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I Feel Better Than I Ever Did In My Life

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It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me here . I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading! When I first started on a low-carb diet, I lost 35 lbs (16 kg)  in five months . I had 24 conditions! But not all my ailments healed. I went down the rabbit’s hole and was able to turn my health around and cure a myriad of health issues with some additional measures. This is what I did. My story began in 2013, where I adopted an eating protocol via Dr. Mark Hyman’s  Ultrametabolism , after discovering my cholesterol was high. Following that plan, I lost 35 pounds (16 kg)  in five months  and had more energy for a period of time. But I started getting tired, having palpitations, wake-ups at night where I couldn’t go bac...

The Pros + Cons Of Real Time Blogging

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Going back to the original “what I ate” style of KERF is something I think about all.the.time. If you’re new here, you might not know that for the first 5 years of this blog, I kept a dairy of nearly every meal I ate. I think I only missed a day here or there due to sickness or technical glitches. KERF was unique because when I started back in 2007,  no one was logging their meals in real time. (There was also no Instagram or really any social media, so there’s that.) I loved blogging back in those days, and my days looked very different than they do now. Then: Because I was writing about my life, I lived more life! Blogging never felt like “work,” even when I was up blogging at 10pm. Posts were super quick to write because I was literally recapping my last meal and few hours. I enjoyed writing commentary on my food choices, and I loved reading so many comments from you guys. There were no evergreen or sponsored posts – everything was written in real time. Thus, when I finishe...