Today is Thanksgiving in America, and I give thanks that we do not celebrate it here in Australia, it is too close to Christmas, but a lot of people like to post what they are thankful for, I just read Joe Cross's Instagram post, on what he is thankful for, I wont rewrite his post here but if you want to follow Joe, you will find him "joethejuicer", while you are looking up Joe, feel free to follow me on Instagram too, "sugarfreejuicingcrusader" I am however new to instagram so don't expect too much. I am thankful that I found out about Joe Cross's movie, which is eight years old now but better late than never, when I first watched it, I was so inspired I wanted to start a juice fast straight away, I think is was a Friday that I watched "Fat, Sick and nearly Dead" so I started the following Monday, why is it when we are going to start a diet or a new exercise regime we start on Monday, shouldn't it be Sunday? isn't Sunday technically the start of a new week? well I know why we didn't start Sunday, we went out to lunch with the relatives in Port, we went and had our last solid meal for what we thought would be 10 days, (we kept going for 28) it was at Hogs Breath, to be honest it wasn't that great. Now that I have at least 2 full fasts chalked up, the first the 28 day-er and then the recent 10 day-er, I have to say that food doesn't really do it for me anymore, I don't crave a big juicy steak, I don't even crave hot chips anymore, we actually went to lunch last week (with the same relatives) and I ordered my meal without the chips, cause we all know how they love to pile on the chips, so I have to say I am thankful I don't have those cravings anymore. I do however crave my vegetable juice, and always like to have 2 or 3 made up in the fridge, in case I get hungry, I would love to have one of those industrial juices they have at Boost Juice, (I would be very thankful) now that I have my daughter drinking a specially prepared to her liking juice as well, the minimum amount of juices I make at any one time is 6 jars. see the images below for the before and after a juicing session. I am thankful that I have my health back and I am medication free, I am really thankful that I lost a fair deal of weight, I am thankful that I feel so good now compared to how I felt for the last 20 years that was the norm! and most of all I am thankful for my wonderful family and friends that always support me in every way, even by reading my blog :-)
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I named this post "Food" as I have been thinking of food recently, and not because I am hungry, maybe because Christmas is looming, but mainly because I can't remember when it started, thinking, talking even watching food programs on lifestyle channel? I know as a kid I never gave any thought to food, I know I wasn't asked once "what would you like for dinner?" and I can't remember ever asking my mother "what's for tea?" it was a whole different generation, you ate what was put in front of you and you dare not turn your nose up either or you got the whole " children on the other side of the world are starving" spiel. Recently I observed my 3 year old grandson going to the fridge and just looking, when I asked what he was looking for he said he wanted something to eat but was not sure what? so it begins... Choices are we given so many and that is how we end up making very poor food choices? only to find later in life we do everything possible to correct the years of poor diet. I always thought my mother was a bit on the hard side, (tough love and all that), but upon reflection my mother raised my brother and myself, as a single working parent, only due to her own stubbornness and divorce, she made her life hard but rarely complained she lived by the saying "you make your bed you lie in it" but I am proud of her and for the food she put on the table, I can't remember ever going hungry, I can't remember ever eating out either until I was working and making my own money, my mother worked long hours as a barmaid and the meal we had on Monday night we also had on Tuesday and Wednesday night too, and from a very early age I can remember it was my brothers and my job to cook tea by way of the notes mum would leave on the kitchen table. I wish I still had one of the notes because each note was a recipe and it was how I learnt to cook, my daughter told me the other day that I haven't taught her to cook, (I know she wont starve) and I told her that I wasn't taught either I watched but that wasn't true, I was taught but didn't realise until now that I was taught by my mother but she was at work at the time. A typical note left for me, at the age of 10 ( my brother would have been at footy practice so it was my turn to cook) would be something like this... Go to the butchers and get 4 lamb neck chops, go to the corner store, get So the notes would never say this is the recipe for lamb stew, but like I said you never questioned the food choices, made by your mum, unless you are my daughters, I made the mistake of asking them what do you want for tea, and anytime I suggested a stew it was "yuk!" but I grew up on "Real Food" mum couldn't afford to waste money on processed or packet foods, and to be honest when I left home, and started to make my own decisions on what to buy and what to eat, I wasn't making the best choices and it has taken me a till recently to work that all out.
