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Thyroid Questions, Cholesterol Questions, and Superbowl Binges

February 2, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

I’ve had good questions and good meetings this week that centered on topics that apply to many people, so here goes a diverse post.

Two people asked me questions about Thyroid numbers on their tests. One person had a high TSH, the other a high T3. I only have INFORMATION for them to bring to their doctors, not a diagnosis, but it’s important information. Often when doctors see these numbers, they throw “typical” pharmaceuticals at it; but there’s a much bigger picture to these numbers. The thyroid doesn’t “stand alone”; nothing in our body works in isolation, everything works ( or doesn’t work), in tandem with the rest of our body. Modern medicine/pharmaceuticals treats problems in very isolated ways which explains why so often, health issues aren’t resolved by band-aiding symptoms.

Thyroid Facts: the Pituitary gland makes TSH, the Thyroid gland does not. A low or high TSH is something the Pituitary is doing, not the thyroid. The pituitary is taking a measure of the level of T3 and T4 (the hormones the thyroid DOES make), and then sending out the TSH accordingly. Here’s the problems: the pituitary is looking at the amount of T3 and T4 in the blood. There’s so many reasons for a “mis-reading”: you don’t have enough Iodine in your diet ( that’s a common deficiency) to knock a T4 down to a T3; you don’t have enough selenium which keeps T4 low in the blood and reduces reverse T3 ( RT3). Maybe you don’t get enough zinc and copper – which have vital thyroid functions, or maybe you get these nutrients, but don’t absorb them well because your stomach acid is too low? How’s your Vitamin D status, studies show it’s EPIDEMICALLY low, and vitamin D has a HUGE role to play in thyroid function, and auto-immune thyroid disease (Hashimoto’s). What if you don’t have the enzymes that help knock that 4th T (tyrosine – which is an animo-acid from protein – do you get enough protein?), down to T3, which is the thyroid hormone that actually is USED by our cells, unlike T4, which is basically just a pre-cursor to T3. What if everything works up to the point of your cells using the T3, but most of your T3 is bound by “globulins” – which makes it Reverse T3 (RT3) and UNUSABLE.

Are you getting my point? There’s many reasons for your “off” thyroid numbers, and throwing the typical meds (synthroid or armor) at it may not even come close to solving your problem.

Oh! Stress/Cortisol has HORRIBLE effects on the whole chain of thyroid function – how’s your stress hormones? Because if they’re shooting off like rockets, no thyroid drug in the world is going to fix that.

I bet I’ve confused you more – Good. Get unconfused! Here’s some great resources to read before you let anyone determine a course of action for you. Dr. Brownstein is a renowned authority on thyroid, he has a great blog and books. Dr. Izabelle is an expert – and she deals with it herself. And then there’s the famous site: Stop The Thyroid Madness.

Next, I had a chance to review 2 blood work panels this week. Interestingly, each of these people had very similar results: slightly high total cholesterol, great/high HDL, “high” LDL, low triglycerides, and low VLDL. Each was slightly worried about the TC/total cholesterol number. I wouldn’t worry about either, and here’s why: We now know CONCLUSIVELY that TC is a pretty useless, meaningless number when it comes to heart disease. Even high LDL isn’t a sure thing, there’s 5 kinds of LDL and some are necessary and good. Our body makes cholesterol in EVERY SINGLE CELL because it’s vitally important to life, health, and well-being. We’d die without cholesterol, and low cholesterol is NOT linked to health and vitality, but to illness, shortened lifespan, and mental disorders. Honestly. Read This for an Expert Researchers/Scientist explanation of why we need cholesterol.

If you’re worried about risk factors for heart disease, look at your Triglycerides, your VLDL, your HDL to TC ratio, and your Triglyceride to HDL ratio. Look here for the facts and equations. Read Cholesterol Clarity if you want to hear what 28 serious experts make of the latest cholesterol and heart disease information.

What I love seeing? That 2 different doctors ran the VLDL numbers. Very Low Density Lipoproteins are indicators of heart disease risk. VLDL is small and dense, the “bad kind of cholesterol”. It’s prone to oxidation and causes much artery damage. Here’s the “good” thing: our body only makes VLDL when we eat too many CARBS-SUGAR-GLUCOSE and has to convert the excess to TRIGLYCERIDES. VLDL is made by the liver to carry these triglycerides through the blood to their designated destination ( usually, your abdominal area). Want lower VLDL?? Eat less crappy carbs and watch your blood sugars. It’s simple.

Thyroid and Cholesterol, two seemingly different subjects, but one single point: quit trusting your Doctor to automatically determine the best course of action for you. Read, learn, educate yourself about YOUR BODY. We shouldn’t let the pharmaceutical industry (which is where doctors get their continuing ed from) be our guiding light – they’re a BUSINESS who NEED TO SELL US DRUGS TO SUCCEED.

Drugs have serious consequences and side-effects. Put some effort into figuring this stuff out before you travel down the path of taking pharmaceuticals, and then adding more pharmaceuticals to counter the side-effects of those pharmaceuticals.

Next: I got asked what I’m eating for the Super Bowl. Hmm. That would just be my dinner around 6pm or so, and it’ll consist of meat and a pile of vegetables, maybe cheese. I’m not dreaming of a binge, or planning one, or subjecting myself to feeling stuffed, bad, and then hungover. Why would I do that to myself?

Last, I have to leave you with a few more facts, these are inspired from I don’t remember who in the Future of Nutrition conference: Inflammation, and the conditions for Disease (heart disease, cancer, diabetes, thyroid…) are developing YEARS, even DECADES, before the manifestation of symptoms. Actually, studies show that we build and nurture our diseases for an average of 20 years before they actually disrupt our lives. Even pancreatic cancer and Parkinson’s, which seem to “suddenly-onset” and progress rapidly – studies show they’ve been brewing for an average of 20 years before the symptoms. Take control of your life, your health, your eating, and your thoughts. You really, really do have power over these things.

