She has a great figure. I think she carries a good amount of muscle, which makes the weight distribute to all the right places and gives her a beautiful shape. Also, she is probably taller than average.
My best diet is animal based with lots of red meat, dairy, small amounts of bread from freshly milled grains, macademia nuts, and cooked vegetables. Nothing sweet at all- not even fake sugars. I had my healthiest pregnancy at 36 years old on that diet. I was wearing my old jeans at 2 weeks post partum! Couldn't believe it.
Hi! Do you have any tips for someone with IBS? I was told to live without gluten and dairy and I feel like that isn’t true. I’m sure I can get back to a animal based diet too with diary 😭
I love it when you talk gut health and healing! I have been suffering from laryngopharyngeal reflux probably as long as I can remember, but it flared up after ny son was born three years ago. I've been t the point where I can't breathe properly for almost a year. Nothing I've done, even elimination diets, have helped. No supplements, no doctors, nothing. Even went for an endoscopy! I am at my wits end and I can't function properly because I'm in so much pain and discomfort, and, as I mentioned, can barely breathe. Still praying and trusting and trying to find answers so I can get better! Your videos are an inspiration and encouragement! Thanks, Steph! Also, I'm so happy to hear you feel better! It's hard to do the intense changes sometimes needed, but if they help you to feel better and lose weight and give you the energy you need to live well, then it is totally worth it! ❤
Wow! How wonderful this video was. I felt like I was hearing myself tell my own story. I have Hoshimotos and hypo thyroid also and I’m 41, just had baby #4. Thank you for you content!! ❤
I’m excited for this video. I also struggled to lose the weight after baby number 4. I’ve since had 4 more pregnancies and really want to be able to lose the weight and strengthen my core postpartum. ❤
I love your informative videos!! I was able to get pregnant by tracking my basal temp that I learned from you!! I’m now 10 weeks with my first baby and I’m SO HAPPY! Happy thanksgiving to you and your lovely family 🦃🧡
Reading the title of this I was wondering if you did GAPS! I am so happy it helped you. I just had my first baby and am actually a certified GAPS practitioner and we are both about to start the diet when I introduce foods to him. Love your content!
Woo hoo! I had my 7th baby at the same time you had your last one. I was the smallest i had ever been when i got pregnant and the biggest i had ever been at the end of that pregnancy. Now baby is almost 8 months and i am finally back on the carnivore wagon and the weight is starting to come off. About 15 lbs to go! But i want to keep my milk up and it always fixes all of my low blood sugar issue I usually have!
I'm the opposite, I experience a lot of inflammation and autoimmune flares with high protein. I do much better on Mediterranean diet, but like you, I'm trying to keep up milk supply 7 months pp after baby 6 and I've found organic whole grains and high omega 3 fats are my best friends. Interesting how different genetics respond differently to foods.
@@edenelston7668 I am pretty much in the same boat! I was trying to shovel so much protein in and I wasn’t really improving. I LOVE eating sardines any time of day, almost every day lol! I will be adding organic grains back in soon. Looking forward to being able to have my homemade sourdough again one day, I just hope it doesn’t flare my fibromyalgia. Hoping I am healed enough by then. 🙌🏻❤️
Just had 8th baby at 37. Been lifting weight for 2 years because last baby at 35 I couldn’t lose the weight. I plateaued at 150lbs. I ended up doing whole 30 and adding in weights. Helped immensely. Then right before I got pregnant with baby 8, I found out about about betrayal in my marriage over the course of our entire relationship (12 yrs). It nearly destroyed me, still sooo hard. This time I’m being way more intentional about health because I am breastfeeding ( have been for 11 years through all my pregnancies and tandem feed after every new birth). Funny how so many think breastfeeding just causes weight to fall off. Not so I think at times it causes us to hold on to weight to be able to make milk when our diets aren’t the best. Anyway long story short, I am 4 months PP and needing to clean up my diet because stress of my marriage has me not caring if I need sugar to cope. I am again played at 145 and my typical weight is 130. So I told myself it begins yesterday. Praying in the midst of so much trauma, I can feel empowered in this way. Thanks for encouraging me to keep going!
I will be praying for you ❤ and your children. What strength you’ve had to have throughout this. I am so, so sorry. I pray God will comfort you and walk you through all the way. It’s wonderful you’re still taking care of yourself for you and your children ❤
My heart aches for you too many of us have known this feeling of our world suddenly looking and feeling like a scary different place, time is your friend believe it or not one day you won't even think about ole what's his face:) God is your shelter lean on him
GAPS didn’t work for me. Tried it twice and followed the book to a T! It was WAY too low carb for me and I lost more weight than I could afford. I looked emaciated with my eyes and cheekbones sunken in. My husband was seriously worried about me and we both thought I was dying! Never again! I now eat pro metabolically and am truly healing. I also have Fibromyalgia from years of childhood trauma, which is healing also from what I eat and calming/regulating my nervous system! So grateful to God every day!! 🙌🏻❤️
So so happy for you in finding your ideal nutrition plan. It sounds like it has been a huge relief for you. Prayers these changes will continue to serve you and your family well 😊
Great job being diligent with your gut healing. Happy for you! This is encouraging since I’m already planning on putting my whole family on the GAPS diet in Jan. We had some mold in our home which was just remediated and I think the gut reset and detox portion of the diet will be really good for all of us… just not looking forward to all the complaining from kiddos. I know I’ll be happy after… and hopefully during! Encouraging to be reminded of all the benefits. Since we are coming from a nutrient dense diet which already includes ferments, etc I’m hoping it won’t be too rough on anyone.
