My energy level had increased dramatically! It was so easy I didn’t even feel like I was depriving myself of anything. It took a couple of weeks to learn to eat when hungry and to stop obsessing over food logging, and I lost 6.5 pounds by January 22. It is amazing how when I set my mind to NO SUGAR, I was able to just quit, cold. January 12, I flipped the switch and removed everything containing sugar from my food intake. A new, awesome friend saw it and sent me a private message about Paleo, and the rest is history. If they would count the 30 extra pounds I am carrying around, I could just add a 5 pound pack and enter the heavy division of the marathon. I mulled this over and finally posted something silly on Facebook about the Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon. Trapped in a low fat, high carbohydrate cycle, I gained all the weight I had lost back on a Mediterraneanesque diet, a couple of pounds at a time. I was desperately trying to keep my energy level up. The more I trained for ultra marathons, the more crap I ate. I was 30 pounds overweight, and yes, I did just walk 100 miles, but it took me 45 hours of a 48 hour race. I was ready to give up on my goal of walking 100 miles in a 24 hour period because I had let my food addictions take over yet again and was back up to 170. I never knew I had a competitive bone in my body… now I was racing regularly and have even won a few walking competitions.įast forward to January 2, 2011, driving home from Phoenix after completing 100 miles in this third attempt at the distance. I changed my diet and lost 70 pounds in about 9 months and found racewalking. So I looked for an eating plan I could live with. I started walking, a little bit every day. I went to the doctor and he told me if I kept doing this yo-yoing with my weight, I was going to kill myself. My back was such a mess I could hardly get out of bed in the morning. When I realized what had happened, I was all the way up to 215 pounds. I have always been a carbohydrate and sugar junkie, and after I stopped drinking alcohol to excess… sugary foods were the next logical step. I don’t care to think about the number of times I lost 50+ pounds only to regain it again and again. I have struggled with weight loss my whole life. Such amazing transformations! Transformation #1 Read about 7 people who lost weight and regained health on a delicious #Paleo diet. With that said, here are seven incredible Paleo Transformations that will blow your mind. There were so many amazing transformations and it was very difficult to choose which ones to publish. First, I want to thank the many people who submitted their Paleo weight loss stories for this article.
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