You can have delicious meals without much cooking at all. She has a website full of delicious keto recipes. Nadia was SO helpful in pointing me in the right direction with that. My biggest mistake in the beginning was not getting enough fat. I really feasted when it was a feast day, eating only foods whose taste I truly enjoyed and always eating to satiety. I have no way to prove it, but I think it must be due to the consistency of basically fasting 3 days a week (autophagy?), in some fashion, most weeks during that year, combined with eating the most well-balanced, nutrient dense, lazy keto meals (2 per day on feasting days) I could devise. But I am happy to report that, despite having lost all that weight in just a year, I have very little excess skin at all and that is without lifting weights or doing other strenuous spot-reducing type exercises. At over 60 years old I have less elastic skin. We’ve all seen those horrible pictures of people holding great handfuls of loose skin at their bellies. One of my big concerns was having lots of excess skin if I was actually successful in getting rid of the 100+ pounds I needed to lose. And he knew what caused that hunger and it wasn’t some character flaw in me it was too much insulin! He got that no matter how much I ate, I was still always hungry…even paradoxically when I was physically full at the same time. He didn’t think I was lazy, or gluttonous, or lacking self-control. but that those things just didn’t work long term. Here was a doctor that understood that people weren’t lying when they said they had really tried counting calories, and eating low fat, and having six meals a day as advised, and exercising, etc. I was also taken by the sincerity and care so evident in Dr. Retired and on a fixed income, I figured I could pay for the program with the money I saved by fasting and that has proven to be true. I was so downtrodden at that point, so scared and I’d tried pretty much everything else. Fung’s YouTube lectures and the IDM Program. I read a little and then found I couldn’t put the book down, it so perfectly spoke to my own experience. I felt so embarrassed and depressed by how fat I had become since I last met this person that I just couldn’t bear the thought of him seeing me that way. Fung’s book, “ The Obesity Code“, literally sprang off a library shelf at me when I bumped it as I ducked in among the stacks at random to avoid being seen by an old friend. The Fasting Method Program was one of those lovely, serendipitous gifts the Universe is apt to proffer at your lowest moments. I shudder to think where I would be if I’d gone, been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, and started Insulin. I was playing ostrich, avoiding physicals and blood work because I was afraid that my doctor would insist that I go to the Joslin Center. I had also developed a severe case of Plantar Fasciitis which kept me from walking. I had many symptoms of diabetes and poor heart health: sky high fasting insulin, elevated blood glucose, eye issues, shortness of breath, swollen ankles/legs/feet, multiple and multiplying skin tags, numbness, mental fog (which was especially terrifying to me because my mother and all her sisters died from Alzheimer’s), pain, extreme tiredness, heart palpitations, osteoarthritis, back pain, sleep apnea, etc. When I started the IDM Program back in 2017, I was 61 years old and, at 5′ 4″ tall weighing 260.9 pounds, morbidly obese. In a little over a year I’ve gotten rid of 105+ pounds which is more than two of my friends even weigh! Isn’t it amazing that we belong to a program that doesn’t need to put the disclaimer, “Results not typical” on such success stories because these life-changing results ARE typical! The process is one of serious intent and diligent effort accompanied by joyful scientific curiosity and kind support. You have given me back my life, literally, and I will be forever grateful. Fung, Megan, Nadia and all the staff and members of the IDM program and Nadia’s LCHF/Keto Facebook Group. Here’s her story.ĭolly: Let me start with the most heartfelt of thank you to Dr. There is very little data about why we see this phenomenon, although I suspect the body was burned the excess protein for energy. In 5 years of the IDM program, I have not referred a single patient for skin removal surgery despite in some cases, like Dolly over 100 pounds of weight loss. Interestingly, she hasn’t had problems with loose skin, which is our experience, too. She has been able to take control of her health, losing over 100 pounds in the process. Jason Fung: This week I’d like to share Dolly’s story.
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