Make the connection between your foods, your eating habits, how you handle stress, how much you sleep, and how much you move, to YOU. Your energy, your health, your general mood, your creativity, your vitality: You. What you do – every day, consistently, mostly, habitually – really, really matters. Become a Real Whole Foodie:)

Category: Fats, Question of the Week, RWF / Tags: cholesterol, Dr. Brownstein, Dr. Izabelle, Stop The Thyroid Madness, superbowl food, thyroid

Dieting Makes You Crazy

January 30, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

Are any of you listening to the free, on-line lectures this week via either Future of Nutrition or the Paleo Con? They’re great! What a wealth of information, motivation, and inspiration. If you want to improve your health or lose weight, you’ve got to change your brain. To do that, you’ll need to fill your brain with thoughts outside of your normal thought patterns. If “diet mentality” has dominated your thoughts, then listening to totally different perspectives, over and over again, will help you shift to thinking of food as medicine/information/how we feel/chemistry; not math/calories/our enemy. These conferences are turning the Diet Industry paradigm on it’s head; I love it!

Can you think of one other industry on earth that Fails so regularly, completely, perpetually, and yet is promoted, advised, trusted, and believed over and over and over again? Every year people spend BILLIONS of dollars on diet foods, diet pills, diet potions, diet programs, weight loss surgeries, and every trick in the book, to either lose weight and gain it back, or not lose weight at all. It doesn’t make sense: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

Diets don’t work. Ever. One of the speakers likened Dieting to holding a volleyball underwater: as soon as you let it go, KaBoom! He also said that when you’re a Dieter, you either have Good Days, or Bad Days. Who relates to that?? How many times have you said that to yourself: I was bad today. ? That’s a sure sign you’re in Diet World; you’ve either stuck to your low calorie diet magic foods, or you’ve blown it. You were either Bad or Good.

Ugh. Please please please, if you’re stuck in that world, you’re doomed to weight gain, lots of failure, and missing out on life because food, dieting, and weight hi-jack your thoughts. Low fat, low cal dieting also makes you fat, sick, and potentially crazy. Look around. Look at the evidence. 70% of the U.S is overweight. 70%.

Go back to when I said that the Diet Industry fails time and time again, yet continues to profit (greatly) and be promoted by main-stream medicine as the solution to your problem. Here’s an except from WebMd from googling, “how to lose weight”:

“You can safely lose 3 or more pounds a week at home with a healthy diet and lots of exercise, says weight loss counselor Katherine Tallmadge, RD.

How to Lose Weight Fast

If you burn 500 more calories than you eat every day for a week, you should lose about 1-2 pounds per week.

If you want to lose weight faster, you’ll need to eat less and exercise more.

For instance, if you take in 1,050 to 1,200 calories a day, and exercise for one hour per day, you could lose 3-5 pounds in the first week, or more if you weigh more than 250 pounds. It’s very important not to cut calories any further — that’s dangerous.”

Do you see the insanity of this line of thinking? It’s NEVER worked. Science has proven for years that reducing calories and withholding nutrients sends our body into STORAGE MODE, not burning mode. Even hours of exercise won’t work, trust me. Exercise for health, not weight loss. Besides that, 1,050 to 1,200 calories a day? Can you say, “starving frenzy”?? I mean, talk about a rebound binge waiting to happen.

When you reduce calories/diet, the body and mind become “stressed” because famine is perceived; when this happens, stress hormones like Cortisol are released into the blood stream. Cortisol increases triglyceride production, it inhibits sensitivity to leptin and insulin, it shuts down digestion, it prohibits the body from burning fat, it turns muscle tissue into sugar/glucose for fast energy. When that glucose isn’t actually used to “outrun the sabertooth”, then the body repackages that excess glucose into fat, and stores it in the belly area. (This is the connection between stress and belly fat.)

I’ve had two emails this week expressing sadness over saying goodbye to favorite foods. Expressing sadness over anticipated, up coming hunger and deprivation. This doesn’t have to happen. Eating a Real Whole Foods/Paleo/Primal type diet isn’t about low calorie, or low carb, or low fat, or hours of exercise. It’s not about small plates, counting calories, putting your fork down, or counting your chews. It’s about deleting processed foods and eating good sized meals of meats, fats, vegetables, some fruits, some nuts and seeds, and some whole fat dairy if you can digest it. It’s being a “nutrient seeker”. If you’re actually hungry, then you need to eat more at your meals. If you did eat adequately, then recognize that your hunger isn’t “hunger”, it’s just your brain wanting pleasure from the foods you’ve been spoiling it with, or it’s crying for the constant stimulation it’s used to.

That might sound a little harsh, but it’s the truth. There’s an upside to that though. Our body, our brain, our taste buds, our neural nets – they’re adaptive. They won’t adapt to starvation, or actually, they’ll adapt with negative patterns, habits, thoughts, and results, but they will adapt beautifully to a lifestyle that focuses on feeding yourself sufficient nutrients to build your cells, repair damage, fight virus and bacteria, and have normal, healthy levels of neural transmitters like serotonin and dopamine. You know, before “dieting” became a “thing” in the 1970s, very, very few people were overweight. It’s time to throw off the diet yoke. It’s never worked for anyone. Quit making yourself crazy, and focus on re-aligning your brain to accomodate planning, packing, and cooking. Start looking at food, even fat, for the nutrients it provides. Start looking at processed foods as the toxic chemical poisons they are.

You are not destined to be overweight, sick, or tired. You can be a healthy weight, unbelievably well, and energetic. Eat foods that nourish your mind and body. Be a Real Whole Foodie.

Category: Fats, Mind/Body, Psychology of Eating, RWF / Tags: cortisol, diets don't work, Future of Nutrition, Paleo Con, Real Whole Foodie

Overweight Kids, Food Addiction, and Stupid Diet Tricks

January 26, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

Can you handle yet another post on Food Addiction? Because I have one in my head, and it needs to get out.

One of my favorite radio programs is a syndicated talk show called New Life Live. it’s four psychiatrists on Christian radio, they get all kinds of questions and give great advice. Until the other day.

A mother called in, concerned about her young, very overweight daughter. Her description of the problem goes like this: she’s athletic, involved in sports, is very, very heavy, eats fast, eats often, and eats more than her parents or her brothers, now she’s being teased at school and is feeling very sad about it.

Their advice: get her to eat more slowly, it’s all about portion control, put down her fork between mouthfuls, chew more, and convince her to verbally express her feelings over the teasing and the weight.

O.M.Gosh. Portion control? Chew more? Fork placement?? Oh, and how does she feel? That’s easy: embarrassed, heavy, humiliated, starving, can’t control herself around food, wishes she looked like the skinny girls in class; doesn’t take a mind reader.

