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Janet’s Bio

I gave myself a weight problem at the young age of 12 by going on a diet to lose five pounds! I starved myself and lost the five pounds and immediately overate, gained it back and more. So, I tried dieting again, but it took a bit longer to lose the then ten pounds and again I gained that back and more. When my weight reached 199 ¾ I stopped weighing myself. By then I had tried every diet I could find and at this point I couldn’t lose weight anymore. My body had become a fat storing machine. I would try weight watchers and lose maybe a quarter of a pound one week and then plateau for two weeks. It was very frustrating. At age 30, I finally realized diets don’t work and I stopped dieting which resulted in no more binging! Over the next ten years, I was able to get off 40 pounds and stalled at an unhappy 150-160 pounds for years

Fast forward to a cycle tour I was on in March of 2020 where two of our group had shifted to vegan. My husband Stephen and I thought now these two were really off the deep end. Charlie lent us the DVD “Eating You Alive” which our group watched in June on a bicycle tour in Eastern Oregon. We all stopped eating meat right then. I had gained 7 pounds since the March tour by eating more salads with full fat homemade dressing! Then I listened to “How Not to Die” on YouTube and bought Dr Gregor’s Cookbook. In June, I decided to ‘put it to the test’ starting July 1st and told my husband I was just going to make things from the cookbook to see if it really worked. I also got bloodwork done and saw I had Cholesterol over 200, blood pressure at 130/80, weight 159, Heartrate 74 and A1C at 5.6. Magically the weight started to come off. Stephen wasn’t going to join me at first but after he tasted the first couple of meals he was taking full helpings and liked the taste so much he joined me. Stephen weighed in at 173 which was more than he had ever weighed. His Cholesterol was high, and his doctor wanted him to start taking statins. I was over the moon when he decided to join me. I soon found Chef AJ and I watch her interviews every day.

Since going WFPB SOS-free in July 2020, I lost 46+ pounds and Stephen lost 34. Our cholesterol is now in a normal range and our blood pressure averages around 108/70. My heart rate is back down around 44bpm like it used to be. I weigh 113 pounds and I feel amazing!

I cycle tour and in August did a 30-day tour up through National Parks into Canada and I was eating WFPE SOS free, and I had wonderful food the whole tour. Next, I spent a month in Australia, and I spent the whole time eating nothing but plants and loved it. I started a YouTube channel to show others how to travel and cook and eat plants no matter where you are.

I am a retired physical therapist and have always been interested in preventative medicine. I love to exercise and ride my bike, lift weights, walk, hike, and just enjoy being active. We remodeled our home from 2021 to 2023 and we stayed plant exclusive with no running water or heat for most of the winter of 2022! We are learning how to grow our own food and sprouting broccoli seeds!

I started a pod which I call Kitsap County Podsters, and I post to a Facebook group I created for it. Last year I started having Pod potlucks and cooking/food prep demonstrations for my area. I volunteer with the local bike club, and I am the treasurer and Ride Coordinator which keeps me very busy! We also lead mostly short tours of a few days up to four weeks during the summer months.

Both Stephen and I fasted at True North for 5 days with a three day refeed in November/December 2022 and that was an amazing experience.

I hope to inspire and assist all those who are open to shifting to a WFPE SOS. Save your life, save the animals, and save this sacred planet.

We sure are oh right of course hey everyone and welcome to Chef AJ live I’m your host Chef AJ and this is where I introduce you to amazing people like you who are doing great things in the world that I think you should know about my guest today backed

By popular demand is Janet at the age of 68 she can now say that she is down I believe 87 pounds she’s going to tell you the whole fabulous story of how she did it if you want to be in a wonderful supportive program with her that and I

That we’re starting soon called reboot she’s coming back even though she’s been a tremendous success but first she is going to make a delicious recipe because if you watch the last show I forget exactly what did she say about potatoes when you know if all else fails eat a potato

She her version of a twice baked potato please welcome back to the show Janet how are you how can you live in 18 degrees I can barely live in 33 I know and then you know Colorado is negative in the negatives and and I’m like I

Shouldn’t be so spoiled but but I’m just not used to it being so cold so yeah so it’s good being in the kitchen it warms me up right well I love that you are not only successful this but that you’ve maintained long-term success and you did it in your 60s because so

Many people give up in their 40s 50s 30s 20s you name it and so many people on this show haven’t had their permanent weight loss success until their 60 SE and 70s and even 80s and people tell me it’s hard to lose weight when they’re when they’re old and it’s like it just

Melts right off if you eat the right things and just just follow the guidelin stay left of the red line and you won’t get in trouble but I think I think a lot of older people they entertain themselves by going out to eat and I I

Have not I’ve gone out to eat maybe twice I mean remember even with you and me I said let me make something let’s not go to I know you hosted me that was so nice you hosted me at the uh the V Fest yeah I know the vegfest I

Cannot think of the name of I was in Washington but I can’t remember the name and you yeah but but what the Seattle vegfest actually is what they called it even though it wasn’t in Seattle but that was so kind of you to make all my

