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so welcome Laurie we’re going to do a

Skype today do a little interview I saw

your before and after I was very

impressed I wanted just to get to meet

you and hear your story

so welcome to the mini interview Thank

You boys

okay so Laurie tell me a little bit

about your history

have you had an issue with weight over

your you know growing up or when did you

start gaining weight what what what’s

your story on that weight problem until

probably my early forties and I started

going through menopause very early and I

have had you know some minor weight

issues you know due to pregnancies and

things like that but I was always able

to sit back in shape pretty quickly but

after I started experiencing the middle

class symptoms I really started you know

putting on the weight and as we all know

that your body changes drastically or at

that time and it just kept getting worse

and worse and I’m quite a few years

postmenopausal now and I just kept

gaining the weight and I couldn’t

nothing I did worked Favre’s traditional

advice and you know going love that

things like that exercise and I just

recently finished my undergrad degree

and there are no for years I was very

sedentary because I was working in

office administration job plus I was

full-time student plus full-time parent

full-time wife things like that so I

have a lot of stress going on and I let

myself go I didn’t have time to think

about me I had to produce and you know

just get through daily living and get to

my degree so my body and my health

suffered tremendously

and after I finished my degree in

December I became aware of course I was

already aware but I couldn’t really have

it before fun of my thinking because I

couldn’t I had to send too many things

going on so after a completed school I

was ok ready to work on me now and I had

done some research and I started

researching because I found myself bored

a couple of weeks

post-graduation so I started researching

some things and I come across

dr. Denise worden and I have heard some

comments about ketogenic diet and how

she had good results treating some folks

with that so I got I got thinking about

it and curious and I just started doing

research and found the information from

dr. Glassman and then shortly after

deciding that this was what I was going

to try I promptly started finding your

videos and I found a lot of that very

helpful but um yeah so that’s where I am

today

awesome what did what did you pick out

what was your like top weight that you

hit these you know at the worst case

scenario about 185 ok

and did you also have like hot flashes

and all that to connect with like the

whole game ok

it saw me a hot flashes joint pain moved

problems mental health issues you know I

just uh it was horrible

I felt horrible I felt like I weighed a

thousand pounds just physically it was

it was hard to motivate and move and I

knew that there had to be a solution and

I was also diagnosed with um high blood

pressure I’ve had issues for many years

with the high blood pressure but that

that really took it increased and just

continually got worse from the time that

I was diagnosis

metaphorical or the closed situation

interesting so before menopause let’s

say in your 30s did you have any problem

with your periods or your cycle at that

point no okay so everything’s going fine

and then BAM

you get a culture all these ten months

after I have my last child which in 31

is what I have her and shortly after I

started having weird sometimes them and

it took several years to get it

diagnosed so because what happens is the

adrenal glands basically make the same

hormones as the ovaries and they if they

go into menopause tired exhausted weak

everything is magnified then you start

getting more course all adrenal symptoms

and you’re like what the heck’s going on

hot flashes hot flashes are basically

the adrenal failing to back up the

ovaries that’s all that is

and then so you eventually started doing

the ketosis so tell me how much how much

weight did you lose what did you get

into eventually as far as your weight

today I want to see five wow that’s

awesome yeah and actually I’m more

impressed with the inches that I am the

weight but wait I’m really not you know

I know that’s going to happen so I’m not

gonna focus on the weight quite at first

I was but then like I started this on

the day I started with February 2nd and

it’s that that way and I was like 182

and I started at hardcore and I lost

about ten pounds the first three weeks

and of course I was aware that that was

most likely water weight so I said okay

let’s see what happens in the next

following weeks well then I started it

was about 1 to 2 pounds a week wow

that’s pretty good

yeah and that’s right that’s where I’ve

been for been doing for a while but the

last not say that less to three weeks

I’ve been broke

