Modern medicine sends a message that health is mainly about the absence of disease and illness. We all want to avoid illness, but being truly healthy is so much more. Holistic health is mental, physical, and spiritual, and it comes from ways you nourish yourself – not just from how you treat illness. The good
Weight after eating a melon last night: 154.8, Starting weight was 168. But of course this isn’t really measuring fat loss to lean muscle loss. I decided I’d had enough of feeling listless and weak. I didn’t feel like I could stand another night of going to bed hungry. Restocking the fridge I went out
Weight: 155.6 Blood Pressure: 120/80 Temp: 96.6 Feeling a little tired, general overall muscle weakness, very slight lower back ache, and slightly bitter taste in the back of my mouth. Stayed in bed from 2 pm on yesterday and read and slept. Watched a movie and a bunch of fasting videos on YouTube and then
Temp: 96.1 BP: 120/90 Weight: 159 From now on in things should get a bit easier. I should be burning fat and sparing muscle efficiently through ketosis. Reasons for this fast Losing weight for my health is one of my reasons for doing a longer fast. Plaque begins to dissolve inside the arteries rapidly causing
I found the Spud Fit potato mono diet while cruising YouTube for whole foods diet inspiration. I was having trouble with food cravings and wanted to find a way to stay on a healthy whole foods diet and get free of sugar and processed food for good. The Spud Fit Mono-Diet After watching an inspiring
Many people think that Pilates and Yoga are pretty much the same kind of exercise. But even though some of the body positions look similar, the experience of doing Pilates versus Yoga is totally different. Pilates and Yoga can complement each other because they each emphasize different types of movement and different fitness and mental
Weight 159.2 (starting weight 168 not fat loss, mostly water so far) Blood pressure 140/80 Temperature: 96.1 Waist 30 in and thigh 23 in Ketosis has finally started on day four of the fast Ketosis level moderate/high 4.5 to 5 range. It’s interesting to see that ketosis did not actually kick in until day 4
The first day was a water fast, this is the second day of absolute dry fast without drinking water. Weight 161.3 (this first week of weight loss is mostly water and lean muscle mass, starting weight 168) Temp 96.6 Blood Pressure: 140/80 Ketosis level: trace Waist circumference: 30 I am feeling good physically. A little
When I first heard about the raw food diet it made perfect sense. I thought I had finally found the perfect human diet after years of being confused. After all, every other animal in the wild eats only raw foods, though domesticated animals eat cooked foods and are often fat and unhealthy because of it.
I lost 20 pounds in six weeks on Chef AJ’s plant-based approach. Using her book I went from 184 punds to 163 and then found Bright Lines Eating and lost another 12 pounds in 8 weeks. Then I went back to a plant-based diet and have continued to gradually clean up my diet and have kept