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Hi everybody:

After losing an initial 19 pounds on the McDougall program, I stalled for many weeks. I think I was eating too much bread and sugar. To get myself going again, I would like to do this maximum weight loss program (I think it's called?). I am focusing on potatoes as being my primary starch. I started yesterday and so please let me know if this is acceptable eating plan:

Breakfast: Boiled potatoes with some seasoning
Lunch: Boiled Potatoes w/ seasoning and Kim Chi (pickled Korean cabbage...zero fat)
Dinner: Mashed potatoes with a couple tbsps light soy milk and salt and 1 cob of corn.

Today I plan to eat pretty much the same. Keeping simple helps keep the food monster within me under control.

Also, I see you guys have a weekly weigh in. Can I join this group or is there something in particular I have to do?

I began McDougall Program at 269 pounds. I currently weigh 249 as of this morning. I began the program in mid May of current year.

Thank you for your help. I meet so many nice people here and I hope I can help somehow also.

--Attom

Welcome!! Congrats on your weight loss so far. Sounds like you are eating fine. I know many people on the Maximum Weight Loss (MWL) avoid soy milk but it doesn't sound like you're using enough to make a significant difference.

You can absolutely join this group and today is the day to do it. We weigh on Friday, or early Saturday morning. Check out the thread and see how it works. You could start posting yours today. It's a fun group. Look forward to hearing about your continued success.

Thanks, Vikki!

In the MWL book, McDougall talks about filling at least 1/3 of your plate with green and yellow veggies (corn would not count, that's more of a starch) at each meal. You can up that to 1/2 of your plate if your rate of loss is still too slow. I think you will see quicker success if you majorly up your intake of raw and steamed green and yellow veggies (think romaine lettuce, cucumber, celery, carrot sticks, peppers, onions, mushrooms, cabbage, etc.).

I'd definitely recommend reading his articles on the Maximum weight loss plan, as well as the one on lowering your set-point as that will give you a lot of pointers about how you can tweak things to maximize weight loss.

You might do just fine losing weight on the above menu plan though. You just asked for suggestions, so i'm offering. Also, I'm assuming the "seasonings" contain no oil? And yes, the soymilk is not MWL, so if you find you are not losing, it might help to eliminate even that little bit.

good luck!

If you don't have the MWLP book yet, you can read what the plan entails in this forum post by Debbie:

http://drmcdougall.com//forums/viewtopi ... 11&t=26620

Correct. Seasonings contain no oil. Thank you for the suggestions.

I agree with adding raw veggies or a salad and a hot veggie with those potatoes. I love arugula with tomato, onion and cucumber with balsamic vinegar and I can eat as much of it as I want which makes me feel like I'm eating a nice big meal. I make stovies a lot too and love those. Just thick slice potatoes and layer them in a pot with onions and boil until done. I eat them with ketchup or bbq sauce but hot sauce works too. Russet potatoes cut into wedges and baked are amazing too and don't take very long either.

What is a stovies?

From Wiki:
Stovies are a Scottish dish. Recipes and ingredients vary widely, but the dish always contains potatoes and, variously, onion, leftover roast beef, corned beef, mince or other meat - but not bacon.[why?] [1]
The potatoes are cooked by stewing with fat and stock. To stove meaning to stew in Scottish. Lard, beef dripping or butter may be used.
It is also common to stew the potatoes in water alone with onion before adding the other ingredients.
Stovies may be accompanied by oatcakes.
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I want to add my voice to the chorus of "add in more vegetables!!" I find that I lost faster and much more efficiently when I added in both cooked and fresh vegetables, to lunch and dinner, and in between meals, too.

As another poster said, corn is great, but it's a "starchy" vegetable, so get those lighter veggies--cabbage, celery, cucumber, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, carrots, green beans, zucchini, summer squash, tomatoes, sweet peppers, spinach, mushrooms, onions, kale, and chard, to name a few--get them and eat them along with your potatoes!! It will keep your stomach and your regularity, as well as your immune system and your heart, happy and healthy. And enjoy a couple fruits every day, too.