I have to admit I made some wrong choices for my girls and the one thing that stands out to me is, I bought my daughters 100% apple juice, thinking I am not going to give them rubbish to drink, yet knowing now that I might as well have been pouring 12 or more teaspoons of sugar down their throats, each glass they had, how wrong was I? also if I could go back to when they were both little, I wouldn't ask them what they wanted for tea, (it was always "chicken nuggets") and I would just do as my mum did and make sure they were eating real food. Oh and that tough love I spoke about earlier, one occasion (my brothers turn to cook) and he had to make "TRIPE" if you are not horrified yet, it gets worse! Peter was going well cooking as per the note left on the kitchen table, but when it came to final "add salt" the lid came off the salt shaker and nearly half fell in, and there is no way you can scoop that back out. When mum came home and discovered what had happened, she made my brother and I eat the tripe anyway as a lesson to be more careful, it was the worse meal I ever had as a kid. I have to say though later in life I had tripe (that mum cooked) and it wasn't too bad, but something makes a person say yuk when they think of eating the lining of a sheep gut! ha ha, Oh as cheap as tripe is, mum couldn't afford to waste food that was the other reason she made us eat it, not one of my happier lasting memories of Real Food! Well day 9 of reboot, and all is going well, the weather has started to warm up again so on Friday when I start adding solids to my daily diet I will be eating lots of raw vegetables (salad) I don't want my body to start filling with toxins again, I think back to all the diets I have been on in my life and how I was setting myself up to fail every time without knowing. Something I read years ago has stuck in my brain, did you know? (said in the voice of Peter Cook) that Fat cells multiply they don't just get fatter, so when you gain weight you are increasing the number of fat cells in your body, and when you lose weight you have the same amount of fat cells they just shrink, that is why it is not recommended that you go on a diet but rather choose a healthier food choice (like raw vegetables) and this also makes sense to me that when you return to your normal eating style after losing some weight on a diet, you fatten your cells up again and now you have even more cells that are getting fatter, it is a cruel cycle and the only way I have found to change this cycle is to change my eating habits and change what I eat. When I first started the Veg Juice Fast, a lot of people said "I couldn't do that" well I didn't think I could either, but my determination and my strong desire to regain my health made me give it a go, I was surprised that it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be, like they say the first step is the hardest (first 3 days) after that it is a piece of cake (broccoli), and I have never been a fan of vegetables (unless it was a potato) so I even surprised myself, I didn't even give it a second thought about what it was going to taste like, as far as I was concerned, taste wasn't the issue, I wanted to get all the macro nutrients from the vegetables into my body, so I was juicing all the vegetables that my mother tried to get me to eat, but failed, Spinach, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage just to name a few, but I was so pleasantly surprised, the juices tasted so nice, I put ginger and lemon in every juice because the health benefits are just so numerous and after the first 3 days I was actually craving my vegetable juice.
