In the four days since my wife and I returned from our 8 day trip to Seattle and Vancouver, we’ve stuck to our Paleo lifestyle and both of us have been pleasantly surprised with how quickly and easily the weight we put on has come back off. I can’t speak for her weight loss, but I’ve lost almost 8.5 lbs since Sunday morning which means I’m now just .6 lbs up from my lowest weigh-in just before we went on vacation.

THAT IS AMAZING!

Just this week, a story came out in the New York Times about a “study” done on fourteen cast members of The Greatest Loser and how much weight they regained after the show. The story goes on to explain that these people all lost huge amounts of weight in a very small period of time and as a result, their metabolism slowed dramatically. Of the fourteen, only two have continued to either sustain the weight loss or lose more. I began receiving lots of emails and messages from people asking me if I was worried that the same would happen to me.

No. I’m not worried. And here’s why: I’m not starving myself, not doing a deprivation diet, and I didn’t set out to lose the most amount of weight in the smallest amount of time. What I did was NOT what the people on The Greatest Loser did. I did a Whole30 and went Paleo. I ate until I felt full, made sure I stuck to the Paleo lifestyle, and made sure to never sabotage my eating plans by eating non-Paleo foods. My body has been losing weight naturally, without starving myself, without killing myself with crazy workouts, and without taking any supplements, vitamins, pills, patches, or drugs/surgery.

Our bodies want to run efficiently. If we feed them an appropriate amount of calories and nutrients, they will find their ideal weight. All you have to do is eat good foods in normal amounts. My weight loss is proof that our bodies are resilient and can bounce back from temporary weight gain with little effort and some discipline.