August 03rd, 2015

Meet Lorraine.

This wasn't the first time I had gone on a carbohydrate restricted diet.The first time was in 1997 I went on Atkins and ate extreme induction the whole time almost pure protein and very little fats I took the skin off chicken and didn't eat a lot of fatty meats and almost no veggies at all. I went from 325 to 175 in just under a year. but by the end of that diet I felt exhausted and had lost hair and was cold all of the time. I kept most of the weight off for almost 5 years but it was creeping back on 5 lbs at a time while adding most grains and starchy veggies back into my diet. I developed food allergies to most fruits and some veggies so I didn't eat those anymore. I quit working as full time Massage Therapist due to health issues I developed Vertigo and extreme Hypoglycemia.

I was getting Fungal infections every year and the allergies were out of control I was sitting there not able to move due to dizziness and depressed. I started to binge on carbs and gained rapidly till I hit 296 lbs I felt so bad all the time. Sick and exhausted I didn't sleep well I woke up tired I had sleep apnea and I was diagnosed as having very low Vitamin D level and I was pre-diabetic I cut out sugar and was looking into starting the Atkins diet again when I saw the movie Fat Head bye Tom Naughton. It was a revelation on how I had done it wrong the first time I was scared of fat so I had decided to eliminate it also how insulin works and why. 

I made it my quest to find everything I could about it so I got the book Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes and the easier read Why we get fat and what to do about it. Both excellent books I found everything I could see about him on youtube and I saw his video at the Ancestral Health Symposium. I decided to watch all the rest of the videos I was blown away by the idea of the Paleo movement and started reading all the blogs of the speakers, including Nora Gedgaudes. I just finished reading her book Primal Body Primal mind, an amazing book. I am going to eat low carbohydrate, high fat, moderate protein the rest of my life. I am 9 weeks into the Leptin Reset by Dr Jack Kruse and I have never felt better in my life. Not even when I was a teenager. More energy. Better sleep. My lifelong insomnia is getting better and better. I'm halfway to my goal weight and I don't care for the first time in my life how long it takes me to get there!

The new Lorraine.

CHALLENGES: 
Finding places to eat that don't use bad fats in cooking and a good low carb choices.

ADVICE: 
Pre-make meals for when you don't feel like cooking, so you don't resort to going out for something fast and bad for you.