having trouble with being 100% solidly on-plan because my schedule has still been really crazy with not enough sleep, + 2nd, I think I'm afraid I'll slip off-plan even after months of being on-plan. And I don't think it's even an ego thing like Dr. Lisle talks about. ...I just have to be okay with being 100% compliant 99% of the time, because that is more realistic than expecting myself to be 100% 100% of the time. I find that hard after knowing how bad off-plan food is for our bodies...yet doing what I have been is even worse. At least this week I had quite a few 50/50 plates, actually more like 60-70veg/40-30 starch. But I know 50/50 is ideal for satiety.
----Wishing everyone a blessed week, + for my fellow Americans, a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Edited to fix errors and to provide more information because I didn't have time to do so when I originally posted. Caution to others: there still, at times, are glitches in the system. Try to post sooner than the last 5 minutes before the deadline.