Chris - Woo hoo potatoes, fruit and veggies for the win, indeed! Excellent effort this past week; keep up the effort and the hope grows and feeling hopeful can keep you making those efforts.
Hi Dpascar and welcome! You’ve been doing really well so far and I’m thrilled to have you join us for a portion of your journey.
AnneG - I’m sending you a hug because I understand and have lived with this pattern too. You have obviously been quite strong this week and made some good choices. Keep it up if you can, it is working. We can’t always remove the stress in our lives - minimize it where you can - but know that each good choice you make is reducing additional mental and physiological stress.... and not all of them have to be perfect choices. Keep doing a good job, and please know that you can let off some dietary related steam here if you need too.
Newbie2019 - Excellent job getting into a good groove! I’m glad you’re back and hope you enjoyed your travels.
Belana - Hi, and yes you are in the correct place. I’ve noticed how busy you have been with the learning process. That’s excellent and it will serve you well, especially in the next couple of weeks as you get used to the plan. Take each day as it comes and don’t overthink the little details, especially now that you feel competent that you know them. How fast the weight comes off will depend on the amount of weight that you have to lose, your level of appetite and adherence. With regards to potatoes... I personally find them a wonderful snack, and if you live near a Wendy’s drive-thru you don’t even have to bake them yourself. Best wishes this week easing into the MWL plan.
Humberto - I hope that
stuff is becoming more manageable.
I was a bit concerned I had come across harshly or very strictly (I am not, just reinforcing the framework). Words are funny fluid little things, aren’t they, even when actual translation issues aren’t in play? I enjoy the connotation that the word sorcerer evokes, but understand it isn’t a match with the detonation that you are indicating. There’s a bit of that in what I was trying to get across with the concept of belief in my post this week. It is much harder to connect through words alone, we didn’t evolve doing that, which makes staying connected and motivated over long distances that much more challenging. I will post my pictures so I may be more than just words to the group. I really am liking DMR, and thank you for the delicious sounding soup.
timotheus Hi and Welcome! Are you a musician/poet, like Timotheus of Miletus...LOL? Congratulations on your success so far. By working on those little slips you can definitely get back on track for continued losses. Are you familiar with Dr. Lisle’s work (the staff psychologist for the program)? It sounds like you are stuck, just a little bit, in
the Pleasure trap. If you have the time and inclination, take a look of some of
the webinars available on the website, they can be very helpful for devising strategies to breaking and staying free of junk food. Here is one called:
Doug Lisle: Food Addiction, Emotional Eating and Weight Loss, Part 1, and
Part 2.
Moonlight -
You always have a kind thing to say, thank you. I am liking the book.... looking at this motivation problem from multiple viewpoints, and perspectives. If internalized belief in the form of self-efficacy and self confidence are low, then maybe externalized belief is necessary to tide us over until we
get there, so to speak. But that externalized belief is fleeting unless we work through the problem well (and have an actual viable strategy to do so) and begin to gain that internalized belief in ourself. Hence the fading of the placebo effect, or chasing the next diet plan... or whatever
vicious cycle, to use a Dr. Lisle phrase, we get stuck in. We are not meant to go through these challenges alone, the motivation provided from a good guide can morph into internal motivation via adequate effort, but to maintain momentum additional external validation is necessary in the form of peer esteem. The McDougall crew really do have this all figured out. Now to keep telling the story in many ways, until everyone finds the narrative that resonates with them. XO. My brain hurts....LOL...
Michele - Thank you! I am feeling well-esteemed and appreciate it. LOL. I will do my best and hope you have a good week too.
Alishana - I’m so glad you check-in! I’ll add you to the tally tonight or tomorrow when I get home. Great job getting back on plan and in turning down those temptations! That is most difficult in those first few days, and you did it!
Best wishes to everyone this week!! I hope you all will join me in the February thread and continue the momentum.