1:55 so I’m figuring they don’t want my

body but heal and catch up with with all

the new adjusting and all that stuff and

they’re not probably I’ve got to go back

and see my doctor the 19th of July and

we can make some adjustments or they are

kaneki’s yeah awesome cool so um so did

you carry any weight in the midsection

at first is that where it hung out I

actually look I was about eight more oh

man Wow

and so you did you notice changes in

your midsection like inches like

shrinking your stomach it’s that one

absolutely right right from my upper rib

cage right down through to my mid thigh

I was very heavy there that’s where I

carry all that weight I’m awful in my

upper arms and in my face on that those

people that are watching and they’re not

familiar with ketosis or imminent

fasting the belly is really excess

insulin but cortisol which is adrenal

can also cause that as well because that

can convert into insulin so or or

increase insulin so basically you want a

ketogenic diet at first did you do any

in a minute fasting at first no I did

not um thanks to you I learned about the

intermittent fasting and that has served

me very well actually I just came off of

from a vacation and I only I gained one

pound through that vacation and I have

decided that after this weekend because

I got to get back on track for my food

preps and all that kind of thing

so I’m going to do that this weekend and

then I’m going to start practicing the

intermittent fasting again get back on

that schedule awesome yeah I had a

friend who I talked to over the weekend

and he went on a cruise and he’s looking

around on the pool his kids are playing

and he’s like people like he’s so big on

those cruises like huge huge stomachs

and they’re sitting around of course you

know

they’re eating and the alcohol and

everything and that was that’s what

motivated him he says that’s it I’m

going to turn this around I’m not going

to look like that but that’s great that

you only lost I mean the only I guess

gained one pound so question I have tell

me

give me an example of what you’re eating

now on your Kido like like what would

you eat for breakfast or lunch or

whatever today I’ve eaten yes and I will

I plan to eat probably in another hour

so but I typically start my day off with

eggs I love your advice with the eggs

and boy doesn’t that really set me up in

the evening that is so true

and it holds me you know it really

satiates me but being on the keto diet

in general my appetite is naturally

decrease as far as the amount at one

setting that I can handle so but usually

for breakfast I will have two eggs with

some cheese cheddar cheese mixed in with

it and to take lots of the bacon or a

couple of sausage links and then for

lunch I try to work in my my greens if I

in some way I will try to have some type

of a salad or either I will have fresh

broccoli cauliflower things like that I

try to stay away from the snacking with

the help I’ve learned how to do that

because I it took me a while to get

adjusted to that and see I had I have

this obsession with fat moms but if you

get too carried away them right so like

back way down on that it’s so easy to

eat a lot of those isn’t it I mean you

just have one I’ll just take one more

and next thing you know you’re like

totally but you know what’s interesting

there’s two things about the fat bombs

number one if you’re doing in a minute

fasting you can get away with more then

if you’re doing just keto and eating six

times a day

mean so that’s going to be disastrous

and the other thing is that at first

when you start to do this and you adapt

to ketosis your key to adapted the

amount that a fat you need is a lot less

because you’re running on your fat

cleanly you don’t almost like before

when you start you need something to get

you to the next meal but after a while

hunger goes down cravings goes down

appetite goes down so you’re actually

running off your own fat which is

perfect right that’s right what I just

recently discovered in some listening to

some of your your webinars and your

YouTube videos and I bet it never

occurred to me before but boy what a

difference that does make it really uh

cause your cravings gone down yeah

tremendously I don’t I don’t have any

cravings really but you know I may have

a twinge but it’s not necessarily an

internal craving it’s more of a

psychological craving good point good

point

yeah cuz it’s like you know I don’t need

that but I’m sure it looks really good I

mean your your desire for that sensation

is not going to go ahead but you’re just

not going to have to have it you know so

and the longer I’ve been on this diet

the easier it is to not even have to

think about saying it’s almost automatic

now and so is my cooking because I

really I’m originally from Virginia and

I very southern in my culture and in my

eat traditions you know and I have

