| Four years ago, when my first son was born, I was 274 pounds. I started drinking Atkins shakes and eating cheese, bacon, eggs and meat in hopes to lose the massive recent weight gain. A few years prior, I had lost 40 pounds following a different diet. Nothing was taking the weight off this time. My doctor even suggested I was not telling the whole truth about my eating because she didn’t believe a “no/low carb diet wouldn’t do the trick”. I was even walking about 2-3 hours a day! My heart broke and devastation ran through me when my body wasn’t producing enough milk to feed my son. I felt that formula was poison, and I had failed as a mother. I knew I needed to make a change. I immediately began to look for the healthiest diet on the planet. Using formula would only be for one year and I vowed to make sure he ate health promoting foods from there on out. Childhood diabetes was my biggest fear for my baby’s future, and all of the research I read and watched showed that parents must lead by example, which meant I had to make the change too. When the Starch Solution popped up on Instagram I laughed and thought it was too good to be true. Eat my favorite foods and lose weight? Nothing else had worked so I figured I would give it a try. Within two weeks, 12 days to be exact, I had lost about 10 pounds, my post baby depression was finally lifting and I began to feel like myself again. Four years and a second child later, I am still 100 pounds lighter. My weight gain for baby number two was only 20 pounds and that came off two months after he was born.
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