Their advice was very well-meaning, they wanted to help; but it was horrible advice that doesn’t work, ever, for food addicts. Food addicts are compulsively driven to eat food: when they’re full; when they don’t need it; when they’re so stuffed they feel sick. Telling a food addict to use portion control to lose weight and feel better about themselves is a joke. Even the catchy buzz word “Mindfullness”, which is a practice I totally agree with and am trying to work on, is meaningless to an addict. Mindfullness is impossible when the mind is full of buzzing neurons and hormones driving you to eat – fast,.. now,.. as much as possible. The addicts brain isn’t “right”, and trite advice that really doesn’t work for anyone, makes them feel even worse about themselves when they can’t do it.

The Counselors didn’t spend one second examining the food situation in the house. Not a second. Like food doesn’t matter!

Here’s the facts: if you’re eating processed foods, foods full of refined sugars and grains, hydrogenated oils, and chemicals, you’re eating foods that’s been chemically created in a laboratory to STIMULATE your BRAIN and MAKE YOU WANT MORE. Honest! Read Sugar, Fat and Salt, by Michael Moss, read The End of Overeating, by Dr. David Kessler. These are just two books about the science and marketing behind the Food Industry. It’s shocking and amazing, and it’s the truth: processed food ( that includes fast food and chain restaurant food) is DESIGNED to make you want it BAD. If they’re a regular part of your food habits, there will be no “managing” your intake.

There is no “portion control” with Doritos, Lays potato chips, commercial ice cream, fast food french fries, Keelbler cookies or CapN Crunch cereal. If there was, they’d remake the formula. Big Food is big, serious business; mistakes and failures are quickly corrected. If processed food is part of your diet, even a little tiny part like just a little cereal, a few cheese crackers, or a bagel every day, then you’re stimulating your brain with substances that keep you enslaved and coming back. Ending food addiction means 2 things: (1) giving up processed foods, it just has too. ( Yes, breads, pastas and grain flours are “processed foods”, 100%), and (2) eating a diet of nutrient dense foods. In other words, you have to quit eating foods that stimulate addictive neural behaviors and have bad hormonal affects, and load up on foods that don’t stimulate your brain, cause the right hormones (satiety hormones) to be released, and satisfy your bodies demand for necessary nutrients.

Are you thinking that you’ve lost weight before on Processed Foods, like frozen diet meals, diet drinks, diet candy bars, and diet ice cream? Did you keep it off forever, or did you gain it back? There’s almost a 100% chance you’ve gained it back. You didn’t CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, you just white-knuckled/will powered through a period of dieting. When your will power was gone, it ended. Studies show that your period of dieting probably created even worse neural patterns than you had before, something called “famine brain”: neural and hormonal patterns that make you compulsively seek out and eat food.

I’m telling you that if you change your diet to one of Real Whole Foods, and figure out how to make that work for you all the time (through work, weekends, nights out, vacations, and STRESS), your compulsive eating will end. If you need help with this, work with me. It’s only effort til it’s habit!

There’s so many great books out there on this, but two I recommend time after time are the Diet Cure and the Mood Cure by Julia Ross. They’re fantastic. Trust me, if you’re anywhere on the spectrum from full-blown addict to annoying food habits you can’t break, you’re going to need help. These books and my blog are a great place to start:)

What should these counselors have said to this mom? Time to change your kitchen and your pantry. You’re going to have to use Real Whole Foods to make your breakfast, lunches, and dinners. Everyone’ll have to get on board. Processed bags of cereal, chips, and cookies will have to go. You can’t control your kid’s whole world, but you can control your house.

(umm, actually, the other day I went upstairs and Shelby – who’s 17 – had bought crackers and candy, and had hidden it behind a chair! I tossed it; it happens in my house too!! )

If your child was addicted to cigarettes, would you smoke around them? If your child had a drinking problem, would you keep alcohol in the house? It’s the same with food. We all have to eat – food makes our body. But we DON’T have to have foods in the house that cause addiction, stomach issues, bad skin, headaches, attention disorders, heart disease, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and cancer. We don’t. Seriously. Fill your kitchen with meats, healthy fats, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, good full fat dairy; foods that have to be cooked and prepared, not just munched right out of the box. Real Whole Foods. Will your kids complain, whine, cry, and rebel? Yes……Learn to tune it out. They’ll live; and you’ll live through those first weeks of negativity flying off them and onto you. Persevere. Nothing is easy in the beginning, but everything gets better when it becomes the norm. If they don’t eat, they don’t eat. Again, they’ll live. Take control of your own and your children’s health. Be a leader, a role model and an example. Don’t let your kids go down the path of obesity and poor health that’s plaguing our country and shows no signs of slowing down. Processed foods are killing people. Don’t let this happen to your family. Be a Real Whole Foodie.

Category: Cooking, Food Additives, Mind/Body, Psychology of Eating, RWF / Tags: Diet Cure, Food Addiction, Mood Cure, new life live, overweight children, Processed Food, Real Whole Food

Diet Miracle, or Avoid At All Costs?

January 20, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

Every now and then I like to rip apart a Food Product that’s somehow attained a healthy status. We’ve all heard of “Ensure” and “Pediasure”. These products are actually recommended by doctors and passed out in hospitals, nursing homes, and cancer centers as if they contain Magical Properties. They don’t. They’re pure crap, a true “Looks Healthy But Isn’t”. Last night I saw a commercial for Ensure Protein that compared it with 4 eggs, and the Ensure came out on top. My head exploded – you’ve got to be kidding me! Is there NO truth in advertising at all? Let’s take apart the ingredients in Ensure, compare it with the nutrients in eggs, and then you all can decide if you’d ever give it to someone you care about.

The ingredients in Ensure Protein:
Water, Milk Protein Concentrate, Corn Maltodextrin. Less than 2% of the Following: Calcium Caseinate, Soy Protein Isolate, Sugar (Sucrose), Short-Chain , High Oleic Safflower Oil, Natural & Artificial Flavor, Magnesium Phosphate, Potassium Citrate, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Ascorbate, Sodium Chloride, Carrageenan, Cellulose Gel, Gellan Gum, Acesulfame Potassium, Sucralose, Zinc Gluconate, dl-Alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate, Niacinamide, Manganese Gluconate, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Chloride Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Chromium Chloride, Folic Acid, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin D3, Biotin, Sodium Molybdate, Sodium Selenite, Potassium Iodide, Phytonadione, and Cyanocobalamin.

