[FitDream] My McDougall Diet Failure: Spilling the beans

Published: Thu, 02/16/12




Hi ,                                                                                 February 16, 2012
 

    What? The Plant-Based Fitness Expert for the McDougall Health and Medical Center is putting the words 'failure' and 'McDougall Diet' in the same sentence?

    Settle down.  And now that I've got your attention, let me explain. Because what I'm about to tell you may well change your life.
     
    The article "...Diet Failure..."published yesterday has broken records for response from readers.  If you were one of those who posted on the blog, emailed me, or shared your thoughts on facebook or in the McDougall Health & Medical Center, my humble thanks for not only your outpouring of support, but telling me how sharing my story has been helpful to you. 
     
    This article was not easy to publish because it's pretty personal.  Yet I am committed to being authentic and transparent about my experiences so that YOU can benefit and make the changes needed for your own health, happiness, and well-body success. That makes it mandatory in my book.
     
    I put it together for you during our adventure to Panama, from where we just returned after 2 weeks of tropical rainforest and beach adventure.  I even did my first zipline high in the rainforest canopy (that's me bringing up the tail of our zipline group, photo right).  And Greg, my favorite videographer, caught it all - including 3 - toes sloths and monkeys in the wild - on video.

     
    Thank you for being such great company on this healthy, happy and fit journey!
     

    P.S.  I'm so excited about the upcoming Advanced Nutrition Study Weekend where I'll be filling my notebook with all manner of juicy news and information to share with you on the February Inner Circle and Success Club call.   It's an amazing lineup!  Dr.s McDougall and Fuhrman are actually going to debate, and it will be moderated by the CEO of Whole Foods Market, John Mackey.  Can't wait to report in to you!
     

    My McDougall Diet Failure

     I now weigh 50 lbs less  than I did 13 years ago at my top weight of 189.5.  Yes, I know - ".5". 

    It's been a journey perhaps not unlike your own. 

     

    My story has a few interesting twists and I tell it in full transparency to offer hope. my replies to them.

    Flashback

    Note:  I could have just talked about the food and diet here and it would be of deep value, and perhaps all the information you need.  Yet it wouldn't be true to the full story of my success.  So I color in the big picture for you if you, like me, have the experience that there is more than simply "Here's the food problem:  Here's the food solution".  I hope that this is helpful to you.
     
    The trail of my long and colorful diet history is littered with dog-eared diet books, stacks of journals, plenty of excess poundage and as those of us with a 'weight' problem well know, lots of white-knuckle hunger, tears, and hair-tearing.
     
    I've been eating vegetarian for 38 years.  Despite multiple attempts and a variety of vegetarian eating schemes for weight loss that gave me intermittent short - term success and frequent long-term failure,  I kept trying.  I dare you to top my listing of attempts.  Important to the story, but beside the point.
     
    Through all those years of hit and miss, there prevailed within me 2 underlying convictions:
     
    #1)  My hunger signals couldn't be wrong or faulty.
     
    I figured that something is wrong with the system - not my body - if I needed to count, weigh or measure everything.
     
    Something's wrong with the system if I have to addle my brain with counting 1.73 grams of protein to 2.426 grams of carbohydrate, or any other living-your-life-as-a-lab system.  Wrong with the system - not my body.
     
    #2)  There must be a way to eat that would allow me to use hunger and fullness signals as my guide. 
     
    I'd see the squirrels and deer grazing in the woods outside our door and they weren't counting or measuring anything.  And they weren't fat, either.  And it's not because they didn't have enough to eat.  Obesity is unknown in the wild.  What had they figured out, without thinking, that I hadn't?  Sure, I knew about calories and most of my diet incarnations had some sort of calorie counting component.  I could manage my weight with portions and counting.  For awhile.  But it was hard and I was hungry.
     
    Major turn of events....
     
    >>>Read the rest of "My McDougall Diet Failure" and leave your comments and questions on the blog >>>

     
     


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    About Lani

    Lani Muelrath, M.A, the Plant-Strong Fitness Expert and creator of Fit Quickies(TM), specializes in helping women who struggle with weight and energy transform their bodies  - without hunger or exercising like a maniac.

    Lani is Fitness Expert for the Dr. John McDougall Health and Medical Center as well as Coach and Presenter for the 21-Day PCRM Kickstart and the Coronary Health Improvement project.  She is also Health & Fitness  Expert for Vegan Mainstream and contributing Health & Fitness Expert for Engine 2 Diet.com.Guest Lecturer in Kinesiology at San Francisco State University, and Associate Professor at Butte College.

    Lani overcame her own lifetime struggle with weight over 13 years ago when she lost 50 lbs, which she has maintained easily with the tools  that she now coaches other women to be successful with in weight loss, body shaping, and health.

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