Re: Starflower’s Journey to Health
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2023 9:01 pm
MWL thread post for 12/30
Hope you had a lovely trip, Mark!
Hi team!
1) Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit. NO
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 desert. YES?
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 (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood). YES
5) Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy). NO
6) Eliminate any added oil. NO
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. YES
8 ) Don’t drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages). YES
9) Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself. YES
10) Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking). YES
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
It was a good week, considering. Some of the busyness got to me and I made some poor choices with high fat foods and bread, and one food that had some oil. I’m going into the new year hopeful that the lessons learned will lead to better adherence in the new year. The posts in the thread below from some long-term successful McDougallers are inspiring! Wishing us all success in joining them. Onward!
https://www.drmcdougallforums.com/viewt ... =1&t=62592
Happy 2024! Wishing everyone a wonderful and successful week and year!
Hope you had a lovely trip, Mark!
Hi team!
1) Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit. NO
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 desert. YES?
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 (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood). YES
5) Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy). NO
6) Eliminate any added oil. NO
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. YES
8 ) Don’t drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages). YES
9) Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself. YES
10) Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking). YES
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
It was a good week, considering. Some of the busyness got to me and I made some poor choices with high fat foods and bread, and one food that had some oil. I’m going into the new year hopeful that the lessons learned will lead to better adherence in the new year. The posts in the thread below from some long-term successful McDougallers are inspiring! Wishing us all success in joining them. Onward!
https://www.drmcdougallforums.com/viewt ... =1&t=62592
Happy 2024! Wishing everyone a wonderful and successful week and year!