Ready?

Milk Protein Concentrate: This is milk that’s been ultra-filtered; that means all liquid and ALL MINERALS and several other nutrients, have been REMOVED. All of the MPC used in the U.S. ( and it’s in several processed foods) comes from OUT of the U.S.; New Zealand and China are the top suppliers. There’s very, very little regulation over this product, and because it’s cheaper for Big Food to buy it overseas, it’s having an ENORMOUSLY bad impact on American Dairy Farmers. You can read more about this here. By the way, it’s only 40% protein, no fat, no minerals, no vitamins, what’s the other 60%?

Corn Maltodextrin: this is highly refined, super cheap, corn sugar. It has an incredibly high glycemic index rating of 130. Table sugar’s rating is 65. What this means is this sugar is so highly processed and refined that once it’s in the gut it makes it into the blood stream in record time, skyrocketing blood sugar, and spiking insulin. (hello belly fat, heart disease, and diabetes)

Soy Protein Isolate: Ugh. Soy definitely got an undeserved reputation as a health food. It’s not. Soy protein is loaded with “phyto-estrogens”, that means plant compounds that mimic estrogen. Men don’t need more estrogen, and neither do women. Soy is “goitrogenic”. That means it disrupts Thyroid Function, who wants that? Soy is incredibly hard to digest and is highly allergenic. Soy Protein Isolate has had ALL nutrients removed, just like the Milk Protein Concentrate.

Sucralose: aka, Splenda. The links between Splenda/sucralose and CANCER are huge. Studies show it also destroys beneficial gut bacteria, and raises blood sugar – just like real sugar.

Cellulose Gel: This is not the same cellulose that’s in fiberous veggies. This is made in a lab from Wood Pulp. Always. It’s cheap, it’s gives good “mouth feel”, and like every other ingredient in this gross drink, it’s in soooo many foods.

Okay, see all those long words that are hard to pronounce? Like Pyridoxine Hydrochloride? All of those are SYNTHETIC VITAMINS. These are ADDED because there’s NO nutrients in these ingredients; they’re devoid of nutrients, literally. Synthetic vitamins are mostly made in CHINA, under incredibly lax and unregulated conditions. (PS, it’s important that vitamin supplements you take are made from “Whole Food Sources”) There is NOTHING remotely similar to God’s Vitamin’s that He put in actual Real Whole Food. Please, please, I’m begging you, click on the link below and read the ingredients that are used to make these SYNTHETIC VITAMINS. Here’s an example using the above mentioned vitamin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, (vitamin B6):

Natural Vitamin B6 – Like B1, pyridoxine is bound with phosphate in plants to make pyridoxal-phosphate. This is the biologically active form. Any other form of B6 must be converted into this phosphate combination before our body can use it.

Synthetic Vitamin B6 – Pyridoxine hydrochloride comes from petroleum ester, hydrochloric acid, and formaldehyde. It isn’t readily absorbed or converted and has been shown to actually inhibit the action of natural B6 in the body. It also has side effects not normally found with natural food sources of this vitamin.

You can learn more by clicking on this link.

What about the eggs? What nutrients are in eggs? The answer is really more like, what nutrients AREN’T in eggs? They’re one of natures perfect foods, and that whole cholesterol connection’s been more than put to rest. Our bodies NEED cholesterol for hormone production, Vitamin D production, cell function and formation, and brain health. Most of the cholesterol in our blood is from our LIVER, which MAKES cholesterol; actually, EVERY SINGLE CELL IN OUR BODY MAKES CHOLESTEROL. It’s that important. Back to eggs!

Just to name a FEW of the nutrients that eggs contain: Vit. A, D, E, K, thiamin, riboflavin, B12, B6, Pantothenic Acid, Choline, Biotin, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Selenium, and if you want to see it all, check here.

My real point with this post: Processed foods are Poison Crap that destroy your body and mind and make you sick, and Real Whole Foods are Loaded with Nutrients that your body needs in forms that are highly “useable”. Even foods like Ensure, which have an Healthy Aura around them, are Crap.

It really, really matters what we put in our mouth. It matters what our kids put in their mouths. What we eat becomes US. What we eat gets broken down into nutrients that either our body uses to build and repair us, or ANTI-nutrients that harm us. There is no neutral food. Honestly.

Feeling overwhelmed because Processed Foods like cereal, frozen meals, and boxed crackers are so easy, fast, and normal seeming? The billions of advertising dollars spent by Big Food has just hypnotized you, it was supposed to! Look around though, 70% of the US is overweight and sick. ADD, ADHD, and Autism have literally infiltrated our children. Depression and Anxiety are the most common mental illness in the US, affecting at least 20% of the population. It’s The Food I Swear! Take control of your life, improve the lives of your children; eat Real Whole Food. Get in touch with me if you need help; it’s not as scary, or time consuming, or impossible as you think. Make the change today to being a whole new you.

Category: Food Additives, Looks Healthy But Isn't, RWF / Tags: Eggs, Ensure Protein, Food Additives, Nutrients In Eggs, Processed Food, real whole foods, Synthetic Vitamins

Paleo Pizza Crust Recipe; and a Weight Loss Success Story

January 16, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

So my husband’s become obsessed with the show “Pizza Cuz” on the Cooking Channel, and it’s made him all antsy to have pizza. He was so entranced that he was flipping back and forth between the play-offs and the show; then he started pacing back and forth like a lion and then he threatened to go buy a Boboli crust and make his own! I talked him off the ledge and set about finding a suitable replacement.

I did! I found a crust that’s Paleo/Gluten Free/Grain Free, and it actually works! It’s easy too, unlike the more labor intensive (but delicious) Cauliflower crusts. I got the recipe off of ZenBelly, who calls it “NY Style Pizza Crust”; honestly, that’s stretching it, but it was still really, really good. It’s actually a yeast dough, and it baked up airy and crispy at the same time. Make sure you read her notes, because it’s not at all like making regular dough – it’s about 10X easier: no kneeding, no rolling it out, and the dough is very wet instead of dry. MOMS!! This is a great alternative for your kids!! I doubled the recipe with no problem.