I have just returned from Forster where I had my 2nd Boost juice, my only complaint is it wasn't cold enough, when I make the juices I make sure they are really cold when we are going to drink them, so much better when they are icy cold, in fact I keep all the veg in the fridge and that ensures that I am going to get a cold juice even if I drink it straight from the juicer. That is all I have to say for today, Keep on keeping on! I have had a lot happening here in the last week or two, my family that was living with me found a house and have moved out, so I don't have to suffer the aromas wafting from the kitchen tempting me to ditch the reboot, not that it really would. My other daughter is taking a step in the right direction to a healthier life, not interested in a juice fast but has been adding 2 juices a day to her new low carb diet, she is looking a lot better already and it has only been 14 days, I am so proud of her, I realize that young people don't have the health issues us oldies have and therefore don't really consider their health when choosing what they eat, I use to say I envied the freedom to eat and drink whatever you want whenever you want but I know now it catches up with you and you pay the price, when weight is much harder to shift and your health declines with age, but better late than never, and every little change in the right direction counts. Well I have an anniversary coming up next month, 21 years since I gave up smoking nearly 40 a day, I am so glad that I did too, my mother gave up about the same time, and I was so proud of her for doing so, but unfortunately my mum had emphysema and also developed lung cancer, which took her life 3 and half years ago, I often think is she was alive today I would have encouraged her to not only be sugar free but to try the vegetable juicing and if I made it a competition between ourselves, like we use to have a $10 bet to see who could lose the most weight, I am sure she would have been in!, the last time we did that was a year before my youngest daughter was born and I won.
I am still in awe that I have lost so much weight and have controlled my type 2 without any medication and I owe it all to vegetable juicing, in earlier posts I spoke of the magic pill or silver bullet, but in reality it is liquid gold and anyone that is serious about being in control of their own health can be, and it is so easy to do, and there are no rules except make sure you have at least an 80% ratio of vegetable to fruit, because too much fruit can hinder your success in not only getting healthy but also hinder your weight loss, but the most important thing is to have a go you will be so glad you did. In the 7 days of the reboot I have lost another 2 kilo so I will keep going ... On the 30th August 2015 we fasted with juice (80% Vegetable with 20% fruit) for the last day of 28 days straight, during this time I only had my juices and water, I gave up my cups of tea even though I had black tea with one Sugarine tablet, I didn't want anything to interfere with my results, so many professionals say that having a sugarine or sugar substitute can effect your weight loss efforts so I couldn't have that, I was on a mission.
The next morning I went and had my full blood tests so I could have them ready for my doctors visit in 2 weeks time, to be honest, I could have kept going with the fast, I got to the stage where I didn't miss the food at all in fact I remember the first day we ate I was craving my juice instead, anyway we juices and included sensible meals at least once a day, we went to Armidale and took our juices with us and we ate out (not a fan these days) and we still managed to stay on track. September 14th 2015, my doctors visit, I had been to the doctor 6 weeks earlier and he had written me the script for LIPIDIL (cholesterol tablet) the doctor thought I was returning to see how the new tablets were going, he was extremely happy when I entered his office, as he was going over my results and commented that he didn't think the tablets would work that well, my cholesterol had dropped from 7.7 to 4.6, when I told him that I hadn't even filled the script, he wanted to know how I got it down so fast? so naturally I told him that I had found my magic pill and it is vegetable juice fasting, he was astounded with my diabetic control and my cholesterol and not to mention the 8 kilos I had lost, more so when I told him that I had also stopped taking my pills after the first 5 days, he just said that I would have to be careful not to let my calcium levels drop and my B12 but other than that, his words were " there is nothing more I can do for you!" under different circumstances (like if you were really ill) you would hate to hear your doctor say those words, but in my case it meant I was in optimum health. So there is my story of my experiences with the juice fast, but my story is not over I am still juicing, in fact I started a reboot yesterday, mainly because I have been to 3 weddings in the last month and I wanted to kick start my weight loss again, yesterday I loss .5 and today I loss .6 great beginnings, I plan to go 10 days this time around. I have to say that once you have done a 28 day fast, a reboot is easy, even when you have a house full of people eating steak and potato bakes for tea. Well as Joe Cross would say "Juice On!" I would like to add "Keep on Keeping on!" This post is not written by me, but I thought the information in Dr Aseem's post was too good to not share it with my subscribers and readers.
