Celebrating My Eat Burn Sleep Lifestyle Anniversary!
Today is my Eat Burn Sleep lifestyle anniversary! I want to thank Yalda and her team and say I’m incredibly grateful for the platform.
I will try to explain how it benefited me without being too long. In 2019, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which probably had been going on for quite a while. The doctors were shocked to find out my TSH was 17 (so more than quadruple the normal range). I was on 75mcg Synthroid for a few months. And 6-7 months after my diagnosis, I started the Eat Burn Sleep lifestyle (I would say 70/30), which started to reverse my symptoms, and Synthroid became way too strong, leading to hyperthyroidism. I, therefore, stopped all medication, which was such a relief, and never took it again. Ironically, all the doctors (GPs and endocrinologists) told me I would need medication for the rest of my life, and probably with increasing dosage, given my very high TSH levels.
Fast forward to 2021, I was still on the Eat Burn Sleep lifestyle, but with a lot of red list foods I believe, and I wanted to lose all the weight I gained during my hypothyroidism days and just wanted to feel healthier overall. I then started the Six Week Reset, and I lost 7kg!!!! I respected the food list and meal plan religiously, however, I definitely have room for improvement regarding my water intake, physical activity (part-time job + studying for a big exam in May), and also meditation. I hope this summer I will be able to incorporate all those and lose my last 7-8kg remaining to be at my normal weight.
I also want to add that my first week was terrible. I had awful migraines, I threw up multiple times in the morning, and I felt nauseous most of the day. I only started feeling better after the second week.
I just want to say that it is a journey; it might be easy for you, but for me, the first week was pretty bad. But the results are fantastic, and I truly believe that the Eat Burn Sleep lifestyle can only lead to positive outcomes. My undergrad was in human biology, physiology, and immunology, and everything Yalda says makes sense. I hope the lifestyle will stick with me once I become a doctor, and maybe, who knows, prescribe it as a “medication.”
Still with me? I’ll sum up how the lifestyle benefited me here:
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Lost 7kg
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Better mood + energy
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Skin improvement (I suffered from milia on my cheeks and jawline, and they seem to be smaller in size)
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Baby hair growth
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Dramatically decreased all of my sugar/junk food cravings
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Fewer migraines (I still have them once in a while but not as often and as severe)