My picky youngest daughter liked it, and my husband loved it. This is his pizza here, loaded with toppings (sauce, lamb, olives, swiss, mozzarella, and herbs) and it held up perfectly to all that weight.

For the time being, crisis averted. Amazing how jumpy brain neurons can get when they want something, isn’t it.

Here’s the link to ZenBelly NY Style Paleo Pizza Crust.

Next, I have another Success Story/Testimony I want to share. I hope Jayme inspires you to take the actions to make huge, positive, changes in your life!

Debbie Abbott changed my life. At 43 years old, with 4 kids, two of which I had after 40, I was happy with my life but not happy with my body. I had never really learned how to eat or how to cook. Almost everything I ate came out of a box or can. So sad and so true.

I started working out regularly after my 3rd child was born. I loved it. But I never really changed my eating habits. As a matter of fact I would tell myself, “you worked out, you can eat. Just eat in moderation”. But the weight was still adding up and at 43 years old I found myself at the heaviest I have ever been. I was taking prescription strength antacids everyday for almost 5 years. I had IBS most days and felt tired and bloated every day after about 3 pm. I thought this was normal. For me it was, and I hated it.

It was time for a lifestyle change. I knew it, I just had no idea how or where to start. So one day I was on Facebook and a friend shared a link to Debbie’s site www.rocksolidnutritionandwellness.com, I clicked it and never looked back!

It made sense, something finally made sense! So I kept reading. I kept thinking, “I can do this, I can do this”. She gave me just enough science to make it stick. Not so much that you turn off the computer or skip to the meal plan part of the book. Which I was guilty of more times then not.

Her blog was awesome and it made me finally think to myself that I CAN make a life change and it will work. Debbie’s favorite way to end a blog is “Eat Real Food…Good Fats, Clean Proteins, and TONS of vegetables, some fruit, some nuts and seeds, and dairy if you can tolerate it.” In my brain this translated to things that come out of the ground, things with a mother, oh and CHEESE! I love cheese!

I will admit the hardest part is only eating 3 meals a day. I was a big grazer. But, when you add the good fat to each meal you just aren’t hungry between meals. Some days I fall off of the wagon with this but I see the most progress with my weight loss when I wait at least 4 hours between meals on a regular basis. However, all the other benefits of clean eating are always consistent and to me that is HUGE.

I started this journey July 13, 2013. I am down 25 pounds, and completely off of the antacids. No bloating, and no more IBS. I sleep better then ever and my skin is awesome (for a 44 year old with 4 kids)! I have more energy then ever and I don’t experience the huge mood swings that I used to. My husband, who has been following Debbie too, is down 27 pounds and looks amazing!

Food doesn’t have to be hard. Planning ahead helps, but I don’t get fancy with meals most nights. I follow Debbie’s suggestions and always make sure we have something in the fridge to grab. I use my crock pot a lot! It works for me. Toss it in and forget about it until it’s time to eat dinner. Plus, most nights we don’t get to sit as a family and eat. But everyone can grab a bowl and serve themselves out of the crock pot.

IT WORKS people and it is not that hard. It’s not and you can do it. Debbie makes it simple and easy. She takes the guess work out of it. She does all the research and I just follow along. I am a true believer and I am so lucky to have found her.

Category: Carbs, Cooking, Paleo Recipe, RWF / Tags: Paleo Pizza Crust, Success Story, Weight Loss Testimoney

Lose Weight Without Dieting, and No Recipe Paleo Meals

January 13, 2014 / Debbie / 2 comments

I’ve had more emails in the past week than in the past couple of months; I’ve struck a nerve asserting that you can be slim without dieting. Some women are asking if it’s actually possible, since we’ve all been brainwashed with Diet Propaganda since birth; and some women are lamenting their Food Addiction. ( They believe it, they just can’t stop eating.)

Two different issues, but the resolution is the same: Real Whole Foods. Make your meals comprised of Good Fats, Clean Proteins, and TONS of vegetables, some fruit, some nuts and seeds, and dairy if you can tolerate it. These foods contain the nutrients that make up every single cell in our body. Glucose/Carbs/Starches/Sugars – they make nothing. Our body uses a tiny MOLECULE of glucose inside the cells for fuel. Our cells can also use fat and ketones for fuel. That’s how people who live in areas with little to no vegetation thrive. God designed our body to only be able to store a tiny bit of Glucose/Sugar/Carbohydrate, and convert any extra to Fat.

Changing gears here, until the mid 1900s, American’s didn’t have a weight problem. Health problems were horrible diseases like Typhoid or Cholera. Check out this chart which relates changes in our food supply to how Heart Disease and Cancer went from almost unheard of in 1900, to being the top two causes of death by 1950. In 2013 we have a better chance of SURVIVING heart disease and cancer, but a GREATER than ever chance of developing it; despite Modern Medicine and all it’s advice.

What’s the link between our exploding weight and our horrible health? Food. By 1950 hydrogenated oils like Crisco and Margarine were household staples; in the 70s/80s, high fructose corn syrup became the predominant sweetener used in packaged/processed foods, in the 80s and 90s, chemically enhanced, fake foods and diet foods became a new norm. Sugar went from 18 pounds per person in 1800, to 90 pounds per person in 1900, to almost 200 pounds per person in 2010. Americans have drastically decreased their consumption of fatty meats and saturated fats, and vegetables and fruits.

The Results? 70% overweight, more than 30% obese. Heart Disease, continually increasing, Diabetes – EXPLODING, Cancer – continually increasing, Depression/Anxiety/Migraines/Alzheimer’s – EXPLODING…. I could go on and on.

The take-away: Dieting hasn’t worked; it’s actually had the opposite effect! Statistically, almost 100% of EVERYONE who loses weight on a “diet” gains it back. Most people gain MORE than they lost. Reducing calories lowers Thyroid hormone, and increases Cortisol. Eat a Low Fat/No Fat Diet, which means carby diet foods, and your Insulin increases. Losing weight becomes more and more difficult with each consecutive diet. The hormonal effect of dieting is disastrous.

What’s the latest in this line of research? The effect dieting has on our Neurotransmitters, like dopamine and serotonin. It completely depletes them or whacks out their levels. If our Neurotransmitters aren’t level or normal, we can’t be normal. This is where food addiction comes into play, along with depression and anxiety. Want to learn more? Read the Diet Cure by Julia Ross, it’s fantastic. Want to work on this? Get in touch with me.

