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