Ox tail is soooo good. There's a carribean oxtail recipe from the formerly known as Stupid Easy Paleo. As long as they're cooked low and slow until they're tender... they are divine!
Soo I had to watch this video again.. with the screen face down and my head phones in lol 😂.. I was like “she is gorgeous!” I’ve always thought you were gorgeous to be clear and love your dresses but this outfit was wow on you! Modest but so beautiful!
Great topic! Would love to hear more about healing the gut. I’m close to 50 and I am the heaviest I’ve ever been. Would love to learn how to heal myself and drop some weight.
Thanks for sharing, Steph. I’m so happy for you! It takes a lot of dedication, time, effort and patience to take care of our bodies to get healthier. Any type of change to get healthy body, mind, spirit is challenging but so worth it. It took me the last 3 years to lose about 65 lbs doing food elimination and finding out what works for me. I changed my lifestyle and there was mental resistance but now doing what’s healthy is my routine. It’s not about perfection but consistency.
Could you share some of you gaps recipes please? I just had my first baby 5 months ago and have like 10lbs to go to get back to my pregnancy weight. My husband and I are going to try the gaps diet next month and would love some tried recipes. Thank you for all you do and God bless you and your family.
Fasting is a big part of our family’s lives and man when we are able to have oil we notice a huge difference in satiation when we use olive oil over other oils.
My question is to do with the long-term. If I take grains and dairy out of my diet, will it make my body incapable of tolerating them in the long run? I worry I’ll be making my body lose its ability to digest and metabolize the things I eliminate. What do you think about that? I’m so close to doing gaps in January but for this one concern. Thanks for all your great info!
Love this way of cooking using foods in season and cooking meats with whole broths to cure gut health. Thank you so much for the olive oil link. Love your videos so muich!
❤ Congrats! You deserve the best. I enjoy watching your videos. This video is what I needed. I’ve been sad and depressed this pregnancy. I’m pregnant with baby #5 and I have a 10 month old who I breastfed. I’ve been gaining weight like crazy. Physically Everything is going well Praise God. I just feel stuck in my own body. I don’t know 🤷♀️ how to explain it. I’ll just enjoy this pregnancy. I’ll continue eating healthy and wait until I give birth to lose the weight.
First 2 babies were in my 20s, the weight came right off. My next 2 babies were in my 30s and I did not bounce back at all! I got C*vid, and got my autoimmune diagnosis. I spent the last 3 years getting in remission. Part of it was diet. I'm now pregnant with #5 and follow a paleo diet. I can't do keto cause it makes my cholesterol rise. Between paleo, and food adversions, I have actually lost weight (it's healthy to do so when overweight), and morning sickness has been very manageable. I am dealing with hair loss right now. So I have added liver into my diet to up my iron.
Soup looks phenomenal! I was a vegetarian for 25 years and I'm relearning how to eat. I had my first baby last year at 37 years old and the weight fell off just fine, but I don’t feel great. I have joint inflammation and it’sa struggle because I’m still breastfeeding and I’m not sure what next steps should be to repair everything. Thanks for the info!
Thank you for sharing this Steph! I got married late. Had my 2 babies when I was almost 36 and 39 and now I'm 43 and wanting to have another one. And yes, so difficult to lose weight. I keep on gaining weight for every pregnancy. 😢 Can you please point me to your video where you talk about your simplified hair routine? I watched that one but I can't fogure out which video was it. I had tried using castile soap and vinegar for my hair before and them I got tempted and returned to shampoo again. Now I want to do it again, and I want to follow the ratio that you used.
Thank you so much for talking about this. I heard you mention it over the summer, so I read Dr. Campbell’s book and just 5 weeks in I’m already 10 pounds down. So grateful for all this great info!!
I am trying to heal my gut I am anemic my hope s that on my 72nd birthday next month I will feel better than I do now, thanks for the videos, God Bless you and your family
8 babies here and those last two were just over a year apart. I did fine with losing the weight until that 7th & 8th baby I had at 32&33. Currently doing the same as you; slowly working to heal my gut and revisit my smaller pants. 😂
Steph ive had my 4th baby last October and wasnt loosing my baby weight as quickly as i wanted and actually gaining weight. I switched to carnivore, i know how much my body does well like this as i did it after being vegan to heal sibo. The first week i lost 10lbs ,i eat dairy and meat and that's it. I feel great eating like this. Youve done excellent well done Steph you look great xxxx
Yesssss preach it sister (about wasting animal products) We eat organ meat. Heart meat is so good in a pressure canned winter stew. Nothing better imo. I love liver and onions. I love rendering lard, tallow and suet. I love making bone broth. One thing I just haven't been able to get myself to try is tongue. I'll just have to be brave but .... 😅
I don't own any animals but I'm planning to expand my cooking repertoire, and organ meats are something I would love to become more confident with. (My local butcher sells chicken carcasses cheaply for homemade dog food and I made some of the best soups of my life from that very cheap protein source.) Kidneys are something I haven't been able to get away with, just because I can't find a way to cook the weewee taste put of it. 😂 Kidneys aside, do you have any recipes you would recommend to a beginner?