Think you can’t lose weight by eating meals of Real Whole Foods that contain lots of fat and actually leave you feeling full? You’re wrong. The real fact is you can’t lose weight PERMANENTLY on a diet. Just TRY a Real Whole Foods approach, try and see what happens for a month. Really, what do you have to lose?

I’m going to close with some No Recipe Paleo Meals that I’ve cooked in the past few days. (Power Cooking to a Walking Dead Binge!!)

This is Roasted Potatoes: Put about 1/3 cup of butter (I used KerryGold) in a large baking dish (with sides) and let it totally melt in your oven (450) for a few minutes. Scrub and chop a 5 pound bag of Russet potatoes. Put the potatoes in your baking dish and mix/stir around so all the potatoes are covered in butter. Sprinkle a LOT of salt and pepper, and Italian seasoning on top. Bake for about 45-55 minutes, stirring/flipping at least twice. Let these cool and then freeze flat in big ziplocs; you can just “break off pieces” and reheat in the oven or a pan with more butter.

Here’s Roasted Cabbage, Cauliflower, and Sausage: I made a huge pot of broth (24 hour simmer of chicken bones in water and 1tbsp white vinegar) earlier this week. I used 10 cups here, some Malt Vinegar, cabbage, cauliflower, onion, garlic, leeks, sausage, italian seasoning, salt and pepper. This also freezes well.

And last, Mark and I went away this weekend; here’s what I cooked in our cabin: brussels and onions in butter, water, salt and pepper, mixed with ground lamb, and a side of fried plantains. The next picture is the leftovers mixed with a few eggs for breakfast.

Category: Carbs, Cooking, Fats, No Recipe Paleo Meals, Paleo Diet, RWF / Tags: Diet Cure, Dopamine, Julia Ross, Neurotransmitters, Paleo Recipes, real whole foods, Serotonin

Counting Calories? Raw Eggs? Milk for Everyone? Reader Questions-

January 11, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

Morning! I’ve received several good questions this week, which I’m going to answer here (questions are “condensed” for brevity).

(1) WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH ME EATING SO MANY RAW EGGS; AREN’T RAW EGGS DANGEROUS?

I eat raw eggs 4 or 5 times a week, usually 2 at a time. All my eggs are from farmers, not commercial egg producers/grocery stores (except my local, small grocery store, the IGA, which sells Farmer Eggs). I’d NEVER eat a raw egg from a commercial grocery store. At this point, I don’t even want a cooked egg from a grocery store. The egg’s nutrient profiles are a reflection of what they’re fed (grains for commercial chickens; plants and bugs for farm raised). Also, I’d like to NOT support commercial chicken farming. Have you seen how they’re raised? There’s plenty of sneaky youtube videos, and here’s a synopsis to read.

There’s so many food myths that have been busted for me in the past few years, and this Raw Egg thing is one of them. I use Raw Eggs for my self and my family several times a week for 4 or 5 years now, and no one’s become sick. Our Real Whole Food diet’s made us all healthier. Again though, I’d NEVER eat a raw commercial eggs. Interested in learning more? Read Dr. Mercola’s post on Raw Eggs, he includes plenty of sciency facts. BTW: I pay $3.50/doz.

Ohh, I got a few emails in response to my milk post, suggesting I’m recommending milk for everyone. Not at all! I’ve said several times that Raw Dairy is a good food – if you can tolerate it. A lot of people can’t. My youngest daughter Shelby tested positive for Lactose Intolerance, although she can tolerate raw much better than pasteurized because Raw Milk has Lactase. Here’s something interesting: there’s two reasons people are “sensitive” to milk. (IMPORTANT: Lactose Intolerance DOES NOT equal an Allergy; allergies can be life threatening. Intolerance/sensitivities gives you bad stomach aches.) Interesting research on milk intolerance is suggesting that it maybe a secondary reaction to Gluten Intolerance, via Molecular Mimicry. Here’s the thinking: No one has the enzymes to digest Glutens (grain proteins). They go thru the small intestine wall, into the blood stream, NOT COMPLETELY broken down, causing “Leaky Gut”. These big proteins aren’t supposed to be in the blood stream, so our immune system mounts an attack. Casein proteins from dairy look VERY MUCH LIKE GLUTEN PROTEINS. Eventually, our immune system MISTAKENLY attacks the casein proteins also. What to do? Heal and seal your gut, quit eating glutens, and often the dairy sensitivities go away. Think that sounds crazy? No crazier than when our immune system attack our joints, our thyroid, our liver, our pancreas, or any other part it wants to in Auto Immune Disease. Those are mistakes also; our immune system shouldn’t attack us, but it happens. Want to learn more, read this piece by PhD scientist Sarah Ballentyne, aka The Paleo Mom. She’s all about whacked out immune systems as she deals with it herself.
Last Question, how many calories do I eat a day? Oh My Gosh I haven’t counted calories in a few years and WHAT A RELIEF!!! I’m guessing, due to huge amounts of fat, that I eat close to 2500/3000 a day. Way up from my compulsive decades of consuming Low Fat /No Fat foods, (until my inevitable binges), where I stressed, starved, and worried every single day about my weight. I eat Real Whole Foods 3X a day, and I rarely EVER snack ( I eat too much fat and protein to get hungry ). If I have dessert ( Paleo!) I have it WITH a meal. My weight? Unbelievably steady. Stomach issues? Zero. Let me say it like this: As I’ve COMPLETELY eliminated dieting/diet foods/diet thoughts, I’ve consistently had the best weight and the best health of my life.

I’m feeding my body the nutrients it wants, and I’ve deleted the negative cascade of hormonal results that happen with dieting (high cortisol, high insulin, low thyroid).

What’d I eat yesterday?

Paul Newman Organic Vanilla Coffee with 1/3 cup Raw Cream

B – raw whole fat keifer (1 cup) 2 raw eggs, frozen spinach and cherries, coconut flakes, cinnamon, ginger, Manuka honey (google it)

L – several slices of DELICIOUS deer sausage with jalapenos and cheddar, an orange, and a macaroon, handful of mixed nuts

D – baked fish, roasted white potatoes in butter and herbs, a mix of broth/tomatoes/cabbage/cauliflower/onion/garlic soup.