Dr Aseem Malhotra reveals why you need to let fat be your medicine By Men's Health Posted on October 26, 2015 Tweet Share This morning, as I do most days, I breakfasted on a three egg omelette cooked in coconut oil, with a whole milk coffee. I enjoyed a wedge of full fat cheese with my lunch, poured a liberal dose of olive oil on my evening salad and snacked on nuts throughout the day. In short, I ingested a fair amount of fat and, as a cardiologist who has treated thousands of people with heart disease, this may seem a particularly peculiar way to behave. Fat, after all, furs up our arteries and piles on the pounds – or at least that’s what prevailing medical and dietary advice has had us believe. As a result, most of us have spent years eschewing full fat foods for their ‘low fat’ equivalents, in the hope it will leave us fitter and healthier. Yet I’m now convinced we have instead been doing untold damage: far from being the best thing for health or weight loss, a low fat diet is the opposite. In fact, I would go so far as to say the change in dietary advice in 1977 to restrict the amount of fat we were eating helped to fuel the obesity epidemic unfolding today. It’s a bold statement, but one I believe is upheld by an array of recent research. (Related: The healthy way to add cheese to your diet) These days I make a point of telling my patients – many of whom are coping with debilitating heart problems – to avoid anything bearing the label ‘low fat’. Better instead, I tell them, to embrace full fat dairy and other saturated fats within the context of a healthy eating plan. It’s an instruction that is sometimes greeted with open-mouthed astonishment, along with my request to steer clear of anything that promises to reduce cholesterol – another of those edicts we are told can promote optimum heart and artery health. As we will see, the reality is far more nuanced: in some cases lowering cholesterol levels can actually increase cardiovascular death and mortality, while in healthy people over sixty a higher cholesterol is associated with a lower risk of mortality. Why, exactly, we will come to later. First though, let me make it clear that until very recently, I too assumed that keeping fat to a minimum was the key to keeping healthy and trim. In fact, to say my diet revolved around carbohydrates is probably an understatement: sugared cereal, toast and orange juice for breakfast, a panini for lunch and pasta for dinner was not an uncommon daily menu. Good solid fuel, or so I thought, especially as I am a keen sportsman and runner. Still, I had a wedge of fat round my stomach which no amount of football and running seemed to shift. That, though, wasn’t the reason I started to explore changing what I ate. That process started in 2012, when I read a paper called ‘The toxic truth about Sugar’ by Robert Lustig in the science journal Nature. In it, Lustig, a Professor of Pediatrics who also works at the University of California’s Centre for Obesity Assessment, said that the dangers to human health caused by added sugar were such that products packed with it should carry the same warnings as alcohol. It was an eye-opener: as a doctor I already knew too much of anything is bad for you, but here was someone telling us that something most of ate unthinkingly every day was, slowly, killing us. The more I looked into it, the more it became abundantly clear to me that it was sugar, not fat, which was causing so many of our problems – which is why, along with a group of fellow medical specialists I launched the lobbying group Action on Sugar last year with the aim of persuading the food industry to reduce added sugar in processed foods. Then earlier this year I had another light-bulb moment. In February Karen Thomson, the granddaughter of pioneering heart transplant surgeon Christian Barnard, and Timothy Noakes, a highly-respected Professor of Exercise and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town, invited me to speak at the world’s first ‘low carb’ summit in South Africa. I was intrigued, particularly as the conference hosts are both fascinating characters. A former model, Thomson has courageously battled a number of addictions including alcohol and cocaine, but lately it is another powder – one she labels ‘pure, white and deadly’ – that has resulted in her opening the world’s first carbohydrate and sugar addiction rehab clinic in Cape Town. Noakes, meanwhile, has recently performed a remarkable U-turn on the very dietary advice he himself expounded for most of his illustrious career: that is, that athletes need to load up on carbohydrates