Els Words

NZ cruise round trip 🚢 Napier & Rotorua. 💜🧖‍♀️🌲

NZ cruise round trip! Christchurch & Picton. Raining and smiling ☺️ 🇳🇿⛰️📸💜

Week 2 completed on Mcdougall program. ✅ 💜

Here are some of my meals. Been loving potatoes and brown rice spaghetti as my main starch. My favourite meal that I will continue to eat lots of this week will be mash potatoe with mushroom and veggie sauce.🤤

I also got on the scale and I have lost 1.5kg. So you can lose weight eating massive portions of potatoes.

I did start to develop some cravings last week for sourdough toast with vegemite and avocado. Freshly baked bread is what I am missing! I actually throught I would crave vegan chocolate rather than bread.

Still eating large portions of food to keep satiated. Potatoe fries are my go to snack and meal🥔 🍟.

However, I don’t find that a snack much as I’m content with 3 main meals a day. If I want dessert I blend frozen cherries and banana. The best sweet treat. 🍒🍌

Bring on week 3!! My intentions for this week are: more mash potatoes, trying some new recipes and cooking in bulk so I am not in the kitchen as much! It’s starting to annoy me.

Here are few of my meals from the last 5 days of being on the McDougall Program for maximum weight loss. 🌱🥔

I am eperimenting this way of eating for 5 weeks. I started on the 10/1 and will go til the 17/2 ( just over 5weeks)

For me the goal is not weight loss, not to feel healthy, or any of the typical reasons someone adopts a new way of eating. My ONE GOAL is to simply stick to my word ‘Commit Myself’ to this program for the full duration. To be congruent with my word. There is nothing more painful for me when I say I am going to do things and don’t do it. It plagues and haunts me. So I’m putting this thought to rest and completing what I have been meaning to do for a while. Free up space in my mind.

After nearly week 1 done, I have notice, less bloating, less appetite as I am feeling satiated and full. Skin feels better. No cravings for processed foods or soy. This is the longest I have been without soy and I don’t miss it at all. I thought going without bread would be hard, but I’m too satiated to actually care. The hardest thing at this stage I would have say is the social scene and eating out. I won’t be eating out til the 17/2. However, when I eat my favourite vegan pizza in Noosa on the 17th it is going to taste like heaven. I can’t wait ☺️