| Star McDougaller Beth F. recently shared an update on her health journey one year after attending the 12-Day McDougall Program on the McDougall forum. One year ago today I started my life-changing journey - it was the first day of the 12-Day McDougall Program. It has truly changed my life! The follow-up support offered through the program has been invaluable for accountability. I'm so grateful that much of the support continues on. I will continue to participate in the weekly Starchivore group Zoom calls for graduates of the program. I will also continue to attend the bi-weekly Dr. McDougall & Mary chats (with Heather facilitating) for 12-Day graduates. I am really going to miss the regular Support Specialist meetings (one year of support is included with the program). I can always pick those up again and have already done extra sessions for the fee, which is very reasonable in my opinion. I seem to be in a pretty good place right now, so I'm going to double down on my activity level here along with the aforementioned support resources and see how things go. I continue to strive toward following the Maximum Weight Loss guidelines. My biggest challenges at the moment are #9 - eating when hungry, and stopping when satisfied, and #10 - getting 30 minutes a day of walking or other exercise. As a volume eater, I love the feeling of fullness, and really never reach a point of "enough." So I'm still working on that area. As far as exercise goes, I have arthritis and other soft tissue issues that are pretty serious in one of my knees. Sometimes things feel OK for walking and other low-impact exercise, and sometimes they don't. I'm seeing an orthopedic doctor and starting PT soon, so we'll see where that goes. There is most likely a knee replacement somewhere out there in my future. I am sitting at a BMI of 22.5 right now. I am a couple pounds above my goal weight range. So I would like to get my weight down just a little bit. We'll see how that goes as well. I would rather be where I am right now than try anything that might throw me way off track. So it's one day at a time with some experiments around my hunger and fullness issues and also really concentrating on the other MWL guidelines. It's nice to be at this place in my journey where I don't have any "wiggle room" with compliance because I am at a healthy weight! (referring to Jeff Novick's writing about plateaus and why weight loss gets harder the closer we are to our goal). Well, that's enough for now! A Japanese Sweet Potato is calling my name! May year 2 be as magical as year 1! | 