Food we had this lovely picnic on the way to the airport it was fantastic it was it to me I just don’t want it’s like going into a bar going into a restaurant I just I don’t see the attraction because you don’t get enough food it’s all got crap

In it I just don’t see the attraction when you feel so good eating this way and it’s expensive I think it’s the pleasure trap I think it’s the pleasure trap it must be it must be because I don’t have any interest in it at all although I do want to go in and

Encourage vegan restaurants to to do you know SOS free or sofus free um we have had a few up here that are doing it you know I know I know I’m so impressed you guys that’s so cool I pretty cool pretty pretty cool yeah you need to spread it around spread the joy

So potatoes twice baked the only thing better than one spaked potato is a twice baked potato these are so good and so I have the the potatoes cooked and and I’ve got the centers out of them and I’ve got the the flesh right here and so

I’m just going to add a couple of things I you you’re supposed to you know chop up an onion and and uh separate the garlic and bake them with the potatoes and I just threw the onion the whole onion and the and the whole garlic in I

Can’t be bothered to you know why are they peeling the skin off and then wrapping it in parchment paper and foil you know I mean just let it cook in its own skin Y is what I always say so I’m just going to put these in my neutr

Buet and I’m going to mix them up so this potato recipe was a wonderful way to start introduce yourself back into eating potatoes again all right do I have I pluged in yes I am I’d love that Zoom um yeah it it does it does mute the sound

Wonderful so I have been coming live every day Chef AJ on my channel to support the reboot and to cook and I started making um Amy broccoli mom’s Indian cookbook re recipes and Jennifer is Jennifer and I are doing a zoom on Mondays to to cook and just support everybody

Who wants to do the reboot we got to all stay in this together Community your community has really been a lifesaver to me and they helped me stay the course well I thank you for that I’m so glad how did you even find me in the

First place you know know I was trying to think today when you were asking Tracy how she found you and I was doing um Michael Gregor’s how not to die cook walk and making all of his recipes and then I learned about Dr bolx and I got his 28 day fiber fuel

Reset the microbiome plan and I followed that and it was right after that that I found you and I think it was I must have got an email what did you do in the fall of 2020 or the spring of 2021 I think it was just before I did

The reboot I mean I I think the first year I did something else that you offered and it was a dollar oh could have been yeah could have been like the the trial of feel fabulous you know that’s probably what it was and I just love the community so I just stayed and

I’ve never looked back and I do the check-ins every Saturday with Zena that I can and um the Wednesday nights and just the challenges I love um getting up and each morning there’s a a a recording waiting for me and a video and I love it when there’s a

Success story it’s just so motivating it keeps me going well well you are the success story today I just you know I struggled from 12 years old on trying every darn thing known to man to lose weight I just hated being fat but I loved eating and

There was a lot of stress in the household and eating was my comfort and I had to eat it all because if I just ate some I’d get caught so I the whole thing had to disappear so that in all the confusion with seven people in the house

Nobody suspected or if they did they didn’t say anything but somebody must have I don’t know but anyways I started overeating at a young age and uh and so I started dieting at a young age okay so I got the potato mashed here now I’m going to add

Some jalapeno and I roasted it a little bit so in instead of pepper and um chipot seasoning I used jalapeno and then instead of pepper I’m going to put in a little bit of the no salt seasoning from Costco yeah that’s back it was gone for

A while but I hear it’s back I called Costco and I bugged them and they said they were working on it and um trying to find another uh distributor for it and they did they they did it’s good it’s a little bit of a different recipe than the first one but

I I really enjoy it okay and then I’m going to mix in some scallions that I chopped up and of course some steamed kale that is great I was a lifetime Weight Watchers twice I made my goal and stayed there for about a minute and then as

Soon as you gained two pounds back you’re no longer a lifetime member you gotta you got to do it all over again seriously that’s still the policy no that was back way back you know wow when I was a kid okay now did you hear that Jenny Craig went out of business you’re

Kidding the other day I heard that wow closing their doors because I guess they said too many people just want the drugs now wow oh my gosh so people for that that just amazes me so I’m going to do six of these in the oven and I’m going to do one in the

In the insta pot just for fun I haven’t tried that and I was heating them up in the insta pot and they were really good so I thought oh I’m just going to try the the second time around you just do it for 30 minutes so I’m just going to pile it in

Here it’s so simple oh tell you potatoes they’re the spice of life I was brokenhearted when I started dieting and found that I that it wasn’t going to be okay to have potatoes so this program is just perfect for me and the fact that I’m a volume eater

And no one ever told me about volume eater in fact in the beginning Weight Watchers was all you can eat vegetables but my mother said well you’re never going to learn how to eat like a lady oh my a whole yeah eat a whole cauliflower head at once

So you know I kept trying to be to eat like a lady m model and I just it doesn’t work for me I need food I’m very active and I I I want to be able to eat when I’m hungry so this program is perfect for me

And the reboot is so much fun you and you get that every morning you get a a hit of um dopamine from either Chef AJ or or JP or the two of them together and it’s just it’ll keep you motivated it’s so silly not to do it for

Yourself it’s such a wonderful Community I’m just GNA keep piling this on and use it all because it’s so good I love that you said Community because Debbie who’s watching live said Woo Woo or woot woot woof woof or woot woot I’m rebooting and actually going to show up this time yay