@vanguardiris3232 Funny story! I cooked what I thought was liver for my husband while I had covid and he asked me "what that smell was" which I couldn't smell, and again commented on how the liver tasted off but of course I had no sense of taste either. Long story short I cooked chopped kidneys not liver. 😅 So I use a half cup of heart meat sliced (make sure to cut out the valves and also the cardiac fat) one big potato chopped, carrots and celery to taste or based on what I have around. A tsp pepper and a tsp salt and fill up to the taper on the jar with broth. I use a 24oz jar for canning.
I do everything you mentioned and really really hate tongue. The texture is pretty terrible. I have tried to cook it every time we get a cow but I can't get more than a few bites down!
I cook tongue about every week now that I get it from a good source its so tender easy for babies to eat. You just boil it until you can peel off the rough skin on it then season it in another pan with scallions tomato salt. pepper could add hot pepper. thyme. rosemary. Or whatever herbs you like to taste. A little water. Let everything meld and delicious
I just put in a big order with White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, GA. I’m thinking with how much you know, research and read.. you’ve heard of this place and the boss Will Harris. He’s taught me so much about meat and animals. We don’t have animals of our own (yet) for meat and for our own food. I’m trying to find someone local to get our meat from. But he explained about eating animal organs and he sells them at his place in GA and online. He explained that when an animal dies in nature whatever animal finds it eats the organs first before the other parts of the body. And there’s a reason for that. I recently even took our dogs dry food away. Again, he opened my eyes to even that. Why feed them processed food when I’ve taken processed food from my life. So my Merle and Champ have been loving chicken livers and a mix of vegetables. Haha. Like GAME CHANGER. All it takes is just a little more time at meal time vs throwing a scoop of dry food in a bowl. Even with our pets… we tend to prefer convenience like we do with our own food and meals. I enjoyed this video. I like when you get on the subject of food and the body. I’ve learned a lot from Dr. Casey Means and her book Good Energy too. All it takes is one step or change at a time in our kitchen, cooking and what foods we buy (outside of what we can’t grow or raise ourselves) To me, it all makes sense and really simple in a lot of ways. The quality of food is life. 🩷
👏🏻 this is exactly the video I needed today! I’ve been having some really irritating autoimmune symptoms for the last 6 ish months. I’ve had eczema flare ups throughout my life but it’s been intense recently. I have dermatitis on my face which has been the biggest issue. I had never heard of SIBO or any of that until you mentioned it in a video a while back and I purchased super gut. I just recently started reading the book and I have just about every symptom that he talks about lol. All that to say, I think I’ve finally hit a point where I’m ready to go for it and try the elimination diet and heal my gut. So THANK YOU for bringing this to my attention. ❤
I was having horrible bloating issues and then I started getting a horrible rash on my hand that didn’t go away I thought I was developing an allergy of some sort to either something I was prepping for a meal or even eating or just something I was putting on my body? I listen to Alex Jones and he was advertising his Irish Sea moss supplement that helps with detox and cleansing the gut. I’ve been taking the supplement for a week I feel great I don’t feel to tired and out of energy, my bloat is gone and my rash is also gone! that supplements has helped me tons!
This is a wonder video!! I had my last child 18 years ago at the age of 45. At eight months pregnant I had to have an appendectomy and after he was born I suffered my first gallbladder attack, so I had to have that removed. After all of that I had major stomach issues. My sister talked me into becoming a vegetarian. I was fine for years but I started having heart issues. I don’t have problems eating deer or anything we raise but commercial meats takes a toll on me. Meat is the way to go for sure. Thank you for all you do! Happy Thanksgiving.
Hi there! How did you manage this with breastfeeding? Did you notice a drop in your supply at all? I’m currently 12 weeks postpartum and struggling with how much weight I’ve gained and need to lose, but don’t want to harm my breastfed baby in the process of getting healthier. Thanks!
You should check out the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, and read the book that it came from called Breaking the Vicious Cycle. I know you don’t have an irritable bowel disease, but her concepts about how specific carbohydrates are harder to break down for a damaged gut really open to my house to why I had such a hard time with particular carbohydrates since I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Your videos inspire me. I noticed with my second child at age 30 the weight was definitely hanging around, and it wasn’t until I started to have some autoimmune symptoms a couple months postpartum, and I cut grains out that I started to lose weight and feel better. My baby is 4 1/2 months so I’m just a few months behind you with your fifth child and I’ve been able to take inspiration and encouragement from your choices. Thank you. - Your Presbyterian (Anglican-leaning) sister 😉
Steph, tell me about it. Had my 3rd baby at 36 and COULD NOT LOSE THE WEIGHT until I did GAPS. I finally fit in my jeans today! The gut issues were unbelievable after this pregnancy. 😞
If you can, you can also render beef fat (beef tallow). You can ask your local butcher/meat department if they have any excess fat trimmings. Usually they get rid of fat trimmings so they may be able to help! I’m currently in Georgia 🇬🇪 and the butcher here has helped us out tremendously! He’s given us probably over 30lbs of animal fat for FREE for the past couple months.
