Episode 184 Elaine & Julian Walker- An inspiring couple who fast and feast together living an intermittent fasting lifestyle

I am a 53-year-old woman, mother of two young adult daughters and wife. My husband, Julian and I work for the US government. We initially got into government work after moving from California, USA. We moved to southern Japan, where we finally got a hold of our nutrition, exercise and found intermittent fasting.

At the beginning of March 2018, I went to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned at the military base we worked on. I started intermittent fasting on March 19. I had been in Japan since September 2017 after selling our house in California. I hadn't had my teeth cleaned in a long while. When I went to get my teeth cleaned, I was told that I had a cavity that needed to get filled. However, they couldn't do the filling because they found that I had high blood pressure. They had me see a doctor right there on the base, and he told me I had hypertension. He wanted me to get a blood pressure monitor and gave me a prescription for Lysinopril that day. I bought a blood pressure monitor like the doctor told m. Following the doctor's instructions, my husband helped me track my BP twice daily. However, not once did I take a single dose of that Lysinopril. I knew I had turned my weight around before and could do it again. However, the stakes were higher this time because I could clearly see my health decline. It scared me straight because my dad survived a heart attack when I was in high school, and my mom died of a heart attack just a few months after I graduated college in 1993.

March 19, 2018, is when I first started intermittent fasting. My starting weight was 278. My husband had already begun watching Thomas Delauer videos looking for ways to help our health. Somehow, YouTube pointed me to a Dr Berg video regarding fasting. A couple of his videos got me started with IF. I remember that day I told Julian I was going to eat dinner. I was kind of shy about it, but he immediately said OKAY, I'm going do that too. He was already researching how we could get our health back on track. He was concerned about his because he knew he was pre-diabetic.

We both had several fitness and weight loss ups and downs. In September 2009, he took a job in Iraq, and while he was there, I started Jenny Craig. While there, he gained much weight and reached his highest weight. When I returned, he talked me into doing the P90X workout program with him. We were doing very well with that. But in the Fall of 2011, I fell on some steps at work. I was feeling energetic and was trying to jog up some stairs in heels. I fell on a stage and cracked my patella in my left knee. That kicked off a new decline in health, with minimal exercise.

In May 2015, my father died after a five-year bout of Dementia and Alzheimer's. I also went through a massive layoff in Auto Finance that same month. We didn't turn things around between 2011-2017.

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