This is Josh At Earth-Body Lost 100 lbs in a year on an 80-10-10 raw vegan diet If you believe it can happen, your body will make it so. Educate yourself in the proper form of a raw vegan diet, motivate yourself to commit to it, and enjoy the results and benefits of your new found life. Tumblr: earth-body.tumblr/ From a post in May 2012: Living the Standard American way for 37 years, I used to believe we needed meat in our diet. Milk did a body good and extra cheese ways a way get extra calcium in my diet. So Manoj Ramchandani, yes, I was eating a lot of meat, multiple times a day. I was clouded in the illusion that those animals were there for our pleasure. I would eat from fast food dispensaries, but would not consider myself a fast food junkie. I loved to cook and cooked with butter, cheese, meat, cream, complex carbohydrates, fat, etc. And,... I had a huge appetite. I could really pack it in. Much of my childhood was an eating competition, much of which I won. I was a big, strong kid and during my high school years, I spent 3 years in the gym for American football, getting in pretty good shape. I was 62 and about 215 lbs. and very strong. But after football, I stopped exercising and food got the best of me. I was 240 lbs. by graduation 5 months later. I would yo-yo for the next 19 years, never getting below 245 lbs. and reaching 300 lbs. (as seen in the third photo on top). My cholesterol was still below 200, around 185 or so, and my blood pressure still about 110/80. I had good genetics. Never and issue with triglycerides or blood glucose. But then, as I hit 37, my numbers started to creep,... toward trouble. I became border-line on blood glucose and triglycerides. Ooops. Then one night I find Dr. Michael Klaper and his youtube video A Diet for All Reasons. Then it was Caldwell Esselstyns Make Yourself Heart Attack Proof, and McDougalls The Perils of Dairy Products. Okay, thats it. If I keep eating this way, I am going to kill myself. I became Vegan overnight. I was going to eat the same stuff, minus the animal products and I found happiness in vegan cookbooks and choosing vegan options at restaurants. I found some success, lost a little weight, but didnt feel the great shift. I was about 285 lbs. when I switched to vegan, I had lost the other 15 lbs. just cutting out beef prior to watching the videos. Veganism dropped me to about 255 lbs. in about 4 months. I had heard about RAW, but didnt know how to go about it. I tried for a couple of days, but I was eating carrots and bell peppers and thought, who could do this. Then I found some audios of Doug Graham. Ah-HA!!! The light went on. January 1st, 2010, Fruit, Fruit, Fruit. I also began to exercise again, for the first time in 10 years. I pulled my dusty 12 speed out of storage, the same one I had crashed on so badly 10 years earlier, and began to ride very short distances. 255 lbs. is an improvement over 300 lbs., but isnt the best cycling weight in the world. By the end of February, or 60 days later, I was 215 lbs. and cycling 25 miles a day. On August 2, 2010, about a year after I went Vegan, I went under 200 lbs. for the first time in 25 years, with a 198 weigh in. I would reach as low as 195 before my body started building muscle.I now weigh in near 205, when I weigh myself. It has taken a while to learn not to look at the scale, (thanks Freelee). Now I just know how I feel and look. I follow 80/10/10 for the most part. Sometime I am 90/5/5, but I do need to work on keeping my HDL up, so I have been eating some fats again. Oh,... the blood work. My cholesterol is around 130 and my trigylcerides are well below the range. My blood pressure is about 100/65 and my pulse is 46-48. My wife often pinches me to see if I am still alive. Nowadays, I cycle and run. Running is a newer thing, it always hurt in the past. Now, my joints are fine, no pain. I have rune one half marathon and usually average about 5 miles per outing. Yesterday I did 3 miles at a 7:30 mile pace. Not bad,.... not great,... but not bad for a guy turning 40 this September. I can crank out 70 miles on the bike on any given day, with no pre-training. I would love to go on a bike excursion one day, but I have 2 small kiddos and that wouldnt be fair to my lovely wife (high RAW vegan). If there are any other questions about my transformation, please ask and I will gladly answer. It has been a fun journey, the best thing I have ever done in my life. It is easy, tastes wondrous and makes me wake up with anticipation everyday. I mean heck, just look at the photos, my eyes are clear and my vitality is obvious. The other day, one of the comments said I looked emaciated. I must laugh every time someone tells me I look emaciated. I must be the only 205 lb. emaciated man in the world. According to western science, I am still in the overweight category of the Body Mass Index. Go figure. Throw away the scales and measuring devices people, love who you are and what you look like. Side note: I also discovered Natural Hygiene along my journey and decided to study at University of Natural Health. I look forward to helping others find this lifestyle and find health.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 23:56:23 +0000
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