by Birdy » Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:24 pm
Hey Jim, Wee Speck, and Anna,
Thank you all for the "welcome back". Jim I'm also looking forward to seeing some progress this time. I appreciate your encouragement.
Wee Speck, I also really like the FitBit. I got the $50 version that doesn't track sleep or other things, just steps, distance and time. Yesterday was my first "over 10,000 steps" day. It's very motivating and I like the FitBit website that charts everything for you each day.
Now I need to start strength training twice a week.
Anna I've followed your journal even though I haven't posted. Congratulations on getting your license for social work. Your progress with diet and exercise is very inspiring to me! My daughter is moving to Austin which I hear is a great place to live. I look forward to visiting her there, but right now am just sad to see her go.
I definitely chose the wrong date to restart the McDougall Plan. With my daughter moving, things have been so busy and I'm also emotionally frazzled. I'm eating well as many meals as possible, but tonight, for example, I made a big family dinner of enchiladas and salad which was not vegan/vegetarian. However, the past couple of days, I made some great vegan dishes. Sunday night I made an old recipe from a Seventh Day Adventist cookbook for vegan "meatloaf" which was delicious. I served it with a homemade ff mushroom sauce and steamed asparagus. One question I have is that the "meatloaf" called for Yves Veggie Ground Round which has about 5% naturally occuring fat from the soy, but no added oils. So that seems like a good fit with McDougalling, especially if you don't eat it often. I'm looking forward to making the crockpot dish "Pizza Potatoes" from Mary McDougall. It's in The Starch Solution which I'm reading for inspiration.
Another recipe in that book is for simple oats soaked overnight in plant-based milk with rasins and cinnamon. I'm putting that in the fridge as soon as I log off here.
It'll probably be another few days before I get back to my journal.
"The program is essentially cost and risk free." ~ Dr. John McDougall