by SunnyMcDGal » Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:03 pm
I have problems with food cravings when I eat sugar and white flour. If I get derailed from my eating plan, the first step I always take is to quit eating sugar and white flour. After about 5 days, the cravings recede, but it helps to avoid being around these foods, so ridding the home of sugar/flour foods helps.
It is important to fill the void with healthful foods, and not be hungry. That is where a plan like McD comes in. When it comes to HEALTH, McDougall's plan consists of the foods that do not clog our arteries and veins, do not cause kidney disease, and do not cause a wide variety of the other health problems caused by a rich diet that plague Americans.
While sugar and white flour cause cravings which can lead to overweight and obesity (and diabetes), it is the meat, fat-oil, dairy, that cause many other major health problems. The meat-oil-fat-dairy are the really "bad" foods for health.
Take a look at Dr. McD's Picture Book elsewhere on this website to see what the diet consists of, then Google Mary McDougall's Mini Diet, in a 2006 Newsletter for an easy way to start McDougalling. The DVD's by the McDougalls and Jeff Novick are helpful in startijg, too (see the SHOP section on this website). I think you will find McD to be a more painless way to stay satieated and lose weight than traditional calorie restricted diets. For me, a calorie restricted diet leads to falling off the plan and bingeing on the very foods I vowed to give up. The McDougall Plan becomes a lifestyle and is sustainable.
