It’s been fifteen months since I made a forever change to my diet and lifestyle by converting to a low-carb, gluten-free, high-fat diet. From a starting point of a fleshy 225 pounds, I am now down to 198 pounds and loving it! I started small, by eliminating all sugars, carbohydrates, and gluten for thirty days. I lost 3 pounds per week, even with no change to my gym schedule, which was sporadic at best. My jeans that were once tight were falling off my butt and I had to wash them in hot water and shrink them. For the first time in a long time, I was happy to look at myself in the mirror after a shower—heck, at forty-eight years young, I look better than I did when I went to the gym two hours a day when I was twenty!
—Pat L.