And last question: can I be more specific with my recipes, i.e amounts of ingredients: Sorry, I don’t cook that way. I only use recipe books for their pictures and ideas. That mix I made for dinner last night or any night? I had those things in the fridge, so I threw them together. Three nights in a row earlier this week, I made brussel sprouts with various ingredients: broth/butter/bacon/sausage/onions/carrots/sweet potato/cheese. I load on herbs and spices and heat depending on who’s home and what I’m feeling. Cooking’s Not Brain Surgery. ( Baking however is, you MUST follow recipes when baking.) Just put together foods and flavors you like. Real Whole Foods ALWAYS taste good, so it’s hard to go wrong.

Keep sending your questions – I love them! Make time to read the links: when you make your health a priority by learning how your body works, it’s easier to make effortless changes to your eating. It’s not a struggle to say NO to cake, cookies, crackers, or fast food when you think they’re poison.

Category: Carbs, Cooking, Fats, No Recipe Paleo Meals, Paleo Diet, Psychology of Eating, Question of the Week, RWF / Tags: Brussels, Counting Calories, dieting, Raw Eggs, Raw Milk, What I Eat

Will Milk make you Fat or Skinny?

January 8, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

I’ve been meaning to do a post on milk for a while, and I got a great email this morning that compels me to do it immediately:

“Debbie,

Am I insane to find this article absolutely absurd?!?!?! I don’t know what to believe anymore. I just don’t want to be fat. Apparently this is too much to ask for. Feeling very discouraged after reading this.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/30/benefits-chocolate-milk-after-your-workout/”

You might have seen this article, or other articles referring to it, touting the fact that when they compared athletes who drank either chocolate milk, Gatorade, or water after a cycling workout, the ones who drank chocolate milk had better recovery. Makes sense. Milk has casein (long lasting) protein and whey (fast acting) proteins, fats for cell membrane repair, vitamins and minerals, and the sugar in the chocolate can be used for glycogen “refueling”. Gatorade’s pure junk ( have you read those ingredients? ), and while water is great, and it’s all I drink after a workout (with some Apple Cider Vinegar added), it doesn’t have any fat, protein, vitamins, or minerals. (ps, I workout a lot, and I’m fine without “recovery meals/drinks”)

Here’s the facts: after a workout, your cell doors are more “open” to glucose/blood sugar. Fact: that’s only if you actually USED the glycogen/blood glucose that was stored in a muscle cell. If you didn’t use it, it doesn’t need any more. There’s a VERY FINITE amount of glycogen/glucose/sugar/blood glucose we can store. VERY FINITE. If you’ve eaten a big bowl of oatmeal, a banana, and a glass of orange juice for breakfast, you have about 81 grams of carbs/sugar/glucose in your blood. (sugar/carbs, they all get broken down to C6H12O6 / glucose, whether they’re from grains, vegetables, beans, fruits, whatever, they all get broken down in the gut to glucose. That’s the guts job, break food down to it’s smallest component.)

Four grams of carbs = One teaspoon of sugar/blood glucose. ( I’m using these words over and over to drill in that a carb is a sugar is a carb is a glucose……) . That breakfast yielded about 20 teaspoons of sugar. 20. 20 teaspoons of sugar. Your blood ONLY wants about 2 teaspoons, your liver Only wants about 2 teaspoons. Blood sugar gets used to build NOTHING. Everything else needs to be dispensed with. If you just worked out, or just woke up, you have some empty muscle cells that can use the sugar/glucose. Maybe your liver stores are a little empty too. ALL THE REST OF THE EXCESS GLUCOSE GETS MADE INTO TRIGLYCERIDES AND STORED IN YOUR FAT TISSUE.

So what do I think about milk?? I think raw, unpasteurized, grass fed milk is a Super Food. Organic milk from grass fed dairy is great; organic milk from grain fed cows is good. Whole Milk is the ONLY milk you should be drinking, studies show that people who drink whole milk are thinner, and you can only absorb the fat soluble vitamins WITH FAT. Google it.

Here’s my issue with the “chocolate milk”; undoubtedly, the kind used in these studies was junk. Here’s the ingredient list for Hershey’s chocolate syrup:

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP; CORN SYRUP; WATER; COCOA; SUGAR; CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE); SALT; MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES; XANTHAN GUM; POLYSORBATE 60; VANILLIN, ARTIFICIAL FLA VOR

There’s NO WAY anyone could think these chemicals and sugars could be good for ANYTHING. Food’s either poison or medicine. This is poison. If you want chocolate, buy a good cocoa, and add a little stevia or honey. There’s enough carbs in the milk (lactose) to refuel your muscle cells.

About the milk making the athletes perform better? Absolutely! What’s your activity level? If it’s low, you don’t need many carbs. If it’s high, you get to consume more. Make them GOOD CARBS: vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. Still confused? Test your blood sugar with a glucometer. If your numbers are over 100, STORAGE IS HAPPENING; unless you’re working out, then some of your muscle cells can use the blood sugar for fuel. ***** If blood sugar is high, fat doesn’t get used nearly as much for fuel,( hence, the reason for weight loss on a low carb diet – the low blood sugars increase fat burning). And the whole “you need carbs for energy – like bread and pasta” OMGOSH NO. Do you know how many athletes now shun bread and pasta and thrive? It’s becoming more normal than ever, thank goodness. Check out professional triathlete Ben Greenfield if you’re interested. Here’s a pic of my 49 year old hubby, who drinks a half gallon a day of raw milk. ( it does his body good!) I consume at least a quarter to a third of cup of raw cream every day.

Back to the milk question. Everyone’s body is different. These studies showed improved athletic improvement. Other studies show that whole milk drinkers are thinner than skim milk drinkers. Bottom Line: NO ONE GOES WRONG WITH REAL WHOLE FOOD.

Category: Carbs, Fats, Looks Healthy But Isn't, Question of the Week, RWF, Sugar / Tags: Athletic Performance, Chocolate Milk, Glucometer

Mofongo Recipe; and, Want to Avoid Cold and Flu? Boost Your Immune System!

January 6, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

It’s cold and flu season now, but that doesn’t mean you or your kids have to get sick. Here’s a great article from Dr. Mercola that really goes into detail on how virus spread and how to prevent it. I hope you can take a few minutes to read it. If you can’t, here’s some bullet points:

* Even though the CDC says the Flu Vaccine is 56% effective for most, and 9% effective for people 65 and older, the Cochrane Datebase Review emphatically contests that. They say studies show the vaccine only prevents flu for 1 out of every 100 people vaccinated. Read all those numbers again, then check up on me if you don’t believe it.

