| Our family has been eating WFPBNO at home since our son Jenison was 6 years old. This past August our family decided to do the 12-Day McDougall Program as a refresher. Jenison and his older sister participated some, while we, his parents (and even grandparents a couple months later) enjoyed the course in its entirety. During the 12-day, we were reminded about calorie density. We opted to cut out extra fat (all the whole plant fats we loved and ate quite a bit of – nuts, nut butters, avocado and seeds). Since Covid had somewhat eased up (at the time) we’d also returned to some outdoor dining which was always vegan, but usually had oil. In addition, we had been enjoying homemade cashew cheese almost weekly, and had built up some ‘insulation’. Jenison, who was 17 at the time and just starting his senior year of high school, decided when he was out with friends to not eat high fat vegan foods – he’d usually have ‘vegan’ fast food, or food with oil and an occasional soda. Instead he decided to stick to veggie sushi or a bean burrito with just beans, rice and pico de gallo. Within 3 weeks he lost 15 pounds, and by around 5 weeks he’d lost 20 pounds. He was eating to satiety but enjoying much less calorically dense foods. His dad and I lost 15 and 12 pounds respectively, as well. | 