Well showing up is like 90% I think it is thanks a handful of us did the McDougall 10 or 12-day program in June of 2022 we still meet up every Saturday via zoom and a few of us will be rebooting we are devotees of AJ and our goal is to be

With you at ranchill ofera someday well thank you and if your goal is to be there this year the dates for Rancho laera are August 17th through 24th they’ve cut the group size in half because people wanted it smaller so we’re going to be actually doing a show

On February 5th with the executive chef from the ran so people can see what it’s all about nice Wonder all right let’s I’ve almost got it that we’ll just leave it on there Sten loves these too that’s another thing sorry so they’re so easy to make I don’t know why I don’t make

Those more I know they’re so simple that is it so I’m going to stick these in my brevel just back here I’ve got you on Wheels what’s the name of your YouTube channel somebody’s asking Janet at plant Howard ped like pedaling a bicycle I’ll put that in the show notes

Okay it’s on the last page of my PowerPoint too good yeah well let’s get in in the show notes so are you on any other social media other than uh YouTube I’m on Instagram Lu UV the number two cycle cycle e Ricky okay r i c k y like a lime Ricky

Yeah didn’t know there was a Ricky line said it’s a it’s a beverage put on air fry started I better check it after 10 minutes okay another thing I want I always love to show everybody what I’m up to and um I somebody gave me some

Arugula seeds so I was sent away for the arugula michr gream and it came yesterday so I’m doing it and it’s this little black thing here so I’m supposed to check it at two o’clock and all I see are seeds when when the guy did it on his on the channel he saw

Germination but I just see seeds I don’t I don’t know if that’s germination I would think I need to see Little Sprouts maybe they are in there I just can’t I don’t have the site these old eyes but it’s only been 24 hours and then for

The third time I am making yo soy yogurt and I just realized I was just reading over the instructions before you and I got on and I was supposed to bring the milk to a boil and then lower the temperature back down to 108 and then

Stick it in the um acidophilus and then stick it in the insta pot and I didn’t bring it to a boil I just brought it up to 108 degrees so I guess soy milal isn’t cooked I don’t know if 100 days is enough to cook it

But I don’t know but don’t don’t be so impatient with the arugal it takes more than a day you know oh yeah it takes several days yeah seven days but you know you want it to look like what they say in the when they tell you about it how to

Do it so anyway all right so I am gonna share my screen okay absolutely and I am going to show this PowerPoint this is Stephen and I and I wanted to say Stephen also joins me let’s see slideshow from beginning here we go wh That’s not the beginning the wrong way good hey

Okay now why can’t I go back maybe I go this one there we go perfect this was this summer and um both of us had high cholesterol high blood pressure not real high but but higher you know we we thought we were eating really healthy before we got onto this program and uh

No all our numbers my my my A1C was like 56 or 57 I mean just before pre-diabetic and I’m like oh my gosh what are we eating that isn’t right and that’s when we went on a bike tour with some friends and uh two of them were had gone whole

Food and so we were all ears and listening to them um although in the back of our minds we’re thinking oh no these two have gone crazy and we watched the DVD eating you alive and I could not eat animals after that I couldn’t eat meat um and

So that overnight I was vegetarian well then I thought I’ve been vegetarian before and I didn’t lose any weight so I thought I I need to try this vegan thing because I remembered Bill Clinton that he looks so amazing so different when he went vegan

So I thought okay that that’s got to be the way to go well but I didn’t understand about calorie density or oil and I used uh sundried tomato vinegarette in my dressing and I gained seven pounds oh boy yeah didn’t take long like within that was in April

May and by June I realized this isn’t working so I got Dr Gregor’s book and I thought okay let’s put this to the test so July 1st I went off all oil you know I I just I went Whole Food Salt oil and sugar-free and cooked out of his cookbook and I

Just started making everything out of that because you do wonder when you first start this how do I what do I what do I eat which is another thing about the reboot you guys there’s a meal plan now so if you do like to have you know

An idea of what to make there’s there’s a a meal plan with recipes and you know it you can’t go wrong in fact last year just for fun I just followed along with the meal plan and um on my channel I just made whatever AJ said to make and it was fun

So it’s it’s definitely worth worth your time definitely you you deserve it um so anyway I we we switched and at first Stephen said well you go on ahead I I I’ll do my thing but I started making things and he started tasting them and within a week

He said I’ll just eat what you’re making because it tasted so good so it didn’t take us long to adjust we didn’t really go through a big thing I’m not a salt eater anyway um I’ve watched my weight my whole life and salt was something

That I just thought I’m not going to get started with that and um the only thing was you know fat and dairy those were the things that were really valuable for me to give up and the weight started melting off and within 15 months I was down you know to

This size and I couldn’t believe it I mean my Weight Watchers goal was 138 and this now I weigh 113 and I mean it just kept coming off it was the coolest thing I thought oh this this is so cool this works and then I lost all the weight and

I I’m like oh what do I do now because this has never happened before to get this thin and and you know I was kind of worried that I might gain it back again because I was just thinner than I’d ever dreamed I could be but I

