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amandamechele wrote:Qwerty988 - When did you start your potato-hack? (Sorry if you've already mentioned it and I'm forgetting). How is it going? Are you eating condiments? Greens? I'd love to hear more. My family has been eating a lot of potatoes this week too. Below my little one is enjoying a potato leek soup. Ingredients: potatoes, leeks, red lentils, thyme and salt. Potatoes are so yummy!
JeffN wrote:Lyndzie wrote:I have a co-worker with Lyme disease who also suffers from migraines. She regularly misses work due to her health issues. Years ago she did an employer-sponsored Engine 2 immersion program, but she does not follow this way of eating. She has food restrictions, but I'm not sure if they are medically warranted or self-imposed. Just yesterday she told me how she is going to try a ketogenic diet because she needs to lose 40 lbs.
Why is it that someone with health issues who has been presented the information and is in a supportive work environment still end up overweight and eating chicken?
Is not fully incorporating the program, and then not seeing results, part of the issue? What other factors are at play?
The program we teach is very simple but doing it in this toxic environments is very (very) hard. Therefore, the compliance rates for this are very low. We have people come to us with a foot in the grave, spent a fortune, take a huge amount of time out of their life and travel around the world. Yet, they are unable to comply.
We are greatly influenced by our environments and the social, cultural, emotional and psychological pressures we feel. In many ways, this is a solitary journey. Until we change the environment, compliance will be extremely difficult.
I have a nephew (in law) who just married my niece. They are in their early 30's and just had a baby 4 months ago. Yesterday he was in ICU with a heart attack and they put a stent in him. I can't think of anyone else in any better situation to be motivated to change. New wife, new baby, new life, new career, new house, etc. Unfortunately, and sadly, the odds are less than 1% that he will make the necessary changes.
At the current 10-Day program we had a return guest who is in his early 50's and over the last 4 years has done remarkable and we have become good friends. . His best friend who is about 49, was hospitalized in January with diabetes and open sores on his toe. They ended up amputating his toe. My friend tried to help him. He wouldn't listen. Two months later, he was in the ICU with infections on his leg. They amputated the leg above his knee. Again, my friend tried to help, even set up a visit to a program and was willing to pay for it for him. Spent lots of time with him encouraging him to do this and that he would help. His friend didn't go. A few weeks ago he was back in ICU with the other leg infected. They were about to amputate it over the knee. They never got to as he died about 2 weeks ago in the ICU. Young, married, kids, future yet couldn't do it.
On Compliance
https://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=44133
When we discover this, we all want to change the world but eventually through hard knocks learn, the world doesn't want to be changed.
In Health
Jeff
"We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. […] We need not wait to see what others do." - Gandhi
amandamechele wrote:Qwerty988 - Your plan sounds great. I hope its continuing to go well. I've never had Hannah sweet potatoes, but saw some talk about them on the forums or Facebook. Are they sweeter than yams (by that I mean those orange sweet potatoes common at the grocer)? I've been wanting to incorporate more sweet potatoes too, but find them too sweet sometimes.
Qwerty988 wrote:Thanks, I'm really enjoying it! I think you have to be in the right mind-set for these types of regimens, and for whatever reason, I'm just 100% on board with potatoes right now.
I'm also not a huge fan of regular yams, but I'll eat them sometimes. Hannahs are a whole different animal though (so to speak). Rich and creamy and pale yellow to white inside. The flavor is sort of like pancakes. Or custard. Pancakey custard? You get the drift.
I love the Japanese sweets too, when I can find them -- which I'm hoping to this week, since I'm running out of Hannahs!
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