@@ShaePiepszowski Shae I would love to learn more about this … are you using the tallow in place of conventional oil in certain things only ? Thank you for sharing. I will look into this !
@@terisusanne4299absolutely! I use it for everything (searing, sometimes frying fries, even as a hand moisturizer when I need it). There are a myriad of uses for using animal fat. The one thing you probably can’t use it for is a salad dressing lol 😅 but I cook everything in animal fat :). Also rendering animal fat is very simple. I personally cut the trimmings into tiny pieces (using scissors), thought it’s not necessary, but it does help it render a littler quicker. Rendering fat is done on low heat. And then once it’s rendered and cooled down a bit, you pour it through a softer into a jar (or other suitable containers). The sifter will catch all the fat cracklings. If you’d like to see a little visual, I have a little shorts video on my channel where I rendered a small amount of lamb fat. There are some people who have butchers that will actually put the fat through the meat grinder for them (so they’re in tinier pieces of fat, quicker for the customer to render at home). Some local butchers (depending on their services) will even render the fat for the customer and just sell them a bucket of already rendered animal fat. Let me know if you have any other questions :)
I've tried cutting out grains quite a while back to try and reduce some Hashimoto symptoms, but I got insanely constipated (sorry for the TMI). I have to have a very high fiber diet to keep things going. I know can be fiber in lots of vegetables and fruits, but I can't seem to consume enough of those to make it work. Any suggestions?
That can happen while your body is adjusting. It’s best to slowly take them out in my experience and replace lost fiber with other fiber source. A good replacement is winter squash, pressure cooked. Perhaps a fiber supplement a couple times a week can help the transition, like Psyllium husk powder.
Switch to Einkorn grain, it's 30% higher in protien and will help! I was constipated for YEARS and once I switched to Einkorn I've had no issues with that and feel SO much better. You can bulk buy it the cheapest at Azure Standard.
That’s my experience! I read that your body holds onto weight while nursing as a survival tactic so baby can still eat if you end up in a situation without food. I’ve also heard it’s more common to hold onto weight while nursing when you’re older.
Forgive me if you've already answered this a million times, but doe s your whole family eat this way with you? Or just certain family meals are made this way, and other meals you eat differently? How were you able to manage this with a big family? Asking as a mother of soon to be five as well :)
In her other videos she said she's the only one doing the GAPS diet, and since the majority of her food on that diet was soups she would just make them in bulk and freeze the extra. If she did make a stew or soup for the family she'd eat it but take out what ever she was avoiding for her own pesonal bowl. I think she did mention after doing this food awhile she did decrease her children's sweetener intake but that was all.
People are catching on with the good animal wasteful part that is good for you, prices for it are going up because people are discovering it and more demand for it. I love ox tail and neck bones. And you are so knowledgeable and beautiful. After having a baby, Hmong woman usually do a thing call sitting on the month which consists only chicken soup with herbs and can only eat certain things.
I love GAPS so much! We cycle through it (and carnivore) seasonally as an annual healing and reset.
I don’t understand, you look like you were 120 pounds after that 4th baby. You always look phenomenal and strong! So beautiful!
She has a great figure. I think she carries a good amount of muscle, which makes the weight distribute to all the right places and gives her a beautiful shape. Also, she is probably taller than average.
Totally Agree!
@@laura01234yes, I believe in an older video she says she 5’9”
My best diet is animal based with lots of red meat, dairy, small amounts of bread from freshly milled grains, macademia nuts, and cooked vegetables. Nothing sweet at all- not even fake sugars. I had my healthiest pregnancy at 36 years old on that diet. I was wearing my old jeans at 2 weeks post partum! Couldn't believe it.
Hi! Do you have any tips for someone with IBS? I was told to live without gluten and dairy and I feel like that isn’t true. I’m sure I can get back to a animal based diet too with diary 😭
I love it when you talk gut health and healing! I have been suffering from laryngopharyngeal reflux probably as long as I can remember, but it flared up after ny son was born three years ago. I've been t the point where I can't breathe properly for almost a year. Nothing I've done, even elimination diets, have helped. No supplements, no doctors, nothing. Even went for an endoscopy! I am at my wits end and I can't function properly because I'm in so much pain and discomfort, and, as I mentioned, can barely breathe. Still praying and trusting and trying to find answers so I can get better! Your videos are an inspiration and encouragement! Thanks, Steph! Also, I'm so happy to hear you feel better! It's hard to do the intense changes sometimes needed, but if they help you to feel better and lose weight and give you the energy you need to live well, then it is totally worth it! ❤
Wow! How wonderful this video was. I felt like I was hearing myself tell my own story. I have Hoshimotos and hypo thyroid also and I’m 41, just had baby #4. Thank you for you content!! ❤
I’m excited for this video. I also struggled to lose the weight after baby number 4. I’ve since had 4 more pregnancies and really want to be able to lose the weight and strengthen my core postpartum. ❤
I love your informative videos!! I was able to get pregnant by tracking my basal temp that I learned from you!! I’m now 10 weeks with my first baby and I’m SO HAPPY! Happy thanksgiving to you and your lovely family 🦃🧡
Congratulations! What a blessing!
Congratulations!! What a thing to be thankful for this year!
Praise God! Congratulations and God's blessings to you all!
Congratulations!! That is so exciting!!