to enhance performance. A marathon runner, he was considered the poster boy for high carbohydrate diets for athletes – then he developed Type 2 diabetes. Effectively tearing pages out of his own textbook, Noakes has now said athletes – and this goes for those of us who like to jog around the park too – can get their energy from ketones, not glucose. That is, from fat not sugar. Alongside them were fifteen international speakers ranging from doctors, academics and health campaigners who between them produced an eloquent and evidence-based demolition of “low fat” thinking – as well as suggesting that it is carbohydrate consumption, not fatty foods, which is fuelling our obesity epidemic. (Related: Men's Health investigates Britain's diabetes epidemic) Opening the conference was Gary Taubes, a former Harvard physicist who wrote The Diet Delusion, in which he argued that it is refined carbohydrates that are responsible for heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and many other of our Western maladies. The book caused controversy when it was released seven years ago, but his message is finally gaining traction. And that message is this: obesity is not about how many calories we eat, but what we eat. Refined carbohydrates fuel the over production of insulin, which in turn promotes fat storage. In other words: it’s not calories from fat themselves that are the problem. It’s a robust message that was reinforced time and again at the conference. Take Swedish family physician Dr Andreas Eenfeldt, who runs the country’s most popular health blog Diet Doctor. In his home country, studies show that up to twenty three percent of the population are embracing a high fat, low carbohydrate diet. A ticking time bomb you might think – but contrary to expectations, while obesity rates are soaring everywhere else, they are now starting to show a decline there. More research on this correlation is yet to be done – but in the meantime The Swedish Council on Health Technology has made its position clear. After a two year review involving sixteen scientists, it concluded that a high fat, low carb diet may not only be best for weight loss, but also for reducing several markers of cardiovascular risk in the obese. In short, as Dr Eenfeldt told the conference, ‘You don’t get fat from eating fatty foods just as you don’t turn green from eating green vegetables.’ This, of course, is a difficult message for many to swallow; particularly for heart patients, most of whom have spent years pursuing a low fat, low cholesterol diet as the best way to preserve heart health. It’s a public health message that was first promoted in the sixties, after the globally respected Framingham Heart study sanctified high cholesterol as a major risk factor for heart disease. It’s a cornerstone of government and public health messages – yet what people didn’t know was that the study also threw up some more complex statistics. Like this one: for every 1mg/dl per year drop in cholesterol levels in those who took part in the study there was a 14% increase in cardiovascular death and an 11% increase in mortality in the following 18 years for those aged over 50. It’s not the only statistic that doesn’t sit with the prevailing anti-cholesterol message: in 2013, a group of academics studied previously unpublished data from a seminal study done in the early seventies, known as the Sydney Diet Heart study. They discovered that cardiac patients who replaced butter with margarine had an increased mortality, despite a 13% reduction in total cholesterol. And the Honolulu heart study published in the Lancet in 2001 concluded that in the over-sixties a high total cholesterol is inversely associated with risk of death. Startling, isn’t it? A lower cholesterol is not in itself the mark of success, it only works in parallel with other important markers, like a shrinking waist size and diminishing blood markers for diabetes. Conversely, a mounting slew of evidence suggests that far from contributing to heart problems, having full fat dairy in your diet may actually protect you from heart disease and type 2 diabetes. What most people fail to understand is that, when it comes to diet, it’s the polyphenols and omega 3 fatty acids abundant in extra virgin olive oil, nuts, fatty fish and vegetables that help to rapidly reduce thrombosis and inflammation independent of changes in cholesterol. Yet full fat dairy has remained demonized – until now. In 2014, two Cambridge Medical Research Council studies concluded that the saturated fats in the blood stream that came from dairy products were inversely