Just had a GREAT post from a Planner on Facebook who lost 33 pounds, but after all of those months, her cholesterol went up. Why is that? Remember heightened cholesterol is your body’s premier line of defense when it senses inflammation. So….wait…. how is it that you can have inflammation on The Plan?? So here’s what I told her, and hi Lisa, so good to hear you are still Planning!
“Your story reminds me of a wonderful Planner. She lost 50 pounds on TP and I told her to make sure to retest from day 3 in roughly 4-5 months. She ignored me of course (hey it’s a lot of work, lol), and a year later her cholesterol went up 60 points. She had never had high cholesterol!!! How could this happen?
She observed rule #1- following thyroid menu. Great. Now, she wasn’t perfect (hey, who is? but EIGHTY percent of the time she was AMAZING and totally Planning). So what gives?
I asked her,” Hey chica, did you retest your foods? Remember I said you had a good amount of weight to lose and that would change your chemistry and nutritional needs. So my dear, did you redo days 3-20?. She said, ” No, bcs I wasn’t gaining weight!”
You see, she was at her lowest weight in her adult life, so she figured everything was ok, and ignored what I always say, ‘Rotate or React” and “Retest your friendlies” so I MADE her, lol, restart from day 3. Sure enough 3 foods she was SURE were her friendliest foods were causing inflammation. She lost ANOTHER 8 pounds (getting to early high school weight), cholesterol dropped COMPLETELY back to normal, and she learned a darn good message!
Your chemistry is always in flux, and your body always tells you (God bless this wonderful machine ), what you need. When something doesn’t work, it slows repair (affecting health) and causes weight gain. It makes you sick. It prematurely ages you. Your body talks to you EVERY SINGLE DAY, saying, “I love you, please don’t eat this. It’s bad for us.” The Plan will give you the tools to ALWAYS know why something isn’t working.
p.s. you need to retest every 50 pounds and twice in the first year of Planning. After that? I generally see nutritional needs change every 2-4 years, but periods of stress, hormonal changes etc can speed this up. My friendly foods? A few of my “besties” seem to change ever 2 years, but that’s ok. Because I get new foods! I CANNOT BELIEVE sashimi is back in. I just tested LAST night and I felt GREAT and my body LOVED it!! I’m at my optimal summer weight and I’m killing it in sports. I’m so excited!!! That means we can order in once a week for the WHOLE fam? DANG, have never had that luxury…
Yours in health,
Lyn-Genet