Congratulations to you!!! ❤
Reading the title of this I was wondering if you did GAPS! I am so happy it helped you. I just had my first baby and am actually a certified GAPS practitioner and we are both about to start the diet when I introduce foods to him. Love your content!
Woo hoo! I had my 7th baby at the same time you had your last one. I was the smallest i had ever been when i got pregnant and the biggest i had ever been at the end of that pregnancy. Now baby is almost 8 months and i am finally back on the carnivore wagon and the weight is starting to come off. About 15 lbs to go! But i want to keep my milk up and it always fixes all of my low blood sugar issue I usually have!
So close!! Going very meat & animal product heavy works wonders for me as well!
I'm the opposite, I experience a lot of inflammation and autoimmune flares with high protein. I do much better on Mediterranean diet, but like you, I'm trying to keep up milk supply 7 months pp after baby 6 and I've found organic whole grains and high omega 3 fats are my best friends. Interesting how different genetics respond differently to foods.
@@edenelston7668 I am pretty much in the same boat!
I was trying to shovel so much protein in and I wasn’t really improving. I LOVE eating sardines any time of day, almost every day lol!
I will be adding organic
grains back in soon. Looking forward to being able to have my homemade sourdough again one day, I just hope it doesn’t flare my fibromyalgia. Hoping I am healed enough by then. 🙌🏻❤️
Just had 8th baby at 37. Been lifting weight for 2 years because last baby at 35 I couldn’t lose the weight. I plateaued at 150lbs. I ended up doing whole 30 and adding in weights. Helped immensely. Then right before I got pregnant with baby 8, I found out about about betrayal in my marriage over the course of our entire relationship (12 yrs). It nearly destroyed me, still sooo hard. This time I’m being way more intentional about health because I am breastfeeding ( have been for 11 years through all my pregnancies and tandem feed after every new birth). Funny how so many think breastfeeding just causes weight to fall off. Not so I think at times it causes us to hold on to weight to be able to make milk when our diets aren’t the best. Anyway long story short, I am 4 months PP and needing to clean up my diet because stress of my marriage has me not caring if I need sugar to cope. I am again played at 145 and my typical weight is 130. So I told myself it begins yesterday. Praying in the midst of so much trauma, I can feel empowered in this way. Thanks for encouraging me to keep going!
I will be praying for you ❤ and your children. What strength you’ve had to have throughout this. I am so, so sorry. I pray God will comfort you and walk you through all the way. It’s wonderful you’re still taking care of yourself for you and your children ❤
I’m praying for you too! That’s so hard. What an amazing woman.
Praying for you and your relationship❤
My heart aches for you too many of us have known this feeling of our world suddenly looking and feeling like a scary different place, time is your friend believe it or not one day you won't even think about ole what's his face:) God is your shelter lean on him
GAPS didn’t work for me. Tried it twice and followed the book to a T! It was WAY too low carb for me and I lost more weight than I could afford. I looked emaciated with my eyes and cheekbones sunken in. My husband was seriously worried about me and we both thought I was dying! Never again!
I now eat pro metabolically and am truly healing. I also have Fibromyalgia from years of childhood trauma, which is healing also from what I eat and calming/regulating my nervous system! So grateful to God every day!! 🙌🏻❤️
So so happy for you in finding your ideal nutrition plan. It sounds like it has been a huge relief for you. Prayers these changes will continue to serve you and your family well 😊
Great job being diligent with your gut healing. Happy for you! This is encouraging since I’m already planning on putting my whole family on the GAPS diet in Jan. We had some mold in our home which was just remediated and I think the gut reset and detox portion of the diet will be really good for all of us… just not looking forward to all the complaining from kiddos. I know I’ll be happy after… and hopefully during!
Encouraging to be reminded of all the benefits. Since we are coming from a nutrient dense diet which already includes ferments, etc I’m hoping it won’t be too rough on anyone.
I personally liked a lot of green veggies first thing in the morning to help with the transition to grain free.
Ox tail is soooo good. There's a carribean oxtail recipe from the formerly known as Stupid Easy Paleo. As long as they're cooked low and slow until they're tender... they are divine!
Soo I had to watch this video again.. with the screen face down and my head phones in lol 😂.. I was like “she is gorgeous!” I’ve always thought you were gorgeous to be clear and love your dresses but this outfit was wow on you! Modest but so beautiful!
Great topic! Would love to hear more about healing the gut. I’m close to 50 and I am the heaviest I’ve ever been. Would love to learn how to heal myself and drop some weight.
Thanks for sharing, Steph. I’m so happy for you! It takes a lot of dedication, time, effort and patience to take care of our bodies to get healthier. Any type of change to get healthy body, mind, spirit is challenging but so worth it. It took me the last 3 years to lose about 65 lbs doing food elimination and finding out what works for me. I changed my lifestyle and there was mental resistance but now doing what’s healthy is my routine. It’s not about perfection but consistency.
I love your honesty; God bless you and your family.
So glad you said that about “super foods” it has always annoyed me!
Could you share some of you gaps recipes please? I just had my first baby 5 months ago and have like 10lbs to go to get back to my pregnancy weight. My husband and I are going to try the gaps diet next month and would love some tried recipes. Thank you for all you do and God bless you and your family.
Fasting is a big part of our family’s lives and man when we are able to have oil we notice a huge difference in satiation when we use olive oil over other oils.
