A Guest Appearance For Lovely Mark From One of Our Veterans

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Apr 15 (edited) • 💬 General

Saul has lost 50 pounds in the last 2 months. He started his journey with the protocol on the 10th of February.

He adjusted really well from the beginning, which was shocking. His mother used to peel off the skin from the chicken and throw it in the trash, they weren't allowed to eat butter growing up, no bacon or eggs but white bread and cereal instead because it was "heart healthy"... I asked him a few questions and for some encouragement in case it helps.

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One of the hardest parts about coming off food addictions is there are so many parts of the body at play here(also, we tend to only think the pancreas is responsible for insulin, but 7 organs are! And they all need to be healthy), stabbing your progress in the face like you're in a war.

@Mark Townsend

I was also wondering if you took any before photos, or took your weight, so that in a few days you'll have some sign of progress as something tangible to grasp onto and urge you onwards.

You're not weak. And it's not really your willpower at play here, there are multiple organs struggling: your brain very likely has some old habits that have dug extremely deep neural pathways that it was counting on continuing(heyyy, where is the sugar?), also we talked about how we have about a small dog's brain worth, about a 100 million neurons from your esophagus to your rectum and these little manipulative drug addicts want their treats and they're complaining right now. Also... I sound like that Sham Wow commercial, and that's not all! In your intestines, we talked about one-fifth of all the food you will ever eat in your lifetime is stolen by the hundreds of trillions of bacteria in your gut(but they do give us some vitamins that come out their back ends as a reward and those are directly absorbed through our intestinal lining, so that's creepy and nice of them...) And you end up with more types of bacteria depending on what you feed them. So a high-carb diet will have a LOT more sugar-fermenting bacteria than a meat eater. And now trillions and trillions of bacteria who in some small way control you, are starving, and they're ANGRY, Mark. Eventually, if you stick with this, they will die off and you'll get meat-eating bacteria, you'll make New neural pathways in your brain that don't involve junk food. You'll rewire your taste buds and they will enjoy real food. And some of this may be in the mind, if you're the type who can eat an inch thick of butter slabbed on bread, but are struggling to eat it with meat and eggs, it might be a mind over matter thing in the beginning. Me and Saul made a video for you talking about his adjustment week. And we tried to think of any helpful suggestions or anything he did that helped. This is for anyone in the group in case anyone else has the same questions, or who needs help or some encouragement, too.

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