The Low-Carb Life Starter Kit

I began writing Strong Wise Good after I retired from teaching. After I retired early.

I did not want to retire early. Family and friends josh me about it, as they are all still working. They think I am lucky, I am lazy, I am selfish, I am blessed.

Well, I may be all those things, but that misses the point. I retired early not because I wanted to, but because I had to. I could not do the work anymore. I had developed a touch of the dementia.

I missed meetings. I traveled to empty rooms to meet with peers...arriving on the wrong days. I forget to report to my state testing duty. My lessons were less engaging and less effective than my students deserved. And every day it took me several tries to get to my car. I'd leave behind my purse, my papers, my keys, my glasses.

Every. Single. Day. I wound up writing a list for myself.

Things were hard outside of school as well.

I'd put the casserole in the oven and return later to find it still cold. I hadn't turned the oven on. On the other hand, I would scramble eggs or toast walnuts...and leave the gas burners lit. For hours.

I wound up making a nighttime list for home, one that included checking the oven and stove...

I would forget why I was in a car, where I'd been, and why I was driving. I once went to my doctor's office, checked in on the phone app, and then wandered the building looking for her. So lost. Turns out I was in the wrong office complex. She has been in the same office for the 25 years I've been seeing her.

I began a journal, recording stories of my descent into dementia.

After I retired, I had time to research how I might slow the progression of my dementia. Diet was at the top of the list.

A few weeks after I began eating differently, I realized that I hadn't added a story to my Alzheimer's journal in quite some time. And the mister wasn't chasing me about the oven's being left on or off or on...And I didn't need my nightime list anymore.

My new diet had actually reversed the progression of my Alzheimer’s. 100%? Nah. But enough so that I am no longer unsafe in my home.

Inspired, I continued to consume all the content I could about what our bodies truly need for nutrition. This differs dramatically from the lies we've been fed my whole adult life! It seems so obvious now, but we truly are what we eat. When we force our bodies to live on unnatural processed foods, we cause serious harm. Poor food choices lead to chronic inflammation, which leads to chronic disease, and not just Alzheimer's: insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disorders, arthritis, anxiety & depression, and more. The rampant chronic disease - and, yes, obesity - in the USA is a direct result of our food choices.

About theweight - I had hoped to lose 10 pounds, but -whoops- I lost 30! I am now at a set point fifteen pounds below my adult life norm.

If you have weight to lose, I want you to lose the weight. But more than anything, I want you to regain health.

Extra weight is not the real issue, extra weight is a symptom that something is wrong, that your body is not in balance.

For me, my mind took the hit.

For you it might be related to blood sugar or joint pain or mood swings...honestly, research shows that all chronic disease stems from chronic inflammation, and chronic inflammation is caused by the foods we choose to eat.

It really is that simple.

Now that I understand both the stakes and the simplicity of the solution, I feel duty-bound to share my baby-steps method with the world!

But the world is not yet ready.

Are you?