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hope4me wrote:This is my first post to a blog, ever! I have found your diet guide helpful in trying to eat more. I weigh 99 lbs. I have never weighed more than 120 but on WFPB oil free diet I am quite thin. I have never been a big eater; it's a bit of a chore. Your measurements are helping to push me.I include nuts, seeds, avocado and occasionally coconut flakes.
Here are my questions:
1. Breakfast - intact whole grains 2 cups. I am assuming the grains are measured after cooking. Correct?
2, Fresh fruit 1 cup but later 1 fruit serving, 120 calories vs 60 calories. I looked up a fruit serving on the internet and .gov said 1 cup. Please comment.
3. Does rice count towards the starchy vegetable portion at lunch or dinner? What about quinoa and buckwheat? Does corn count as a starchy vegetable or veggies or whole grains?
Thank you for your time. I hope you had a lovely Father's Day.
hope4me wrote:Thank you for your reply and assistance. I got the recommendations from the Discussion Board on an entry "Simplicity by Jeff N. Sun July 27 2008 4:20 pm". It has helped me eat more calories which I need at 5'7" 100 lbs.
frozenveg wrote:Wiilijan, I found this and I bet it’s what the OP had read. viewtopic.php?f=22&t=7890&p=56620&hilit=Simplicity#p56620
I found it by going to Jeff’s forum, since the OP said it was his, rather than just typing terms in the general search bar. In the search bar at the top of Jeff’s thread, I typed Simplicity. Then since the OP mentioned it was from 2008, I went to the last page of the results. Then I scrolled down until I saw 2008, and the heading Simplicity’, and there it was.
I have varied success with the Search feature, but I had enough clues that it worked this time!
hope4me wrote:Thanks for the replies. I really appreciate the help. I'v been doing McDougall for about a year and I am doing as you say but I was short on volume. I've never had a good appetite. I never really got the pleasure from food that I see others experience. The only time I got it was when I was on a short course of moderate dose prednisone. Boy was the food good. Now I take generic for Plaquenil which blunts the appetite which I do not need, but it helps with the rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I eat by the clock so if I'm not hungry for lunch by 1:30, I just prepare the food and sit down and eat. I could easily go on 2 meals a day with a small bedtime snack, but I have to keep my weight up. I know if I ate animals I would gain but I can't go back. Dr McDougall says if you look in the mirror and your happy with what you see then your weight is ok. I am not happy with what I see but I know that other than mild RA symptoms I feel pretty good and I'm hoping I'm reversing disease. All of my blood tests come back normal (other than RA antibody).
I was counting peas as my 1/2 cup of legumes and not as my starch.
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