Just kept eating the same way and I’m like oh well that’s the ticket just keep eating the same way just like Chef AJ says you you know everything you say Chef AJ’s you’re always right you think goldhammer right you’re always right no I but thank you but no I just I just do

What he says well me too and I do what you say and I do what Dr Lyle says and you know I just I just love it I just love eating this way oh you know the veggies for breakfast I thought I don’t know if I

Can do that you know I I was definitely an oatmeal and fruit eater and one morning I was making your Russel sprout recipe for for later on in the day and I hadn’t eaten yet and I tasted one and it tasted so good I had another and then

Another and then another and then I thought hey I’m eating veggies for breakfast and I’m liking it and that was it I I never turned back I love having veggies for breakfast and they can be cooked they can be big salads um you know with all kinds of

Stuff in it although I don’t I tend not to um eat uh fat you know any kind of fat in the salad I make all my dressings like you do Chef AJ with with no fat I love your your honey mustard dressing and I was thinking the next time I make

It I’m going to try some horseradish in it because I found a horseradish root at Sprouts and so I I uh ground it all up and I freeze it I hope it lasts um because a root is huge and it goes a long way so anyways um the weight stayed off and in

Fact I’m I’m thinking that no I guess I was around 115 in that by that uh 15 months and now I’m around 113 so imagine that two pounds more on maintenance I just it’s just amazing and it’s been okay so it’s been since December of 2021 so so 22

A whole year I maintained after spending a whole year losing it’s just a just so cool so I’ve been on the on the know I feel like I’ve been this way all my life now except that I’m I’ve got that body you know where I look in the mirror

And I think is that me so I mean I feel like I’ve been eating this way all my life but I’m not used to having a little body but it’s really fun to to see that still there so the big things for me were the calorie density and the pleasure trap

Learning about those two things just really hugely made a difference for me and this was a trip we l to do bike touring and I just wanted to show this trip we did up to Bellingham so we had six days of no rain which which is a

Good thing here and it was in September and so Stephen and I thought let’s take advantage of it and we loaded up our bikes and we took off and that camper be behind me was an Airbnb and we actually slept in that this night so oh we’re

Just having so much fun and we stay Whole Food plant exclusive as sofus free the whole time we’re out even when I when we slept on this camper I had things that we could have there was a microwave in on a tray nearby and I use that and and

Um there was a sink in the bathroom and I used that and you know I can always find a way to keep us on course and it’s fun to find a way so that was me on the left there Pat petting the kitty um that was in my

20s wow yeah and that was that’s not my heaviest I think I’m in the 180s there and I went up I wouldn’t weigh myself after 199 and 3/4 um and so I don’t know how much higher I went than that but this picture is the only one that survived because I

Hated being fat and I hated having my picture taken and so anytime I found a fat picture I just destroyed them and and also any old photos Stephen and I we gave away everything to go traveling to twice we did that and um so each time I P out more of my photo

Albums because we just we didn’t have any place to put them so uh we just got rid of them and it is kind of an amazing feeling to have nothing you know like I think the lowest we got was there were four black those black and yellow tote

Containers and my girlfriend kept them kept them for us while we went on a bike tour you know around the United States and that was all we owned in the world and it was it was it was quite a a wonderful feeling to be free of of possessions you know let me just

Test those look good I think I’m just G to keep those at 10 minutes so those are the I was looking at the potatoes in the um the air fryer those are the ones I’ll eat for lunch so that’s my before and then this so

I I I was able to get down from that you know 200 pound mark down to about 160 doing all kinds of things Body for Life Janine Roth I went to one of her workshops um um I read diets don’t work by Bob Schwarz and I I started to understand

That one of the reason reasons I binge is because I diet and in order to stop binging I would have to stop dieting and so I promised myself that I would I wouldn’t D it no matter how much I binged I wouldn’t D it and I would you

Know I binged I’m like okay but I’m not going to die it I’m not g to do it and by very quickly there was no reason to binge because all I would always binge because I was always getting ready to go on a diet and I thought I gotta

Eat this because I’m never GNA eat it again and you know I would last a few hours and uh dieting got so ineffective but in sanity I kept trying the same old things and uh without success so I guess because I’m so active and I

And I sort of ate healthy I could get stay around 160 but I just I couldn’t get below that and so this picture where I’ve got the the flowery shirt on that’s me on the left with Stephen right next to me um that’s what I was in March of 2020

Wow yeah and then the the two people to the left of us Charlie and Carol they were the two vegans and so we just watched what they ate um the whole time and then decided to to hop on and try it ourselves and actually this whole group went vegan Isn’t that

Cool the whole group it’s so cool and we still are vegan and so now when we go on a bike tour we find out where the nearest grocer store is instead of that used to be the nearest bar or Tavern or rest you know nice restaurant now uh

Stephen and I won’t go we don’t go out to eat the other ones will and they they slip and slide doing that but I just cook in the room every night and I just love that I can do that so this is an after picture this was me this

Summer and I like that picture so much I thought I would put it at the beginning and in the middle then and then this is me in the winter and I just I can’t believe how Slender my body is so I just I just want to show you if

