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Is anyone doing Dr. McDougall's MWL?

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http://smilies.sofrayt.com/fdm/thumbelina.gif Theresa

I was thinking of it and have looked into it have you done this program?

G

I did it years ago. I felt really good but it was hard because my kids were younger and they were use to having meat and dairy. Now they are older and through the years we have taken out red meat, eggs and milk. Also, now their taste buds have naturally leaned in this direction so it is easier when the whole family eats the same thing. Although ,the kids will probably still have their sandwiches. With the Maximum Weight Loss plan you can have whole grains like whole-grain cereals, ( I use rice milk with cereal) brown rice, corn, oatmeal, barley, millet and wheat berries. You can not have flour products like bread, bagels, or pretzels.

http://smilies.sofrayt.com/fdm/swing2.gif[Automated by GetSmile] Theresa

that is a bit confuseing because in the 12 day free plan on his web site there are some of the recipes call for ww bread or ff tortila chips or the like. If you can't eat bread how do you make the breakfast on the go it's a potato sandwich. thanks for the information I'm just a little confused.

thanks G

Yes, the MWL plan is a little step up from the 12 day because of the bread factor. For breakfast you can something like Oatmeal with a little maple syrup on it, Kashi cereal with rice milk, home-fried potatoes (with out oil) with ketchup. I will make a baked potato in the microwave the night before and cook it up real quick in the AM- it really is a matter of minutes. I don't think it is really that hard it may take it little forethought in the beginning, as any new way of eating does. Grab his MWL book from the library if you don't have it and look through it. He talks about specifically coming up with this plan for people, like women, who have a hard time loosing because their bodies metabolism are shot.

that sounds like me. I've been doing dr. Furhmans eat to live programe and right now I'm a little frustrated and not sure I want to continue. I really like being a vegitarian and I would never eat meat again I'm just not sure I can make a vegan diet a life style with out some more carbs and such. Do you recomend the 12 day program till I can get the book?

Read this article at the mcdougal site - drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/050100.htm.

click on first article on Pushing Set Point.

Hi. I'd be very interested in doing McDougall. I went to a five-day class on MWL, and just haven't gotten my butt in gear on it, yet. Every other plan always seems to leave me feeling hungry. Is anyone interested?
Amie

That is what I am doing. I feel great. I am not hungry at all. In the morning I have either oatmeal w/t brown sugar or Kashi cereal with rice milk (not soy on MWL you avoid soy because it is higher in fat), or country fried potatoes (no oil) with bell peppers, onions and ketchup. For lunch I have soup or salad or both. For dinners usually a stew, or a rice dish, or baked potato with salsa or vege's on top with no oil Italian dressing. My point is that there are lots of choices you just have to make some adjustments. Here is a site with some recipes fatfreevegan.com his news letter also has recipes on them drmcdougall.com I know this sounds like an advertisement but I just think this is the healthiest way to go. If you don't have his book I suggest picking up a copy. There is a lot of really good info in there. PM me if you like and we can buddy up.

Hi. I'd be interested in finding MacDougall buddies. I'm gonna dig out my stuff from the class and my books and start looking through them.

Let me know if anybody's interested.
Amie

How's everyone doing on McD? I went to his discussion board and it sounds very encouraging that so many feel well and lose weight. Just wondering how y'all are doing!

Hi Idrial , I am doing pretty good. I had 3 more pounds down as of this last Monday. I feel good and I have not felt deprived. In fact I have been enjoying the food I make just as much now if not more than before. This morning I had some left over boiled red potatoes in the fridge so I cut them up and browned them in a pan with just a little vege broth. I was home for lunch today and cut up some portobello mushrooms, onion, and asparagus and sauteed that in a little water. When it was just about done I thought I would add a little mustard for flavor and it was surprisingly good. This all only took about 10 min to make and the meaty mushrooms are very satisfying. For dinner tonight I am going to make rice bowls with steamed veges and a little teriyaki sauce. Next time you go to the discussion board check out the link on the right for the star McDougallers. It is very encouraging!

I'm glade your doing well I just got the book yesterday and hope to start reading it soon. The parts I read so far are very good and I like his engery it's seems really good to me. I'll keep you all informed as I sart on the 4th my best friend willl be here this next week and I'm not starting any new programs while she is here. Good luck everyone

Peace
G

GoingGoal, great job! I'm glad it's going well for you.
gggbdomino, you are being really smart about waiting until your friend is gone. I tried to eat well while parents were here and it's so difficult and ends up being stressful. Now that they are gone I can focus and eat much better. What is it about company?

where did everyone go....are they still mcdougalling??????

Funny that this resurfaced. I was just at the Mc D site today, looking at their weight loss program that they offer at their Santa Rosa facility. Here's the all you can eat buffet that you get all week long. I'm not interested in a buffet really, but some of these recipes look pretty good!

I started the MWL program a little less than one week ago. I've gained weight slowly but surely over the past several years, starting with my hysterectomy three years ago. I've tried various things (WW, South Beach), but my metabolism is really screwed up (I'm hypothyroid), and none of those programs worked for me. I'd get discouraged after a month or two with no progress and fall off the wagon.

I hadn't even considered a vegetarian diet (let along a vegan diet!) until my sister sent me the link to Dr. McDougall's web site. She and her husband have been vegetarians for 20 years, although they've have limited success trying to be vegan (cheese is their downfall). It seemed so extreme to me, considering the way I've been eating all my life, but after reading through the information on the site, I decided to give it a try. So far I'm lucky that I have very low cholesterol levels and low blood pressure, but both of my parents have heart disease (they've both had bypass surgery), so I'm getting scared about my health. I have lots of problems with lack of energy.

