everybody everybody this is Evan brand back with not just paleo podcast episode 10 thank you for joining today we had on the paleo mom, Sarah Ballantine. So she has been a huge proponent of paleo. She's lost a ton of weight from paleo and low carb dieting in general. She has an amazing transformation, which you can check out at her website at the paleo mom.com.

And she's very passionate about the subject, and she is a PhD from a different type of science, but she has applied that same analytical perspective to all aspects of her diet and fitness,

and now she is in love with it.

So I hope you enjoy this episode, and if you can, go write a review on iTunes.

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Thanks for listening.

Okay, Sarah.

So why don't you give us your background of your weight loss story and talk about how you lost pounds with a low carb diet and then how you switch to paleo and how much better you felt and

just a little bit of intro of your whole story.

My whole story in 20 minutes or less.

Yes.

I was always overweight and never a particularly healthy kid.

And in my early 20s, I had hit sort of mid-200s, 265 pounds weight.

And I felt really helpless and didn't have any really good strategies.

Every time I tried going on a diet.

And diet to me back then meant just calorie restriction, go down to 1,200 calories a day

and see how long I could keep that up before I fell off the wagon.

I would end up gaining the weight and more back, which is a familiar story, I think, for many people.

And then I was introduced to the new Mayo Clinic diet, which was a fad, low-carb diet in the

sort of mid-90s.

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