Hello all!
New to the board! I’ve always been physically active with extreme endurance sports and ate the typical Western diet that we’re all familiar with. No matter how hard I trained, I couldn’t ever drop the weight I wanted and I was also medicated for a number of ailments that never went away! My wife and I became vegetarians and then finally became oil-free vegans after finding Dr. MacDougall, Jeff Novick, Dr. Esselstyn, Dr. Fuhrman- basically the whole Vegsource crew’s material.
I’m 5’8” and I used to weigh 210lbs and my cholesterol was at a sickening 200 mg/dL. I now weigh 149lbs and my recent cholesterol is 136 mg/dL and my triglycerides are 75. Beautiful!! I am still a triathlete and actually feel like one instead of fighting to feel healthy even though I was training so hard. I used to use a c-pap (no longer so) and took meds for hypertension and acid reflux that I’m now coming off of. All my doctors are so surprised that a “diet” is making all of these positive changes.
My wife has MS and was diagnosed about 10 years ago and since moving to this lifestyle, she administers no medication any longer and the MRI’s show NOTHING! Thank God that we found these wonderful folks that are changing lives. See you all around the forum!!
