Essentials of the Galveston Diet
About this book
As an OBGYN physician, I listened to THOUSANDS of frustrated women in my office who couldn't seem to beat the middle age "tire" around their waistline. I lectured them with what I had been taught for years, "exercise more, eat less, exercise more, eat less, exercise more, eat less....." and they SWORE they were, but it wasn't working. I was pretty skeptical, told them to keep trying and wondered if they were being truthful. Until it happened to me. I had been fit for years, the scale had not budged much and I could always easily get it back to my "happy weight" without too much trouble. Then two things I started undergoing the changes associated with menopause, and my brother died. Through my grief process, I gained about 15 pounds. I had stopped working out and paying any attention to what I was eating. I was filling myself with processed carbohydrates and nightly glasses of wine for months. Once I felt better and realized what I had done to myself, I decided to get back into shape. I did what I counseled everyone at my age. I ate less, and exercised more, and ate less, and exercised more, and ate less and exercised more, and I would lose a pound or two......and that was it. I was angry and frustrated and starving myself and not seeing any long term results. I realized I sounded just like my patients.It was then I realized I was doing something wrong. Really really wrong. So I stopped feeling sorry for myself and hit the books. I am a physician and scientist and knew that somebody out there in academia-land likely had a better answer. So I started researching everything I could get my hands on and started reading like crazy. Most of the studies I read were tested on 25 year old male athletes. There was very little data for a woman of my age. I decided to challenge the industry, taking the best of the research and formulating a plan for women of my age. I put together a program based on my research combining an anti-Inflammatory approach to nutrition, intermittent fasting and nutritional ketosis. Those three components work synergistically together to help you decrease inflammation and hang onto lean muscle, while you burn fat. I named it The Galveston Diet - in honor of the place my family calls home and started sharing it with friends and family. It quickly grew and as of now, thousands of people have followed the plan, and they love it.