Set Up

I created a video to show how I organize BLE for my family. Enjoy!

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020:

For those of you considering starting BLE, I want to give you my last 14-day journey. I'm doing this with my husband, 23-year-old son, and 11-year-old son.

I have to say BEFORE BLE, every night around 5 I would start wondering what to make for dinner. I would mentally shut down and veg on the couch for a few hours, and then just throw together something. Usually, just defrost and eat meals. Absolute garbage food.

I read the book and it clicked. I went shopping on Saturday and bought enough food to last us through the week. 20 oz of veggies per person X 6 days. 12 oz of fruits per person X 6 days. I bought another scale so we would have 2 scales.

I stocked up on multiple proteins, so people could pick what they wanted. I had eggs, hard-boiled 12 of them, yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese, frozen gluten-free meatballs, and tuna.

I sorted out my pantry into each category of Breakfast Grain, Protein, Fruits, Veggies, Fats. I marked them all with labels.

I gave away, to hungry missionaries, almost all of the non-BLE foods. I had a pretty good food storage. 48 boxes of cereal, 5 bags of freezer foods. Funny, they went into a 9-day quarantine the day I dropped off the food. So they were so happy to have food for the next 9 days. It always works out.

I printed out the lists of what we could eat and color-coded them. I stuck them on my kitchen cupboard.

And off we went. It's been 14 days. No looking back. No fear. No regrets. I no longer worry about dinners. I have foods we can eat and that's what we eat.

We are doing 10 oz veggies for lunch and dinner. We found 14 oz was too much at dinner. Day 1 we ate all raw veggies. Beginner mistake. Now we eat both raw and cooked, roasted, or air fried. Hubby and I cook together.

My 11-year-old is eating like he's on maintenance, as he doesn't have weight to lose.

The rest of us:

Hubby released 10 pounds

23 year old son released 7 pounds

I've released 5 pounds

11 year old released 2 pounds

BUT the most important thing for me. I have no more after meal fog. No more lethargic stooper. I had a mini-stroke a little over 2 years ago and haven't been able to write, which is what I love. For the past three days, I've been writing, back to my stories. I love what BLE has given back to me. Thank you!