You do the reboot you can you can have a the body that you so deserve like you always say OHF AJ you can do it you can do it I just want to encourage people and this is here’s some of the food so this is a you know potatoes and veggies

And it’s sort of that you know 5050 and I eat my veggies first and then um the hardest thing for me is waiting till I’m hungry and stopping when I’m no longer hungry and that is my my whole that’s my 2024 Vision you know is to be able to do that more more

Readily um effort less effortfully you know know as I get into the practice of doing that and I I realized as I eased into that this year because this has been my whole thing for 2024 that I I kept on wanting to force myself to not eat until I’m hungry and I

And I finally I realized you know Janet this never works to try to make yourself do something why are you still doing it trying the old way and I thought oh yeah what’s the new way well I watched broccoli mom I watched her with Ramy and ramy’s her little two-year-old and when

Ramy gets fussy and Amy tries to ignore her she just gets louder and that’s exactly what my little kid does you know the more I say no you can’t have it the more I want it and so what she does is she picks Ramy up and she gives her kisses and

Hugs and and gives her you know a taste of something and she loves her and I thought that’s what I need to do I need to love myself you know and and do it because it’s it’s what I want you know so I as soon as I thought that there a

Shift happened in my brain which was the same shift as when you know I was trying to restrict doing this and you or someone told me Janet you’re not eating enough and I’m like really I mean you gotta flip it on its on its side or or however you call that

Where we we we’ve just been conditioned incorrectly and we need to uncondition and recondition the correct way which is through love and compassion and permission and you know encouraging myself rather than discouraging and and this is the the first batch of twice baked potatoes that

I made and so I thought I I gotta show you a picture although I’m going to show you the real thing here I didn’t realize I was going to do it today but then I thought what’s more appropriate than a than a potato recipe and then this is a just you know

Sequencing I love to start with a with a nice big salad for my my main meal of the day and on the left of that is I took spaghetti squash and made spaghetti squash squash patties and that was another thing that I thought about making today and I think next time I do

It I’m going to add some uh Shredded potato in with it um because then they’ll get a little bit more uh um toothsome as you put it Chef AJ ah and then this is the My Links you know the the YouTube channel at plant powered

Peddler and and what I do is I I just have a small group and we just whenever I have a chance and I’m cooking something or I’m bicycling I’ll go on and and uh visit with people and I just I just love the chat and uh in my my my Instagram

Definitely I I use that when I’m on the road traveling on the bike and showing people how hey if I can Tour on a bike and stay Whole Food plant exclusive sofus free I invite you to too and then I started a pod and I’ve got a Facebook group um

Called the Kitsap County poers pods and anybody is welcome to join I post all my videos on there for people that are considering the the Swit and are curious about what to eat I just try to vary um and and demonstrate how food is so good

When we when we make it this way you know like dry sautéing the onions and and adding in lots of garlic and I’ve been cooking from from Amy’s Indian cookbook we cook from from your cookbook Chef J AJ and from the the um plantbased woman warrior cookbook and we just just

Try to show people how wonderful it is to to eat this way so I’m going to stop share here and let’s see if I can show our potatoes yum what I’ll do I’ll probably just have I’ll start with one but look at this it got nice and brown and

Warm oh it smells so good I should on the outside creamy on the inside doesn’t that look delicious you guys you folks definitely let’s let’s test some here yeah oh you know what it’s going to be like plant powered certified nutrition coach says most folks on diets are

Constantly starving and that’s why they gain the weight back and you know the big thing for me is how do I keep this off and that’s why they gain the weight back because they they they it’s unsustainable the other diet you guys are unsustainable but this one you can go on

I think because it’s not really a diet I don’t even think of the way we eat as a diet because there’s no deprivation and we’re eating so much food diets generally are limiting your food yep it’s it’s so different Tina says I’m a True Believer of the starch solution and

All the good e FJ presents thank you and let’s see me too who’s doing it who’s up for the reboot oh your friend Jennifer is watching hi Jennifer I forgot I wouldn’t be able to see the chat on the on Zoom that’s right you can’t see it on Zoom Thomas says

Rancho with Chef AJ and friends oh yeah can’t wait to back there and definitely let’s see I love watching and hanging out with Janet on our YouTube channel says Stephanie oh thanks Stephanie and Jennifer says Jennifer is a wonderful Janet is a wonderful example of how it

Does work it just shows it’s never too late you didn’t have success until your 60s and a lot of people are a lot younger and I think it was almost you know I’ve proved to myself that all the other ways don’t work so thoroughly and

You know I when I see people have a slip cedent I just I just know it I’ve been there I’ve done that so many times and you can’t get back on and why get off anyway I mean just this is it this is the way I eat this is real food and

That’s what I want to eat harlene says I was a fat vegan before I learned about whole Fu plant-based eating and being sofas free helped even more there are a lot of vegans that are not food yep keeping it simple is the key somebody says Janet looks awesome in the

Picture one at the beginning and uh okay oh did you have any wobbles asks truthy and how did you get through them you know I am so upset that we’ve been sold a bill of goods I have no interest in in wobbling I would say um you know I have potluck for my

