I want to talk about my own experience on my fitness journey here. I grew up skinny fat as a kid from a vegetarian family and I rarely ate meat. I still ate meat but I didn’t eat much meat including school lunches because school lunches looked disgusting. I became fat in college and I always thought that my familial history was going to hold me back from being healthy.
Turns out it was mostly my diet which was holding me back. In these photos, I am showing how my markers all improved through a period of two years. I basically quit Indian food and started prioritizing meat. It was chicken at first but then I craved more so I started eating 6-8 eggs, 12oz - 1 lb of red meat a day, 1 oz of beef liver a day, salmon 3-4 times a eeek, replaced seed oils with butter and olive oil, and ate high fiber and potassium carbs. The results were astonished. My skin looked much better and I felt like I had the most energy ever. I got older and still felt stronger and mentally sharper. The so called red meat which is demonized by the “nutrition experts” rejuvenated me. The eggs and the beef liver gave me so much energy. I lost weight easily as I went down from 190 to 150.
I went to get my bloodwork and my physician joked wow you lost so much weight and you look so healthy. I dont like to boost so I just nodded. Her son who also worked in the practice as a physician came to me and said he was impressed with how my triglycerides dropped and how my HDL went up. My dad had to get cabg bypass so they were stunned over that but then he went over my cholesterol levels and he said 260/190, what are you eating? I told him everything I was eating and he said I’m eating too much red meat. Even on days I wouldn’t eat meat I would eat like 10-12 eggs a day on the cut. They are so filling and my parents would joke I turned into “a Muslim.”
So my doctor wanted to put me on statins for my cholesterol levels. He said my risk of heart disease increases because of my cholesterol levels and he tried to put me on statins. I refused politely and told him that nothing was working out for me before and this was the only way. He still kept trying to push me onto statins but I told him this was the hill I will die on and to get me apob cholesterol particle testing. He said I could do that but he wanted me to adopt a more Mediterranean diet. The thing is I don’t really like white meat so I politely refused and he got upset.
Medical professionals are brilliant individuals and they have gone through medical school but I seriously question on how valid their research on proper nutrition is. They used to say smoking cigs were healthy and now all this processed junk over the past 30-40 years. Why should I trust their so called research which is failing poc. POC from South Asians to African Americans are having the worst health outcomes but we should trust the system which is gutting us? We should trust the system that is introducing all this lab grown meat that bill gates is trying to push into the stores? I don’t buy it. For their studies demonizing cholesterol, they probably pick overweight individuals who eat KFC and Mcdonalds.
I know there are gonna be people that disagree with me here and that’s totally fine but I believe we should do our own research and figure out what works for us. I don’t even believe in vegetarianism and think it holds us back. At the end of the day, people are still going to do whatever they want and that’s completely fine. If a person is vegetarian, I believe they should eat 8-12 eggs a day to supplement but that’s just me. Also if you are interested, read “The Great Cholesterol Myth.”