Update 2/20/21

By Tim Naylor -

 It's Presidents Day 2023.  

I have been at the new me now for 7 weeks so it is time to assess how things are going.

1 Diet - I started this with the GAPS diet which stands for Gut And Psychology (or Physiology in her later book) Syndrome and was designed by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride.

The whole premise of GAPS is that if we heal our gut and our microbiome then other things in our lives will get better.

So, per the GAPS protocol I pretty much ate soup: meat stock, boiled meat, boiled vegetables that are very soft,  for 3 weeks. The GAPS protocol also pushes probiotics (but only), so I started making kefir (both water and milk kefir) and tried my hand at sauerkraut.

Mostly things went really well.  I felt better although it could have been just missing grains, legumes and sugar, all of which have some inflammatory impact.

About a week in I found another book I really liked, by Dr. William Davis called Super Gut. I'm not sure I am convinced of everything he proposes, but I definitely like the idea of contributing to my microbiome intentionally, so I started his Super Gut yogurt 4-week plan while maintaining a lot of the GAPS ideas.  

I have slowly introduced grains, but still try to limit them (Dr. Davis would not approve), but I have focused on putting the good things in and letting the rest sort itself out. By and large this method has worked for me.

  • I'm down 14 lbs over 7 weeks which is great.
  • My sleep score on my fitness tracker has improved from the low 60s to the mid 70s. 
  • My energy is much better in general.
  • Mornings are much easier (although I went back to sleep about 7:00 today because Taylor wanted to snig, AKA snuggle.)
  • I am much more regular regarding BMs.
  • I don't seem to feel as many cravings.
  • My skin itching which had gotten really rough has reduced to almost nothing.
So all in all a pretty good result! I'm happy with the progress and plan to continue.

So where does that put me for the next 7 weeks

I'm thinking I want to do 49 difficult (as apposed to 75 hard).
Check that out in a post to come!

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