Pot every well now every month but last year I had it every other month and people would bring things and of course it’s just for veg because you know I we don’t all need to be the kids in church I want to have people who are curious

About what we do come and learn you know either vegan or or sad standard American dieters um to show them how good our food is and so some of them bring dishes that might have something in them well I’ve got a separate table that’s sofus free but I think some people that don’t

Like they don’t think like um okay so I might have eaten something that had some salt in it and then I know because later on my fingers swell up so now when I go to the pot locks I just eat my own food I don’t trust anybody so that that might have happened

Once or twice but my body tells me so yeah je Jesse says being soace free on the road is a real accomplishment Diane says I finished the pleasure trap on Audible a few weeks ago I’m also looking at leing to the left of the red line well why don’t you join us

For a 30-day experiment Diana because we’re starting reboot soon Colleen says another great transformation um Mrs aloa says did Janet during her fat loss phase have any plateaus and if so what did you mentally emotionally tell yourself and did you change anything you were doing when I

Would the weight would slow down and and I don’t think there would be more than a month that would go by and Dr Lyle says you know just weigh yourself once a month so when the weight loss slowed down I went to a once a month weigh and

I would weigh three days in a row and take the average and um I would have to look at my calendars I wrote it all down for Susanna once you know what I lost each month and um I’ve got it somewhere but I could I could look that up and let you

Guys know but I I didn’t care the food is so good this way and as long long as I wasn’t gaining I’m happy because I mean even when I got down to 138 I didn’t think I was going to lose any more weight because I’d never you know come anything

Close to that before then so I just kept staying the course and listening in and the community is so important because I saw what happened with people that went off that said what the heck and you know even today there are days where I think oh what’s the use you know

Like your brain does there too you can’t trust your brain you just can’t trust it read the pleasure trap again it just it it says things that aren’t true and the then sure enough you know the next day if I feel that way the next day I’ll

Wake up and I feel great again so put it to the test experiment right just do an experiment you don’t have to say You’re Gonna e this way forever that’s why the reboots only 30 days and uh the who’s it says is reboot available in replay or is it mostly live so

Tomorrow I’m going to go do an in-depth uh discussion of what it is with JP and answer all your questions but it’s a 30-day program that’s delivered every day through a video that you you know that we’d love for you to watch it’s never longer than 20 minutes there’s a

Forum off of Facebook so it’s a private Forum that’s supported by our success coaches and then there are four live interactions for consecutive weekends that go for a minimum of three hours one with myself one with JP just John Pierre the fitness Guru one with Dr Ellen

Goldhammer and one with Dr Doug Lyall where all your questions are answered and already on Instagram says do you feel like you don’t belong when you eat your own food or don’t or don’t people tell you that it’s too rigid if you don’t mind I’m going to answer that

First Janet and then you can give your opinion we grew up Orthodox so I was always the Oddball and always had to eat my own food so also have multiple food allergies so it never bothered me so no I don’t feel I kind of feel special

Because everywhere I go I brought my own food to weddings and bar mitzvah and my food’s better and people are jealous of my food so I think it’s going to depend on your confidence level and personality um so how do you feel about that Janet no one has ever noticed no one cares

They’re busy I mean especially at the potlucks because there’s all these wonderful dishes they all look beautiful and they’re busy getting their own thing right uh crazy farm girl says I’m thinking about rejoining WWL so WL hasn’t existed in gosh I want to say five years um but we have been doing

Reboots since then just so you know but my book is called the secrets to Ultimate weight loss would love to partner with someone as an accountability partner a kind compassionate yet someone willing to commit as I would do the same so in reboot we have ways for you to connect

With people because you’re all doing the same program and it’s done off of Facebook in the private forum and that’s where a lot of people have found ongoing friendships and support where they sometimes there’s two three four where they are on an ongoing text thread so that might be something you want to

Consider Community I love fabulous over 40 I mean that has been been so wonderful and the check-ins on Saturday we go into to uh she puts us into rooms where there’s just two or three of us and we can talk to each other and work things out and and come up with with

Some ideas and just get support and and a lot of people people you know they come on and then they leave when it comes to going into rooms and I just think no don’t leave don’t leave it’s it’s just so valuable to have one-on-one time with each other and and and help

Each other so I I highly recommend getting getting on board with this and just if you don’t have your own Community just join this community or even if you do I mean really I spend most of my time now with with all of you

I you get me yeah uh Jean says it’s so sad to hear you felt the need to destroy your photos of that time in your life we are so hard on ourselves I don’t like looking at old photos of me personally I I can understand that and there’s a

Question from Jean as well did the people around you support your new way of eating well like I said that whole group that I bicycle tour with we all went vegan and I mean they they they’re not as strict as I am and so they might

Tease me a little bit I mean because they you know they all go out to dinner and I don’t want to go but you know what I just hang in there and now they don’t tease me anymore they get people get used to it um at first they just they

Thought I was being a little bit over the top and I and I mean you know even even now they probably do but they don’t say it anymore and I don’t care because I look great and I feel great so it’s just enough reinforcement for me

