This morning, my weight was 146.0#, up a whopping 5.0# from yesterday and 3.6# over my last dose weight. Today will be another steak day. I think I let PMS do the choosing yesterday. I gave in and had some See’s candy for a snack in the evening. I had already gained a lot of weight by then and knew I was going to be doing a steak day anyway.
It is obvious that I am doing something very wrong here. Part of the problem may be due to TOM approaching, but I don’t think that is all of it. The biggest change in the last several days is that I have reintroduced dairy. I ate a lot of it yesterday. Between that and the other fatty things I had been eating, I felt kind of greasy and rather sluggish. I think the dairy needs to go for sure, especially given what I have learned from The China Study. The next thing I want to do is return meat consumption to the amounts I ate it during the very low calorie phase of the diet for now. From there, I will add vegetables and maybe a LITTLE coconut oil to add calories since I’m not supposed to add starch yet. When I can add starches again, I would like to begin moving toward veganism since it is associated with such excellent health outcomes. Hubby may not be all that thrilled with the change. I suppose I will have to continue to cook meat for him, though he has been known to willingly eat vegetarian-based meals in the past.
I was looking online to get some information about how to go about eating a healthy diet as a vegan and came upon this site: Vegan Nutritionista.
I had a book at one time, Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You and Your Waistline by Steven R. Gundry, M.D. The beginning phases of his diet look a lot like the beginning phases of Atkins and South Beach. The maintenance phase is more plant based. When I first read it, I thought it was great until I got to that part. Now, after reading The China Study, I think maybe he had it right after all. Unfortunately, I can’t find the book in my library now. I must have decluttered it. I put a hold on it in the Los Angeles Public Library system and had it sent to my local branch so that I could read it again.