Lodge and Legend: Volume 2 • Issue 1

Before
After
For AJ Harrison, adding weight came easily.
“I was a single dad for years, and then I got married to a wonderful person,” the
former police officer says. His marriage made him happy, and that was part of his
problem. “When you truly find happiness, you get happy all the way. I got happy,
and got content, and got fat.”
By the time he hit 250 pounds, he knew something had to change. He had “had
enough”, and he had to do something. But he also knew that in order for it to stick,
it would have to be convenient and easy—or “idiot proof,” as AJ adds.
“I didn’t want to meal prep,” he says with a laugh. “I just wanted someone to tell
me, ‘This is what you can have for breakfast. This is for a snack, and for lunch and
for your dinner.’”
One day, he stumbled across the Paleo program with Saskatoon, and it stuck in his
head. He had heard people talk about the program before, and after learning more
about it, thought that it could be the perfect fit. Knowing that having a boring,
monotonous diet would never work for him long-term, he was excited to see the
variety in the weekly menu where the menu changed every week—and to have
someone lay out his meal plan meal-by-meal for him. So, he signed up.
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