An Introduction

My friend Kennis gave me some great wisdom recently..."Don't take diet advice from a fat person."

Well...I have to disagree.  I cannot think of a better source of dieting than a bunch of fat people.  If you think about it, we (I am a fat person) have tried every imaginable diet, gimmick, quick weight loss program, shake, pill or whatever and have had success with each one.  I have lost 20 pounds at least 20 times in my life.  Yeah, maybe the weight did not stay off.  Yeah, maybe I gained even more back.  But the diet did what it was meant to do.  It made me lose weight.  But it was, after all, just a fad, a gimmick and a small page in my book of life.  The page was quickly turned, usually backwards, and the weight just went back to normal.

Just two and half years ago I weighed in at 365 pounds.   I currently weigh in at 260 pounds.  This took a lot of time, energy and trial and error with food.  I have swayed between 260 and 280 like a breeze in the wind.  I don't want to do that.  I want change.  I want to live long and I want to prosper.  I truly believe that my God has a better use for this body than what I have done with it over the last 35 years.  I abused my body.  I ate too much.  I drank too much.  I kept telling myself over and over again that I would take care of my health when I got older...I got older.

Over the next 4 months a group of like minded individuals at the church I belong to have formed a Life Group and are going to share our experiences, recipes, successes and failures with Primal and Paleo eating.

From what I can gather about diets is that it is not meant to last.  You cannot continue to lose weight forever.  You cannot get back to your birth weight.  What is needed is a complete and total change in the way you view health.

Thanks to Netflix and some great films like Farmagedon, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dying, Food Inc. and Hungry for Change my eyes were cracked open just enough to start doing my own research.  I have so many resources right at my finger tips.

I have found a great local farm that has grass fed animals such as cows, goats and pigs along with a raw dairy that has some of the most ridiculous tasting milk I have ever had.  The yogurt is pretty darn good too.

I don't expect to convince anyone that this is a better way to live.  I am up against a mountain.  But I suspect that everyone knows that fresh is better than a box.

I don't know what this journey will bring.  I know that dieting is silly.  I know that a lifestyle change has to happen.  I have plateaued.  I dropped the first 100 pounds in a year.  I have struggled to remove any more.  Over the next 4 months I will be documenting weight loss, size loss, and hopefully some very delicious reviews of some really delicious dishes.  That is fun to say.  Delicious dishes.I don't want to limit myself to just a piece of meat and veggies every meal.  I want breads, pizza and comfort foods, but I don't want to die for them.

So wish us luck!

Ian