https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/videos/mcdougalls-moments/all-vegetable-diet/
In the summer of 2015 I began to look at youtube videos of Dr. John McDougall. I liked his message because I could really love eating a plate of beans and rice….and potatoes, who could say no to a diet of potatoes?
In this video, Dr McDougall explains quickly about enjoying carbs. He is the reason why I say ‘No Carbs Feared’.
Also please note, suggesting we should eat carbs will not make anyone a butt load of money (rimshot). Just as telling folks to eat Whole Food Plant Based to solve most of Americas Chronic Disease, is not going to make any Medical Mafia nor Pharma Pill Pushers much money either.
Back in the summer of 2015, it was a new beginning for me.
Oh, I figured it would be effective, I could lose some weight… I had done it before.
My history of weight loss began when there was a bet at Handy Food Center ( local Grocery Store). The one who lost the most weight in a number of weeks would get something, I don’t recall, but I do remember the boss taking us all to Pizza that night to celebrate all the lost weight.
Ok, pause and think about that…… right? (That night I saw my first Jalapeno Pizza… and as far I was concerned, my last)
I won the contest. I starved, and ate iceberg lettuce like crazy, and crazy was how I was during the time of the diet challenge. I was starving and did not like it one bit.
After all, I was working in a Grocery Store and could eat anything I wanted, anytime I wanted.
Oh, and for the last ‘winning’ action, to lose the most weight, I ate a huge amount of laxatives so I could pass all …well, you know…. into the toilet just before the last weigh in to determine the winner.
I won because of a quarter pound of … well… poop.
After that, I ate like a Standard American Death Diet fool.
The next diet I did was many years later called the Hilton Head Diet.
It was much ‘smarter’, in that you ate four times a day, and the food was better for you (although in those days I thought animal protein was necessary, as did the diet creators).
You have to workout twenty minutes after each restricted food intake time, and that work out had to last 20 minutes.
All of this since you were having to re train your metabolism to burn hotter, and there fore use more calories than you were taking in food (or toxic junk food ).
It worked well while I stayed on the program… and that was until I returned to the States for ‘furlough’. (More on that later) but without saying more than this, I gained back to appx 220 pounds in less than a year. (That was an appx 40 pound weight gain in about a year)
The next diet program I recall being on was one where I drank a gallon of H2Aqua each day. This was one cup of NOT FROM CONCENTRATE Orange Juice, mixed with 10 cups of water.
You had to get off all sugar, and every product with sugar added. Which if you have not noticed, is 99,9% of all processed ‘foods’ in America.
Brand Buds for example. This cereal my Grandmother used to eat is like eating mouth fulls of tiny roto rooter machines that scrape the coating of your teeth all the way down to the paper you wipe with while sitting at the discharging of the Brand Bud Cereal as well as all the cleansed items from the inside of the digestive system.
Well, obviously the manufacturers had to do something with the stuff to get you to eat it, so they added a ton of processed sugar to the mix, and there you go, an addiction to sugar, while you believe the roto rooter action was making up for the toxic sugar added.
(I digress)
So, again this was a diet with calorie restriction, sugar reduction, and was successful, as long as you stick to the program.
Oh, and let me digress again and address the issue of the H2Aqua intake…
This was so merciful on one hand and a huge curse on the other.
To allow yourself to drink this faint touch of the ‘sugar’ from the OJ, diluted 1 to 10, was great, because when I started getting the shakes from the cutting of multiple candy bars, donuts, etc from the diet, it was great to have a good volume of the 1 to 10 sugar water/OJ available. So I am thinking, if one gallon was good, two will be better, right?
Sure, why not!
Here in lies the curse.
Even at one gallon a day, I was killing myself trying to plot every trip to have as many public bathrooms available as possible.
Imagine what it was like at two gallons a day.
Oh yeah, did I mention I was an Real Estate Agent at this time?
Do you have any idea how awful this can be when you are showing a home, and there is no holding back any longer, and you have to sneak off to the BR, or run behind a storage house, or your client is not on time for a showing, and you are waiting out front?
But hey! I lost the weight! Even though I believe a large part was from the burning of calories just from using the muscles to ‘hold it in’, or from all the running to and from bathrooms.
But I was always hungry, and as well as needing to pee.
I did gain all the weight back from that first go round with the water/no sugar diet, and I did it again a few years later and had the same results. And I gained all that back plus more than ever, up to 240.
After the last go around with the water/no sugar… I arrived at a state of some depression, and who knows what…
I started a job where I drove long distances each day in a company vehicle. I told myself, to stay awake and alert at the wheel, I needed to snack on something to stay alert. So, moving away from diet drinks, I went to ‘real sugar’ drinks… and snacks…usually salty, or chocolate coated, or both. (Both were better!)
Honestly, these things never helped me stay awake, nor alert.
I could drive and eat junk and drink colas while asleep as good as anyone. And while I was in that trance, I would generally slow the speed of the vehicle, so, that was better, right?
Never the less, after driving the pick up hours everyday, and eating like an ‘addicted to junk food addict’, I was possibly over 240 pounds when I first heard about Dr John McDougall, and The Potato Diet.
Dr McDougall was just a ‘side show’ to me that Summer of 2015. I started eating a lot of beans, rice, and salads though. But I was still eating a large part the Standard American Diet, although I did stop the usage of Sodas.
However, there was the Heart Attack on October 1, 2015.
Stent Placement failed Oct. 2, and then Monday Oct. 5, 2015 the Triple By Pass was performed.
I went home October 9th, and started watching Dr John McDougall you tube videos that afternoon.
I am pretty sure the next day we watched PLANT PURE NATION ( FREE ON You Tube )
Then after that, we watched FORKS OVER KNIVES ( Free on Netflix)
My life was changed from that moment forward.
Whole Food Plant Based defined me from then on.
What I learned in the days after, fueled a PASSION in me to understand how I could have PREVENTED not just the Heart Attack, but also the BY PASS, and all those medications…
…as well as the expense of the Surgery of which will take me about 15 years to pay my part.
Nothing has been the same since those first days after I started watching Dr John McDougall post Surgery.
I would like to think some of my ‘FIRE’ came from his videos.
Soon after I began to look into the men I ‘met’ in those movies I mentioned above.
What I discovered was shocking.
Almost 4 years later, the shock has only intensified.
I will convey more of that story as time goes on through these Blogs.
It just get better.
And the ‘fire’ just gets hotter.
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