* A virus can replicate itself by the millions very quickly. Luckily, if we’re healthy, we have HUNDREDS OF TRILLIONS OF IMMUNE CELLS that can fight them.

* To Boost your Immune System: optimize Vitamin D, because studies show it’s much more effective than the vaccine in preventing flu; stay away from Grains, Sugars, and Chemicals, which destroy beneficial bacteria in the gut and immediately suppress immune responses; eat foods that have anti-viral/anti-bacterial properties, like coconut oil, grass fed butter, beef, and eggs, garlic, onions, and oregano, to name just a few.

* Repeat: Your immune system is MORE important for your health than a vaccine.

I made Mofongo!!! For a crowd too – and it worked! If you saw my pictures from Christmas week, you know we went an island off Puerto Rico called Culebra. Our oldest daughter, Meg, is working at a B&B there. I’d heard from her and Andrew Zimmern/Bizarre Foods, that Mofongo is the native dish of Puerto Rico, and that it was delicious. And it is! I had it 4 days in a row for lunch, watched a you tube on how to make it, and finally was able to last night, for 7 of us.

Super simple: sauteed plantains, garlic, salt/pepper, and crispy pork rinds ( I used good bacon instead), and then you mash it all together and serve it with fish or octopus ( I had octopus everyday there bc I never get fresh octopus here.) Last night, I served it with Halibut and steamed kale.

Usually Mofongo is made one serving at a time in a pestle, I wasn’t about to do that, so I used a blender to mix all the ingredients. Peeling and sauteing the plantains took a little time, because I had to do 6, and I sauteed in two batches, but after that it was fast. I blended the ingredients, popped them into a muffin pan, and cooked on 400 for 10 minutes. They were already warm from cooking the plantains and bacon. Oh my gosh it’s good!

Category: Cooking, Paleo Diet, RWF / Tags: Cold and Flu Virus, Dr. Mercola, Flu Vaccine, Mofongo

A Success Story on Weight Loss and Health

January 4, 2014 / Debbie / Comments Off

Probably because of the New Year, I’ve had several letters asking about weight loss. Everything from my opinion on Fitbits, to an electronic fork that tells you to slow down, to red pepper/honey/lemon cleanses. You all, these are just Marketing Scams that compel you to buy gadgets, magazines, books, foods, and drugs, under the false promise that these will cause you to lose weight. They won’t. The Paleo Diet won’t even cause you to lose weight if you’re just using the “low carbishness” of it as a temporary weight loss tool. Diet’s never work because every Diet has an Equal and Opposing Binge. The Paleo Diet isn’t about low carb weight loss. It’s about Understanding How Your Body Actually Works and then Feeding it Properly: Real Whole Food. It’s also about stress, movement, and sleep. Live Healthy, Eat Healthy, and Weight Loss is a Side Effect.

Here’s a caveat though: for most people, it’s not going to be a quick side effect. Real, actual fat loss takes time. Changing your habits and thoughts about food takes even more time. But what if you don’t start today? What if on January 4, 2015, you’re the exact same as you are right now?

Here’s an email from someone who has put in the work and effort for a whole year, and seen really, really impressive results:
“Debbie,

I was reading through your recent posts and just had to respond so maybe you can let the lady who emailed you about eating “healthy grains” and “the plate” and not losing weight… that you are right! I was like her, thinking that was the healthy way, eating whole grains and whole wheat pastas and low or no fat…

After starting to eat differently and following your recommended plan for almost a year now I am finding that was not the healthy diet I thought it was. I attended several of your nutrition workshops and read your posts and the other references and books you have recommended along the way and I am feeling great. I feel better and I have lost weight over time and I am not gaining it back. I have a new way of looking at food from your workshops. I learned so much that I had never thought about or considered. It starts with real whole foods just as you say and I now think about what I put in my mouth and how it effects my digestion and other organs and hormones, etc. The workshops help you understand why it is so important to eat well. Eating poorly may not have an immediate impact but I have learned that it is cumulative, the negative results will show up in due time. I have also learned from you that it is not too late to make the changes! You are always positive and encouraging and take the time to make sure we all understand some of the more scientific things you teach in the classes. As my husband just said the other day, not only do I tell him which foods he eats that are bad for him but I have also shared knowledge with him about why they are bad and what it is doing to his body (from what I learned from you)! It makes a difference when you know those things and the “bad” foods become undesirable, less appealing. I am not perfect but I have not eaten pasta or crackers or (hardly) any bread, rice, etc. in a very long time. I am a work in progress and I still have things to work on, I still have too many (chocolate) treats but I am slowly getting there. I now understand why sugar is so bad for our bodies. I purchased a glucometer and want to know my glucose levels during the day now that I know how much damage it can do. I understand more about cholesterol and fats.

I went for my annual checkup recently and when the doctor came in he said “wow you have lost weight” and joked about me wasting away to nothing (which is not at all true) and other positive things. It was very noticeable to him having not seen me in a year. He wanted to know what I was doing different and I told him. I notice over time I do not crave the crackers or chips anymore. I like the changes and will keep getting better at it! So thank you! I try to pass the information on to anyone who will listen to me. I know there are many of my family and friends who do not buy in yet but they see the differences in me and this makes them more inclined to find out what I am talking about. I recommend folks attend your workshops and I will continue to attend as it never hurts for me to hear things over and the more I understand the more I can share with others. Thank you for doing what you do, for taking the time to post the information and encourage us. I know it has made a huge difference for me. ”

Take my advice, start your change TODAY. Not tomorrow because it’s Sunday and the weekend’s over, not February 1 because you missed January 1; Today. Losing weight, reducing or eliminating inflammation/depression/anxiety/ADD/, getting rid coronary heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes, migraines, etc, these are from lifestyle changes that are completely in your power to make. Use your power, email me if you need help. Other people make changes, you can too. Don’t let another year go by where you end up disappointed and struggling. Life’s too short for that.

Category: Carbs, Paleo Diet, Question of the Week, RWF / Tags: Paleo Diet, Success Story, Weight Loss Testimony

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