“If I have to eat another potato I might vomit”. That’s what I was saying last night as I made
myself eat a bowl of mashed potatoes leftover from Sunday. The too salty mashed potatoes that were made
slightly better with some vegan nacho cheese I made from my No Meat Athlete book. Earlier that day as I was getting
dinner ready I realized I had waited too long to eat and was starving…I caved
and cheated. I ate a banana! I know, shock and horror! It was the best tasting banana I ever
had. So why am I doing this again? Oh yea, reset my taste buds, show myself
potatoes are not evil sugar monsters, and maybe lose some weight at the
holidays. I talked to my friend and
mentor, Shelly Jernigan today and felt better.
She has been here. Apparently I
pep talked her into riding it out during her first month but I don’t remember
being nearly as effective in my encouragement as she was. She has been on the Spud Road for 3 months as
of yesterday. She has lost … wait for it…
35 pounds in 3 months! Impressive
right? Here’s her story.
Shelly Jernigan lives in Virginia with her 3 daughters and
husband Steve. Prior to the Spud Fit Challenge she was a junk food vegetarian with a really big sweet tooth. She had already been researching the starch
strong plant based diet by following Dr John McDougall and reading his book TheStarch Solution and following the Potato Strong Youtube channel. She knew potatoes were good for her and saw
how others thrived in health and weight loss with a plant based diet including a
lot of potatoes. So when she came across
an interview with Andrew Taylor in her facebook news feed she was intrigued. Andrew was starting a Spudtember Challengehelping others follow a month on potatoes.
She showed it to her husband and right away he said “let’s do it”.
As she came off of her junk food diet, she experienced the
worst symptoms on day 2 with severe headaches and light headedness. Once she ate potatoes she felt better. Going into the challenge her goals were to
reset her taste buds, get rid of her cravings for sugar and lose some
weight. She has accomplished all three
but the biggest surprise so far has been that within 2-3 weeks of eating only
potatoes she has no desire or cravings for other foods. She is not bored with potatoes. She doesn’t necessarily crave them but she
does look forward to eating them every day.
Something she couldn’t say the first week. (Glad to hear that..)
What keeps her motivated?
How about the weight falling off every week? And she feels so much better and has much
more energy than before she started. She
gets her recipes from the Spud fit ebook and the Spudtember facebook group
where others post recipes. She has
shared many with me and I will be sharing those with you soon. Her plan is to continue with the potatoes
through the end of the year and follow it up with the Starch Solution diet with
a plant based lifestyle, oil free and high carb.
As a recovering sugar addict she has joined my facebook
group “Journey to Incredible Health” so we can work together to make sweets
that are both legal and won’t make us trigger happy. If you want to keep in the loop on such
goodness look it up and request membership.
I won’t turn you down!
Big kudos 👊👏 to Shelly for her amazing journey! Feel free to facebook her with congrats now
that her secret is out! And as always, thanks for
hanging in there with me!
Inspiring!
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