J and N - Keto Ladies

Wives changing their lives one keto meal at a time! Instagram: @jandn_ketoladies

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Supplements!

Every morning Jackie and I pop some pills! Haha.

In all seriousness, when we went keto we decided to add some additional health supplements to our morning routine. These are apple cider vinegar and daily fiber doses.

Daily fiber is an easy one, we needed to make sure that we were still getting a good amount of it for the sake of...well....our bowels lol. I (Noemi) for one....gets cranky when the go isnt going. So we wanted to make sure we took an extra step to stay regular because one of the side effects is constipation. No thank you.

So why apple cider vinegar pills? One, Jackie didn't think she would be able to take the shot of it. It burns your throat, doesn't taste good, and well the whole process gets dragged out. We found some pills and figured it would make it easier.

Next, what are the benefits of ACV? If you don't already know, let's talk about them.

1. Weight loss and metabolism boost, but you shouldn't solely rely on ACV to lose weight. Still need to eat right and get it tight. Along with this, it helps lose belly fat.

2. Lowers your cholesterol. Happy heart, happy body, happy life.... wait that's not the right saying is it...?

3. Reduces blood pressure

4. Lowers blood sugar which is right along side with the ketogenic diet..

5. Additional random things that ACV helps with: yeast infections, sinus infection, sore throat, etc...

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Date night and friday night = take out food

It was Friday night, the end of a LONG week, and we did not feel like cooking. We decided to go with our favorite Mexican take out place!

Jackie got an amazingly delicious open face burrito (they make the burrito in a bowl, so no tortilla). Steak, cheese, sour cream, lettuce, and guacamole.

Noemi got 2 steak tacos and 2 lengua tacos, no tortillas, topped with green salsa and cilantro.

Although we LOVE cooking, sometimes we crave our comfort take out meals. If you're ever struggling for ideas for takeout, please do the research. Contrary to what most people think, there is always an option! You shouldn't feel obligated to stay in and cook each meal, well unless you're practicing strict keto. In that case....yeah lol.

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Easy go-to keto “pizza”

Hello, hello!

We were craving pizza today and decided to make or go to “pizza” meal for dinner. It is honestly so easy, and if you do it right: 0 NET CARBS! SAY WHAT?! That’s right, 0 net carbs. 

So since we’re feeling generous, we decided to share our recipe for curious minds! What you’re going to need is as follows:

1. Keto bread - we get our from Aldi (woot woot, HYFR aldi!) 2. Hormel Turkey Pepperoni 3. Cheese of your choice, our go-to is pepper jack or colby jack slices Optional toppings we use - jalapeno slices, banana peppers, FLAVOR GOD Pizza seasoning, and ranch for dipping.

Depending on how many calories you want you can mess with the serving sizes of the toppings. We weigh out everything cause we’re still logging our macros on an app (CarbManager FTW!). 

Directions: we use a toaster oven, hence the putting in and taking out of the bread... 1. Toast the bread slightly first to get a nice crisp to your “crust” 2. Take the bread out and place your toppings on there 3. Toast the “pizza” to your preferred crispiness 4. BAM! All done you are now ready to stuff yo face with something delicious! Again, if you play your cards right, this meal can be both low calorie and ZERO net carbs. For example, tonight we switched up our toppings and our stats were different.

N: 353 calories, 2 carbs (cause I used a block of mozzarella that I stupidly didn’t double check....grr....but I was craving mozz so i took the “hit” lol) J: 352 calories, 0 carbs (she used pepper jack)

Check out our masterpieces: 

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3 day bone broth cleanse!

THE DAY OF REAL FOOD FOR ALL MEALS HAS FINALLY ARRIVED! 

Wifey and I decided to take on a 3 day bone broth cleanse to detox and reboot our bodies. We had quite a weekend and mistakes were made. The guilt hit us and to say we were bloated is quite an understatement! On top of that, we both seemed to fall out of ketosis for some reason we couldn’t figure out prior to our weekend shenanigans.

We had heard of a bone broth cleanse before and did some more reading up on it. 3 days wouldn’t be so bad right? Welp....we were mostly right. 

We made it 2.5 days, so I mean...85% completed. Due to lack of sleep, being cramped up in the house for 24 hours of the day, and working from home, we struggled...hard. Also, hungry kids who want snacks didn’t make it any easier. LOL. However, we made small portions of some of our favorite go-to meals in order to ease back into full on keto. 

Lets talk stats here: Noemi - SW: 128.8lbs, CW: 122.2lbs Jackie - SW: 133.6lbs; CW: 129.8lbs

Next’s hope that this system reboot helps us get back into ketosis! Below will be our before and after pictures:

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About us...

Since this is our first post, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce ourselves. 

Hello! We are Jackie and Noemi. We are a married couple (1 year this July) who decided to change our lifestyle. January 13, 2020 we made the switch to the ketogenic diet. We weren’t happy with our diets and bodies. We needed something realistic to adhere to and stumbled upon keto while researching other options.

Of course, we had heard about it (thanks Jersey Shore!). However, we didn’t know any specifics. We found tons of sample meal plans, recipes, etc. So we decided to give it a try for 2 weeks to see if it was feasible for us. After 2 weeks, we were hooked! Not only did we see results, but we genuinely enjoyed all of the meals and recipes we tried. Here we are 1 week shy of our 3 month ketoversary!

We started this blog in order to share our stories with like minded or curious people. We want to share it all, successes, failures, experiments, thoughts, recipes, etc...