Sampling WFPB foods is a good way to start. The WFPB diet includes a huge selection of delicious whole foods. It's easy to increase your WFPB intake by some amount. Play around by eating a few WFPB meals to get familiar with it.

Sample various WFPB ingredients and recipes. Swap non-WFPB ingredients for WFPB ingredients e.g. swap cow milk for unsweetened plant milk. Experiment with some WFPB meals e.g. for breakfast try oatmeal, plant milk, with nuts and berries on top.

When you find a tasty WFPB meal you like, add it to your meal-plan rotation. Repeat until all the meals in your rotation are WFPB and tasty.

For some people, the transition to WFPB really is that simple. For others, changing eating habits requires some heavy-duty strategies described in the remainder of this page.

For people that already have a preference for starchy foods, the transition to WFPB is easy. For the rest of us, palate training is an important part of the transition. It is helpful to structure your food supply until your palate has a preference for WFPB. Once your palate has a preference for WFPB it's easy to stay on WFPB.

If you're not sure you can stick to the WFPB diet, or if you have a food addiction, read the book "The Pleasure Trap" by Doug Lisle and Allan Goldhamer.

There are social support groups and people knowledgeable about WFPB:

• https://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantBasedDiet/
• Larger cities have WFPB classes or groups.
  • https://plantpurecommunities.org/plantpurepods/

There are usually stumbles on the way to becoming WFPB. The first month can be challenging, but it gets much easier.

Set up your WFPB food environment:

• If you're not sharing a home with omnivores, you have the luxury of purging all non-WFPB from your home.
• If you're sharing a home with omnivores, partition part of the refrigerator and pantry as WFPB zones.

Always keep some prepared WFPB foods on hand for those snack attacks.

Here is a 5-step plan to transition to a WFPB diet:

1. Purge all non-WFPB food from your food supply. Or eat both WFPB and non-WFPB until your non-WFPB food supply is depleted.
2. Stock up on simple WFPB foods e.g potatoes.
3. Bring only WFPB into your home.
4. Start eating a simple WFPB diet. WFPB can be simple as a mono-diet of just potatoes. Compared to SAD, you will need to eat more often and a larger volume of food. Your palate starts adapting automatically.
5. As you get bored with the simple WFPB, experiment with new WFPB recipes. When you find a tasty WFPB meal you like, add it to your meal-plan rotation. Repeat until you have a satisfying rotation of tasty WFPB meals.

Step 5 of the previous section can be done in stages. There are many ways to transition in stages. The following is just one example.

Try one new WFPB meal per day and keep the recipes you like.

• week1: try a different WFPB breakfast every day
• week2: try a different WFPB lunch every day
• week3: try a different WFPB dinner every day

If you are taking medication of any kind, you should consult with your physician before making any significant dietary change. A whole-food, plant-based diet can cause rapid healing, which may reduce your medication requirements, such as for diabetes or high blood pressure.

If you are on medication for diabetes, you and your physician will need to monitor blood glucose levels closely and if your glucose levels are falling, your physician may need to reduce your medication. Failure to do so could cause serious harm and even hypoglycemic shock.

If you are on medication for high blood pressure, you and your physician will need to monitor blood pressure closely and if your blood pressure is falling, your physician may need to reduce your medication. Failure to do so could cause hypotension (low blood pressure), weakness, and dizziness.

From the book, "The China Study Solution" by Dr. Thomas Campbell 2016, page 150 EDUCATING YOUR DOCTOR:

Unfortunately, it has been shown many times over in the past several decades that medical doctors are not trained in nutrition and many are unfamiliar with plant based diets. When you go to your doctor, they may be skeptical and wary about your dietary changes.
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lecturing your doctor on nutrition science during a visit will not be productive for either of you.
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I would suggest the following brief, nonthreatening, non-science pleasant response (assuming it applies to your family):
"Our family has really been focusing on nutrient-rich fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. We aren't eating a lot of processed or refined foods, so we know we are getting enough protein, calcium, fat and iron from healthy plant sources like beans and leafy vegetables. This really seems to be working for us and we're going to stick to if for now.
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If you interested I'd be happy to bring the information in to get your opinion on it because I value your opinion."

Example conversation with a doctor about type-2 diabetes reversal:

• Patient: I found out about some diabetics that have reversed their diabetes by changing to a whole-food plant-based diet. I would like to talk to you about reducing and eventually eliminating my medication.
• Doctor: Diabetes is a chronic disease and a diet won't make it go away.
• Patient: I am already on the diet and lost 2 pounds. If my markers improve, I will need less medication.
• Doctor: Reducing your medications can cause harm.
• Patient: I feel strongly about this, and I am going to stay on the diet. I would like your help because I don't feel comfortable changing medication on my own. So let me ask you this; can we just take it one step at a time. I will come in every few weeks or whatever time interval you recommend. And then we can decide what to do. Because I really value your advice and I don't want to do this on my own. If I get better, will you reduce my medication?
• Doctor: OK, see me again in …

Life decisions are about trade-offs.

Once you have transitioned to a 100% WFPB diet, you can start a 30-day trial. It takes 10 to 30 days of WFPB to experience most of the health benefits. Then you can make an inform dietary decision.

If you are already healthy, a 30-day trial won't make you feel any better. Research WFPB until you are convinced that the long-term health benefits are real and significant. For people that are healthy, WFPB is an investment in future health.

Not everyone has the discipline to transition on their own. The staff at live-in WFPB facilities have much experience transitioning people to a WFPB diet. These all include WFPB education and cooking classes.