I ordered mine and definitely think I might do this for Godparent holiday gifts. Thank you for sharing!
My question is to do with the long-term. If I take grains and dairy out of my diet, will it make my body incapable of tolerating them in the long run? I worry I’ll be making my body lose its ability to digest and metabolize the things I eliminate. What do you think about that? I’m so close to doing gaps in January but for this one concern. Thanks for all your great info!
I have really struggled with losing the weight after my last baby too!
I would love to see more of the recipes you used on your weight loss journey.
Love this way of cooking using foods in season and cooking meats with whole broths to cure gut health. Thank you so much for the olive oil link. Love your videos so muich!
Love when your videos are exactly what I am working on!!!!
❤ Congrats! You deserve the best. I enjoy watching your videos. This video is what I needed. I’ve been sad and depressed this pregnancy. I’m pregnant with baby #5 and I have a 10 month old who I breastfed. I’ve been gaining weight like crazy. Physically Everything is going well Praise God. I just feel stuck in my own body. I don’t know 🤷♀️ how to explain it. I’ll just enjoy this pregnancy. I’ll continue eating healthy and wait until I give birth to lose the weight.
I seriously loved this olive oil when I tried them!!!
I love love love oxtail stew… the Jamaican way. It’s so flavourful.
First 2 babies were in my 20s, the weight came right off. My next 2 babies were in my 30s and I did not bounce back at all! I got C*vid, and got my autoimmune diagnosis. I spent the last 3 years getting in remission. Part of it was diet. I'm now pregnant with #5 and follow a paleo diet. I can't do keto cause it makes my cholesterol rise. Between paleo, and food adversions, I have actually lost weight (it's healthy to do so when overweight), and morning sickness has been very manageable. I am dealing with hair loss right now. So I have added liver into my diet to up my iron.
Soup looks phenomenal! I was a vegetarian for 25 years and I'm relearning how to eat. I had my first baby last year at 37 years old and the weight fell off just fine, but I don’t feel great. I have joint inflammation and it’sa struggle because I’m still breastfeeding and I’m not sure what next steps should be to repair everything. Thanks for the info!
Thank you for sharing this Steph! I got married late. Had my 2 babies when I was almost 36 and 39 and now I'm 43 and wanting to have another one. And yes, so difficult to lose weight. I keep on gaining weight for every pregnancy. 😢 Can you please point me to your video where you talk about your simplified hair routine? I watched that one but I can't fogure out which video was it. I had tried using castile soap and vinegar for my hair before and them I got tempted and returned to shampoo again. Now I want to do it again, and I want to follow the ratio that you used.
I too am getting a late start at having babies. Got married later in life as well. Do you mind if i ask you a few questions about ttc? 🩷
I see your microwave alternative made an appearance! Can you share how you are liking it and what exactly you purchased?
Thank you so much for talking about this. I heard you mention it over the summer, so I read Dr. Campbell’s book and just 5 weeks in I’m already 10 pounds down. So grateful for all this great info!!
I am trying to heal my gut I am anemic my hope s that on my 72nd birthday next month I will feel better than I do now, thanks for the videos, God Bless you and your family
I know my comment isn’t about the subject of the video, but I saw you use a cleaning cart!?! That seems very efficient
8 babies here and those last two were just over a year apart. I did fine with losing the weight until that 7th & 8th baby I had at 32&33. Currently doing the same as you; slowly working to heal my gut and revisit my smaller pants. 😂
Steph ive had my 4th baby last October and wasnt loosing my baby weight as quickly as i wanted and actually gaining weight. I switched to carnivore, i know how much my body does well like this as i did it after being vegan to heal sibo. The first week i lost 10lbs ,i eat dairy and meat and that's it. I feel great eating like this. Youve done excellent well done Steph you look great xxxx
I’m 34 and having troubling conceiving. Overweight, several of the same issues that you mentioned. I am going to try Gaps.
Intermittent fasting really did it for me this fourth time (together with my usual nourishing traditions diet).
You have a beautiful home!❤️
Thank you!
Love all your videos ❤
Yesssss preach it sister (about wasting animal products) We eat organ meat. Heart meat is so good in a pressure canned winter stew. Nothing better imo. I love liver and onions. I love rendering lard, tallow and suet. I love making bone broth. One thing I just haven't been able to get myself to try is tongue. I'll just have to be brave but .... 😅
I don't own any animals but I'm planning to expand my cooking repertoire, and organ meats are something I would love to become more confident with. (My local butcher sells chicken carcasses cheaply for homemade dog food and I made some of the best soups of my life from that very cheap protein source.) Kidneys are something I haven't been able to get away with, just because I can't find a way to cook the weewee taste put of it. 😂 Kidneys aside, do you have any recipes you would recommend to a beginner?
@vanguardiris3232 Funny story! I cooked what I thought was liver for my husband while I had covid and he asked me "what that smell was" which I couldn't smell, and again commented on how the liver tasted off but of course I had no sense of taste either. Long story short I cooked chopped kidneys not liver. 😅
So I use a half cup of heart meat sliced (make sure to cut out the valves and also the cardiac fat) one big potato chopped, carrots and celery to taste or based on what I have around. A tsp pepper and a tsp salt and fill up to the taper on the jar with broth. I use a 24oz jar for canning.
