What's a Youatarian? It's my own phrase I have used when people ask me how I have lost my excess weight. I'm a Youatarian and live the youatarian lifestyle. Simply put, a Youatarian is someone that follows YOU On a Diet. For any YOAD followers out there that would like to adopt the phrase
for themselves, please feel free.

- Marshall (aka Orlando Tek)



Welcome to my blog!

Welcome to my blog!

My Story

In July 2006, I visited the doctor for a multitude of
ongoing medical problems and when I weighed
in I remember being 305lbs. That was the heaviest
I could ever remember weighing on any scale in my life.

My wife, also overweight, started some small changes
in her diet at that time and those changes made its way
through into my diet as well.

In September 2006, I watched my mother undergo
triple bypass surgey. And I always believed her
to be of modest health although she had passed
on a few of her problems to me including high blood
pressure and acid reflux issues. In her early 20's,
unaware of her high blood pressure problem, she
actually had a stroke, although not very severe.

My dad is a bit healthier even though being
12 years older than my mom, but he has borderline
adult onset diabetes and he had a stint put into an
artery a few years back.

Taking in all this information, It was then I decided
I needed to make some serious changes in my life
or I will be the next one on the heart ward not too
long from now.

It was Novemeber, 2006 and I was already following
the few changes my wife had made to her diet and we had
both lost about 15lbs in the last few months. Any
change at this point was a good change. We watched
a Discovery Health special called YOU: On A Diet featuring
the YOU docs and a few families incorporating YOAD
into their daily lives and showing their amazing progress.

The very next day, November 7th, 2006, my wife and
I went through every cabinet and cupboard in our
house and got rid of ALL the bad foods. We then
went to the grocery store and bought foods that
met YOAD and from that day we have not looked back!

We could not find the book at any local store so we
ordered it off Amazon. It took a few weeks to arrive
but we started cooking with only YOAD approved foods
using YOAD approved methods and we WERE seeing
results even before the book arrived.

From there it has been all downhilll. I have lost 110lbs
since starting on YOAD in November but about 125lbs
over the last 18 months total. Wahoo!

And most of my medical problems related to my weight
have now vanished including high bood pressure, acid
reflux and sleep apnea. I have much more energy and
I feel better than I can ever remember!

And its all thanks to YOAD!



Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Why coconut oil?

Why coconut oil? Isn't that unhealthy?

YOAD says all saturated fats are bad. And, they are 99% correct.

About a year ago I was reading a post on a message board while
researching canola oil and its health beneifts and I ran across how
healthy coconut oil was. Wait a second. Stop the presses. Back in
the 1980's, we were all brainwashed into believing coconut oil was
evil and unhealthy for us. But, back then they also said all
cholesterol was bad and margerine was good for us.
See a trend?

Okay. Not all cholesterol is created equal and the same goes for
saturated fats. Coconut oil, as well as Palm oil, has a unique chemical
make up that's different than 99% of the other saturated fats.
Different make up means it has different affects on our bodies. These
oils are made primarily of medium chain fatty acids. This makes the oil
very easy for us to digest. Once in our stomach, the oil is quicky used as
energy and very little of it is stored as fat in our bodies.

Compared to other oils like soybean or canola which is made up mostly
of long chain fatty acids which makes the oil much more difficult for our bodies
to digest. Much of the oil makes its way into our intestines where it is stored
as fat until needed for energy by our body.

It's also coconut oil's unique properties that has a documented affect of
increasing our metabolism and aid in weight loss. In the 1940's and 1950's,
farmer's were able to buy coconut oil very cheap and some decided to feed
it to their livestock to fatten them up. To their amazement, after adding
the coconut oil, they discovered that their cows were losing weight and
getting skinny! So, they stopped adding the coconut oil and the problem
went away.

Coconut oil also has anti-virul properties. There have been nermurous
studies done on HIV patients that when given coconut oil on a daily basis, it
significantly reduced the amount of HIV in their bloodstream.

My wife and I spent the better part of a month reading literally about
100 different websites as well as some books before we decided coconut oil
would be beneficial to us. Of course, we get only the non-hydrogenated kind.
Any oil that is hydrogenated is unhealthy.

Have a great day, everyone.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the info Marshall. What does it taste like and how do you all use it? Also where does one buy it?

Thanks
Chari

Vinyl Bozz said...

It tastes like regular oil. It does NOT taste like coconuts.

There are two types, virgin and
refined. Both are healthy as long as it's non-hydrogenated.

Virgin has a creamery texture and often smells like coconuts but still has a neutral taste. But, the smoke point is lower than refined so it depends on your application. We use virgin for sautee and refined for deep frying (up to 350 degrees) like for french fries, organic of course.

Virgin coconut oil can be found at health food stores. The refined can be found at most grocery stores in their organic/health section or better yet, we buy ours from Wal-Mart Supercenter. Its on the oil isle and the brand is LouAna.

Hope this helps.

Chari said...

Thanks for the info,
I may have to try it!

Have a great day!
Chari

Anonymous said...

Hi Marshall,
I may have to try coconut oil too. I read on one website it's good as a spread on bread. That must be the creamy, virgin type. Mmmm sounds so good. I'm thinking of going to the health food store after work to get some, lol. Thanks for the info!
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