Is grass fed beef better for weight loss?
Eating grass-finished beef, rather than grain-finished as we had always done in the past, enabled my husband and me to lose over 100 pounds between us and keep it off for years now while enjoying and delighting in our culinary adventure. To this day we continue to delight in our culinary experiences, with meal times some of the most enjoyable parts of our day and our lives.
As ranchers, we have always eaten lots of beef, it's what we have in plentiful supply. While both of us were extremely strong and healthy, for the most part, we had both gained a fair bit of weight over the twenty plus years of our marriage.
In the late nineties we began to hear about the health benefits of eating grass fed and finished animal products, and in the early part of this decade we decided to try it for ourselves, and finished our first steers on nothing but our own grass, rather than the corn and other grains we used to finish them on.
About three months after we had begun eating the meat from our first grass fed steer, I had the occasion to get dressed up (which does not happen often in my world). When I went to put on my old "fat dress" I was astounded as I looked in the mirror and saw it hanging loosely off of my shoulders. The last time I had worn that dress prior to that day I had been bulging out of it and lamenting the fact that my "fat dress" was becoming too small for me.
Since I always wore loose clothing and did not own a bathroom scale, I had no idea that I was losing so much weight until that day I put on my old dress.
Seeing the dramatic weight loss, I racked my brain trying to figure out what I had done differently, as I had not changed any of my eating habits or started any kind of exercise program. I regularly move a lot in my everyday life and have always had a philosophical aversion to the notion that one must pound one's body into the ground in the form of forced exercise to be healthy.
Then it dawned on me that the only change I had made was switching from eating grain fed beef to grass fed beef. It also occurred to me that perhaps I had been having fewer of the sweet and chocolate cravings that had plagued me since menopause. Now, after all of the research we have done in the ensuing years, we understand that switching to grass fed beef was largely the cause of the diminished sweet cravings.
Since I also have a philosophical objection to "dieting," per se, I continued to eat like I always had and the weight continued to drop off. In the course of the next year, I lost a total of 40 pounds and kept it off for three years.
Then, when we started really marketing our grass fed beef and began to develop our own health program of eating mostly protein and produce, Mike's weight began to drop, with him eventually losing over 50 pounds, and I lost another 10 pounds, taking both of us to our ideal weight where we have stayed for the past two years. So it has been over 5 years now since my original weight loss began, and two years that we have both stayed at our ideal weight.
We wanted to share our weight loss story with you so that you could know that you can lose weight without stringent dieting or abusive exercise while experiencing wholesome dining and culinary enjoyment.
By eating our own grass-fed beef my husband and I lost over 100 pounds between us.
This is a very inspiring story I found online.
Edward