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earthwalker7 wrote:I've been gaining weight on McDougall's Starch Solution.
I was eating essentially just potatoes, beans (homemade no-oil hummus) and brown rice, and put on 20lbs in 3 months.
Mostly I was eating lots of purple sweet potatoes and small yellow potatoes - about 15-20 / day.
The weight gain is simply not acceptable.
When I emailed the McD office, they suggested cutting down on the starches and upping the green veggies.
It's harder for me to do so, because of the cooking time challenge - whereas potatoes I just throw into a steamer and I'm set.
Eating high proteins (mostly lean meats, previously), sadly, actually did work to lose weight and maintain a low weight - must be ketogenic effect.
But that's totally not acceptable ethically to me, and I do believe that eating animal products is unhealthy in other ways (cancer, vascular disease, etc.)
So now the question is, how to actually lose weight and keep the weight off once it drops.
Stick to green smoothies, steamed veggies only maybe?
Keep in caloric deficit?
I'd still get hungry maybe. I'll have to steam a LOT of veggies.
I am quite desperate for advice and help, and I was so sad that the starch solution failed so badly.
I am a huge admirer of Dr McD and I don't get why this didn't work.
I find potatoes so comforting and easy to make.
I wanted this to be the solution so badly.
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