Stay Kalm & Keto On

A Thyroid-less Londoner eating Keto/Intermittent Fasting on a budget and losing weight. Most of the food I make are variations on my past non-Keto favourite recipes using cooking tactics from popular Keto Blogs. Feel free to ask for recipes! Age 29: 5,4ft, SW:210lbs, CW:168 GW:126

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Keto Romaine Lettuce Tachos

One of my favourite things to eat! Love the minced beef with Cajun flavour and homemade Guacamole and Salsa with store bought Soured cream and grated Mozzarella!

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Keto Fat Head Chorizo Pizza!

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Mental Set-Backs

I’ve spent the better portion of my life struggling to grasp the actual concept of life. Trying to make friends and keep them, trying to please my family and not be problematic. Trying to achieve half decent grades through education. Trying to find a career that I can excel in, trying to stay in a job where colleagues don’t end up hating me.

Throughout my endeavours there’s always been that feeling in the back of my mind that’s been growing larger as each day passes since I was 8. I’m now 29 and that feeling is ever presence in my personality, my tone, my walk,my gaze it’s taken over my mind. Every action I take in life is pre-mediated with fear and caution mostly driven by many past failures, insecurities and constant unfortunate encounters with people.

I wonder on days when I’m calm what my life would have been like had I sailed through my childhood with no issues. I wonder how many times I might replay in my head the days events or a persons nasty gaze towards me!I wonder how many times I might of celebrated a birthday, holiday or a New Years celebration. I don’t know how much of my life would of changed if I’d only allowed the naiveties of the world to consume my young mind so I could flourish carefree and without taint.

Right now, I seek to move forward, trying not to focus on the weaknesses that link my emotions to historical trauma, but the idea that I can learn with each new day to feel wholesome as I am with all my past, all my sensitivities to the world and it’s people. My mental Sensitivities don’t have to define my life no matter how long it’s been apart of me. Their are areas of my personality that are only their because of what I’ve been through and on bad days I use the better parts of myself to move forward so I continue on to the next in await for good day.

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Cabbage Spinach Beef Noodles with beansproutsss!!!

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Keto Chocolate mug cake with Keto salted caramel sauce, raspberries and chopped nuts!

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Swede & Spinach mash with bacon, fried egg, pork sausages and sugar free ketchup!!

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Thought I’d share this !

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Meat, no meat. Dairy, no dairy. Fast foods, Whole Foods. Literally does not matter - you can find your own balance.

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Keto Beef Noodles

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Keto Tinned Mackerel Curry with Lemon Cauliflower Rice

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Keto Chicken Cabbage Noodles

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My half successful Keto Nachos with Olives,Salsa, Guacamole, sour cream and cheddar!!!

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Curried Cauliflower Rice with Curried Chicken Thighs!!!

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My Top Reasons for Maintaining Keto...

Dieting is hard hence why losing weight is so difficult but losing weight without a thyroid has been said to be near impossible. My weight loss during the first month of August 2018 was enough to make me give up as I saw none. In fact, I’m pretty sure I gained in my waist and calves...how? I don’t even know, but I stuck with it because of the reasons below.

• Dental hygiene, I used to get nasty tonsil stones after my thyroidectomy every night I’d push them out with cotton buds(Q-tips) only to find more a few days later. No doctor or dentist could help, but they disappeared after a few weeks sugar-free. I also have no more spontaneous gum or toothaches.

• Clearer skin, my skin has never been terrible but it’s never been good neither. My skin is prone to hyperpigmentation and tiny pimples and Whiteheads occasionally. I noticed a radiant complexion pretty early on, in fact it was one of the first things to change. I used to use skin lighteners to lighten my under eyes and smile lines but found it unnecessary since going low carb.

• Period Cramps, this is likely one of my top reasons for sticking with Keto even through desires to sneak a bag of Haribos. I’ve had excruciating period cramps since I was 9 years old. I started taking Painkillers like paracetamol and ibuprofen and codeine(once old enough). My period arrived three weeks into Keto and I waited for those first signs of period cramps to begin medicating before it was too late and I start vomiting. Day one arrived and there was no pain, day two arrived and still no pain. It went on like this throughout. I thought maybe it was a one off and continued Keto another month so I could wait until my next period to see if there was pain. The next month arrived and again no period cramps. If I didn’t log my periods I wouldn’t of known I’d started until the visual clues were seen.

• My face, Fat depositing on any face always changes the appearance. It had been a while since I’d seen my jawline or cheekbones. But the moment I noticed I had stopped looking like a hamster mid cheek-stuffing, I knew Keto was working for me. There are days that go by you don’t see weight loss on a scale but if one’s face is slimming, surely weight loss is occurring.

•Fat Adaption, the appeal of my body being in a state of using up fat in my body as fuel is enough for me to find ways to stick with eating Keto. I know if I walk far enough or take the stairs my body is using fat in my thighs or upper arms. That’s pretty exciting!

• The food, I enjoy cooking and somehow managed to cook most of my non-Keto recipes using Keto methods. Not just that but the plethora of fellow ketonians who have blessed me with easy access to their tried and tested recipes mean I don’t have to sacrifice my favourite meals.

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Keto Coconut Cake with Coconut cream cheese frosting!!!