The Galveston Diet The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms

When I first wrote Galveston Diet, to be honest and transparent, it was for weight loss and I was frustrated with my weight gain and that was the pain point my patients had and that was my pain point, but I didn't realize it represented something much more sinister than just the way it looked, the visceral fat gain.

So I'm like, I gotta do better than this. I don't know enough. And so we had a guest speaker for Alpha Omega Alpha which is the Honor Society for medical school and I was one of the advisors. So, and it was this guy Tim Harlan who had started this culinary medicine movement and it was basically nutrition for doctors.

So it was the best thing I've ever done. Yeah, I was gonna say very cool. I mean, I learned about allergies and like all this stuff, you know, food allergies and things that I just didn't know and just basic nutritional principles like what it takes to build a healthy body and what, you know, I knew about quash or core and like severe deficiencies, but not good basic nutrition.

They talked heavily about Mediterranean. They talked a lot about the fad diets and stuff, but you know, the principles of the Mediterranean, I was like, I wanna teach this to my patients but they're not gonna eat a lot of Greek yogurt or they're probably not gonna eat a lot of feta, you know, like how can I kind of take these blocks and make it more Americanized?

And I really was into fasting at the time too. So I was like, let me put this fasting thing together with, you know, good nutritional anti-inflammatory principles and talk about the things we know or probably you should, you know, not having a whole lot of, you know, processed foods and high sugars and stuff and explain it in a way and how it's affecting their menopause and like how can she approach her nutrition? And that's how Galveston Diet was born.

In 2006, in her first year of graduate school, Bettina Judd had what she calls an ordeal with medicine.

She's also a poet and she recently wrote about a medical experience she had in a book called Patient, drawing not just on her personal history as a black woman but the stories of Anarcha, Betsy and Lucy.

Nurses ask me how much does it hurt on a scale from one to ten. Anarcha Westcott, Betsy Harris and Lucy Zimmerman are taken into the care of a reluctant country surgeon in Montgomery, Alabama.

Sims shapes his speculum, invents his silver sutures, perfects protocol for proper handling of the female pelvis. We wake, unanesthetized or addicted to opium. Children born, children disappeared. Helpless. Help.

Gynecology was built on the backs of Black women anyway.

And I developed a program for my patients And it's not rocket science Whether You're A Man Or A Woman Menopause Is Going To Effect You Because It's Going To Effect 50% Of Our Society And There Is 1.2 Billion Women Being Affected By Menopause Right Now

I originally developed Galveston diet for weight loss but if I had to write it over again, so I went really heavy on fats, healthy fats lower on carbohydrates and 20% protein. But I think if doing it again the way I'm counseling my patients now is I'm going much higher on protein.

Two of her books, The New Menopause, which is hugely successful, and The Galveston Diet.