At 68, Janet is Down 87 Pounds and Ready for Reboot 2024! + Twice Baked Potato Recipe

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Janet’s Bio

I gave myself a weight problem at the young age of 12 by going on a diet to lose five pounds! I starved myself and lost the five pounds and immediately overate, gained it back and more. So, I tried dieting again, but it took a bit longer to lose the then ten pounds and again I gained that back and more. When my weight reached 199 ¾ I stopped weighing myself. By then I had tried every diet I could find and at this point I couldn’t lose weight anymore. My body had become a fat storing machine. I would try weight watchers and lose maybe a quarter of a pound one week and then plateau for two weeks. It was very frustrating. At age 30, I finally realized diets don’t work and I stopped dieting which resulted in no more binging! Over the next ten years, I was able to get off 40 pounds and stalled at an unhappy 150-160 pounds for years

Fast forward to a cycle tour I was on in March of 2020 where two of our group had shifted to vegan. My husband Stephen and I thought now these two were really off the deep end. Charlie lent us the DVD “Eating You Alive” which our group watched in June on a bicycle tour in Eastern Oregon. We all stopped eating meat right then. I had gained 7 pounds since the March tour by eating more salads with full fat homemade dressing! Then I listened to “How Not to Die” on YouTube and bought Dr Gregor’s Cookbook. In June, I decided to ‘put it to the test’ starting July 1st and told my husband I was just going to make things from the cookbook to see if it really worked. I also got bloodwork done and saw I had Cholesterol over 200, blood pressure at 130/80, weight 159, Heartrate 74 and A1C at 5.6. Magically the weight started to come off. Stephen wasn’t going to join me at first but after he tasted the first couple of meals he was taking full helpings and liked the taste so much he joined me. Stephen weighed in at 173 which was more than he had ever weighed. His Cholesterol was high, and his doctor wanted him to start taking statins. I was over the moon when he decided to join me. I soon found Chef AJ and I watch her interviews every day.

Since going WFPB SOS-free in July 2020, I lost 46+ pounds and Stephen lost 34. Our cholesterol is now in a normal range and our blood pressure averages around 108/70. My heart rate is back down around 44bpm like it used to be. I weigh 113 pounds and I feel amazing!

I cycle tour and in August did a 30-day tour up through National Parks into Canada and I was eating WFPE SOS free, and I had wonderful food the whole tour. Next, I spent a month in Australia, and I spent the whole time eating nothing but plants and loved it. I started a YouTube channel to show others how to travel and cook and eat plants no matter where you are.

I am a retired physical therapist and have always been interested in preventative medicine. I love to exercise and ride my bike, lift weights, walk, hike, and just enjoy being active. We remodeled our home from 2021 to 2023 and we stayed plant exclusive with no running water or heat for most of the winter of 2022! We are learning how to grow our own food and sprouting broccoli seeds!

I started a pod which I call Kitsap County Podsters, and I post to a Facebook group I created for it. Last year I started having Pod potlucks and cooking/food prep demonstrations for my area. I volunteer with the local bike club, and I am the treasurer and Ride Coordinator which keeps me very busy! We also lead mostly short tours of a few days up to four weeks during the summer months.

Both Stephen and I fasted at True North for 5 days with a three day refeed in November/December 2022 and that was an amazing experience.

I hope to inspire and assist all those who are open to shifting to a WFPE SOS. Save your life, save the animals, and save this sacred planet.