I read the web site Monday night, and Tuesday morning I dove right in. I had enough of the necessary foods in the house (I work at home) to make it through that day. I went to the store Tuesday night, and I've been following the MWL program every since.

I'm really amazed at how easy this has been for me! Of course, it's only been a week, but the first week is always the most difficult for me. Whenever I was on any other sort of program, I obsessed about food. I thought about it all day long, and even though I could start out with the best of intentions, by the time the day was three quarters over, I'd give in to my cravings. But that hasn't happened this time. I feel full and satisfied all day long. I never think about food. I'm not in the least bit tempted to eat anything that's not on the program. I still can't get over how easy it's been.

Best of all, I've lost seven pounds since I started less than a week ago! On any other program, it would take me months to lose this much. I realize this first week is probably an abberation, and I don't expect to continue to lose at this rate. But I think it's highly probable that I will lose a pound or two a week. I'm ecstatic. I feel good (a little lightheaded the first day, but that passed). I have more energy, and I'm sleeping a bit better (I have a 30-year history of insomnia). I'm really sold on this program. I need to lose 60 more pounds, so my plan is to stay on the MWL program until I do, and then slowly start moderating by adding bread, nuts and seeds.

My husband is overweight, too (he has a HUGE belly, whereas the rest of him is small). I've been trying to get him to follow programs with me for years, but he's addicted to meat and cheese and alcohol. Since I've started this, though, he's made some pretty drastic changes to his diet, too. He's still eating foods that aren't allowed on McDougall, but he told me this morning that he wants to start eliminating them. I've been very worried about his health (he has both high cholesterol and high blood pressure), so this is fabulous news.

Sorry this post is so long (especially for my first post), but I wanted to share my excitement and how well I think this program works. For the first time in several years, I can visualize myself slender and healthy. Maybe there *is* life after menopause. :D

Julie

:welcome: Julie, and GOOD FOR YOU! I'm so happy that you found what you are looking for. You're the perfect example that there is not a one size fits all diet. I'm so glad you are doing well. Can you post some sample menus of what you eat?

Thanks for the welcome, Jennifer.

Here's what I had yesterday (pretty typical of what I've been eating):

Breakfast: Steel-cut oats with fresh banana added after cooking

Mid-morning: Bowl of coleslaw mix with 1/2 english cucumber

Lunch: Serving of mixed salad greens with tomato and 1T of nonfat dressing. Bowl of pinto beans (which I cooked in the pressure cooker with spices and a container of my own frozen Hatch green chile), mixed with some brown rice.

Afternoon snack: Apple

Dinner: Homemade soup (made with vegie broth and a mashed sweet potatoe as the stock, plus lots of vegies, black beans and red rice--this soup is very thick and filling), topped with a little salsa. Baked sweet potato. Zucchini strips roasted in oven. Tomato slices with balsamic vinegar.

I got the MWL book in the mail yesterday and spent last night reading it. So I now have some more ideas for recipes and menus and the list of McDougall-approved ready-made foods (such as cereals), which will make my life a little easier.

OH MY GOSH you are starving me to death. :lol: Your soup sounds soooooo good! Oh dear. I'm going to have to try and make something like that. And you've given me hope that there ARE good veggie pinto beans out there. I've not been able to make any that taste good since I went veg. They always taste watery. :drool:

The secret with pinto beans is to cook them really well. As the water cooks down, I boil water to add to the beans. If they're well done, the soup is thick. I notice that when I cook them in the pressure cooker, the soup is a bit thinner, so there's definitely something about cooking them for a long time on top the stove.

My ex-MIL was Hispanic, and she taught me to cook things the way her mother and grandmother did. Beans were a staple with every single meal. She also taught me to put up green chile. The green chile used in Colorado and New Mexico is a group of a special varieties (Pueblo chile in Colorado, Hatch chile in New Mexico). In size, it's inbetween Anaheims and jalepenos. Heatwise, it's much closer to the jalepeno. Every year, I buy five to six bushels of green chile. It's already roasted when I get it (the vendors roast it for you in giant barrel roasters), so I bring it home and spend a couple of days removing stems and seeds and chopping it up in my food processor. I then freeze it in small disposable freezer containers (I have a second refrigerator, and the entire freezer is full of chile). I use this chile in absolutely everything. It gives soup a hot, spicy flavor. And even just a spoonful of it added to a bowl of pinto beans makes them yummy.

I'm fortunate to live in Colorado, where green chile is readily available in the fall. But I have a good friend (who's British, BTW) who lives in Utah. He orders chile from Hatch, NM, every year and roasts it himself. He's a vegan, too, and neither one of us could live without our green chile!

Yesterday I made a huge salad with all kinds of fresh vegies. I added some canned corn, as well as some drained black beans I'd cooked the day before. I have some delicious balsamic vinegar I got at a Colorado vineyard and used that for the dressing. That was the best salad I've eaten in a long time. Even my husband had two huge servings.

Four years ago, I lost a large amount of weight (70lbs) by McDougalling and felt fantastic! It does really work.

Sadly, after I met my husband, I began eating meat and dairy again and gained a lot of my weight back.

I've decided that I'm cutting out meat/dairy again and want to start eating more MWL (no bread, etc..), but I'll need to do the 12day programme after I reach my goal to maintain. Its worth it...

I just got back from a two-day off-site meeting. The food was all arranged ahead of time, and it was challenging to stay on the program. I ended up eating a tiny bit of cheese one day, but otherwise I was good. And I was rewarded with a two-pound weight loss when I got home!

I'm getting very used to eating this way. I still haven't had any cravings, which is SO unusual for me. I've lost 18 pounds now (still have 60 to go). My pants are getting really baggy, and people are starting to notice. It sure does feel good.

Hi Jukie,

Are you -- and any others -- still McDougalling? If so, how are you doing?
Thanks!