TESTIMONIALS

“Approximately 14 years ago my whole world collapsed. Several major personal life changing events took place: My business failed, leaving me bankrupt and forcing me into foreclosure of the home my daughter and I designed and had built. That same precious daughter, who suffered from severe depression and had attempted suicide more than once, finally succeeded. Her two sons, although young men in their late teens, were zapped back into childhood by their grief and even now still feel that they were abandoned. All I could do was try to hold their lives together and comfort myself by eating. Then, 0n 9/11/01 everyone’s world changed. It was around that time that My Doctor broke the news that I was a diabetic, full blown, not just slightly. A1-C about 10, blood sugar over 300. THAT got my attention! And saved my life. The loving care of my Doctor helped my immensely. She understood all I had been through. She also knew that I had tried every diet known to man, in an effort to lose weight. I am 5 feet tall and weighed 265 pounds. She treated me as an intelligent adult. I already knew what diabetes does, the slow and cruel ways it kills you a piece at a time. First one foot, then the other until both legs are gone, sometimes even the hip bone. You end up a breathing corpse in a wheel chair without even having hands and arms to move the wheelchair. I even considered using my daughters escape method, but I didn’t want to take away my Grandsons’ only stable part of their lives. But I was determined not to die from that insidious disease. So I tried the only diet I had not tried before: The Atkins Diet”. I never actually followed the Atkins method, but it caused to educate myself about Sugar (pure Carbohydrates) and starches which convert to sugars (carbohydrates). I eliminated sugar from my life that very day. I also defied the food pyramid doctrine by taking grains from the top to the bottom. I realize that a farmer feeds his animals grains to fatten them up before they are butchered. I defied that miserable butcher, diabetes. I threw away anything white: flour, rice etc. And honey, whether natural or not, is still sugar. Fast forward: Saving my own life became more powerful than my grief. I lost 35 pounds the first month. In the meantime I moved away and had to find a different doctor, who, of course, preached the same tired solutions, but I, of course ignored them and kept on shunning sugar and grains. In the first year I lost 100 pounds. I am no longer considered a diabetic at all. My total weight loss at this point, and holding steady, is about 130 pounds. I went from a size 26 dress to a size 12. No medications – I just don’t eat sugar or white grains. I use only nut flours to bake with, and use only natural fats. No artery clogging Crisco or phony fats from hydrogenated vegetable oils. I use almond flour or almond meal coconut flour for my cookies, muffins etc. I make a really good New York Style Cheesecake, or other flavored cheesecakes, using crushed almonds instead of graham crackers for the crust. I make banana nut or applesauce almond flour muffins, chocolate coconut cookies, peanut butter almond cookies and many, many varieties of goodies. I eat Bacon, Ham, beef, pork & shrimp (pork & shrimp limited due to the high Purine content)- any kind of fat and protein I choose. I just don’t eat carbs.” July 2014 – E.H. Atlanta, GA