Weight change +/- in lbs: 2.2
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.N
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.N
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.Y
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).N
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).Y
6. Eliminate any added oil.
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.Y
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).Y
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.YI
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).Y
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
I started MWL this last Monday.
I can understand "the why" for this posting protocol, but since I've got my own MWL thing down, posting my weekly weight, discussing weight loss issues and being part of a group effort is what seems to work for me.
Losing weight is hard and fraught with proverbial land-mines. I benefit more from the group support and not feeling alone, while struggling through this.
To coin a phrase: "Misery loves company."
I'm more in-line with Doug Lisle and Jen Howk's dieting/maintenance philosophies; pleasure/ego-trap (a life-long struggle).
Once I get my weight off again, I think Lisle & Howk's life/eating wisdom might help me not veer sooo off course.