I do everything you mentioned and really really hate tongue. The texture is pretty terrible. I have tried to cook it every time we get a cow but I can't get more than a few bites down!
I cook tongue about every week now that I get it from a good source its so tender easy for babies to eat. You just boil it until you can peel off the rough skin on it then season it in another pan with scallions tomato salt. pepper could add hot pepper. thyme. rosemary. Or whatever herbs you like to taste. A little water. Let everything meld and delicious
@@jessicajones3026 I'm gonna screen shot this comment. Thank you.
Great video and very helpful when though I’m not in childbearing years. You look great at 160! Can I ask how tall you are?
I just put in a big order with White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, GA. I’m thinking with how much you know, research and read.. you’ve heard of this place and the boss Will Harris.
He’s taught me so much about meat and animals. We don’t have animals of our own (yet) for meat and for our own food. I’m trying to find someone local to get our meat from. But he explained about eating animal organs and he sells them at his place in GA and online.
He explained that when an animal dies in nature whatever animal finds it eats the organs first before the other parts of the body. And there’s a reason for that.
I recently even took our dogs dry food away. Again, he opened my eyes to even that. Why feed them processed food when I’ve taken processed food from my life. So my Merle and Champ have been loving chicken livers and a mix of vegetables. Haha. Like GAME CHANGER. All it takes is just a little more time at meal time vs throwing a scoop of dry food in a bowl. Even with our pets… we tend to prefer convenience like we do with our own food and meals.
I enjoyed this video. I like when you get on the subject of food and the body. I’ve learned a lot from Dr. Casey Means and her book Good Energy too.
All it takes is one step or change at a time in our kitchen, cooking and what foods we buy (outside of what we can’t grow or raise ourselves)
To me, it all makes sense and really simple in a lot of ways. The quality of food is life. 🩷
👏🏻 this is exactly the video I needed today! I’ve been having some really irritating autoimmune symptoms for the last 6 ish months. I’ve had eczema flare ups throughout my life but it’s been intense recently. I have dermatitis on my face which has been the biggest issue. I had never heard of SIBO or any of that until you mentioned it in a video a while back and I purchased super gut. I just recently started reading the book and I have just about every symptom that he talks about lol. All that to say, I think I’ve finally hit a point where I’m ready to go for it and try the elimination diet and heal my gut. So THANK YOU for bringing this to my attention. ❤
I did Keto to lose the baby weight this past pregnancy- a lot of meat! Lost it all (35lbs) in 4 months. Going to do it again next time!
it's such a good feeling to get back to baseline after baaby, nicely done!!
@ thank you!
Can you do keto and breastfeeding?? I’m considering doing it but im not sure.
I’m trying to figure out if this could work for me or not. I have no clue where to begin!! 😭
@@mariasbrown9929 I’ve been exclusively breastfeeding and doing Keto for 6 months! Under 50 carbs per day, making sure to eat lots of fat and protein.
I can relate to all this. Thank you for the encouragement. When you cut out dairy, did that include butter?
Also sardines are one of the best fish for omega 3 :)
Thanks for the update!!!
I was having horrible bloating issues and then I started getting a horrible rash on my hand that didn’t go away I thought I was developing an allergy of some sort to either something I was prepping for a meal or even eating or just something I was putting on my body? I listen to Alex Jones and he was advertising his Irish Sea moss supplement that helps with detox and cleansing the gut. I’ve been taking the supplement for a week I feel great I don’t feel to tired and out of energy, my bloat is gone and my rash is also gone! that supplements has helped me tons!
The home family are beautiful & you look amazing.
Baby number 6 coming soon lmao he cannot take his eyes off of you😂❤
This is a wonder video!! I had my last child 18 years ago at the age of 45. At eight months pregnant I had to have an appendectomy and after he was born I suffered my first gallbladder attack, so I had to have that removed. After all of that I had major stomach issues. My sister talked me into becoming a vegetarian. I was fine for years but I started having heart issues. I don’t have problems eating deer or anything we raise but commercial meats takes a toll on me. Meat is the way to go for sure. Thank you for all you do! Happy Thanksgiving.
do you use butter and cream😢 no green veggies
Thank you so much for this video
My father made Oxtail soup when I was a kid and it tasted awesome 😊
Have you since reintroduced grains and how did your body do with it?
Hi there! How did you manage this with breastfeeding? Did you notice a drop in your supply at all? I’m currently 12 weeks postpartum and struggling with how much weight I’ve gained and need to lose, but don’t want to harm my breastfed baby in the process of getting healthier. Thanks!
I did what she did for a few months and actually noticed that I had a better more consistent supply. I ate tons of soup at each meal tho.
I’ve had hypothyroidism since 2020 after my second baby and on meds, I still can’t seem to loose weight. It’s really frustrating
You should check out the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, and read the book that it came from called Breaking the Vicious Cycle. I know you don’t have an irritable bowel disease, but her concepts about how specific carbohydrates are harder to break down for a damaged gut really open to my house to why I had such a hard time with particular carbohydrates since I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.
Your videos inspire me. I noticed with my second child at age 30 the weight was definitely hanging around, and it wasn’t until I started to have some autoimmune symptoms a couple months postpartum, and I cut grains out that I started to lose weight and feel better. My baby is 4 1/2 months so I’m just a few months behind you with your fifth child and I’ve been able to take inspiration and encouragement from your choices.
