“We have found that gradual changes are much easier to adapt to than a massive overhaul of the diet.”
Actually, my friends and relatives who have gone on the Keto and then the Med diet at first got rid of the fabricated foods/lo cal and so called diet foods were the most successful.
Below is again what our family doctor at that time suggested to me.
“Finally, a friend with a similar pathway told me about the Keto diet.
I discussed it with my Primary Care Doc, who inspite of being 60+ was/is the same weight as his basketball days in college. He told me what to buy food wise and not to buy.
His advice was to throw away any processed food and carbs in our kitchem. Then, throw away any so called diet or low cal food.
Only buy food in the outer edges of a grocery store and stay away from any processed food with more than a few ingredients and any ingredients we with more than a couple of sylables.”
This MD said that what we were throwing away was like eating poison or tainted food. Get it out of your kitchen, storage and your home.
Those of us, who have followed his advice really had zero problems.
We started slowly. First it was cutting back on sugar and using honey, and switching from white rice to brown rice. That was difficult at first as brown rice took some getting used to but now we love it and would not go back.
We also started doing whole wheat bread using hard white wheat flour and I made it myself, so knew what was in it.
Along with all that was switching from margarine to real butter, which was NOT hard at all and cutting out all transfats, and that was before they were telling everyone how bad they really are.
I decided that my body knew what to do with real food over processed stuff.
Cutting out the pasta was harder for mr. mm as he grew up eating a lot more of it than I did. But he still has a weakness for it but now when he eats it, he weighs out 2 oz of dry pasta and that’s his portion.
He’s doing very well maintaining his weight on a shop around the edges of the store kind of eating.