New Patient Story

I have to say I’ve been active for years, and for the past 8 years, (and really for most of my life in one way or another) I’ve been playing women’s soccer with several groups. I noticed a few years ago that despite losing some weight and doing what i thought was the right way to eat and stay “healthy,” my BP was rising!! I asked my doc, and even though my systolic BP would fluctuate between 120 and 135, my blood pressure had been 100/60 for…..ever before that! She said, it was still good. 😤 That didn’t sit well. Then a friend of mine was doing intermittent fasting and started talking to me about it. I told her I didn’t think I could do it. Apparently everybody says the same thing because once I started doing it and told people that’s what I was doing, they said the same thing! my story is that within eight weeks of starting intermittent fasting and time restricted eating, I had lost 18 pounds of fat And my blood pressure returned to 100/60. Turns out we are not supposed to eat as frequently as I had been doing and that is a lot of what the problem is in American homes and American lives. We are told that we can eat all the time and that some of it is even healthy, but it’s not. We weren’t built that way. The more time I spend listening to some of the doctors on YouTube that talk about intermittent fasting and time restricted eating and the way sugar and processed foods are affecting our systems, the more I realize that the only way to go is to be very, very careful about what we eat and when we eat it. Often times I will fast for nearly 20 hours and then go play soccer and I have more energy than if I ate! And the cool thing about doing that is you’re in something called “autophagy” around 17 hours and around then is when you start burning fully whatever fat’s on your body. Obviously, if you’re too skinny well then you can’t do that but for the most part, everyone’s got some fat to burn, and it’s not that hard. And it feels so good to put on clothes that haven’t fit for a while! I would truly encourage everyone to look up. Intermittent fasting on YouTube and look for the doctors Pradip Jamnadas, Jason Fung, and Robert Lustig. Just educate yourself. Not many doctors out there are pushing this and this is truly one of the way that we need to look at eating. We don’t hunt and gather anymore, but as an example, people who used to kill an elk, they may only have one kill every 5 to 10 days or more perhaps and didn’t eat for the rest of the time, or ate berries or other plants.. Did they die? No. People can become non-diabetic if they want to. They need to educate themselves and learn how but it is completely doable. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get the same results. You always have. Do something different! Get out of your rut or your routine and look at another way of doing things. It worked for me and it can for you.