I am 66 years young, and have 4 adult children, 11 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren. I am blessed! I live in the Bay of Plenty Tauranga New Zealand. My health issues really began in my early years. I grew up on a high carb/sugar diet and eventually learned to control my weight with calorie restriction sometimes as low as 700
A Vegan Overnight: Josie’s Journey to Plant-Based Eating After Struggling with Ulcerative Colitis When Josie stumbled across a PETA tent at the tender age of 13, she was so moved by their content that she became a vegan overnight. Fast forward ten years later, and her health was going downhill—fast. After being admitted to the hospital multiple times,
From MMA to CrossFit: Discovering the Benefits of Functional Fitness Adam lives in Venice, Florida, and owns a CrossFit gym in Northport, Florida. As a competitive MMA fighter in his 20s, Adam joined a CrossFit gym, thinking he would “be able to destroy it.” What happened, though, was that “I’m not even joking when I tell you there were
My Colon Cancer Survival Story on a Meat-Only Diet I am Sami from Japan. I am or was a terminal stage 4 colon cancer patient. A Carnivorous diet helped save my life. I’m writing this email because I would like to help people who have the same condition by sharing my story. From Vegan to Carnivore: My Eating
Matt suffered two cerebral strokes about three years apart. The first was an ischemic stroke that happened in 2015, and the second one was a hemmorhagic stroke that occurred in 2018. He was battling high blood pressure for close to two decades and it culminated to these two incidences. When he had the second stroke he was rushed to a
Age: 65 Former Athlete to Morbid Obesity I was formerly athletic and became morbidly obese, peaking at least 365 pounds. I actually don’t know HOW HIGH my final weight went because my scale DIED beneath me one morning. Within half a year of this dietary change (heavy meat ketovore), I was down to 232 pounds and feeling great. My Food
“My name is Tabitha, and I reside in the Lake Norman area, a suburb of Charlotte, NC. I’m 47, and I’ve been married for 25 years this month to my best friend and biggest supporter. I work full-time as a real estate asset manager. I self-discovered I was pre-diabetic in 2014 at a “normal” weight after juicing and eating
Amy’s Struggle with Depression and Medications Amy is a mother to nine kids and has quite a carnivore story. She had always been overweight and depressed. When she decided to have children, she gave birth to a son but lost the next baby. Amy got pregnant a month later, and “That one hit me really, really hard. The postpartum
From Ankylosing Spondylitis to Carnivore Diet: Jennifer’s Story Jennifer is a long-term care nurse and bodybuilder in Ohio who, like many of us, was raised on Cheetos and Kraft singles and a standard American diet. As a child, she experienced terrible hip pain, which later in life would be diagnosed as ankylosing spondylitis. In her 20s, “when I
From the time I was very young, I remember my extremities hurting if someone would grab me by the arm or jump on my legs. I believe now, from what I’ve learned, that I have primary lipedema and possibly mild lymphedema. I was a normal weight in high school (somewhat plump preadolescent), weighing 127 or so, having a very