associated with Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Meaning that in moderate amounts – no-one is talking about devouring a cheese board in one sitting here – cheese is actually a proponent of good health and longevity. The same study, incidentally, found that the consumption of starch, sugar and alcohol encourages the production of fatty acids made by the liver that correlate with an increased risk of these killer diseases. It is around type 2 Diabetes, in fact, that the anti-fat pro-carb message of recent decades has done some of the greatest damage. A lot of patients suffering from Type 2 Diabetes – the most common kind – are laboring under the dangerous misapprehension that a low fat, starchy carbohydrate fuelled diet will help their medication work most effectively. They couldn’t be more wrong. Earlier this year, a critical review in the respected journal Nutrition concluded that dietary carbohydrate restriction is one of the most effective interventions for reducing features of metabolic syndrome. It would be better to rename type 2 diabetes “carbohydrate intolerance disease”. Try telling this to the public though. Like the man who called into a national radio show in Cape Town on which I was taking part to discuss the relationship between diet and heart disease. Diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, he was under the impression he had to consume sugar so his diabetes medications could ‘work’ – when in fact it was going to worsen his symptoms. And how many doctors and patients know that although some of these medications to control blood sugar may marginally reduce the risk of developing kidney disease, eye disease and neuropathy, they don’t actually have any impact on heart attack, stroke risk or reduce death rates? On the contrary dangerously low blood sugar from overmedicating on diabetes drugs has been responsible for approximately 100,000 emergency room visits per year in the United States. (Related: Should the UK government introduce a sugar tax to help save lives?) But who can blame the public for such misguided perceptions? In my opinion a perfect storm of biased research funding, biased reporting in the media and commercial conflicts of interest have contributed to an epidemic of misinformed doctors and misinformed patients. The result is a nation of over-medicated sugar addicts who are eating and pill-popping their way to years of misery with chronic debilitating diseases and an early grave. It’s why, these days, I very seldom touch bread, have got rid of all added sugars and have embraced full fat as part of my varied Mediterranean-inspired diet. I feel better, have more energy and – even though I didn’t set out to do so – I’ve lost that fatty tyre around my waist, despite reducing the time I spend exercising. Perhaps you can’t face making all those changes in one go. In which case, if you do one thing, make it this: next time you are in the supermarket and are tempted to pick up a pack of low-fat spread, buy a pack of butter instead or, better still, a bottle of extra virgin olive oil. Your heart will thank you for it. The father of modern medicine Hippocrates once said, “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”. It’s now time we let “fat” be that medicine. Dr Aseem Malhotra is a cardiologist and advisor to the National Obesity Forum. He is currently crowdfunding for his documentary film "The Pioppi Protocol - 21 days to whole heart health." With it, he will create a film free from commercial influence and financing that will navigate the mixed messages surrounding heart health and successfully communicate the key steps to reduce your risk of disease. You can support the making of this movie on Kickstarter until October 31. When Andrew and I finished watching "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" we were both very inspired, and I had made up my mind while watching the movie i was going to give this a go, (I hope by now you have watched the movie, I added to my post on Monday) over the years I had tried all the diets and followed all the advice, but I was still on medication for my diabetes and now the doctor wanted to give me tablets for the cholesterol. So if Joe Cross managed to get off all his medication and cure his disease why couldn't I, well I could that is just it, this is the magic pill or the silver bullet, that the "everything in moderation crowd" like to say doesn't exist, well I think there are a lot of people that are living proof that this "Juicing Vegetables" is the magic pill, now it only depends on how much you want "Health and weight loss".
