Hi everyone! I've been lurking on these boards for quite some time and I finally decided to join. A bit of background on me, I'm 31 years old. I feel like I've always had weight problem, but it really started to get out of hand around high school and then worse as I was in college in my 20s. When I was in college I reached a high of 245lbs. I'm 5'9"...I was pretty shocked when I saw that on the scale. I managed to lose about 25lbs doing the low carb thing.
After college I gained the weight back, plus some for a new high of 255 around my mid 20s. Around this time though was when I first started looking into vegan diets and came across Dr. McDougall. I wanted to follow a vegan diet but I really did not know what to eat, and normally I would revert to being vegetarian and eating things like cheese sandwiches and cheese pizza.
Finally in 2016, I started to make some progress. I decided to try out a vegan meal plan for a while, and it did work. I'm down about 35-40 lbs. In 2017 though, I hit the plateau of plateaus. And, I'm still stuck lol. I'm not on a meal plan right now, I do remake a lot of things from the time I was on that plan, but I think I've got some other issues tripping me up. So I want to try writing a journal on this forum to be honest with myself about what I'm eating and how much.
I'm definitely not 100% compliant, sometimes dairy still sneaks in my diet. I also eat overt fats, I'm trying to figure out what good balance is for me withe overt fats.
Over the next few days, I'm just going to be logging what I eat. Hopefully I'll notice a trend and maybe posting on here will be motivation enough for me to clean things up lol. Feed back is appreciated
Yesterdays food:
Breakfast:
Sesame bagel with peanut butter and jam
Banana
Coffee with almond creamer
Lunch:
Whole wheat penne pasta
Mixed veggies
Home made "cheese" sauce
banana
Dinner:
Brown rice
steamed cruciferous crunch mix
peas
dressing made with tahini, soy sauce, red wine vinegar, and agave
left over nice cream
Kind of a high fat day for me yesterday, and I probably ate too many bananas. I'll post what I eat today later