That I just have no interest in going back yep I’m not going back well thank you those who said they pre-ordered my book do you still pretty much eat like the same kind of what I eat in a day now that as you did when you were losing

Weight yeah yeah I eat the same way I mean like I say I I try different cookbooks and things but but I keep it pretty simple you know I I love a big raw salad and I love um you know just a PO potato on the side just like you do and

Um I’m not I don’t do a lot of desserts I mean I just I love fresh fruit and so yeah there’s there’s there’s no reason to change I love the way things are right now and I’m going to show you the potatoes here bring them

Out these are so good oh SEF a I wish I could share them me too I mean how does anybody manage without a brevel I I mean I didn’t have one for most of my life but now that I have it I’d say I use it

Every day it’s all I’ve got I don’t I didn’t even have an oven put in so I just tab this little kitchen and uh I thought the brevel was all I need I don’t want an oven I didn’t ever hardly ever use one before so the brevel the brevel I use every day

Practically and the the instant pot and the blender yep those are some of my favorites do you pedal every day no I haven’t pedal since October it’s been so cold and wet in the in the summer I I do I’ll go every day if I’m on tour if I’m

Home I usually alternate a day of bicycling and then a day of walking and working out and then a day of bicycling but I do something every day bicycling outside or inside outside in the summer in the winter I walk six miles I walk Three three and a half in the morning

And two and a half in the in the evening and then I work out three times a week and I’ve been doing adrianne’s 30-day yoga um AJ from the from feel fabulous over 40 told us about it in the checkin the other day and I thought

Oh I I’m gonna try that so I’ve been doing that one she’s the one that she’s got the Aussie the dog that does yoga with her oh that’s cool yeah there was like a over A million hits on the the first video were you also a peddler when you had the excess

Weight I was I proved Beyond a doubt that exercise will not get you thin yeah is is it easier to ride now with 87 pounds gone it is such a joy to ride I just everything I do is so much more fun without that extra weight and you know

Just the all the thoughts go with being heavy and you know I’m a retired physical therapist and I was a PT and I couldn’t get the weight off and H just was a a you know it it was awful while was going on but I realize now that it’s

Been my greatest teacher this just going through this whole experience and now having an answer um with with this program just it’s just changed my life Chef AJ how did you get through the rough addictive beginning when your body is screaming for filling in the blank with whatever your individual Vice is my

Weakness is mayonnaise how did you replace that you know Kathy Hester has some wonderful mayonnaise recipes actually that I just saw on her blog made out of roasted onions and then Chef Dell has one made out of I believe it is cauliflower but I think it’s the fat you

Want not necessarily the mayonnaise ah well I am a food addict and I don’t really have I I’m I just I’m addicted to overeating and it just you know I love sweets I love Savory just anything and so being able to eat as much as I

Want has been incredible I just had to change the calorie density and and you know so now I’ve been doing it so 20 21 22 23 and now 24 and now I’m really honing in on this whole only when I’m hungry stop when I’m not hungry anymore and you know at first

I was trying to eat until I’m full but that doesn’t work but there is there’s a finer line or there’s a um I I can tell when I’m not hungry anymore but I don’t want to stop eating yeah so it’s just something I’m gonna play with this

Year maybe even talk to Dr Lyle or um who’s the German girl but we know what he’s going to say when anybody brings that to him he’s going to say that’s because eating to the left of the red Line’s not sustainable our ancestors didn’t you need to add some of the

Higher calorie dense food like avocado tofu or things like that he’s done several talks about that I don’t know if you’ve paid attention to them but that’s what yeah I did I did hear him say that but um did your doctor uh what did he

Think of your success was he he or she’s supportive she and everyone in the office is fat to put it bluntly and she’s not she’s not impressed in fact right now I’ve got some low numbers on my labs and she she jumps to you know thinking it’s a blood disease and wants

Me to get all these tests and so I consulted with um bares Dr bares the other day and um and she gave me some really good good feedback and so we’re going to do some of the ones that she wants I I hope I’m I’ve put in a a email

To her um and then Dr veres she’s she just so she’s have they tested your iron and I’m like no well ask if she’ll test your iron and your fertin I like your here by the way thank you Dr veres being Dr Chilla veres who is one of the staff

Doctors at the True North Health Center that’s true I did not mention but I I fasted at True North last year a year ago now for five days I last five days Chef AJ but I was on broth that that last day so I don’t even know if that

Counts or no maybe I guess it was the day after that I did I did Fast for five days and then um refed for for three and she was my doctor there and she’s just wonderful and it’s it’s so wonderful to have a a lifestyle medicine doctor in my

Court that’s amazing isn’t it yeah yeah we seem to find that many of the people that have been successful not not that it’s a requirement have had some experience at least going to True North one time to kind of as they say drink the Kool-Aid yeah and if there is

Something going on that’s where I’ll go you know I she says I think you’re just really healthy and I said I do too so you know how our numbers go down because we just like white blood cells we don’t need white blood cells we don’t have any infection or inflammation going

On but but I guess there’s enough other things that are low that I better go get some things checked out so yeah but I take my my B12 was low and I and I got more consistent about taking my B12 and and the body responded right away I’m

