Follow the Yellow Brick Road...to Keto Bliss

This blog is about my journey on the 

KETO/KETOGENIC diet LIFESTYLE! 

I hope to entertain, inspire, and get people thinking! 

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SO today I decided to start blogging my journey on the ketogenic 'diet' in real time! This diet has gotten a bad rep by not-so-knowledgeable doctors and the food industry, what else do you expect when you are advising people to not eat their processed crap and finding the natural cure to your aliments instead of having a doctor do a lack-luster exam and proclaim you need this pharmaceutical and that pharmaceutical- and only leads you on a road to more problems and an unhealthier state of being!

So for starters just a little back story on me, once that is out of the way we can get to my journey on Keto!

I have been on the 'hamster wheel' of health for almost 8 years now. Trying all kinds of things I thought were healthy ways to lose weight only to go around and around on the wheel, sweating and panting like a damn fat rodent and getting no where...only even fatter and more unhealthy!


I'll admit I've lied to myself for years...telling myself "I'm doing everything I can, I'm eating healthy and working out" and blaming my genetics or thinking maybe I'm just a lost cause; always wondering why I hated my body and had low self esteem as I was getting bigger and gaining more each year. The problem was I didn't know I was lying to myself!

I believed all the empty promises that the rest of us do and took the lies I heard on commercial ads and on food labels as truth, "low fat, fat free, ONLY 100 calories"...never bothering to look on the back and read all the fine print that shows all the six syllable "ingredients" that 95% of Americans, hell most human beings, cannot understand.

As I became more cautious and cut out all sodas, chips, cookies, and candies (well most candies, I broke down and tore up a Snickers every now and then because I felt my blood sugar crashing and I'd have a BAD case of HANGRY! My fiancé would have probably gave me a chocolate IV if he thought it would keep my 'hangry fangs' from coming out!)





I felt a little bit better, but the scale still wasn't budging and I was still lethargic, fat and in constant pain from my neck shoulders and back that I had been putting up with for years. I finally told myself I could do even better and gave up sweets too, and started checking the back of every food label religiously and vetoing everything with processed junk or high in sugar.

Even with that effort still no changes! 

I finally decided to talk to my doctor. After much research I presented my symptoms and three possible syndromes (Thyroid, Adrenal aka Cushings, or PCOS) that related to the way I felt. After many trips to the doctor, practically getting ignored and getting no answers; only fed more pills that made me feel like shit and made me have sleepless nights...I was FED up!

I think the breaking point was when I tried to explain the my doctor that I cut out 95% of the processed foods and was eating whole, healthy foods he interrupted me and asked if I was counting every calorie and that I was probably just a stress eater like him and needed to push myself away from the table!

STEAM WAS ROLLING OUT OF MY EARS!! If looks could kill I would have shot a laser beam of death right between his eyes!




He knew nothing about me! I was definitely not stress eating and just to prove myself right I downloaded the LoseIt! app and tracked everything! I was right in the 1,600 cal per day range consistently without having much effort to worry about what I ate. I even got "healthy eater" and "you've eaten a grocery bag full of veggies" badges from the app.

That was the end of that doctor-patient relationship! He was now on my 'idiot' list!

So with the 'general physical knowledge' not getting me anywhere, I searched in other areas and began to self educate. When looking for "natural remedies for adrenal issues" I stumbled upon "the ketogenic diet" (or as the great Stephanie Person nicknamed it- the non B.S. Diet...I'll talk more about Stephanie in future posts).

After doing 100s of hours of research on the benefits vs any negatives from following the "Non BS Diet" and reading multiple people's success stories-like Amanda below, a 26-year-old woman that followed a Ketogenic/Keto (high fat, moderate protein, low carb) diet for a year and had this dramatic body change...  

I was INSPIRED!

I decided to follow the ketogenic diet and give it a real chance!!

Join me in motivating myself, yourself and others on "the yellow brick road to keto bliss!"

my next blog entry will be about what the ketogenic diet is in a nutshell and my progress on week 2 of my keto journey!