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Lyndzie wrote:I will chime in because I do things a little differently. It’s a matter of finding what works for you.
My meals are mostly starch. Oatmeal with some fruit. Beans and rice with salsa. Pasta with beans and sauce. If I eat less starch, such as the 50/50 plate, I am hungry in just a couple hours, too.
Another thought: because this diet consists of whole plant foods, and not meat or fried foods, it just feels “lighter” in the stomach. Eating your fill while you adjust to the difference is totally reasonable and normal. You can always tweak calorie density as you go to get the weight loss results you want.
niejemmiesa wrote:I also crave for meat and dream about nice juicy rotisserie chicken or some turkey ham.
niejemmiesa wrote:6. I had heartburn almost every day. I had to stack up Tums just to survive.
1) Poor Adherence/compliance. Sometimes from lack of application and sometimes from lack of understanding of the principles.
2) Misdirection of focus/priorities. Focusing on matters that don't really effect your health while not focusing on the ones that do.
3) Minimizing/Rationalizing the effect of certain behaviors and/or personal preferences, **especially in regard to certain foods**.
4) Too many processed/refined and/or calorie dense foods, especially those that are marketing as being "healthy."
5) Not understanding the difference between something that is "allowed" on occasion in small quantities, and something that is "recommended."
6) Inadequate exercise/activity
7) Not planning ahead. If you do not plan ahead for success, you will most likely not find it.
8 ) Time. Healing and results take time and for some of us, it may take a little longer than we hope.
9) Mcdougall "Plus" - This is where you mix the principles taught here with other principles you have read or learned somewhere else that are in conflict with the principles recommended here. While there are some program that are very much inline with these principles (ie, Esselstyn, etc) most are not.
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