Pippi Lemon - Great loss this week (or really for the past couple of days). I'm glad to hear you are positively surprised. Some weeks are like that and we should celebrate them. I'm also glad you are taking the advise of Doug Lisle and Jeff Novick to treat this like an experiment. I find it helpful because it removes the emotion that can be tied to that number on the scale, and creates an attitude of reflection when things don't go the way we expect.
Sue - You bet it is! It appears only about
1 in 5 dieters has any sort of long term success. It does seem to get easier the longer you maintain that loss though. As we know here, its all about maintaining the patterns that gave us the loss in the first place. Your Redskins motto is so perfect! (I'd never heard that song before... young you and I sound like musically kindred spirits.) I hope your knee heals up enough for tap...how fun would that be!!
Sirdle - You may feel that the scale gave you a pass this week, but its showing that there had to be good choices in there to. I hope next week is better.
katie3 - Please do stay the course.
Give this a little bit more of a chance. I don't know what kind of eating pattern you were coming from, but sometimes this kind of thing happens. I'm navigating a wedding tonight too (but not in such on honoured position). We can totally do this! You have a great plan.
Susan - Thanks Susan, have a wonderful week too! Do you mind sharing your falafel recipe? They sound delicious.
Peach1 - Woo hoo! Great work this week.
Christina - I agree, take every loss that you can get, even small ones. They're all getting us to where we want to go. Some weeks will have better results than others, even with the exact same effort. We may not be able to control how fast our bodies give us the loss, but we can certainly encourage it by staying the course. I hope you have a wonderful weekend as well!
Chris - Restaurants can be difficult to navigate, much of that gain may be from eating higher sodium than usual. Thank you for reading my journal, and I'm glad you found some inspiration from it...hee hee.
Roxy59 - Welcome, so happy to have you join us! You have a lot on your plate right now (and I don't mean just potatoes). Your goals are solid and there is so much information on this website, so please take a look around. You can totally right the ship!
Purposive - You've had a wonderful week. Congratulations! I tend to eat the same meals for days on end too, its so much easier. Have you taken a look at the
McDougall Recipes section of the website? There are many delicious choices that would be considered MWL (maximum weight loss). I agree with you about actions speaking louder than words. People tend to need to see the positive weight loss changes and that healthy aura we all attain before really becoming interested in what we are doing. Even then, because of the many ways to lose weight, it will take continued perseverance to show that this particular way of eating is one of the healthier patterns for things other than just weight loss.
BeHealthy - Yay! Slow and steady is the way to go. Good luck with your coming busy week. Maybe you can sneak in activity changes while marking by just standing instead of sitting or if you are not prone to motion sickness, pacing a bit while reading the papers...(I get motion sick...I'm getting queasy now...lol...).
Jellogirl - We are happy to provide a place for support.
You can do this, just take it one day and one week at a time. No need to think any further ahead than that. If you can, I highly recommend watching the
webinars, reading the material under the
education tab and watching Jeff's lecture on
Calorie Density. Best wishes on this first week and keep us all posted with how you are doing.
Georgie77 - Absolutely, yes! Join us.
This is a huge website and can be totally overwhelming at first. Check out the links that I just mentioned to Jellogirl, above. They are a great start. As is the information in the [url=https://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=56570#p570250]first post [/url of this thread. Let us know if you have any questions.
Moomoo - You are in the right spot! I'm glad you are ready for a change, you can totally do this. Thankfully this plan is very easily adapted for people with celiac. Just avoid the grains that you've always had to and you will continue to keep your symptoms at bay. You may want to talk to your doctor about your other symptoms and let her or him know that you are making some dietary changes.
Most importantly...great job resisting the chocolate...lol! That will get easier the longer you stay away from it. Are you familiar with Dr Lise's work? He's got some interesting webinars on this website and a book called The Pleasure Trap, that explain why his is.
Svenja - I am sending prayers and positive thoughts your way! You are well prepared and will do just fine, I have no doubt.
As for the nutritional yeast, if it isn't working for you then maybe leave it out for awhile. If you miss it then give it another try in a couple of weeks and see if the same thing happens.
Qwerty988 - Yay Qwerty! I'm so glad you are losing too, it will keep you motivated. You are doing a great job of this.
Bougainvillea - Welcome, you are not late! Even though the
rules say noon or so on Saturday, I don't tend to tally everything up until after my kids are in bed, so there is much wiggle room there. I got a little laugh about your comment
voila, lost the weight magically. That happens to me all the time. I don't even really realize I'm loosening the reigns, but once I get focused again, yep, this plan does work! We all have our dietary vices, but each week we can get better at managing them as we learn to recognize the situations that lead to them. Tonight I'm going to a wedding and I will normally allow myself 2 drinks, but I am determined to go to this wedding AND enjoy it without the alcohol. We'll see how that goes...lol.
chefdog19 - Welcome and congratulations for keeping off the weight. I hope you know that is quite an accomplishment. It sounds like you know exactly what needs to be done for success. We will be here to help cheer you on and talk you through the bumpier weeks.
I've been stuck with extra weight after a big loss too, so I know how you are feeling. I think you can do this!
My weight loos for the week will be listed as 0 because I don't currently have a scale, but how my clothes are fitting tells me things are going well.
There's still more time to weigh in today, I won't be doing the tally until after my evening excursion.