really had to reteach relearn how to

cook and prepare meals and I have tons

of recipes that I just tried just to see

what you know what I like and what I

don’t like and I haven’t found too many

things I don’t like that are keto and

now it’s becoming very natural and

intuitive to me to create a meal on my

own without having to plan for fire

right so when you’re doing in a minute

fasting we’re doing this to meal today

yes yeah and I never even done one meal

of it I mean number one you’re going to

save money less

preparation you got more time on your

hands but that’s the problem is keeping

yourself busy because it’s like wow

sitting around and everyone’s like they

have food on the table and over the

stuff so just keeping busy sitting to

focus on it so have you noticed any

change in your cognitive function or

mood or anything with your energy

unbelievably so I am I best way I can

describe it as miraculous really I

didn’t know how bad I felt so I started

feeling better and then I just keep

feeling better and I just keep feeling

better so granite thing you know I uh we

have a bit lots of good day every now

and again just because you know life

happens or whatever but it’s nothing

that just continuously goes on and on I

have to struggle to get past that’s my

life is my energy level is incredible

like my cognition and my focus is very

Swift um and I have no problem focusing

I don’t have to struggle with that

anymore

wow that is so awesome so do you now

that you know how it went and how you

feel do you ever think you ever go back

to your old pattern or eating absolutely

not ever and I’m so I’m so impressed

with those I just and such awe over the

changes that have happened and

reasonably short period of time I mean

I’ve only been doing this in February in

it sound June so just in this short

period of time the improvements that I

have seen I don’t ever want to be a

carbon war again ever

there’s no need for that because I I

just I don’t I’m not willing to trade my

health for that and I have a lot of

plans moving forward and I want to feel

good doing it I have two grandchildren

and I have a lot of plan so I just want

to you know have longevity and feel good

I like doing it and my family has even

been so impressed that they have joined

in

my husband and my daughter my husband

had even lost about 20 pounds and he

still he has a higher carbon take that I

do I I practiced the 20 grams per day

and he made a lot so maybe 50 but he’s a

big guy he’s you know six two and I

think he’s to about two 210 pounds now

he was about two hundred and thirty

forty when he going down with me and

then he talked about his improvements as

well and then my um my youngest daughter

was still at home with us

she practices with the dinners and being

conscious of her carb intake but she’s

very active and very athletic so she can

handle a little bit more you know she

doesn’t have to watch it as course as I

do but we are all just thrilled to have

this to be part of our life and I am so

impressed with it that I want to

incorporate nutrition education into my

master’s degree which I’m going to be

going into now my education background

is and mental health and human services

and I’m paying of planning to go into a

master’s program for Social Work however

I’m rethinking that and the last two

weeks I’m reconsidering trying to

incorporate a nutrition program into a

counseling program I thought I really

think that is an area that is needed

like people that start sick of the drug

the pill for the whole psyche problems I

mean honestly a lot of it is nutrition

and diet if they were to put on this

program it would be miraculous but of

course they wouldn’t make a lot of money

on it but still people would feel a lot

better

right I’m a very holistic person that

has always been my approach on most

things and I I’m like that

three-year-old who is constantly asking

why I can’t stop asking why and

because of that I’ve come across this

way of living which is rocket Lawson

Julia but I want to share it with

everybody I care about and you know I

want to help people but I also

understand that everybody wants to help

so but I have the knowledge of big wine

totally I’m the same way I’m like hey if

you want how great if you don’t then go

for whatever you’re doing you know let

me know when you’re ready because you

know they have to be self-determined and

that’s fine eventually you know Laura

this has been an incredible I think it’s

going to get a lot of people hope

because you’re a great success before

and after pictures are amazing so I want

to thank you for sharing and we’ll touch

base and maybe you do another one later

just to see how you’re doing like an

idiom now oh look thank you very much I

really appreciate you and all it’s been

wonderful

you’re a great support and great

encouragement my pleasure

well thanks and have a great afternoon

you as well okay yeah