{"id":4986,"date":"2021-12-16T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:13:18","slug":"why-im-doing-a-keto-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2021\/12\/16\/why-im-doing-a-keto-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m doing a KETO diet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a> though the mental images and ideas of killing I didn’t write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past year I tried to be more normal in what I ate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had thought of melted cheese was sometimes nauseating to me. Guts icky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. It was getting rid of carbs entirely, rolls, bread, pasta. Goodbye in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheese is so good! Melted or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June I started taking Astaxantin and that help me so much, more energy …..!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I started taking MACA supplements. WOW! (I loved how many changes of feeling it brought me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HORMONES like that are evil!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I retorted, “I wish there was so much less of YOU to love<\/em>!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, he needs to get rid of carbs ENTIRELY and commit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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