Sunday, May 6, 2018
Keto Lisa’s style
so here we are again. I’m sitting in the car on the way to drop my eldest boy off as he enters the Navy so this is a great distraction. I’ve been eating keto pretty strictly since August. Although I applaud those who eat clean I am not overly concerned with the use of artificial sweetener. My aim has always been blood glucose level control and the weight loss has been a welcome side effect. I have stopped eating all grains pretty much all below ground vegetables and all sugars. I know some people think this is bizarre and impossible to maintain and yes there have been a couple of bumps in the road but for the most part it has been really easy. We are not people who eat out a lot but even that’s pretty easy if you check menus and ask for small tweaks. So a typical day for me starts by testing my bsl with a finger prick. For breakfast I usually do bacon and eggs which I just happen to love. If you start feeling bored with that you can add things like spinach, garlic or cheese to spice it up a bit it’s a great way to start the day. I usually take something to work as a morning tea snack but I have found lately that I don’t really feel like eating until lunch time. So snacks that I take include items like boiled eggs, creamed cheese chocolate brownies cinnamon or cheese muffins . I really am a creature of habit so on working days I’m not too fussed about a huge variety. I have a couple of go too dishes I do for lunches the first is a chicken avocado and cheese casserole or a beef and cabbage dish that once again can be flavoured with various herbs and spices to give you additional variety. I try to do a snack in the afternoon before I head out to karate classes to either teach or train and that way I don’t really need to have a night time meal. I have found that I need a snack /fat bomb before bed to keep my blood sugar from rising as I sleep. If I am not training then I might have a small steak with salad for dinner but that is more of a social thing than because I need it. The proof has been in the pudding as they say because I have now lost 37 kg and my last HBA1C test had my bsl at 5.1. Personally I want that number to be closer to 4.5 but I am sure that will come with time. I didn’t become Morbidly obese or diabetic overnight it took a long time so getting things back in line in 8 months seems like a great deal for me. I do have a couple of warnings about this way of life... 1 transitioning from carb burning to fat burning is a process and once you’ve become a fat burner you don’t really want to do cheat days or carb loading as it knocks your body around makes you feel like garbage and will sabotage your weight loss big time it’s really easy to end up heavier than when you started. For me reverting to eating carbs is out of the question because while my bsl are approaching normal I will always be diabetic and I can plunge myself right back to high bsl by eating the wrong foods. I do have to say that using stevia and baking my own treats has made this pretty much the easiest lifestyle change I have ever made. So I really hope this helps someone to understand a little about how to move forward with keto. Be happy and keto on 😁o
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Updating again it’s been a long time coming
Ok so it’s been several years since I posted here. I really didn’t think this blog would have survived. Things have moved on a lot since I last posted and I think it’s been pretty interesting. Our club changed affiliations and that was pretty stressful time for me. My weight skyrocketed to 123.4 kg and on someone who is only just under 152 cm that’s almost as round as I was high. Uggg
I still managed to keep training and although I did the best I could my Karate suffered a fair bit. I had the amazing experience of grading to 2nd Dan with a Japanese Sensei in Qld I really thought he would take one look at me and fail me but as usual the karate community shows respect for people who try and I passed. About 3 months after that I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes which explained an awful lot.
I was devastated. I knew I needed to follow a low carb high fat diet to keep my blood sugar under control. It was something I had considered doing to lose weight but one of the very few approaches I had not yet taken to control my weight.
I have said for years that you should ask a fat person how to lose weight most of us have researched and tried for years. Almost every diet works for a time for monst people but they are often not sustainable.
The Australian Diabetic association sent out their recommendations and I was pretty much horrified. A basic breakdown of Type 2 diabetics is that our glucose system does not work. We are insulin resistant and because of this our blood sugar levels are elevated. This causes damage to internal organs and our vascular system so diabetic complications run from blindness to amputations of extremities. One of the biggest causes of high blood sugar is the highly processed foods loaded with Carbs an sugar that is such a large part of modern diets.
So if you were allergic to peanuts no doctor in their right mind would recommend that you eat peanuts and use an epipen so you could eat them daily. That sounds pretty stupid to me. That however is pretty much what the Australiab diabetic association seems to be advocating.
Most of the time your diabetic educator/ dietitian and doctor will advise the newly diagnosed diabetic to eat 30-45 grams of carbs at every meal and 15-20 grams in snacks. That’s a minimum of 120 grams per day. That’s ok you can use medication to control your blood sugar levels. This approach has not been successful for many diabetics who have suffered a host of type 2 complications.
After a fair amount of research I found a Facebook group with over 6000 members using a ketogenic diet to control their blood sugar levels. The encouragement and support I found there was just amazing.
I have been following a keto / lifestyle for the last 8 months. In that time I have dropped a substantial amount of weight but way more importantly my blood sugar levels have become close to normal. I am planning to add to this blog a bit more regularly in an effort to document my results living this way. I hope this will help someone else who needs to make some changes 😁
I still managed to keep training and although I did the best I could my Karate suffered a fair bit. I had the amazing experience of grading to 2nd Dan with a Japanese Sensei in Qld I really thought he would take one look at me and fail me but as usual the karate community shows respect for people who try and I passed. About 3 months after that I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes which explained an awful lot.
I was devastated. I knew I needed to follow a low carb high fat diet to keep my blood sugar under control. It was something I had considered doing to lose weight but one of the very few approaches I had not yet taken to control my weight.
I have said for years that you should ask a fat person how to lose weight most of us have researched and tried for years. Almost every diet works for a time for monst people but they are often not sustainable.
The Australian Diabetic association sent out their recommendations and I was pretty much horrified. A basic breakdown of Type 2 diabetics is that our glucose system does not work. We are insulin resistant and because of this our blood sugar levels are elevated. This causes damage to internal organs and our vascular system so diabetic complications run from blindness to amputations of extremities. One of the biggest causes of high blood sugar is the highly processed foods loaded with Carbs an sugar that is such a large part of modern diets.
So if you were allergic to peanuts no doctor in their right mind would recommend that you eat peanuts and use an epipen so you could eat them daily. That sounds pretty stupid to me. That however is pretty much what the Australiab diabetic association seems to be advocating.
Most of the time your diabetic educator/ dietitian and doctor will advise the newly diagnosed diabetic to eat 30-45 grams of carbs at every meal and 15-20 grams in snacks. That’s a minimum of 120 grams per day. That’s ok you can use medication to control your blood sugar levels. This approach has not been successful for many diabetics who have suffered a host of type 2 complications.
After a fair amount of research I found a Facebook group with over 6000 members using a ketogenic diet to control their blood sugar levels. The encouragement and support I found there was just amazing.
I have been following a keto / lifestyle for the last 8 months. In that time I have dropped a substantial amount of weight but way more importantly my blood sugar levels have become close to normal. I am planning to add to this blog a bit more regularly in an effort to document my results living this way. I hope this will help someone else who needs to make some changes 😁
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