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 more energy with Hypothyroidism
They key to get energy is learning how to create an environment in your gut for probiotics to grow… minerals are just one of nine steps I use to create this environment…
Sadly, most doctors don’t have a clue about this… thyroid supplements, and programs that promise to “fix your thyroid” don’t understand this either…
I am not a doctor… I only know about this because I was an avid home brewer and studied fermentation, though not for health purposes… I was not into health back then… I was only growing probiotics (brewer’s yeast) to make beer…
… but when I learned that probiotics are what make hormones… all bets were off… I needed to try making the probiotics in my gut as healthy as I could for myself, even if no one else followed…
If you are…
- Too exhausted to move.
- Struggling to stay awake
- Low energy is affecting your work
- Can’t say yes to active play with your kids (family is frustrated at you)
- You’ve tried the diets
- You’ve tried the supplements
- You’ve adjusted your dose up, down and sideways at this point
… then I’m excited to share with you my Energy Blueprint… I journaled everything I did for over seven years to get rid of thyroid fatigue.
I took out what didn’t work and left only what worked…
I started sharing this with others via my free email newsletter.
When you subscribe to our email newsletter you will learn each step I took to get more energy…
You will start by improving digestion… the first thing you’ll notice is no more gas, bloating or constipation… no more dry skin…
Once you tip that domino, the next step is to improve your sleep… you will learn how to get deep restorative sleep so you wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day…
Your mind will be sharp in the morning… and if your hair is thinning or falling out, you will notice it start to grow thick and strong again.
… and because everything you do is completely natural, the energy you feel will last all day without having to rely on caffeine or thyroid supplements.
So, you’ll notice when you come home after work, you’ll have energy to play with your kids, workout or do whatever activity you feel like because you will have the energy left to do so!