Thank you. - Your Presbyterian (Anglican-leaning) sister 😉
GAPS Diet is partly based on SCD (specific carbohydrate diet). Dr Natasha's books contain tonnes of info about all the whys and hows.
@ that’s good to know in case I want to pivot to that diet!
Steph, tell me about it. Had my 3rd baby at 36 and COULD NOT LOSE THE WEIGHT until I did GAPS. I finally fit in my jeans today! The gut issues were unbelievable after this pregnancy. 😞
I just ordered the Graza oil, but I am concerned it is in plastic.
Can you do GAPS while breastfeeding? Sorry if you answer this as I’m halfway through lol
What's known as "Full GAPS" yes, just not the Intro stages if baby is dependent on breast milk, as the intense detoxing can dump into the milk.
What if we can’t afford olive oil ? What affordable alternative would you recommend for those of us on an extremely restricted budget ?
If you can, you can also render beef fat (beef tallow). You can ask your local butcher/meat department if they have any excess fat trimmings. Usually they get rid of fat trimmings so they may be able to help! I’m currently in Georgia 🇬🇪 and the butcher here has helped us out tremendously! He’s given us probably over 30lbs of animal fat for FREE for the past couple months.
@@ShaePiepszowski Shae I would love to learn more about this … are you using the tallow in place of conventional oil in certain things only ? Thank you for sharing. I will look into this !
@@terisusanne4299absolutely! I use it for everything (searing, sometimes frying fries, even as a hand moisturizer when I need it). There are a myriad of uses for using animal fat. The one thing you probably can’t use it for is a salad dressing lol 😅 but I cook everything in animal fat :). Also rendering animal fat is very simple. I personally cut the trimmings into tiny pieces (using scissors), thought it’s not necessary, but it does help it render a littler quicker. Rendering fat is done on low heat. And then once it’s rendered and cooled down a bit, you pour it through a softer into a jar (or other suitable containers). The sifter will catch all the fat cracklings. If you’d like to see a little visual, I have a little shorts video on my channel where I rendered a small amount of lamb fat. There are some people who have butchers that will actually put the fat through the meat grinder for them (so they’re in tinier pieces of fat, quicker for the customer to render at home). Some local butchers (depending on their services) will even render the fat for the customer and just sell them a bucket of already rendered animal fat. Let me know if you have any other questions :)
Question, did you cut out butter as well?
nope! Butter has next to no lactose so I was able to tolerate that fine!
Whats the "bleach" powder you used in your sink?
Branch Basics!
Who are some of your favorite youtubers to watch?
I've tried cutting out grains quite a while back to try and reduce some Hashimoto symptoms, but I got insanely constipated (sorry for the TMI). I have to have a very high fiber diet to keep things going. I know can be fiber in lots of vegetables and fruits, but I can't seem to consume enough of those to make it work. Any suggestions?
Freshly milled flour!
That can happen while your body is adjusting. It’s best to slowly take them out in my experience and replace lost fiber with other fiber source. A good replacement is winter squash, pressure cooked. Perhaps a fiber supplement a couple times a week can help the transition, like Psyllium husk powder.
Fat is the fix to balance high protein with constipation. Either fattier cuts of meat or added butter. Also look into iodine for thyroid health.
Switch to Einkorn grain, it's 30% higher in protien and will help! I was constipated for YEARS and once I switched to Einkorn I've had no issues with that and feel SO much better. You can bulk buy it the cheapest at Azure Standard.
could you share some organ meat recipes that your family enjoys?
Anybody else only able to lise weight AFTER weaning?
Hasn't been my personal experience but I have read that in several other places online. 😊
That’s my experience! I read that your body holds onto weight while nursing as a survival tactic so baby can still eat if you end up in a situation without food. I’ve also heard it’s more common to hold onto weight while nursing when you’re older.
@@GodISSovereign17that is definitely true for me. I was able to lose it after my first baby, but not the 7 ones afterwards 🤣
@ I have 7, and the last 3 were all within 4 yrs. Still nursing my 7th, and haven’t lost anything yet! So I definitely relate
Forgive me if you've already answered this a million times, but doe s your whole family eat this way with you? Or just certain family meals are made this way, and other meals you eat differently? How were you able to manage this with a big family? Asking as a mother of soon to be five as well :)
In her other videos she said she's the only one doing the GAPS diet, and since the majority of her food on that diet was soups she would just make them in bulk and freeze the extra. If she did make a stew or soup for the family she'd eat it but take out what ever she was avoiding for her own pesonal bowl. I think she did mention after doing this food awhile she did decrease her children's sweetener intake but that was all.
@@bstormy107 i appreciate your response! that is helpful.
Did you drink coffee at all ?
People are catching on with the good animal wasteful part that is good for you, prices for it are going up because people are discovering it and more demand for it. I love ox tail and neck bones. And you are so knowledgeable and beautiful. After having a baby, Hmong woman usually do a thing call sitting on the month which consists only chicken soup with herbs and can only eat certain things.
Please looking into vegetables oxalates and how it affects the body. Potatoes hard high in oxalates!
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It is so funny you made oxtail soup! I made oxtail in my video that I posted on the same day! Love your channel!