Doing The Plan on my own . . .

This is awesome! I finally found pals going Lyn-Genet's TP. I started on 1/22/13. So far, I lost 5lbs and tested reactive for Goat milk's cheese (yesterday). Today, I am doing the 'friendly' day.

Please feel free to friend me so that we can share are our food logs. I am trying to follow the program as suggested in the book.
I feel like Lyn has written the book for me.
Cheers!

I skimmed The Plan by Lyn-Genet Recitas a few weeks ago. It looked promising at first. You eat less, you exercise more, yet you gain weight, due to, drum roll please, low-grade inflammation from being sensitive to certain so-called "healthy" foods. Nothing wrong with such an individual approach, but I had my eye set on insulin resistance, but found nothing of the sort. It may be there, but I didn't see it. The Virgin Diet by JJ Virgin, liked by Mark Hyman, mentions and explains it. Heck, even Alicia Silverstone's The Kind Diet does. Flat Belly Diet! Diabetes by Liz Vaccariello captivatingly outlines how chronic inflammation by way of visceral fat promotes insulin resistance, which leads to diabetes. What to eat and what not to, if you want to lower your visceral fat. That kind of fat that's way in there by your belly and can't be felt by pulling your skin. So I wonder how efficient it is to go in a silver lining search of your particular reactive foods until you have taken care of what you already know is bad for any of us. But don't let that stop you though!

Very cool to see that there are others on site that are trying this Plan to determine what they are allergic to. Just some back ground about me and why this appealed to me. During my early 20's i started to have outbreaks of Eczema mostly on my hands and sometime my torso. After years +15 years of putting up with this even to the point where my palms and finger tips would bleed I met an acupuncturist that suggested I get some food allergy testing conducted and that eczema was most likely a side affect of my body dealing with food allergies. After testing with an recommended allergist I found a lot of allergies to nuts including pistachio, almond, walnuts which i removed from my diet and my skin made a remarkable improvement.

So when i heard about The Plan i quickly became interested and read the book and started The Plan a few weeks ago. So far it does appear to deliver on its goal of identifying foods that are problematic although in my case it appears that i am getting data that i do NOT want to hear about. I have tested positive for Gluten allergy when i tried bread for the first time my weight went up the next day by .4 pounds and then the next day by 2 pounds. At first this had me a bit perplexed but after i thought about it it tends to make sense that if my body was fighting inflammation the day after i exposed it to something allergenic it retained the calories and water that I provided my body the next Friendly day. It took about 3-4 days to get my body back to what I felt was normal and then I have continued testing from there. I am about 15-20 days into testing and about 13 pounds lost but I am also running a lot more than i normally run which is not exactly inline with her recommendations but since i am not drinking or eating much i want to get the biggest return that i can.

@brewdays - I did have reactions that lasted for 2 full days even while I was on the friendly menu. I basically had bloating and constipation (no BM for 2 days). I reacted to goat's milk cheese and egg whites.

Hey this is a response to MisTesh. I too have been researching insulin resistance convinced it was the reason for my failure to lose weight. I tried the belly fat diet like other low carb plans, I couldn't stick to it for long, I was hungry all the time. I also did alot of research on low thyroid and thyroid resistence. Then I found Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker who has been researching the link between toxic mold exposure and weight gain due to leptin resistence and it all started to click. The cause he says is inflammation from the mold exposure. Inflammatory cytokines block your receptors for not just leptin, but also thyroid and insulin!! I'd been exposed to mold in my home for 12 years, during which time I steadily gained weight and felt terrible. Though I'm out of the moldy environment, some people can't process mold toxins so the effects can linger on. I was ready to find a doc to do expensive lab tests to show my leptin was messed up when I found saw Lyn-Genet on Dr. Oz. She doesn't get into the chemistry of inflammation in her book, but beleive me, it's there. Inflamation is why you're insulin, thyroid and leptin reistant but instead of getting into that, she just gives you the nuts and bolts of how to find what's inflammatory for YOU! What I would advise, don't worry about insulin resistence or leptin, I've spent hundreds of dollars on herbs and vitamins that are supposed to treat them as well as inflammation but NOTHING, i repeat nothing has worked as well for me as a mere 3 weeks on The Plan. You can't "skim' the book and get any benefit so don't bother. It's a blueprint and it only works if you follow it exactly. Yes it takes comittment, but for people who have a real problem with weight that won't budge without extraordinary measures, following the Plan is no worse than any other cockamamie, restrictive diet we've ever tried. The benefits are pretty immediate. Suddenly my brain fog was gone. I dont feel hungry all the time, I don't crave sweets and starches (or anyting really), I don't have constant heartburn. The list goes on but you get the idea. It takes alot of home cooking, you can't buy these foods at a convenience store! But the rewards are already outweighing the inconvenience by a long shot. But where is The Plan group on Fitness Pal! I want in!

This is my first visit to this board. Is there a group for "The Plan"? I am at about day 14 with 7.2 pounds gone.

I've been on The Plan for 24 days and have only lost 4 pounds because I keep testing reactive to foods. So far it's been pork, potatoes, and wheat. On day 14 I restarted at day 6 using the Thyroid plan. I did retest the trio I had been reactive to and the results were the same ....8 to 1.5 pounds weight gain each test. When I tested the bread I had such an immediate reaction that I've gone gluten-free. I had stomach cramps and diarrhea within an hour of eating the 1 slice of bread!

So are you supposed to stay on friendly days until you lose the weight that you gained due to the reaction? I've just been chugging along testing one day and resting the next. If I have a weight gain on a rest day I figure I ate something bad, or didn't get my water in, and have another rest day.