Why I’m doing a KETO diet

I am eating the KETO way, which was a journey from needing to solve the way I feel which I started in 2018 after realizing I was just so tired, my guts never were normal. Anything external just killed me. I mean go to Costco pay for days kind of kill me.

I also got severe depression the end of that year, which was a week of I didn’t care about anything and thoughts of knives and killing and dying appearing in my brain-space randomly. I wrote about it on Jan 2nd though the mental images and ideas of killing I didn’t write about.

When that was going on I realized some things about sea salt. I started salt loading and after a morning of that vast improvement washed over me.

Most of my life I’ve had a sweets craving. I have tried to limit sweets and eat whole for many years now. It’s hard while eating carbohydrates for energy.

I eventually was eating AIP – alternate carbs like cassava flour, and eating nutrient dense, sweet potatoes, limiting eggs, cooking like that was so hard. Once I decided to use eggs again, pancakes with alternate flours worked MUCH better, of course.

This past year I tried to be more normal in what I ate.

I had thought of melted cheese was sometimes nauseating to me. Guts icky.

No. It was getting rid of carbs entirely, rolls, bread, pasta. Goodbye in 2021.

Cheese is so good! Melted or not.

In June I started taking Astaxantin and that help me so much, more energy …..!

Then I started taking MACA supplements. WOW! (I loved how many changes of feeling it brought me.)

Then I started thinking I was allergic to it. I don’t know. I loved how it made me feel. But itchy weirdness in places. No thank you. I’m thinking I’ll take it for a week or two then not for many weeks. Just figure out how to feel great and not be so icky all the time.

So KETO, once I decided to go that direction fully, I haven’t strayed except a tiny bit on Thankgiving Day. Even then, hardly at all.

So since November 18, 2021 I have lost about 13lbs (recorded on this day December 16, 2021) … and so much more in the future, I hope.

Pregnancy in later years causes much difficult to eradicate fat, and this is the first time I have ever started slimming down in the last 13 1/2 years (last child born June 2007)

I always lost all that weight from my previous three children. It all went bad when I lost a baby early. Fat early on that never left me, fat like the other 3 never had me at that point in pregnancy.

HORMONES like that are evil!

Watching Jessica Jones on Netflix, when it first was out, oh how jealous I felt seeing her slide on her jeans. I had nothing I could do. No matter how good the food was, limiting sweets, no changes ever, no matter if I ate more or less. Nothing ever changed.

Until November 18, 2021 nothing good came of eating or not. Now it all matters and it matters so very much. I am eating KETO, limiting my carbs as much as possible, no pasta, no bread, only tiny bits through alternative things that add up to little numbers every day.

I’m not actually counting but I will do it like this as long as I feel ok and am losing ounces from my weight every day.

Hubby says in such a sad way, “there so much less of you to love now.” He sees it, I don’t. I just know what the scale tells me.

I retorted, “I wish there was so much less of YOU to love!”

Yes, he needs to get rid of carbs ENTIRELY and commit.

Bottom line: I’m doing this because I started wanting to FEEL BETTER, with no more gut issues for me. BONUS happened, which is a hook that caught me hard. KETO is a diet. More than that though, a way of life!