Health Guru: I Ate Only Sardines For 70 DAYS… Here’s What Happened

A 62-year-old health coach claims a bizarre diet of sardines and vegetable oil helped her lose 20 pounds and ease symptoms of a painful condition.

The 1.70-meter-tall paramedic weighed 99 kilos in May this year, meaning her body mass index (BMI) clearly fell into the overweight category.

But after just 10 days on the canned fish diet, she had lost almost 20 pounds, “all of which was water.”

On day 70 she weighed only 7 kilos, which was only 900 grams away from a healthy weight.

Jane, 62, has lost 30 pounds in two and a half months thanks to a diet consisting only of sardines.

Additionally, she claims that the high-protein diet also helped relieve pain caused by a common foot problem: plantar fasciitis.

The condition causes pain on the bottom of the foot, around the heel and arch, especially when walking.

Scientists don’t know exactly what causes the condition, but it is known that being overweight can make the condition worse due to the excess pressure on the feet.

In conversation with social media doctor Annette Bosworth, better known as Doctor BozThe woman claimed her foot pain dropped from a 10 to a 2 after the sardine diet.

‘In the first week I had tears in my eyes [with pain]’ said the woman, who called Dr. Boz Jane.

Sardines have long been recommended by experts for their high calcium content, which can help keep bones strong in old age.

‘Initially my goal was to reduce the pain, but now it is a further recognition of the problem I have with [food] “volume addiction,” she said in a video posted to Dr. Boz’s YouTube channel, where she has nearly 700,000 subscribers.

“I’m learning that I can eat small bowls of food and still be satisfied.”

Jane explained that she decided to start the diet when her previous carnivore eating pattern was no longer helping her lose weight.

The former soldier had gained 20 pounds in a year due to the excess calories she was consuming on the low-carb, meat-rich diet.

When she first talked to friends and family about a sardine-only diet, they thought she was “crazy” and “depriving herself of nutrition.”

“My sister is a nurse, so the first thing we did was make sure I was getting enough nutrients,” she said, adding that she takes a multivitamin every day.

Jane monitored her blood sugar levels during the experiment and noticed that they decreased over time.

Jane said she was also concerned about the amount of heavy metals, such as mercury, in the amount of sardines she ate.

Mercury is a naturally occurring heavy metal that can accumulate in the body of fish in the form of methylmercury. This methylmercury is highly toxic.

However, British research shows that the amount of metal in our canned fish is virtually negligible.

“Sardines are the smallest fish,” Jane said. “We don’t think there’s much mercury in them because they don’t live that long.”

Her diet consists of four cans of sardines a day and two tablespoons of a vegetable oil called MCT with each meal.

MCT oil is a laboratory-produced, tasteless substance extracted from palm kernels and coconuts.

Some diet influencers on social media claim that the fat in MCT oil can promote weight loss because the body breaks down fat more effectively than other fat molecules.

Jane closely monitored her energy intake to ensure she never ate more than 1,500 calories per day.

The photos show Jane at her heaviest last year, before going on a carnivore diet and losing 20 pounds.

The NHS advises women to eat around 2,000 calories and men 2,500 to maintain their weight.

Jane talked about her daily diet: she starts eating her first can of sardines early, which turns her stomach: at 8am.

Around noon, she doubles the portions, opting for two cans containing four tablespoons of MCT oil.

It is unusual for her to make sure she eats her last meal of the day before 3pm so she finishes her last can.

“On day 30, I realized it,” she said. “Sardines were satisfying my hunger.

‘I didn’t have to wonder where my next meal would be, or where it would come from.

“I didn’t have an appetite and I didn’t go to the cupboard… it was like a light went on. I’m not hungry — I don’t need to eat.”

Jane measured her daily blood sugar levels throughout the experiment and claimed that after just five days her levels had “dropped” into a healthier category.

A blood sugar level that is consistently above 7 mmol/l before eating is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

Jane says her daily fasting blood sugar dropped from 9 mmol/l before the experiment to between 6 and 7.

When asked if she gets tired of eating sardines every day, Jane said she’s “so glad” she eats canned fish so often.

“I’m not done yet, I’m going to continue,” she said.

Sardines and other oily fish are considered particularly nutritious due to the many vitamins, minerals and macronutrients they contain, despite being relatively low in calories.

The NHS recommends eating fish such as pilchards or sardines as they are high in vitamin D and calcium, essential for strong bones.

One tin of sardines also contains almost 20g of filling protein, essential for strong muscles and keeping you feeling full. This is just under half the amount the NHS recommends an adult woman eat each day.

One can contains about 230 calories, making it a relatively slimming meal.

Some scientists who advocate an abundance of fatty fish in the diet claim that it can improve brain health and even protect against dementia, due to its high concentrations of omega-3 fats.

However, a series of recent analyses have found that fish oil supplements containing omega-3 make little difference to the risk of dementia.