I was so turned off to it because it seemed gimmicky. All these people losing all this weight and I think there's got to be a catch, people are going to gain it back, there's going to be some adverse health effects, something. Just something.
Also, there is SO. MUCH. INFORMATION. about the Keto diet!! INFORMATION OVERLOAD! I didn't even know where to start, and at first I didn't know the logistics behind it and so I tried going into it blindly just eating cheese and bacon for a couple days...I failed quickly, haha.
Then someone put it simply to me, the way I explained it above, and it just clicked! It made sense and I started following this Instagram account who's whole focus is Keto Made Simple. Because it can get so damn complicated!! I needed simple!
BOOM
5 weeks later I've been doing a completely keto diet and am down about 10 pounds. I am so excited. I sometimes get discouraged because I see these before and after photos and yeah it took these people months for their results, but I'm seeing them instantly and so I get impatient and want it to happen faster. But it's always exciting when I get on the scale on Saturday morning and see if I'm down any, and keeps me motivated.
There's this documentary I watched a few weeks before starting Keto called "The Magic Pill". It followed these people who have chronic conditions, and even followed a couple of people with autism, all of who were on expensive medications, and still struggling with their conditions. The film makers filmed these people doing this way of eating for a few weeks and showed the difference it made in managing these conditions. Now, I am skeptical of just about everything in my life...I'm thinking, this is just for good tv, they are exaggerating it, blah blah. Then they showed this girl with autism and the difference in her behavior and her personality were mind blowing. MIND BLOWING. She clearly still had a disability, but she was not as wild and so easily upset...which is a HUGE deal with autism. It was incredible, and obviously hit home to me because of Arianna. I've had Arianna try a few different 'keto' foods I've prepped when she's been over and she loves them. I really think over time this could be a way of eating for her and could help her tremendously! Now if we could only get Cooper to eat Keto, hahahahahaha that'll never happen. Chicken nuggets, grilled cheese, cereal, watermelon and apples for life, right? I can hope.
Any way, I'm just stoked with this, I'm impatient, but I do have to trust the process. I am so excited to see where I am 5 months from now, and a year from now. I gained an embarrassing amount of weight when I was pregnant with Cooper and struggled to lose any of it after I had him. So to actually see, feel, and notice a difference after a month, I know this is something I can do.
People ask me a lot, "Do you think you'll do it forever?"
Probably not. But will I always be carb conscious? YES.
The average person eats carbs in the HUNDREDS per day! HUNDREDS!!! Now that I am limiting my carbs to 20 per day, I get sick just thinking of how casually I consumed carbs....
I got an iced venti non-fat 7 pump chai from starbucks, every single day. This is just a beverage I'm talking about...
65 carbs. 61 sugars.
LIKE WHAT?!?!?!? I dont even hit 65 carbs by Wednesday! HAHA!
So it's just put a lot of things in perspective for me. I have known how to maintain weight, maintaining is not my issue. It's losing I struggle with. I know how to moderate my diet, and do portion control so once I get to my goal weight I probably will lax a whole ton.
But for now...KETO ON!!!
Also, be careful drinking vodka on the keto diet. You will get messed up. IN a hurry. Just ask my friend Vinny LOLOLOLOLOL........
