What is it about the AIP diet that helps you get more energy and lose weight?
Simply stated, it introduces you to foods that you need to produce and balance hormones…
One of my favorite books on the topic is Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfilippo
Here’s how it works…
Before knowing about the autoimmune paleo diet I was eating pretty much everything in moderation…
I thought I was just aging when my energy levels started going down and I started gaining weight…
Then one month, out of nowhere I gained 40 lbs…
I had to buy a whole new wardrobe…
Within a couple of weeks my new bigger jeans were fitting tight… my belly started to hang over my belt…
I felt like a whale if I took my shirt off…
I started to try out different diets and exercise…
I thought eating lean meats and veggies was a healthy diet… but I couldn’t lose weight no matter what…
I tried going keto to lose weight… but I felt drained…
It was so frustrating that I was really trying doing everything I was told to do, but nothing seemed to work…
I bought all the recommended supplements… thyroid support supplements, iron, selenium, vitamin D…
Then one day it came to me…
I started to understand why my body had low hormone production… why I had low energy… and why I couldn’t lose weight no matter what…
The clue was in my poor digestion…
I had gas, bloating and constipation… this meant that my gut flora was not healthy…
Once I improved my gut health everything changed…
I got my energy back and started losing weight…
I now feel confident in my body…
I feel like I got my life back…
How the AIP diet helps you get more energy
So what exactly is it about the AIP diet that works?
When you start to understand your body, you’ll realize that 80% of your immune system is your gut flora…
Your gut flora is most healthy when it is composed primarily of friendly yeast and bacteria known as probiotics…
Probiotics are what produce energy for you…
Probiotics produce and balance hormones for you…
Probiotics digest the food you eat and turn it into key nutrients and vitamins…
The autoimmune paleo diet introduces fermented foods into your diet which are full of probiotics…
If you have digestive issues, then that means that your gut is toxic…
What makes it toxic is bad food that lacks nutrients… that type of food is hard to digest and break down… probiotics don’t eat junk food… when bad food is introduced to your body, bad bacteria and wild yeast like yeast candida will begin to grow and break down the bad food…
In a way, bad bacteria is still trying to help you break down food, but you’re still not getting nutrients, and bad bacteria produce more toxins which turns this into a vicious cycle… bad bacteria create a toxic environment which makes it more likely for more bad bacteria to grow…
Toxins from bad bacteria will start going after your brain… hello brain fog…
To protect itself, the body will start to stuff your fat cells with toxins… your body has a fixed amount of fat cells… your fat cells expand as they get filled with toxins from bad bacteria in your gut… as you gain body fat, you are not really gaining extra fat cells, your fat cells are just expanding and becoming more and more toxic…
This creates an environment for bad stuff to grow… if it continues to get toxic, nodules will begin to grow…
Losing weight and getting more energy is a matter of cleaning up your gut and improving digestion…
How the AIP diet helps you lose weight
One of the foods that makes people gain weight is vegetable oils & seed oils…
There are so many people… myself included at one point, that think fat is bad for you…
I used to think that eating fat would make me fat… which is why I thought that eating lean meats and veggies was healthy…
That’s not the case…
Fat is important for hormone production…
Eating healthy fat actually helps you burn fat…
The keyword there is “healthy fat”…
Not all fat is healthy…
Seed oils and vegetable oils like canola oil, corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, etc… those oils are bad fats…
What makes them bad?
They are hard to digest…
They are not shelf stable and become rancid…
They don’t come from good sources…
They are cheap oils and they are everywhere…
You can go through your pantry and look at any boxed or canned foods and notice how many of the foods in your pantry have these oils… including foods that you may not think of as fatty foods like cereal which you think of as carbs…
What’s interesting is that health professionals and health authorities push these oils are being healthy oils…
They say that saturated fat is bad fat…
Hmmmm…
Interesting because when I did the opposite, got rid of vegetable oils and started eating saturated fats I noticed a huge improvement in my energy levels, my hormone production and my ability to lose weight…
That’s what the autoimmune paleo diet does for you… it introduces you to saturated fats which are the healthy fats you need for hormone production…
I know this may come as a surprise… there’s so much conflicting information out there that it’s hard to know who to trust…
That’s why we are backing everything we share here with real weight loss success stories… people like you… who started out thinking that if you boosted your thyroid then you’d get your energy back and be able to lose weight…
Sometimes it takes a couple of years of trying all kinds of supplements, getting all the labs you are told… maybe even get your numbers to look normal, but you don’t feel normal…
We’ve been there…
The brain fog is the worst… depression, anxiety, hair falling off…
Improving your gut health and growing healthy probiotics is the most effective way to get more energy and lose weight…
This is done with simple diet changes…
It starts out with proper hydration…
Proper hydration helps you digest food…
The next step is the right diet…
The AIP diet checks many boxes and is an approved diet at Hypothyroidism Success Story…
The last step is optimizing your microbiome… it’s creating an environment to grow healthy probiotics and getting rid of bad bacteria in your gut…
Listen to Janae’s success story where she shares how she was able to get more energy, improve her sleep and started to lose weight by switching from low fat (Weight Watchers) to more of a AIP diet…
Can you see yourself making the same changes Janae made to get more energy, better sleep and lose weight?
You can get started below…
How to Get Natural Energy without Restrictive Diets or Supplements
When I say I used to feel exhausted, I’m talking about bone-deep fatigue…
It wasn’t me being distant, dramatic or lazy…
It wasn’t me being just tired or run down…
It was the kind of exhaustion that lives deep in your bones…
It’s hard to explain what a flare was like without sounding dramatic…
I’d wake up feeling like I’d been hit by a Mack truck, even if all I did the day before was exist.
When this happened, my body felt sore and beaten up, like it had been through something physical and brutal…
My muscles and joints ached constantly and deep like everything was inflamed and heavy…
Some days I was just surviving quietly… it took more strength than anyone realized….
The fatigue was crippling…
Not “I could use a nap” tired, but the kind where standing up required me to grab onto a wall…
I felt weak, dizzy, and slowed down, as if I was walking through mud…
Things that were normally manageable suddenly felt overwhelming… Simple tasks required planning…
I would sit in my kitchen without moving… just enough energy to feel unmotivated…
I would feel low and sad for no reason like a flattening of everything.
The flares would happen even when I did everything right…
I’d cut out gluten, dairy, sugar…
I’d take a whole stack of supplements (selenium, iodine, iron, B vitamins, etc…)
… yet my entire system felt like it was under siege… like my body was pulling the fire alarm because of steam from the kettle, and refused to shut it off.
Everything suddenly got louder, harder, and heavier at once.
I was doing everything I could just to get through the day, but nothing worked until I figured out the cells of my body were not getting the nutrients they needed…
It didn’t matter what diet I tried, what supplements I took, or what detox I did…
Something was blocking the nutrients from getting into the cells of my body and that’s when I discovered cellular-level nutrition…
I put together a program Energy Jumpstart, where I share my 3-Step Framework to rebuild your energy.
Tap continue below to learn how…
