My trip to get back my body(I remember once I had)

[Evi]

Hello !
it is a been a while i visit this site and read all your stories - now I will start my journey to get back my body i remember i used to have 10 years ago !

Some info about me :
I am in my 40's in good health- newly married - happy with my life-no children yet !

I currently weight 145,2 pd (66 kilos) and height 5,18 feet (158 cm)
so i am overweight and that worries me - I can not remember ever in my life that i had to be on Diet- to watch out what i eat.... So this is going to be tough ,because i am not used to restrick myself .

I am an ethical vegan since 2004, and that was actually, the way i found this wonderfull site with all the critical info about the right way to eat .-I googled about "vegan weight loss diet" . What a SHOCK ! I realized that even though i am vegan i did not eat healthy (i consume a lot of hidden fats ). So here I am!
I have decided for the next 10 days i will eat potatoes (regular and sweet Potatoes) plus greens only. This is Mary's mini diet I plan to follow and i will report here what i eat and how i feel because i do not want to gat out of track this time as i usually do!
My goal is to stay on track and secontly deal with my weight issue.

So for now i have already boiled 7 sweet potatoes for tommorow- ready to go!

I wish everybody the best, from my heart!

[sksamboots]

Hey Evi,

Welcome and look forward to following your journey

[Evi]

Thanks sksamboots ! nice welcome!

here is what i had for today
breakfast : one sweetpotato + one small carot + hot cocoa drink
snack: one sweetpotato + one small carot
lunch : one big veggie salad with balsamico vinegar + 4 regular boiled potatoes
afternoon snack: 5 small spoons of strawberry marmalade + two regular boiled potatoes with ketcup
and still planning to eat another two of them!

NOW I see that i should not had the cocoa drinks ,but how harmfull can those be for my diet? and the marmalade is alloewed? (probably not!)
But on the other hand I am not on the right truck on MMD and this is my Goal!
Tommorow is an other day !
See you my friends!

[Evi]

Update time!
breakfast: one carrot because i was not hungry
snack : i forgott to eat because we were too busy at office ( ihad boiled potatoes with me)
lunch : one really big green salad with balsamico plus 3 medium size, boiled potatoes ( i think that I overate..)
supper : i had boiled vegetables (peas)

I have to say that never before in my life happened to forgot to eat! strange thing for me ..
but Good also because that minimized the my daily calories intake!

see you until next time!

[Evi]

Hello ...
i steped out of my eating plan today... sad thing to say but that is my truth
Breakfast: one carrot and one cacao drink
snac : something that was not DrMcDougall compiliant but all my colleges had and offered to me and i did not say NO and that is something emparassing to write down here..
lunch: big green leafs salad with balsamico plus boiled vegetables (peas) plus two boiled potatoes
snac: five spoons of strwaberry marmalade

Now i can observe my choices i understand that i could say NO to my colleges because i was hungry ( my breakfast was small). I eat small portions of starches .
Tomorrow i will take care of that . I will eat more starches for breakfast and see what happens with the temptations around me

As i said in the begining , my goal is just to stay loyal to the diet principals . That is my challence as far as i understand my self.
I am disappointed with my self but now i have began to realize my wrong pattern.

[Evi]

Today update
Hello to everybody who is trying to change his/her eating habits!
my menu for today was
breakfast: two potatoes
snack one cocoa drink + one slice of bread
lunch ne really big green salad with tomatos and red peppers with balsamico vinegar + 4 small boild potatoes
snack : nothing
supper: green salad with balsamico + 3 small boiled potatoes

During supper time my family started to comment on what i was eating . They all said that this do not work - I said hat i am not compiliant with the diet . Until now I am 1,5 kilos off.
I felt bad about that . i felt that i had to apologize on what i want to eat. I struggle hard to keep my self on these diet principals (eventhough I do not manage to do it always ) and it too much for me to try to convince them that my path is Ok for everybody , that is working etc
I felt emotionally stressed out.
I will keep on this diet . I want to get back my body i used to have. MY Love to everyone who is trying to change his/her life to better .

[flowerblue]

Evi, it is hard to eat right. I struggle with it every day.
Good luck to you!

[Evi]

Lets win this fight flowerblue!
weekend update .....
i have to report that this weekend i ate vegan but i added olive oil in my food- my mum was the shef in the house and i did not make any request in advance , and after that it was too late to do something about my meals. and after that i also allowed my self to eat vegan sweets . we also had visitors and we had to cook for another 5 persons - too croweded too mesy, i gave it up for a while .

i feel disappointed with my choices - my body still is thinner though- tomorrow i will begin again my diet .

[sksamboots]

Move on and move forward. All you can do

[Evi]

thanks for encouraging me sksamboots! i am embarassed of my eating behaviour and that is a reason i have decided to expose it here ....
so i move on
Today i did good i think,
Breakfast: one potato
snack: one potato
lunch :three potatoes plus one big green salad with balsamico vinegar plus 2 slices of white bread!
supper :boiled potatoes plus 3 boiled potatoes

i did ok i think - excluding the bread of course .
Today , someone commented at work about my silouet , that it looks like i am getting slimmer!!!
I felt goodddddddddddddd!!
I will keep on. My best wishes to all of you out there!

[Evi]

Hello
i am updating my todays menu.
Breakfast: one carrot + cocoa drink with sugar
snack: two boiled medium potatoes
lunch ne potato +boiled peas+ one big green salad with balsamico vinegar plus 2 slices of white bread!
supper :I am not hungry at all

i look my clothes in the closet ,i still can not wear them and i wish i was slimmer right now!
will i still remember this tomorrow ?
i hope!

[Evi]

My choices and the results

My weight is the same since i began this journal - that makes around 12 days.
that is because i did not follow the plan and I have made too many exceptions .
I had cocoa drinks with sugar - i had bread - i had some ice cream- i had some meals with olive oil (not much but there was some)- had some fruits too. So i had fat with my meals .
Although I had the feeling that I am on a "plan with no fat " , in fact i was not following it . and the result are so poor now for me .

For Today I Had:
Breakfast : one coffee with sugar
lunch: 3 boiled potatoes and big green salad + some boiled peas
Supper: I will follow the same pattern as lunch

[veggielou]

Don't forget you can have fruit on this plan.

[Evi]

Hi veggielou- thanks for mention that , i was just triyng to follow "Mary's Mini Diet" with no success and i think that diet allows only vegetables and one kind of starch (lets say only potatoes or only quinoa). I know that the regular DrMcdougall plan allows fruits but i was trying to fit in my old clothes sooner......

Today is my first day i did not make exceptions on my diet plan!!
i celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breakfast : one potato
snack : nothing
lunch : one big green salad with balsamico vinegar + 2 potatoes
supper : two tomatoes + one potato

that's it for today and i feel no hunger at all

i feel stronger and happy with my todays efforts - i enjoy that feeling a lot - (we can not buy that , we have to fight for that!)

[Evi]

I have to say that today was the second day "with no exceptions"
eventhough i was tempeted to eat some delicious but oily, staffed with rice bell peppers!!!!!!

here I am again to update my today's menu

Breakfast: one potato
snack at 10: one potato
snack at 12: one potato
lunch : big green salad with tomatoes and red peppers + 2 boiled potatoes
supper : one big tomato + slice of bread

TWO points:
I think that i have to drink more water!
my weight is still 64 kilos but i will keep on with the diet

my kindest thoughts to all the world out there