We had already been having the occasional veg juice, as I had read on other posts how important it is to have certain vegetables everyday for optimal health (Kale and Broccoli) are two important ones, but I have never really been a fan of green vegetables, but I had a small "Black and Decker Juice factory" juicer that my father bought for me over 30 years ago in the hopes I would get healthy, I resurrected it from the back of the cupboard and we would have a veg juice nearly everyday with a Krill oil capsule, because we both wanted to fix our cholesterol. It would take me hours just to make two juices so when we embarked on the juice fast we went and bought a Breville juice fountain (so glad I did), next we went and stocked up on veg, we started on Monday 4th August 2015, and would have 3 to 4 juices per day, our goal was to do a 10 day fast. First day was good but you had to keep reminding yourself that you were not eating, ha ha, the second day I was starting to feel a little head-achy so I went to bed early, on the 3rd day I honestly felt like my throat had been cut, Andrew was feeling hungry too, I should have thought to have an extra juice, but being the hero I am, I just persevered, I wasn't going to stop my fast now, only 3 days in I had lost 2.3 kilo and my blood sugar had dropped to 6.1 so although I am thinking this is the hardest thing I have ever done at least I know this is working. On the fourth day I felt great, got through the whole day on 4 juices and felt fully satisfied, day 5 I felt even better lost another .6 and blood sugar down to 5.2, the miracle had begun for the first time I could not only see the results in my weight loss daily (I like to weigh myself daily on the Wii) but I was watching my Blood Glucose Levels dropping, I started checking my BGL at bed time too, one night it was down to 3.8. By the second week I decided to stop taking my Diabex for the diabetes and my 1/2 of blood pressure tablet, every day was better than the last, I didn't miss eating and by day 9, my weight was down by 3.9 kilo and my blood glucose levels with no medication were 4.9. I really didn't want to finish the fast on the 10th day, so we decided to go 15 days. I should add that other than Andrew's cholesterol being a bit high (by the doctors standards) he didn't need to go on this juice fast but did so to support me, even though I offered to still cook for him while I was on the fast, looking back now, I really do appreciate his support and we are both better for it. Well day 15 came and went and we decided to go another 5 days, neither of us were feeling hungry and we were really enjoying the juices, Joe Cross's "Mean Green Juice" was my favourite juice, day 20 came my BGL was 4.0 no meds, and my weight was down by 6.5 kilo this is the greatest thing that has happened, in fact I don't want the fast to end or my weight loss to stop, for the first time in 16 years I feel that maybe I could get back to my weight before I got diabetes, and all the effects of having diabetes are gone. I wake up in the morning and feel great, not tired or stiff no pain and I am told I am not snoring anymore either, I would do my happy dance for you to show how happy I am but you couldn't see it. We decided to keep going every time we got close to the date to end the fast we would extend a couple of days, and we would have probably gone longer than the 28 days only we had to go to Armidale for Terri's Valediction dinner, and although we stocked the esky with juices, we did have to eat, when we ended the fast on the 28th day we decided to have one meal per day, usually the first meal of the day, although our first meal was around lunch time as we have been practicing, intermittent fasting as well. I remember we had bacon eggs, sausages, tomato and avocado (Andrew had toast but I didn't) and I didn't really enjoy the food as much as I had been enjoying the juices. On the 28th day my blood glucose was 3.9 and my weight was down by 8.1 kilo, Andrew's weight had dropped by 6.5 kilo as well he was almost at optimum weight (according to the Wii), I still have a way to go to get to optimum weight, but my health couldn't be better. Next Post: our blood tests after 28 day fast Once I arrived home with my script in my hand and had a rant and rave to Andrew about what my doctor has said this time, the first person I wanted to ask for advice was Gary Fettke he has always been my go to person for medical advice on anything related to sugar, diabetes and now cholesterol, his advice to me was that I should watch a YouTube video by A/Prof. Ken Sikaris which I did, it was very informative and made me feel a lot better about my cholesterol, you should watch the video also if you have any concerns about your own cholesterol. So after watching this video I felt a lot better about my cholesterol but wanted to change the numbers, in the video the cereal killers movie and Fed up were mentioned, which I highly recommend, actually I would recommend that you watch all and every video on Low Carb High Fat or as some call it Healthy Fats as although it was vilified for more than 30 years, Saturated Fats are the Healthy fats and you should have more of these fats in your diet, anyway while watching Cereal Killers, Fed up and That Sugar Film, I somehow was led to a movie on YouTube for a couple of years, that I hadn't heard of before, called "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead" by Joe Cross, and without me saying too much more on this post, watch this movie (I have posted below) and you will be inspired to give Juice Fasting a go. Next Post - Our 28 day Juice fast begins
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