Hello, we're Elaine and Julian Walker. We're American expats. We are currently living in Japan again, this time in northern Japan.  We've been doing intermittent fasting since mid-March of 2018. My husband was already looking at some health videos by Thomas Delauer, but I never really caught on to it.  After moving to Japan in 2017, I knew I wanted to improve my health, but I lacked a strategy.  It wasn't until I went in to get a dental cleaning done that I was told that I had high blood pressure. They could do the cleaning, but not give me a cavity filling.  That led me to see a doctor, and I was told that I had hypertension. I immediately went home and started looking at health videos, which led me to Dr. Eric Berg.  We credit him for introducing keto and intermittent fasting to us and additionally, gaining more knowledge on artery health, vitamin information, and especially the importance of vitamin D3 and K2. 

 Three days after that doctor's appointment, I started IF and keto. Nine days after that, my blood pressure started going down, and I was able to wear my wedding band again.  My highest weight was 278. Julian saw that I wanted to skip a meal that first day, and he started IF with me. 

 When we last spoke to you, we were living in Hawaii for a couple of years. My husband's government job has a consecutive time limit on how long we can live in Japan.  We never stopped doing IF, but we both were having window creep, eating fast food and the standard American diet a bit more. We strayed away from keto and carnivore. We've been back in Japan since August 2024.  Julian arranged for us to see a military base doctor so that we could assess our health. On October 10th, the doctor called Julian at night, saying that his A1c was very high. And my weight had bounced up to 215 pounds. The next day, we kicked things back into gear. Julian wanted to go strict carnivore, and that's where we've been since October. The carnivore diet has reduced visceral fat, improved our A1c markers, and resolved our fatty liver.

I am now down to 170, which is less than my high school weight. Julian has lost more than 30 pounds. 

I have tips, such as:

- Prioritise protein when you open your eating window. 

- workout fasted

- Limit and remove bad oils

- Trace minerals and electrolytes are very important. 

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