Welcome to the February Weigh-In Thread for Dr. McDougall's Maximum Weight Loss Program.
For the program details visit the
MWL Guidelines thread in this forum. Please check out as many of the links as you have time for, there is so much here to discover!
A couple of other great resources, for those just starting out, are from Jeff Novick the staff dietician for the program:
The Ultimate Guide to Free Calorie Density (MWL) Resources and his 1 hour video explanation on
Calorie Density: How to Eat More, Weigh Less and Live Longer.
Hi All!Welcome, welcome... to the shortest thread of the year! We’ve got 28 days together to get some good momentum going.
In my last post I promised some inspiration in the form of before and after photos for this thread. As luck would have it the McDougall's released a new
Star McDougaller success story this week. I received it in my email, and some of you may have as well.
While looking up the details on the website, I discovered
2 more.
Shelly got started in the winter of 2016 and has lost over 100 pounds!
Kiki got started in May of 2018, and looks 10 years younger already....
If you take the time to understand and follow the guidelines well...
these results are typical!! (LOL, I’m just riffing on diet ads here... everyone’s pace of weight loss will vary, but there are no gimmicks)
I hope everyone who reads this decides to join in for the month. It’s just 28 days.... we can do 28 days, right?
So please weigh-in right now! It’s the 1st and a Friday, so it’s Welcome Weigh-In day! Best wishes everyone.
Amy
PS. I said I would link this so that you have a face to put with my posts: Here is
my inspirational before/after post from last year. I know people like the happily ever after of a finished goal (I’m one of those people), but with my story, I offer an alternative, that of a perpetually unfinished project.... but in a good way....think Cezanne, not Sisyphus. Sometimes great work takes time to perfect!
Here are the standard monthly instructions for participating in this thread:Our weigh in's are on Fridays and you have until 12 PM PST on Saturday to report.
This weekly weigh in group is for those wanting to follow the Maximum Weight Loss (MWL) program or Mary's Mini's. There is a sticky at the top of this forum on the guidelines for the MWL program..
In order to tally the results please submit your results by posting the total pounds you have lost or gained that week. You don't have to share your total weight if you'd rather keep that to yourself. This is an honor system so we take the gain, loss or maintain you give us in order to tally. (Please make a new post each week)
If you are a new member and would like to join but don't have a weight to be counted for the week then you will be counted either as a body with a zero starting weight, or when you check in for the weekly weigh in the following week. Large amounts of weight lost over a period of months or weeks, prior to joining the weekly weigh in group, will not be counted towards the weekly total.
If you measure your weight in something other than pounds please convert the measurement to pounds.
All gains will be counted towards the total to encourage weekly participation. Posting is encouraged whether it's a gain, a loss, or a maintain.
You are welcome to share as little or as much as you want on your weight loss journey here in this thread. We encourage members of the group to talk to each other, cheer each other on and set goals together.
This thread is for the mutual support of all who wish to participate.