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Townsend, Montana | I've been living the "John Burns" diet for over two years now. Currently 28 years old. Have seen LOTS of benefits. #1 reason was my allergies/asthma/farmer lung. They are gone.
Started having respiratory problems in kindergarten. Kindergarten and 1st grade I was one of the best runners in my class. Still remember the first asthma attack when playing in the freshly chopped dry alfalfa pile with my brother. By high school, my joints were killing me and was diagnosed with early onset arthritis. Could never take a deep breath and was told I would have COPD by my 50's if I didn't get far away from the farm environment. Couldn't run 100 yards even though I was always lanky and trim.
Haven't taken an allergy medication (or any medication/pill/shot) in over two years now. Can breathe better than I ever remember. Other benefits include, but not limited to:
-weight loss down to the "optimal" BMI (15ish pounds)
-down from 33" waist jeans to 31"
-up one shirt size in chest and arm muscle mass while eliminating pushups and pull-ups
-joint pain and aches gone (suspect the inhaler steroids were mostly to blame)
-receding gums are growing back
-blood pressure went from being borderline high to basement bottom low.
-tinnitus greatly reduced
-pitted keratolysis gone
-don't sunburn at all (seed oils are to blame here - more specifically, phytosterols)
-canker sores now a rare occurrence (only when I eat something bad)
-mental health - most think it's hoax, but it's not. I was always fairly optimistic, but now I am literally exited to get out of bed in the morning and go to work. May be a negative to my marketing mindset but time will tell.
-sleep less and can work harder and longer - see above
-I can run like never before. I don't train at all, but now that I can breathe, running just feels good. And I'm pretty darn fast for a lanky farmer in bibs and boots...
-hunger pains are a thing of the past - pretty sure they are just "junk food withdrawals"
-never feel "bloated" or "stuffed"
All in all, I am in a much better place than I was three years ago. But it hasn't been easy at all.
First of all, the sugars and additives in MOST ALL foods nowadays are highly addictive for me. From aspartame to niacin to xantham gum, I craved it. No matter how much clean food I ate, I was never satisfied until I pigged out on junk food. Which didn't satisfy, but I felt stuffed or bloated so I couldn't eat anymore. I literally had to clean out my entire house before I could quit the sugars. Nothing but butter and eggs in the fridge and beef and pork in the freezer. If you would have told me five years ago that I had a food addiction, I would have laughed at you. But now I know better.
Secondly, you will be judged and even ostracized for swearing off of certain foods and eating "loads" of saturated fat - even though the results are positive. I have always kept my mouth shut and kept to the shadows but I catch flack at family gatherings because I won't eat the cake, stuffing, pies, salad dressing, etc. I eat "too much meat" and am "going to have a heart attack" even though I am the most fit and healthy of anyone there. Doesn't seem like much, but it will wear on you.
Anyways, today I bought some beef franks at Costco. My favorite frank back in the day. Only two bad ingredients were "dextrose" and "sugar". 2 carbs per 1/4 pound frank which didn't seem too bad to me.
I cooked a couple for dinner tonight. I took about three bites and threw the rest to the dog. They were disgustingly sweet. No beef flavor at all. Not even a cane sugar taste, just artificially sweet (I assume from the dextrose). Finished dinner with a pound of top sirloin with a dash of black pepper and salt.
I am kind of glad I bought them as for the first time ever, I can now say that I don't crave the sugar any more. I now prefer whole natural food to processed "foodstuffs". It's been a long road, but the tongue's preference can change.
In short, if you're trying to change you lifestyle/eating habits:
-admit you have an addiction - you probably do
-keep with it - you can, and WILL break it if you want to
-the results are worth whatever it takes
-when a close friend asks about what you are doing because they find themselves in bad spot and have seen your positive results, that alone is worth more than all the other positive aspects combined.
Edited by 1972RedNeck 12/3/2024 22:49
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Finally broke my sugar addiction
