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Hi all,
I’ve been experimenting with this programme for three weeks. Love the menu planner, but it took me a while to understand the principles behind it, how to swap foods, etc. As a near-vegan who doesn’t do that well with sugar I really appreciate how I can fine-tune the menu planner and always get good variety.
Since I started I lost some weight and am happy about that, but the greater benefits for me are how I’m feeling: more balanced, far fewer cravings, and fewer thoughts/worries about what to eat.
I’ve lived with fibromyalgia for about eight years and had phases of being oversensitive to some foods, having to cut out a lot actually, and ending up eating healthy stuff but not balanced enough. Since I started with this programme it seems some of my fibromyalgia symptoms
have lessened (less muscle pain, a little more restorative sleep, a bit less fibro fog). I didn’t change everything overnight but introduced meals from the menu planner gradually, just now finishing my first week of sticking with the menu planner throughout a week. Felt very good!One question I have is about ways of adjusting menus a bit more. What has been puzzling me is just how much dairy & eggs are in the menu plan when I go for ‘vegetarian’, and how much sweet stuff (including fruit) is in the menu plan when I don’t tick ‘low sugar.’ I’m fine with a little sweet here and there and happy to add some dairy to a mainly vegan diet, but if I add more than a little sweet & dairy the Fibro symptoms get worse. I wonder whether that’s similar for meat-eaters. Do you get tons of meat in the menu???
Is there a way to get the menu planner to cut down a bit on dairy and sugar without cutting them out completely?
Or could I maybe alternate days from different menu plans, e.g. a ‘low sugar’ day, a vegan day, a vegetarian incl. dairy day?
Love to all,
SabinaHi Sabina, congratulations! sounds like you are doing really well. You can try changing out your meals individually (click on the icon in the heading) and picking things that will work for you, or changing the item (click on the item and get a list of alternates) on the menu for something else that will work. I do the same, as I have several foods I can’t eat, and usually find ways to get around it. Great to hear that your symptoms are getting less troublesome. The same happened with my arthritis!
Hi Lynn,
Glad to hear your arthritis is a bit easier to bear. It’s amazing what this diet does for (against!) chronic pain!
I agree about the alternate/exchange functions, very handy to replace meals or meal components. The choices seem to be framed by the presets I chose though – when I set my diet to ‘low-sugar’, no sugary alternates will come up; when I set my diet to include dairy, often there are lots of dairy things coming up as alternates, so I could exchange one cheese for another, but little non-dairy stuff; I’ll keep experimenting…
Hi Margaret,this is also my first day of the program and am feeling healthier. My body is doing a bit of a detox from eating the vegan super foods diet, from drinking less tea and from the buzz of something new! I sometimes add1/3 teaspoon of honey to my tea as a sweetener as I don\’t like the sickly sweet flavour of Stevia nor it\’s aftertaste. I don\’t get migraines now like when I used to eat organic raw sugar or any sugar. I have a mild intolerance to cows milk so drink soy milk, oat milk or rice milk. I am anaphylactic to poultry and very allergic to red meats so I am a vegetarian . I like my vegan option though as cows cheeses upset my stomach a bit. Whoever wrote this menu is very clever. I knew about this kind of diet and followed it in my teens but like everyone else, the lure of supermarket choices dominated my diet for years. Has anyone found the financial outlay for starting the vegan diet a bit steep because I was shocked how much all the variety cost! But I guess I can use the dry goods for up to 8 weeks!.cheers, Louise
I have been using the menu plan for 3 days now and I love it. I have tried other sites; one that was free and one that charged a monthly fee. The menu plans contained foods that I didn’t eat so I didn’t follow it. I really like that this site asks you what you like. The only problem I have had is when the friends and family came over to help roof the house I had the makings for sub sandwiches and chips for lunch. On my meal plan I was to eat a lean pocket and parsnips. I very well couldn’t eat a lean pocket while they had a cold sub. So I ate a piece of my homemade whole grain bread, a couple slices of deli turkey and no cheese because all I had was full fat, and the parsnips. No one even noticed. My family has seen me go through so many diets only to gain the weight back if I even lost any. So I try not to draw attention when I am trying something new. I have lost 5 lbs so far but not ready to get too excited yet because I always loose about 5 lbs at the start. I was so tired of never getting the “good food” never being able to just sit down and eat without counting calories or points. I get to eat a whole egg instead of egg whites all the time. This is so easy. I am so glad I stumbled upon this site while reading about gmo foods. I am working on getting those out of my diet but that can be the most difficult. I did switch to omega 3 eggs from omega6 eggs. I will continue to work on my pop consumption. I drink a lot of prepared green tea with honey and lemon but I’m sure it also contains aspartame.
Hi my name is Denise I am a new member I live in England we don’t use cups has a measure we drink out of mugs ,so please could some one tell me how much a cup would be in pounds and ounces .
Hi my name is Denise I am a new member I live in England we don\’t use cups has a measure we drink out of mugs ,so please could some one tell me how much a cup would be in pounds and ounces .
Are there many people from England doing this program if so please let’s compare notes . Thank you .
Hi, Denise, and welcome! There are tons of folks here from the UK, and if you enter into the Groups area (link above), you may find a group that suits you. As for the conversion, do be sure to select the metric system for your menu – it is the far left area on your tool bar above the finished menu – and the following may help you, too: http://www.trimdownclub.com/exchanges-lists. Further, the following is a shopping guide for the UK, if you need it: http://www.trimdownclub.com/where-to-buy-uk. Any nutrition-specific questions you can post in these forums and I will get back to you, and any tech questions you can get help through the “Contact Us” link below. Best of luck!
I just joined and wish I had been able to see the recipes. Before I paid my money. Non of the recipes are easy and I will have to go out of our small town to find ingredients . I am disappointed…it looked so promising Sue
Hi I’m so happy! I reached my first goal of getting below 200. I’m so thrilled! This program is one the best things that ever happened to me. Thank you TDC.
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