Right in the middle of the range now and um my vitamin D was low and that got up to speed as soon as I got consistent and I even had an elevated liver enzyme and um that normalized so it is amazing how this stuff works I mean it really it’s

Amazing I just love it what’s the best part of looking and feeling great at 68 oh it’s so cool you know I I get things at Costco because I mean if Costco doesn’t have it I don’t want it because I hate shopping and I have to

Get small and even the smalls are too big and it took me a while to to talk myself into you know I kept getting well I’ll do a medium you know I mean usually it’s extra large for me I mean it used to be and um it’s just the the funnest

Thing to be able to just pick something off the table and uh it’s the smallest one and and it works you know and like the these um pants that I have on now that I showed you the picture of in the mirror the the burgundy ones these it’s just so

Cool to be able to wear leggings those are nice leggings what kind are they these are Jean sent me the um who sent them to you Jean oh is she there uh there’s a person watching named Jean j n NE h no this Jean only one oh yeah that’s Jean Bruner

Yeah from Iowa she’s a bicyclist whatever brand that is I really like them yeah I’ll send you the link very cool well there’s a comment I just saw they’ve got lots of Pockets too from uh oh what brand of Jamie wants to know what brand of vitamin B12 and D do you

Take I take my B12 is called Pure encapsulations because that’s the one that Dr goldhammer sells so I don’t necessarily buy it from him but that’s the brand I like what do you like my D is the pure encapsulations that that that Dr goldhammer had and the B12 I

Just picked up I I had some tablets from Kaiser and they were so big I could hard swallow them so I finished those off and now I just got something at Costco so we’ll see if that works nice uh crazy farm girl says I would love to go to

True North as well but just not in the budget as of yet but it’s on my bucket list well for the price of one day at True North you can do the entire reboot program for 30 days and spend three hours with Dr goldhammer and three hours

An additional three hours with Dr Lyle and you can ask questions and yeah it’s really fun really your questions will probably be answered anyways because he just he he he’s so wonderful he’ll just answer all your questions yep Tina says yoga pants are sexy and yes being skinny

Is the way to go not so much even being skinny Tina but being healthy so yeah that’s I think the other thing did you have any health problems when you had the excess weight me uhuh well no who else like I was saying that the I had high I didn’t

Know it but I had high cholesterol high blood pressure high heart rate you know I was heading for pre-diabetes so yeah yeah and my sister she has breast cancer just finished chemotherapy um she was pre-diabetic she has high blood pressure so I mean and my whole family is on high blood pressure

Medication except for me so so I was heading there definitely but none of them are interested in trying to eat this way are they no my sister when she got diagnosed with cancer she came down with a pad and pen and said okay what do

I need to do and she she has done amazing through her chemo she’s never had any side effects that you know like sick nausea they kept asking her and wanting to give her drugs for you know nausea and stuff she goes I’m not having any nausea and then um she had the

Masectomy and she just bounced right back right back from that she was back to work within two weeks and they thought that she’d be out for at least four weeks maybe six so I mean she’s just really she’s responding so much differently being on plant-based diet

Since last February so almost a year now so and the only thing is she slipped back into drinking coffee again and her blood pressure is back up again so um she’s I I told her about same May yeah the coffee substitute so she’s gonna try that see if she can get off it

Nice nice nice do you you what are your plans for the future uh so many people want to be he heal coach now is that what you want to do too no no I you know I love just doing what I’m doing just for my pod getting on and uh I love

Cooking I you know I didn’t used to cook I didn’t used to enjoy cooking I didn’t used to be in the kitchen I I would I wouldn’t mind it if somebody else was there with me which of course I guess you could say that now because I have

The company of all the girls um but I just love being in the kitchen now I just I I can spend a whole day in the kitchen and just not even get a thought I I make you know all my own dressings I make milk for Stephen I make him Oak

Roots um I do I make homemade corn tortillas with Masa when I’m Raw I do all L’s stuff her her tacos and her wraps and uh I just love experimenting with all the different different ways of doing things Kathy Hester and and um the Elon and H there’s just so much broccoli

Mom now I mean there’s there’s just so much to explore and experiment with I just love it wow you’re really an inspiration Janet thank you so much well thanks for having me and I just I just hope everybody will come on board and and let’s make the world healthy again and

And loving life and getting up in the morning ready to go and I just so hope that for everybody yeah well keep up the good work keep on pedaling and I I look forward to seeing you in the next reboot thanks maybe we’ll see you at the the um one of the

Fests and I’d love to come down for one of your potlucks at the or you know I I don’t have the date yet but you came to one of our conferences and we’re this we’re trying to get a bigger location because we tap we capped out at 250 so

We’re looking at Weimar which is we could have 400 and so maybe it’ll come it might be this summer who knows yeah yeah I know I’m going to the NH in June so I’m I’m looking forward to seeing everybody there and yeah I’d love to come that would be great thanks so

Much Janet yeah thank you Chef AJ enjoy those wonderful potatoes and thanks you’re lucky thanks all of you for watching another episode of sha AJ live please come back tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time we have a brand new show that’s going to debut the I believe this

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